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Microsoft's top visionary sees a parallel world

Microsoft's top visionary sees a parallel worldSeven BILLION $ in R&D......and all they come up with is the big-ass table???Oh, sorry. I forgot about HoneyMonkey.do these guys know anything about IT?Parallel processing in the future. gee no-one ever thought of THAT before, apart from GNU Hurd team and BeOS and...

Tags: visionary, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-03-13

SOA, EDI: and the beat goes on...

Will Rearden Commerce really make a splash? Who knows? Time will tell. But it's always refreshing when new entrants, especially brash upstarts and startups, come in and stir things up a bit. As my blogmate Britton points out, Patrick Grady and Rearden Commerce walk the walk when...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Enterprise software, SOA, EDI, Patrick Grady, Rearden Commerce, Web service, visionary, Web

Blog posts 2005-03-04

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Steve Jobs: Silicon Valley's Babe Ruth (and Fortune's CEO of the decade)

What no comment by NonZ? I hope he/she is not ill or something:PPagan jimThe P.T.Barnum of the Tech Industry......when is he going to cut the Chinamen that work for him in on the big cash flow?NZ will show up at some pointUnless he is on vacation.Or getting over the...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Media players, Steve Jobs, Babe Ruth

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Photos: Video guitars, crafted by hand

Ben Lewry at Visionary Instruments in Oakland, Calif., is creating handmade instruments that combine classic guitars with new technology. by CNET News.com

Tags: Video, Photograph, Guitar, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-11-05

Gartner in the dock over Magic Quadrant

Persona Non GartnerOver the years, I've watched, participated in researching and experienced the results of the positing of Gartner's disclosures. My analysis is as follows:On any given subject at any given time, there is a .90 probability that the opinions expressed by Gartner will be either flat out wrong or...

Tags: Gartner Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

How long until Windows 7 market share beats Mac OS X Leopard/Snow Leopard?

RE: How long until Windows 7 market share beats Mac OS X Leopard/Snow Leopard?snow leopard is 10.6 the figures don't even mention that!!!???!Years if you look at adoption ratesBased on percent of existing users. RE: How long until Windows 7 market share beats Mac OS X Leopard/Snow Leopard?One week.RE: How...

Tags: Operating systems, Windows 7 market share, Mac OS X Leopard/Snow Leopard, Microsoft Windows 7, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

Future ERP

Brian Sommer's provocative post that juxtaposes SAP's technology thinking around the 'old' and 'new' worlds provides insights into something SAP was talking about last year - the two speed world of ERP. At the back end there is still plenty to do, hardening applications, winkling out recurring bugs...

Tags: Innovation, Salesforce.com Inc., Financial, SAP AG, ERP, Brian Sommer, Brian, S-curve, Cloud Infrastructure, BRP, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-19

Two Views of the Software Market

A Bridge Too Far? In a blogger briefing this week at SAP’s TechEd, SAP CTO, Vishal Sikka, drew a chart of the application software market and what new areas of technology are of interest to the firm. I’ve tried to reproduce his freehand drawing into the following...

Tags: ERP, Vishal Sikka, S-curve, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-10-16

On the future of Open Source thought leadership

It's time we recognized the advantages of bothIMHO it's time to recognize the advantages in both, and not to do silly things like pretend that somehow software is a moral agent.I can certainly see the advantage of software being open source. It helps the educational community, and gives tools to...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Free Software, leadership, Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services, open source, proprietary software, Microsoft Corp., hardware, software

Discussion threads 2009-10-08

Steve Jobs tops list of most influential people in tech

RE: Steve Jobs tops list of most influential people in techit makes sense that jobs is on top of the most influential list. since he returned to apple, the rest of the industry has been playing catch up. and no one has come close to catching the ipod,...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Digital music, Digital media, Steve Jobs, A-hole

Discussion threads 2009-10-08

Teens are generation Apple as iPod, iPhone dominance reigns

Look at fall 2007Two years ago, 13% said they planned to buy a Zune. And, almost none of them did.Apple owns this market in the USA and will until the category of MP3 player is no longer relevant.I wonder how many teens plan to buy a Windows Mobile 6.5 phone?Big...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Media players, Microsoft Windows 7, Operating systems, Apple Inc., MP3, MP3 player, iPod iPhone dominance reign, dominance reign, Microsoft Windows, Apple iPod

Discussion threads 2009-10-07

PA Semi ARM chip bound for Apple tablet

I saw this comingI was watching the History Channel and Nostradamus predicted the coming of the Anti Iphone A tablet will do as good as the Newton....Unless they came up with some really new and gotta have feature like it can run for 16 hours I just don't see the...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, apple tablet, chip, tablet, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-05

Fads vs Business Value: Knowledge Management & Enterprise 2.0

Anyone with a computer and access to stock photos can put together a slide presentation and upload it to sites such as slideshare, and sometimes it seems like everyone and his brother is doing just that on social media, enterprise 2.0 and other 2.0-ish subjects. ...

Tags: Knowledge, Training, Originality, Knowledge Management, Harassment, Strategy, Training And Certification, Business Intelligence, E-learning, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Gender And Diversity, Management, Data Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-27

Microsoft 'Pink' phones, Turtle and Pure, leaked in pictures

Can you comment on this?http://www.wmexperts.com/omg-pink-phones-exist-kindahttp://bit.ly/10A2pV

Tags: Media Center PCs, Game players, Telecom & Utilities, phone, Apple Inc., Microsoft Xbox Live, Microsoft Xbox, App Store, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-23

Create, cut, create, cut: How to be a successful CIO in 18 easy steps

Insightful visionary, able pragmatist, savvy value creator, and relentless cost cutter: new study reveals what makes today's CIO tick by Joe McKendrick

Tags: CIO, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-09-14

More Microsoft layoffs, a resignation and other pre-Labor Day tidbits

Oh pooh...The days are coming to an end for 15G Operating Systems, in case they missed it Appliance driven devices under VMware IS the future.Not some insecure bloated expensive Server versions that require tens of thousands in licenses and still is crippled up by viruses/worms.;)On the plus side,nobody now knows...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, layoff, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Linux, server

Discussion threads 2009-09-04

Bing gains search share on Yahoo, Google

Strange guesses or hopes?[i]"Advertisers migrate to Microsoft today since it will have the ad platform going forward"[/i]Why? Google makes MS look like a microbe and advertisers want to be where the money is, i.e. where the [b]people[/b] is.What MS has is an effort to copy Google and make money on...

Tags: SEARCH, Yahoo! Inc., Bing, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-18

Are Silicon Valley VCs killing innovation?

There is a growing imbalance in terms of the risk/reward ratio between venture capital firms and entrepreneurs. And the current economic situation is making things worse. Very little funding is happening. VC firms do have funds but they are focused on trying to keep portfolio companies alive....

Tags: Silicon Valley, Innovation, Entrepreneur, Silicon Valley VC, Venture Capital, Investment, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Financing Startups, Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-08-11

Inside Curve: Lane Bryant Scores Plus Plus

Who doesn't love style and fashion?  Well, I suppose I don't love fashion, judging from my incredibly poor clothing selection skills (I rely 100% on my wife, who has mad skills when it comes to picking out good looking clothes) but I am in love with style. I love to...

Tags: Apparel, Exclusion, Community, Brand, Women, Network, American Eagle, Bebe, Curve, Jay, Kate Moss, Gender And Diversity, Social Networking, Branding, Human Resources, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-08-03

Golden Rules for Making Money 1.0 (Windows)

Don't Mistake Your Vocation, Select The Right Location Avoid Debt, Persevere, Whatever You Do, Do It With All Your Might Depend Upon Your Own Personal Exertions, Use The Best Tools Don't Get Above Your Business, Learn Something Useful, Let Hope Predominate But Be Not Too Visionary, Do Not Scatter Your...

Tags: Business, Research Signpost, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Security, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-07-24