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Is there room for Cisco in the online office suite space?
in The CIO Weblog, on July 1, 2009
...ot;thinking about" getting into the online office pool with Google, Microsoft, Zoho, and other SaaS providers. It's probably too much to read into what may have been meant as a throwaway comm...
ASUS 与 Disney 联手打造儿童用 NetBook
in Wangtam, on June 18, 2009
当前经济衰退中，许多玩具公司避免推出高价产品， Disney 却逆势而行，打算在假期销售旺季来临前推出售价 350 美元的儿童 netBook 。
这款 netBook "Disney Netpal"将于7月底起在美国和加拿大的 Toys "R" US 店铺和 Amazon 销售。
美泰和孩之宝(Hasbro)等玩具公司以及 Toys "R" US 等零售商则认为，因失业率上升、楼市低迷及信贷紧缩影响到父母的消费能力，因此价格便宜的玩具会更受欢迎。
Disney 表示，这是该公司首次在北美推出笔记本电脑，五年前该公司曾试图...
IBM's confusing cloud strategy
in The CIO Weblog, on June 15, 2009
...tasks. " But a "cloud" with a specific task isn't a cloud, it's just another SaaS offering. That's a fine thing in and of itself, but if that's what IBM is choosing to c...
Apps adoption not so terrible
in The CIO Weblog, on June 5, 2009
...oks pretty good to cash-strapped CIOs (it remains to be seen if Microsoft's own hosted Exchange SaaS product will compete successfully with Google Apps... the product remains more expensive, thoug...
Sipgate vs. Skype
in The VoIP Weblog, on June 3, 2009
VoIP provider sipgate launched in the U.S. this week, with the intention of competing directly with landline telephone services - and with Skype .
"Sipgate, which has operated a successful VoIP business in Europe since 2004, launched a new free VoIP calling play in the U.S. that aims...
Zune HD Has Nothing But Potential Right Now
in The Gadgets Weblog, on May 29, 2009
...ll 3.3 inches, HD TV out, and a proven UI all seem very impressive. If Microsoft cannot pull of the convergence factor and replace several devices, or if the Zune HD cannot bring the Zune Marketplace,...
Finally
in The CIO Weblog, on May 19, 2009
I see Gartner is finally getting on board the "Skip Vista" bandwagon, a bit too late to be of much use to any audience which might have made productive use of the analysis, but anyway, you know, welcome.
More surprising is the quote later in the same article from Senior VP for Wi...
Dayton RFID Convergence Center: World’s First Business Incubator for Start Ups
in The RFID Weblog, on May 13, 2009
...rld's first business incubator for start ups pertaining to the field of RFID.
The Dayton RFID Convergence Center is located at the thirty acre Tech Town Business Park and is scouting for RFID ...
Squarespace as a Situational App programming model
in The CIO Weblog, on May 4, 2009
... really need to be. Nonetheless, it's an important trend and it may be, as the component of the SaaS market that it is, a technology which comes to dominate the CIO's interaction with business...
Window 7 coming early, as expected
in The CIO Weblog, on April 30, 2009
It's usually a vendor that spills the beans, and in this case it seems to be Acer that is the culprit. Bobby Watkins of Acer UK is cited in this Pocket-lint story as saying, "23rd October is the date the Windows 7 will be available." The date is well ahead of the official early ...
OnLive: the future of everything?
in The CIO Weblog, on April 27, 2009
...ource intensive business applications have also been assumed to be immune from recent trends toward SaaSification. I've accepted that premise as readily as anyone, but listening to TWiT recently...
To panic, or not to panic
in The CIO Weblog, on April 22, 2009
...s that the implications of this particular attack are cause for a major re-evaluation of the use of SaaS, VoIP, and any software which relies on Internet connections. I think that approach is excessiv...
Oracle 出价 74 亿美元收购 Sun
in Wangtam, on April 20, 2009
Oracle 同意以 74 亿美元或每股 9.50 美元的价格收购 Sun ，预计该次并购于今年夏季完成。
Oracle 公司总裁 Safra Catz 称，预计该并购交易完成的第一财年，将促使 Oracle 公司依非国际公认会计原则（Non-GAAP）计算的每股盈利至少增加 15 美分。
Catz 指出，预计其收购 Sun 电子计算机公司的业务在并购第一财年将为 Oracle Non-GAAP 运营利润贡献 15 亿美元 ，第二财年贡献逾 20 亿美元。而并购 Sun 电子计算机公司第一财年将实现的每股收益要高于 Oracle 并购服务器软件供应商 BEA 系统公司的计划每股收益...
Celestica receives a supply chain award
in Supplychainer, on April 15, 2009
...ch works with approximately 5,000 suppliers worldwide, has leveraged E2open's multi-enterprise, SaaS-based solution to help synchronize supply and procurement processes across its demand and suppl...
Did Vista jump the shark?
in The CIO Weblog, on April 14, 2009
... picked the worst possible time to blow a Windows version release when they did so with Vista, with SaaS alternatives and a newly reinvigorated Apple breathing down their necks. Could we be seeing alr...
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in Wangtam, on April 10, 2009
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Socialcast 获收 140 万美元投资
in Wangtam, on April 10, 2009
融资方： Socialcast
投资方： True Ventures 和其他一些天使投资人
涉及金额：140 万美元（第一轮）
Zer01 Announces $69.99 Unlimited Voice and Data Plan
in The VoIP Weblog, on April 1, 2009
...tforms 'within months.'"
"Here's how it works: Zer01's Veritable Mobile Convergence (VCM) technology bypasses carrier circuits by using VoIP to send calls into a virtual pr...
The importance of corporate DNA
in The CIO Weblog, on March 30, 2009
... to their success? If it was a significant contribution, then does their failure to commit now to a SaaS-centric approach doom their prospects at dominating the market as it shifts in that direction?
...
Cloud computing killed your future
in The CIO Weblog, on March 17, 2009
Derrick Harris, posting on GigaOm yesterday, postulates that the introduction of cloud computing to the IT industry will put a lot of information workers out on the streets in the same way that the automation of manufacturing work in the seventies and eighties lead to the permanent destruction of ...
Oracle launches new SaaS Sourcing solution
in Supplychainer, on March 13, 2009
...e president for EBS supply chain management, in an interview with Manufacturing Executive.
The new SaaS offering also includes extensive technical services and packaged integration with Oracle ERP ap...
The complex reality of end-user application development
in The CIO Weblog, on March 6, 2009
...can be used so poorly as to make this a much more difficult endeavor than he implies. Many PaaS and SaaS tools have excellent collaborative interfaces to such information, but the fact remains that it...
Opmanager online
in The CIO Weblog, on March 2, 2009
...One of my favorite SMB/SME IT operations and support management suites has made the leap to SaaS land: ManageEngine by Adventnet (better known in most circles for their Zoho SaaS platform) is now p...
Further failures cast cloud into question
in The CIO Weblog, on February 24, 2009
...ation logic; it's worthless without the platform. The same is true, to a lesser extent, for any SaaS operation... while the data may be the most important thing, without the application framework ...
Viewing new technologies through old prisms
in The CIO Weblog, on February 19, 2009
...mesharing, you look at desktop PCs, you look at terminal services, you look at laptops, you look at SaaS, you start to see a certain repetition of basic concepts at the delivery level of information t...
SaaS expected to grow through the downturn
in The CIO Weblog, on February 17, 2009
...hing the markets) I refer you to a recent study from IDC forecasting a continued expansion in the SaaS market despite our overall economic woes.
This isn't just good news for SaaS investors and...
Samsung Omnia is First High Definition Cell Phone
in The Gadgets Weblog, on February 17, 2009
... cell phones, I wonder how long it will take until digital cameras are no longer a consumer staple. Convergence is a good thing; it helps to eliminate the number of devices I am lugging around with me...
A Conversation with Larry Guevel of Unisys
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on January 29, 2009
...rket has noticed this and has moved toward smaller, simpler transactions and software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings, both of which can lower the overall transactions costs of outsourcing deals.
One ...
SaaS Office suites; last in, first out?
in The CIO Weblog, on January 22, 2009
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IBM has thrown its hat in the SaaS office collaboration suite ring this week with the announcement of the online version of Lotus Notes, Lotus Live (aside: why does that redirect to a secure cha...
慢点走，别着急
in Wangtam, on January 15, 2009
...3rd Party Web Browsers into App Store
• A new Google Sitemap Generator for your website
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• IDC：09年全球SAAS软件服务收入达107亿美元
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Future of SaaS in supply chain
in Supplychainer, on January 15, 2009
... Aberdeen just published the result of its recent study on Software as a Service (SaaS) for supply chain management. The report highlights today's quest in the market for cutting supply chain app...
Merb to Merge Into Rails 3
in Java Entrepreneur, on December 24, 2008
...make Rails a richer framework for end users," writes Ars Technica's Ryan Paul . "The convergence of Merb and Rails is a win for everyone involved, and it is always gratifying to see dev...
Google's Native Client
in The CIO Weblog, on December 8, 2008
... than simply a page viewer, was a bold stroke toward focusing the industry on better ways to deploy SaaS applications. While the SaaS sector is expanding rapidly of its own volition, fueled by Google ...
Markers fusion plugin for Google Maps
in Wangtam, on December 3, 2008
...许丈夫回家 婚后"分居"
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Entellium files Chapter 11; Intuit hopes to pick up the pieces
in The CIO Weblog, on December 3, 2008
...anagement of the now indicted CEO and Senior VP might be our first significant example of an active SaaS company going under with a sizeable customer base. What happens with those customers could be o...
Zoho announces SQL API
in The CIO Weblog, on December 2, 2008
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The quiet achiever of the SaaS world, Zoho, has announced a new service called CloudSQL offering direct ODBC/JDBC access to certain cloud-hosted data with common SQL syntax. The service will also ...
Amazon adds content distribution to Web Services options
in The CIO Weblog, on November 18, 2008
...en performance; the Internet is a fickle place and even the most robust solutions for non-web-based SaaS offerings have lagged in responsiveness and usability behind self-hosted alternatives. It's...
Exchange and Sharepoint Online officially released
in The CIO Weblog, on November 17, 2008
...The disparity between the costs and services presented by traditional server based applications and SaaS is verging into mini-computer versus micro-computer (that's PC to you young folks out there...
IASB chief Sir David Tweedie nearly resigned
in Sox First, on November 14, 2008
... He will probably have to wait. As Business Week points out, there is a fair bit of resistance to convergence. It's no lay-down certainty....
LG will mit Microsoft kooperieren
in Handyzweinull, on November 5, 2008
...Kooperation mit dem amerikanischen Konzern Microsoft Corp. plane. Und zwar im Bereich der Mobile Convergence.
Es geht also um die Entwicklung neuer Anwendungsmöglichkeiten bei Mobiltelefonen. Für Mic...
Dreamforce
in The CIO Weblog, on November 4, 2008
...m your CRM system on your public-facing website), are all second-order efforts in the deployment of SaaS technologies, which aren't being explored in a coherent manner by any other company I am fa...
Microsoft strategy
in The CIO Weblog, on October 30, 2008
...rvices in the Azure announcement has been cleared up by Mary Jo Foley; these represent not simply SaaS hosted applications as I had assumed, but rather service platforms intended as development base...
Speech Design unterstützt Blackberry
in BlackBerry World, on October 28, 2008
...für die genannten Smartphones:
Die Software macht die Bedienung von sogenannten Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) Systemen, die eine netzübergreifende Kommunikation zwischen Fest- und Mobilfunknetz er...
Keeping Count: The TechCrunch Layoff Tracker
in Wangtam, on October 18, 2008
...ebbr - Yeah, we've got a webb for that
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CAN SaaS pricing drop by half?
in The CIO Weblog, on October 16, 2008
...hat much and remain in business? Margins, we've already heard , are considerably more thin for SaaS companies than traditional boxed software companies. Can they really afford to stay in business...
Amazon S3 forges on
in The CIO Weblog, on October 9, 2008
...idely publicized outages and provoked a significant dither in the blogosphere over the future of SaaS and cloud-based services in general, but none of that has stopped it from undertaking impressiv...
Entellium fallout
in The CIO Weblog, on October 9, 2008
...inevitable reassurances to the contrary) if we were going to see the first significant failure of a SaaS business and the subsequent ghastly fallout among customers who may lose both their software an...
Microsoft's Cloud OS
in The CIO Weblog, on October 6, 2008
...oft and potentially much more palatable to their existing customer base than the brave new world of SaaS. This approach to cloud computing may also find favor with current customers. I have to wonder,...
And you thought you had pilfering problems
in The CIO Weblog, on October 2, 2008
It's a fair bet that whatever issues you may have with employees taking home the odd stick of RAM or spare mouse, it hasn't added up to this saga at the naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC: a single system administrator, over a ten year period, walked off with almost twen...
Waukesha Tool & Stamping signs a contract with Plexus to manage supply chain operations
in Supplychainer, on September 30, 2008
...echnology."
Plexus Online is an on-demand solution that builds on the software as a service (SaaS) model. Plexus Online offers over 350 functional modules, providing companies access to informa...
T-Mobile Removes 1GB Data Cap for G1 Phone
in The Wireless Weblog, on September 25, 2008
T-Mobile has canceled plans to limit 3G data usage on the new G1 Google Android phone to 1GB per month, and now says instead that it is "still finalizing the specific terms for its new data plans," according to Wired's Priya Ganapati .
"It never seemed smart for T-M...
IT department morale tip #43
in The CIO Weblog, on September 19, 2008
© therapycatguardian
Today is a good day to get out of your office, descend the gilded staircase from your lofty ivory tower where you typically spend your days among the corporate mighty and powerful, and mingle with the unwashed masses of bustling techs in your IT department, talking l...
Windows 7 may be coming early
in The CIO Weblog, on September 16, 2008
... upgrade path for those businesses increases the chances that they will look elsewhere (or that the SaaS market will improve sufficiently in the meantime that they will simply look for the cheapest an...
Vista fallout
in The CIO Weblog, on September 13, 2008
... Microsoft, or for Vista. But consider the impact of this combined with the gradual movement toward SaaS on both the consumer and business fronts. Consider Google's Chrome; might not HP or other v...
Joana Miranda Fine Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on September 9, 2008
...as actively involved in every aspect of the business from design to bench work to marketing.
Convergence bubbles Earrings
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What's in it for Zoho?
in The CIO Weblog, on September 8, 2008
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Last month I put up a post regarding the economics of the B2B SaaS market , responding primarily to an interesting post on Zoho's blog regarding the matter.
I have been entirely remiss in p...
Positive changes in Vista licensing scheme
in The CIO Weblog, on September 4, 2008
...th reduce and render more consistent the company's support costs. Web-based applications and SaaS companies are two factors which are making this a reasonable approach; application virtualization ...
More Chrome follow-up
in The CIO Weblog, on September 3, 2008
...r move to adopt it or demand similar features in their standard browser. It's fairly clear that SaaS can be a flexible, cost-effective solution for many businesses, and if the trend toward adoptin...
Oooh, shiny!
in The CIO Weblog, on September 2, 2008
...at move for Google to make right now, and a positive step in the development of true cross-platform SaaS delivery. Browsers today, as many have pointed out, simply weren't designed to be doing the...
Google manning up for August outages
in The CIO Weblog, on August 28, 2008
...e outages were handled on the customer service front.
Following the general pattern for widespread SaaS provider outages, Google has now seen the same light as Salesforce and Amazon before it and pro...
HP seals EDS deal
in The CIO Weblog, on August 27, 2008
...d move but quite possibly a winning one as the enterprise hardware market faces the dual threats of SaaS and cloud based fulfillment (rendering the utilization of server hardware over the breadth of t...
The economics of SaaS
in The CIO Weblog, on August 19, 2008
... to understand the rationale that is driving this market today, shaping the efforts of both upstart SaaS providers like Zoho and established mass-market vendors like Microsoft.
Using available number...
A touch of gray
in The CIO Weblog, on August 12, 2008
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Quavondo Nguyen
Every silver lining's got a touch of grey
- The Grateful Dead
Yesterday's Gmail outage, affecting both individual and Apps corporate customers, has the blogosphere all abuzz yet again over the unreliability of cloud computing. This co...
Who says SaaS is hard?
in The CIO Weblog, on July 31, 2008
...president of the 9 year old strategic financial planning software vendor, which offers both SaaS and stand-alone versions of its Whitebirch Planning product, says, "Basically what we want ...
Cloud computing: getting what you paid for
in The CIO Weblog, on July 29, 2008
© GreyHobbit
In the wake of last week's outage at Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3), which left many customers hanging for more than six hours while internal "communications" issues were corrected, it seems of particular importance to clarify what you are paying for when ...
More musings on cloud reliability
in The CIO Weblog, on July 21, 2008
Predictably, yesterday's extended Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) outage has elicited a flurry of Monday morning responses from bloggers and media. The reactions range from the incensed to the accommodating to the practical. I have to admit that my own take, yesterday, was perhaps...
SAP jacks support costs
in The CIO Weblog, on July 18, 2008
...lt of my predilection for the simplicity of such things, I imagine it will help drive businesses to SaaS alternatives. This almost certainly means away from SAP, considering the botched Business ByDes...
非主流 Office 应用横向比较
in Wangtam, on July 18, 2008
InfoWorld 近日公布了一份非主流 Office 应用横向比较的研究报告，其中选取了四种目前免费的 Office 应用套件作为评测、比较的样本，包括 Zoho 、 Google Docs 、IBM 的免费项目 Symphony 以及 OpenOffice.org 。比较结果如上图所示（点击小图可见大图），InfoWorld 对 Google Docs 的评价并不高，反而是 Zoho 与 Symphony 获得了更多的褒奖：
Top Ten Worst Uses for Windows
in Wangtam, on July 14, 2008
...s in Zoho Invoice
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