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- Microsoft-hosted Online security-service for business users due in 2010
- Microsoft's just-announced free anti-virus/anti-malware service, codenamed Morro, isn't the only new Microsoft security service in the works. There's a Microsoft-hosted security service for businesses in the works, too, and it's due in 2010, according to a new Microsoft blog posting. by Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Dell data dump: More energy ammo for the procurement checklist
- Two Dell-related green tech proclamations this week: First, the company has done one of those fun green math exercises and is calculating that its customers have saved an estimated $3 billion in energy costs and 29 million tons in carbon dioxide emissions by using OptiPlex desktop systems since 2005. Whether...
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- A vision of IT utopia
- In this ideal world, business users gratefully accept whatever techno-babble nonsense IT throws at them, with technology having become utterly divorced from any business purpose whatsoever. by Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Giddyap - Oracle Mid-market apps team with Wells Fargo
- A Treasury Solution to Save Money not cost more of it I got a briefing from Oracle's Tony Kender and Wells Fargo's Brad Stewart concerning their new joint plug-in adapter product for Oracle's E-Business Suite. Basically, this adapter allows users of Oracle's mid-market applications to directly...
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Unstructured transparency - the management methodology that pulls us through the crunch?
- I've just spent a couple of fascinating days at the HCL Global Meet in Orlando, Florida. As the name suggests this was a very international gathering of HCL's partners, clients, staff and thoughtleaders in the management and collaboration space. I've written before about...
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Lanamark Vready
- Mark Angelo, CEO of Lanamark, dropped by to tell me Vready, a new service his company is offering. I've spoken with representatives with many smaller organizations and think that Lanamark has a good grasp on the problems these organizations are facing when they choose to embark on the journey to...
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- News to know: Microsoft; Psystar; Mozilla; Storm; Office 2.0
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Microsoft kills OneCare, replaces it with freebie ‘Morro' Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft kills off Windows Live OneCare and Equipt subscription services Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Microsoft...
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Dick, Jane, and MySQL: why recessions favor open source
- Recessions are good for open source simply because they force non IT management to face the costs of IT -and think a bit about what they know it can do for the business. by Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Judge tosses Psystar's countersuit
- A federal judge has tossed out a countersuit filed by Mac clone maker Psystar, which alleged that Apple was engaging in anticompetitive business practices by controlling both the hardware and software that makes up the Macintosh computer line. Psystar was given 20 days - until Dec. 8 - to amend...
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Changing business landscape makes identity and access management key to IT security
- To learn more about how enterprises can begin coordinated identity and access management strategies, BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner spoke with Dan Rueckert, worldwide practice director for security and risk management in HP's Consulting and Integration group; Archie Reed, distinguished technologist in HP's security office in the Enterprise Storage and Server Group,...
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Forrester, SaaS and market uptake in IT management
- Competition in the Changing IT Management Space Yesterday I discussed CA's move into SaaS-based IT Management. Today, a Forrester Research shared with me a new report their firm also released yesterday (How Big Is SaaS In IT Management Software? by Peter O'Neill) on the predicted...
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- How medical device makers can improve U.S. health care
- Up to date equipment is key to productivity in any business and it's clear that the device industry's policies are holding down that productivity here. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- SAP Trimming Head Count, "Can't Rule Out" Layoffs
- Since the world's economic crisis began in September, SAP AG has adopted a "we do not hire, we do not replace" employment policy. The early results are in. And when you exclude acquisitions (see Business Objects, January 2008), there is one area of the world where...
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- CRM 2009 Forecast: How'd I Do in 2008? Gimme A High Four!
- Usually, when I begin my forecast for the coming year, I like to look at how I did the previous year - which is usually disconcerting to say the least. So, in honor of my first non-intro post for this ZDNET blog, I'm going to be nakedly transparent and show...
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Should big brands fear or revere the mommybloggers?
- In the case of Motrin, what the mommybloggers have done is taken the powerful army of business consultants it had finally branded itself as, and turned itself into a targeted fear monger. by Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Office 2.0: a digital revolution for students worldwide
- With hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people using Google Apps and Zoho, two of the main cloud office suites on the web, Microsoft once again sees an opportunity to slam it's iron fist onto the web in hope of crushing the same competitors as before. ...
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Open source journalism goes local
- The right way to evaluate an open source enterprise is through the business model. The output is a byproduct. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- CRM 2.0 = The Conversation - But First....The Intro
- This is my first post for ZDNET. I'm back from a 10 day cruise to the Caribbean - had a great time - came back to the economy worse than what I left - though gas prices are great - and I'm feeling relaxed anyway - so I thought it...
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Yahoo: Pondering Yang's replacement; The next move
- Now that Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang is out, the handicapping begins. Who will be Yang's replacement and what will that choice reveal about Yahoo's future? The story line Techmeme revolving around Yang's departure is familiar. Yang took over the company at the second worst time in Yahoo's...
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- News to know: Jerry Yang, MLB.com, Mark Cuban, USB 3.0
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: Jerry Yang to step down as CEO, back to Chief Yahoo Larry Dignan: With Yang out as Yahoo CEO, Steve Ballmer licks chops ...
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
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