Inside the BriefcaseNational Telework Week will begin on Feb. 14th and run until Feb. 18th. The idea behind this campaign is to encourage agencies, organizations, and individuals to work from home (telework), improving productivity while reducing energy and commuter costs.
Tweet Seeking to address smartphone buyers in the mid-range of the market, Apple is working on a smaller, cheaper version of its iPhone, according to a recent report. Doing so could open it to more sales and battle archrival Android for more ground, but Cupertino will have to be careful not to let a smaller […]
Featured ArticlesTweet 1. Get smart Before making a move into the cloud, get educated on the principles and definitions of cloud computing, advises Johan Goossens, head of NATO’s Allied Command Transformation’s (ACT) Technology & Human Factors Branch in Norfolk, Va. “We started in the summer of 2010 with educational efforts. We got ourselves smart on the […]
The emerging world of information technology is one in which data is king, social platforms evolve as a new source of business intelligence, and cloud computing finally delivers on IT’s role as a driver of business growth, according to a new report from Accenture
IBM Corp.’s goal in 2011 for what it calls “social business”—or collaboration in the business—on the mobile device is for a complete set of applications with comparable functionality across the four major platforms.
Tweet Computer desktops let users do online banking, typically through browsers. Android applications offer specialized functionality obviating the need to “mobile-down” browser interfaces. Android phone built-in features extend functionality to do amazing things like depositing checks simply by taking pictures of the check. (It really works — we tried this this weekend! Cool!) Read More…
Featured ArticlesJim Curtin has an informal description for the kind of software his company develops.”It’s plumbing,” he says with a smile.
Tweet Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, consumers all — I have great news and sad news to share on the State of the Technology Union address. Overall, technology has advanced sharply, with more amazing new products launched at the Consumer Electronics Show and sold in stores in 2010 than in any other year I […]
Featured ArticlesHealthcare technology has really made incredible advances over the last several years. However, while there is an app for almost everything, much still seems to be stuck in the Fred Flintstone era.
Tweet SOURCE: Research and Markets Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/4bf224/telecoms_software) has announced the addition of the “Telecoms Software: Worldwide Forecast 20102014” report to their offering. The worldwide telecoms software market is forecast to grow from USD20.1 billion in 2009 to USD29.5 billion in 2014, at a CAGR of 7.9%. Mobile services continue to be the main […]
Business intelligence is just the latest iteration of these tools, following on from executive information systems, data warehouses and online analytical processing tools. Bringing together elements of all these approaches, business intelligence tools and techniques help knowledge workers explore and analyse business information, with the intent of helping them make effective business decisions.
Tweet It might appear that Google has an advantage over Facebook with the 38-year-old Page taking over as CEO after spending nearly a decade under the watchful eye of 55-year-old Eric Schmidt, a veteran high-tech exec. Meanwhile, the 26-year-old Zuckerberg continues to run Facebook without any visible signs of seeking help from more experienced industry […]
Featured ArticlesBy now it’s clear that mobile is the new global frontier for computing. People on every continent are embracing mobile as the primary method for electronic communications.
We recently signed up to a CRM web-based application and so far it has proven to be a wise investment. Automating and simplifying some tasks previously carried out manually and more importantly we have avoided the drudgery of installing, configuring and subsequently maintaining the software. Our consultants can now log in from anywhere and use or input company-wide data without having to be at our office or logged into our machines. This is a pretty cool service.
Tweet Disney and IBM are both very powerful companies, but they bear little resemblance to the companies they were when they initially peaked. What had to happen was they had to be remade into firms that put more emphasis on their current CEOs’ skill sets. Unless Apple is altered to address the unique skillset of […]
Featured ArticlesTweet Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced commercial availability of the company’s next generation customer relationship management (CRM) cloud services offering yesterday, and plans to launch customer-premises and partner-hosted editions of the package on Thursday. Never before has Microsoft made one of its online services available to customers in the cloud — i.e., hosted in Microsoft’s […]
Featured ArticlesTweet Nagios is a godsend (a saint perhaps?) to system administrators, by keeping track of all infrastructure services, raising alerts before small issues become large ones, providing a look into the entire system’s status, etc. And, although Nagios can take a moderate amount of configuration, it does this all for free — my favorite price. […]
Featured ArticlesTweet A survey of more than 3,000 small to medium-size businesses (SMB) conducted by the Ponemon Institute revealed that while attitudes towards backup and recovery differ widely around the world, businesses everywhere want a single backup and recovery solution for physical, virtual and cloud environments. The vast majority (68 percent) of IT managers agree that […]
Tweet Micrsoft’s WebMatrix is designed to let website developers with even low skill levels easily create and publish Websites. “It’s a programming environment, and it’s quite complicated,” Web devAaron Hee-Stacpoole said. “I’d say that stating beginners can use it is not quite accurate. You can’t have something that’s really powerful and also easy to use […]
Tweet More space, more exhibits and more technology can now be found at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., following a $19 million renovation. To inaugurate the renovation, the museum is launching an exhibition that has been 10 years in the making: “Revolution: The First 2,000 Years of Computing.” Read More…
Featured ArticlesTweet Recently I’ve noticed a strong vein of concern in the tech press about IntelInsider. The part that really seemed to draw a reaction was the very mention of that most foul of terms — “DRM.” From what Intel explained at CES, though, the DRM contained in its Sandy Bridge chips is only going to […]
Tweet The year ahead in CRM will be important for replacing old systems and for integrating new niche applications that sharpen your game. Ten-year-old ERP and CRM systems will be ripe for replacement, customers are in a great position with lots of cloud computing choices, and analytics will become a necessary add-on. Read More…
Tweet With Google’s announcement Thursday of the Body Browser, online mapping technology finally caught up with the medical crew of “Fantastic Voyage,” miniaturized in the 1966 sci-fi flick to enter a renowned scientist’s bloodstream and save his brain from a life-threatening blood clot. A Chrome-OS driven online Gray’s Anatomy, Body Browser continues Google’s quest to […]
Tweet Things took an interesting turn in the aftermath of Cablegate, which saw 250,000 documents, many of them sensitive, put on the open Web by WikiLeaks. Julian Assange, the founder of the site, has been charged by Swedish police with a sex crime; the U.S. government is seeking to try Assange, who’s currently out on […]
Tweet If anyone had doubts that Richard Stallman dislikes Google’s (Nasdaq: GOOG) new Chrome OS, he laid them to rest in an interview with the Guardian Tuesday. The Chrome OS will push people into careless computing by forcing them to store their data in the cloud, said Stallman, who’s the founder and president of the […]
Tweet Does Google intend to release Chrome as a full open source operating system for users to install willy-nilly on any old netbook? Or will it be available only embedded on specific netbooks that Google intends to sell? Google’s limited beta for the OS is tied to an unbranded black netbook, the Cr-48, prompting some […]
Tweet The end result of the war on HP could be even more dramatic for Oracle than the outcome of the war on Microsoft was for Sun. Larry Ellison is a brilliant strategist — but his ego, rather than his mind, appears to be driving this war. While I’d generally suggest that no one bet […]
Tweet Consumers worried about companies stalking them online will have a new way to keep their Web activities private when Microsoft makes IE9’s “Tracking Protection” feature available in 2011. If other browsers follow suit, the FTC’s proposal for a “Do Not Track” regulation may become irrelevant. “If the industry can do it, it’s better than […]
Tweet When asked about pricing, Google engineer Andy Rubin quipped that the actual cost of the Motorola prototype tablet he demoed at the D: Dive Into Mobile conference was around $10,000. Consumers will probably get it for considerably less when it hits store shelves, but with the new Android Honeycomb operating system under its hood, […]
Tweet Wikileaks has hung out another load of dirty laundry, this time putting hundreds of thousands of U.S. State Department memos out on public view. It’s left many diplomats and governments red-faced, earned the leakers widespread condemnation, and called State Department security practices into question. Meanwhile, Level 3 chews out Comcast, the FTC gnashes its […]
