Inside the BriefcaseTweet While we Web professionals may assume that virtually everybody is using social media these days it’s far from the truth. People use social media but businesses don’t. A recent study shows that 94% of businesses actually do not use social media even for the most obvious task it’s good for: Getting feedback. That’s akin […]
Tweet OfficeTalk — Microsoft’s enterprise-focused microblogging technology — may soon find a home among the company’s product teams and become a shipping product and/or service. OfficeTalk, one of the projects launched via Microsoft’s Office Labs in 2010, is a social-networking tool for businesses, as the Softies have described it. From screen shots and reports, it […]
Tweet If LinkedIn goes public, will I suddenly be smacked with an onslaught of spam, bludgeoned by pop-ups or, even worse, have my personal information auctioned off to the highest bidder? If you don’t think that’s a possibility, then you don’t understand why Facebook and Groupon have been christened social networking’s most valuable sites. In […]
Tweet “Video seems to have hijacked the whole HTML5 debate, when it’s a very small portion of the specification, and the spec intentionally does NOT specify which video formats must be supported,” said Slashdot blogger Barbara Hudson. “Google is complying with the spirit of the spec more than the h.264 proponents, who are pushing a […]
Tweet Back in the mid-1990s, then Microsoft CEO Bill Gates offered a prophetic observation. The impact of the web, he wrote, would be greater than most people thought, but would take longer to happen than was commonly supposed. Turns out, happily for Microsoft, that he was right. Read more of Dana Gardner’s blog post
Tweet Jason Cowie, Embotic’s VP of Product Management, is my guest blogger today. Here are his thoughts on whether virtualization, in the form of virtual machine software, really does increase the speed of delivering IT services. Thanks, Jason for offering your thoughts. Myth: Virtualization Increases the Speed of Delivering IT Services While the delivery of […]
Tweet CRM and social CRM expert Paul Greenberg finished posting his CRM 2011 Watchlist series this week. It’s six parts totaling more than 35,000 words. It’s a much more detailed and comprehensive view of the CRM space than you would expect from a Magic Quadrant or Wave report, and it’s completely free. Greenberg covers both […]
Tweet The Winners: SI/Consulting A beast of a different type, yes? I’m not trying to compare technology vendors to consulting companies or systems integrators. My standards for them were quite different. For example, their actual technology offering wasn’t all that meaningful since the vast majority of them offer frameworks and methodologies enhanced by technologies made […]
Tweet Oh, damn. You’re here. I was listening to Vampire Weekend. Let me get the headphones off…just a sec…I’m kinda…tangled..agggh….okay. Damn. Well, we’re in the homestretch. This is Part #5 of the Watchlist which is where I take the companies that for one reason or another defy categorization and let you see them as victors […]
Tweet Separate wireless chips, “will go the way of add-on sound cards,” asserted Slashdot blogger hairyfeet. “That is why I think Broadcom is now ‘showing the love,’ as it is nothing but a gamble to help them stay alive in a market that will quickly pass them by. We saw Sun try the same trick […]
Tweet GSMI’s predictions include what 2011 has in store for Facebook, how mobile will shift, the way news will be consumed, how SEO will evolve, the future of social media marketing, social media conferences, interactive television, the Verizon iPhone, management tools and ROI. Read their predictions….
Tweet We’ve seen Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s January 10 e-mail to the troops about Server and Tools Business (STB) Unit President Bob Muglia’s unexpected departure from the company. But we haven’t heard from Muglia — until now. This is a copy of the e-mail Muglia sent to STB employees today about his pending departure this […]
Tweet Wireless carrier Sprint, which has pioneered the concept of offering ‘greener-than-thou’ mobile phone models to its customers, is working on what it is being billed as an international sustainability standard for mobile devices. The standard is being spearhead by UL Environment, which a subsidiary of Underwriter’s Laboratories that is focused on certifying technologies and […]
Tweet There seems to be no stopping the current avalanche of Android tablets — just look through the CES announcements for a not-so-small sampling — and that’s undoubtedly a good thing for Linux. A shadow was recently cast upon that otherwise sunny landscape, however, in the form of a report examining said tablets’ GPL compliance. […]
Tweet In the wake of the news that open source online conferencing and collaboration provider Dimdim is being swallowed up by cloud CRM provider Salesforce, one conclusion seems clear: Many long-standing open source applications are low hanging fruit for powerful proprietary software companies to acquire and metamorphosize for their own purposes. It’s easy to be […]
Tweet To Recap the Season So Far: The Yankees didn’t make it to the World Series. The (NY) Giants didn’t make it to the playoffs. I’m tempted to not let any company in a city that beat the Yankees (Dallas) or the Giants (Green Bay?. Ahhh, but I like the Packers) not make the Watchlist […]
Tweet It was all the way back in 2009 that Google CEO Eric Schmidt declared that enterprises represented a “huge opportunity for the management team [at Google] and for me personally,” pronouncing them his company’s “next big-billion dollar opportunity.” Schmidt wasn’t kidding around, and as Chrome OS advances, Android spreads out, and Google Apps get […]
Tweet Familiarity can breed contempt, or so the saying goes. But is it also what makes one piece of software superior to another? That, indeed, has been the question on many Linux bloggers’ minds in recent days. “In many FOSS vs Closed Source project comparisons I have seen to date, ‘user familiarity’ is often referenced […]
Tweet One of the true benefits of the past two weeks is that I have not received my usual 50 or so e-mails in my three different e-mail accounts, which means that I have had time to do some reading and recalibrating of the themes for my 2011 coverage. I’ve already blabbed on about my […]
Tweet What does 2011 hold for the technology industry? Mobile will again dominate the headlines as all companies not named Apple will be searching for tablet strategies. Laptop price depreciation will regain steam. On the software front, cloud computing may put the hurt on established enterprise application players. That microcosm will be evident at the […]
Tweet Well it’s 2011 at last, and those of us here in the FOSS community have a great deal to look forward to this year. Android is going nowhere but up, Ubuntu is gearing up to capture the hearts and minds of the masses, and Linux-friendly ARM is poised for even more great things. It’s […]
Tweet Continuing to advocate “for all things Open Source or built with Open Source” is on Slashdot blogger yagu’s 2011 to-do list — “and I resolve to call out any and all reaping the benefits of Open Source who don’t give back.” Also, “I resolve to be respectful and humble in regards to everything Microsoft,” […]
Tweet Once thought to be the answer to deployment options for just the SMB market, early cloud adopters proved otherwise. Stereotypes about industry, size of company, geographies, and roles no longer hold back adoption. Cloud adoption at all 4 layers of the cloud passed the tipping points in 2010 as a key business and technology […]
Tweet During 2010, I published information on what 55 different companies offering products in the cloud computing and/or virtualization arenas were doing. I also published quite a few posts on various happenings that were in other areas. While reviewing what posts were the most widely read, I was surprised to learn that the rants and […]
Tweet Well another year is drawing to a close, and that means it’s time to begin taking stock of all that has passed in 2010. It was an eventful year for those of us in the Linux community, that’s for sure — so eventful, in fact, that it’s almost difficult to remember all the many […]
Tweet Once upon a time, a few decades ago, computers were extraordinarily expensive, room-filling machines — the kind decked out with whirring tape reels, flashing lights, and banks of switches. You didn’t pull up a chair up to use one; instead, using a process called timesharing, you accessed it via a remote terminal at the […]
Tweet NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions for small and medium-sized companies around the world. It competes mainly with EMC, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Dell in the external disk storage systems market. Cloud Computing, also known as IT as a Service (ITaaS), is increasingly being adopted as a way for IT organizations to decrease […]
Tweet When CPTN Holdings appeared out of the blue to snap up Novell’s patent portfolio, the only thing anyone knew about them was that Microsoft was behind the group and that’s all Microsoft had to say about its Novell intellectual property (IP) purchase. Now, thanks to Germany’s anti-trust body, the Bundeskartellamt, we know that Microsoft’s […]
Tweet Those of us who have been part of the FOSS community for more than, oh, say 10 minutes, are no doubt already familiar with the recurring “Year of Linux on the Desktop” debate. It’s a topic that comes up again and again in the Linux blogosphere, typically fueled by some new success or promising […]
Tweet Invincea Inc. is using virtualization to help companies plug holes in their cyber-security defenses and fend off threats before they become well known. The company, backed by Grotech Ventures and New Atlantic Ventures, sells software that builds a virtual environment for running a Web browser or PDF reader, so that in the case of […]
