The primary benefit of a product or service. The term is widely used in the high-tech industry.
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- Intel's X-25M solid-state hard drive represents a major leap forward for the solid-state drive category. While we've heard about the benefits of solid-state hard drives for years--faster access and boot times, improved battery life--Intel's drive raises expectations for the category as a whole. You will most definitely have to...
- Product reviews 2008-10-08
- Easing the SaaS-to-cash cycle
- The credit crunch has put a premium on the ability to generate cash. But if you're a startup with a great SaaS proposition, how can you be sure of reliably collecting those payments? by Phil Wainewright
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- ITIL - Service Approach for Siemens Enterprise Communications
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- White papers 2008-10-08
- Improve your failed IT culture
- Improve your failed IT cultureRisk and rulesWhat's the connection between your suggested steps to improve projects and the problem identified?Is it possible to deal with the problem identified in the following quoted quotes without using the word "blame"?Creating a culture for risk management is a challenging proposition for most firms....
- Discussion threads 2008-10-06
- LinkedIn and Xing set to benefit from downturn?
- One theory: LinkedIn, the social network for "professionals", could actually be benefiting from the downturn. That's because the site's value proposition really kicks in for those that have or fear that they might about to lose their job. by Steve O'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- eBay doubles down on payments as it buys Bill Me Later; Lays off 1,000
- EBay on Monday revamped its corporate portfolio laying off 1,000 workers, or 10 percent of its workforce, and buying online payment company Bill Me Later as well as a Denmark classifieds company. The layoffs were largely expected, but the Bill Me Later purchase for $820 million in...
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Agresso's answer to ERP addiction
- Earlier today I took a briefing from Agresso. Up front I'll say that I have something of a soft spot for this company. Some years back I did some very early formative work on what is now their BLINC Businesses Living In Change schtik and was...
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- RealDVD: A walk through the complaint
- RealDVD: A walk through the complaintRealMEHI'd love a way to legally copy my DVDs to my computer's HD so I can watch them without a disc in the drive. However, I'd never buy anything from Real to do it.Software doesn't copy DVDs...... people do. Real might want to talk...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- Battle of the bands: MySpace vs. iTunes
- MySpace, the world's largest social networking site, unveiled a long-expected joint venture with all four major music companies in a bid to compete with Apple's market-leading iTunes store. NEW YORK--News Corp's MySpace, the world's largest social networking site, on Wednesday unveiled a long-expected joint venture with all four major...
- News items 2008-09-25
- CAD vs. programming...what should we teach?
- CAD vs. programming...what should we teach?How is the curriculum ...... the responsibility of the IT director? Shouldn't you stick to supporting what the educators determine is the appropriate curriculum.RE: CAD vs. programming...what should we teach?A bug in a drawing is going to be more obvious than a bug in...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-22
- VMware vs Microsoft: Place your bets
- At this year's VMworld conference, the talk was all about the free release of Microsoft's hypervisor product, and how much of a threat the software giant may pose to virtualization leader VMware The talk of this year's VMworld conference in Las Vegas was how much of a competitive threat...
- News items 2008-09-22
- Cloud Courting: Round One
- VMware and Citrix want to be your cloud infrastructure provider. The competing virtual infrastructure makers announced dueling cloud initiatives this week aimed at providing xSPs with simple to deploy and buy cloud computing platforms that come from very different angles and may serve to bifurcate the mid to small market...
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
- Warning: failure-driven IT layoffs ahead
- Even under normal circumstances, IT failures impose a substantial drain on corporate resources. During this period of economic trouble and scarce resources, however, many organizations will show less tolerance for failure, making layoffs likely. CIO blogger, Peter Birley, describes the downturn equation from...
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
- Opportunities in the impending tech fallout
- Richard Koman writes an interesting piece on what he sees as the impact of the current financial crisis. The extract from Jay Bhatti, cofounder of people search engine Spock caught my attention: The big players like Oracle, Sun, Microsoft and SAP … will feel an immediate impact. Financial Service...
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- Sophisticated Customer Relationship Collaboration with MindTouch & SnapLogic
- In another sign of the continuing maturity of Enterprise 2.0 technologies, open source social enterprise collaboration vendor MindTouch and open source data integration framework company SnapLogic announce a new partnership today. SnapLogic have a terrific reputation in the open source data integration world, linking (with 'pipelines') ...
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- PwnageTool vs. Apple arms race
- PwnageTool vs. Apple arms raceJailbreak but keep using their software?It seems a strange concept to me. Jailbreaking an iTouch or iPhone means you can use innumerable and usually superior products to manage your hardware. Why go back to using iTunes?On the escalation front, someone needs to explain to...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-12
- 100Mbps. 2010. Over The Air. Don't Be Surprised.
- What if WiFi could square off or even beat WiMax or other approaches to broadband access to the Internet, over the air? If you listen to comments from Tom Rutledge, the chief operating officer of Cablevision Systems Corp., at the Merrill Lynch...
- Blog posts 2008-09-11
- Cloud rising
- Cloud risingAccording to Wikipedia, one of the main reasons Apple failed....15 years ago was that there were too many ongoing and very amazing projects that, unfortunately, could not generate any revenue. The extraordinary amazing program will be close to nothing if it cannot bring the company any profits. I...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-10
- Something in the air: Several random wind energy updates
- It's been so still here in northern New Jersey for the past week that I can't imagine using the technology that I'm going to mention in this post. And yet the wind has been known to bend the trees in my yard, like kelp responding to a tidal surge. So,...
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Taiwan busts hacking ring, 50 million personal records compromised
- Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau CIB has successfully tracked down and arrested six people in what the CIB believes to be the biggest personal data breach in Taiwan to date. Apparently, the group also managed to obtain personal data on Taiwan's current and former presidents : "The suspects are believed...
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
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