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Notes on Business Objects acquisition by SAP
2007-10-09 01:24:00 Yesterday was a landmark in the young history of the Europe an software industry. World leader in enterprise resource planning software, Germany-born and global company SAP, stroke a USD 7.5bn bid for Paris outskirts-born and global company vendor Business Objects - also a San Jose CA-headquartered world leader on the business intelligence market (USD 1.7bn turnover ... More About: Software , Economics , Globalization
Four Hour Work Week for IT Workers
2007-10-07 20:19:00 I finished reading Tim Ferriss?s exceptional book 4 Hour Work Week few weeks back. Tim says that there is a shift in the way we put in ?hours? at work. 40 hour work week is outdated in this innovation economy. The book is filled with lots of practical tips on ways to reduce one?s work ... More About: Globalization , Workers , Productivity
The Apple rally
2007-10-06 16:05:00 Picture saw on brandinfection thanks to Robert Scoble on Twitter (see twitt here saying “Microsoft should really be freaked out”). I hear here and there that one out of five laptop sold is a Mac in 2007. This is massive considering the bulk of the enterprise market consumes PCs: it basically means Apple wins 30% ... More About: Software , Education , Entertainment
Create a secured gateway with Tor + Vidalia
2007-10-05 01:39:00 Here’s a short post on 2 nice, free pieces of software that I use, like and recommend: Tor and Vidalia. A couple weeks ago on a week end, I found myself waiting for a train with no wireless Internet connexion but a public network I couldn’t access via port 80 (http) since the network administrator had ... More About: Software , Google , Security , Entertainment
Introducing Raj Sheelvant, a new blogger on Tech IT Easy!
2007-10-03 21:22:00 Please join me in welcoming Raj, who has since today become a blogger on Tech IT Easy. So who is Raj Sheelvant? Currently working as a Project Manager at Intel, he has 15 years of IT experience working in various roles. He holds an MBA-degree from W.P. Carey Business School of Arizona State University at ... More About: Software , Technology , Blogger , Project Management
Xobni: I want it
2007-10-03 15:15:00 Xobni is an amazing OBA S+S example. But what is OBA (see links here, and here, and here, and here)? What is S+S (see my quick explanation to Vincent here)? Thanks to Julien for spotting Xobni. More About: Software , Globalization , Internet , Technology , Microsoft
Looking towards a new naming-convention for the wave of web/software-servic
2007-10-01 13:49:00 Until now, we have all been happy (and confused) about web 2.0. What is it built on? Ajax, Flash,Silverlight, Air, Php? Is it a platform or is it an app? And, what the hell is it? Tim O’Reilly has done his best to build upon his original naming of the phenomenon Web 2.0. According to him, ... More About: Software , Google , Economics , Internet , Technology
Invisible Friends
2007-09-30 20:29:00 After writing about noise of web 2.0, I began to think more about the amount of noise in my everayday web experience. In comments of that post, Cecil pointed me to Nat Torkington and Linda Stone and their concept of continuous partial attention. The stuff is from 2005, but the CPA is even more real ... More About: Internet , Friends , Invisible , Visible
Sustainable, Information Technology?
2007-09-28 02:15:00 Here’s a little fact sheet mixed with some thoughts on Green IT. Green IT is a truly serious topic that should be thought over and tackled over a long period of time. There is not one answer to the sustainable development challenge. On thing that’s pretty sure though is that Information Technology, an industry that ... More About: Video , Software , Google , Europe , Globalization
The life of a software developer, episode 2/4: the improvement of software
2007-09-24 23:32:00 Recently I read an article saying that only 16% of data-processing projects are a success. On the other hand, 59% of data-processing projects don?t respect initial budget, 35% don?t respect deadlines and 54% of all applications don?t match clients? needs. This being known, we can understand the success of CMMi (Capability Maturity ModelŽ Integration) model. ... More About: Software , Globalization , Life , Finance , Outsourcing
There?s no such thing as ?unlimited?
2007-09-22 01:19:00 I’m hearing a lot of noise lately about the concept of Limits, or rather its opposite, UnLimits. Take net neutrality, for which every geek decided to laugh at the “internet is a bunch of tubes” analogy, yet that seems to be an analogy that strangely makes sense in explaining the concept of limits. Then there’s ... More About: Technology , Apple , Networks , Public policy , Unlimited
iPhone in (some parts of) Europe
2007-09-21 10:32:00 A while ago, I wrote that iPhone won’t matter in Europe . Now that iPhone has been announced to the three major markets in Europe, without 3G as some were hoping, let’s see what has changed since my original post. For those who were expecting 3G. What were you expecting? You saw the backslash Apple ’s price-cut caused. ... More About: Iphone , Telecommunications , Parts
Movable Type 4.0 from Wordpress.com user?s perspective
2007-09-19 11:49:00 The long-awaited, more open Movable Type 4 was released a while ago and I installed it to see how good it actually is. My review is from the perspective of a guy who’s been working with Wordpress .com’s blogging platform for over a year. It’s also good to know that I couldn’t hit the problems that would await ... More About: User , Perspective , Movable Type
The noise of web 2.0
2007-09-17 16:54:00 I went through an enlightenment last week when Google Reader told me that “From your 30 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 1,023 items, starred 3 items, shared 10 items, and emailed 1 items.” Over thousand items? (also, I actually emailed an item?) OK, I have five (news) feeds that put ... More About: Noise
The IT Flower and Enterprise 2.0
2007-09-15 20:38:00 On Martin Koser’s blog I found the IT Flower, a presentation about enterprise software. Rod Boothby, the creator of this presentation (framework), did a very good job with it as the image of a flower is easy to memorize and helpful to explain (or discuss) different types of enterprise software and recent developments in the ... More About: Software , Technology , Microsoft , Consulting , Business Intelligence
Serious concerns about privacy on the WWW
2007-09-14 00:58:00 I’ve begun to realize how serious the very idea of privacy can be jeopardized because of the web. The web can be a pandora box that may profit malicious folks. This blog post was triggered by an encounter that I will remember for a long time. Last week, I met, in a semi private, semi professional ... More About: Video , Google , Security , Europe , Economics
Now blogging on Microsoft Startup Zone as well
2007-09-11 02:20:00 As the youngest member of the Emerging Business Team, it is an honor for me to have been invited to blog on Microsoft ’s Startup Zone with bloggers and colleagues as prominent as Don Dodge (my favorite blogger ever alongside with Marc Andreessen), Cliff Reeves, David Rowe and Rodney Bowen-Wright. I see this opportunity as a perfect ... More About: Software , Europe , Internet , Entertainment
Thinking thorough Twitter thoughts
2007-09-08 22:41:00 Hey all, welcome to T.T.T.T. Not a new series of mine, I’m afraid, considering I have a horrible track-record of starting them and not continuing it. Case in point: my first and last post on community. So, next time I start a part 1 of anything, please slap me! Back to Twitter . Just like many others, ... More About: Internet , Education , Friends , Thoughts
Web3.0, embryonic in China
2007-09-07 10:46:00 Just come back from the third edition Win In China september session. It is entrepreneurship program financed by CCTV2 (channel 2 of China Central Television). The winner gains ten milion rmb (around 1 milion euros) to realize his project in China. All challengers have to speak chinese mandarin to present his idea and at ...
Chit Chatting with Ziki?s Anglo Saxon community manager
2007-09-06 22:53:00 Hey Rupert, what’s your name? Rupert. Right. Can you tell us more about you? As part of the Ziki team I am working as community manager for the English speaking web. My main task is to make Ziki?s innovative features known by the biggest number of people possible and we think that there are still a lot of ... More About: Software , Google , Europe , Economics , Internet
Palm cancels the Foleo! - a case of bad portfolio-management?
2007-09-06 07:56:00 Yesterday, as I was reading an article on portfolio management in my issue of HBR, important news (to some) was announced: Palm has cancelled the release of the Foleo?it’s ultra-mobile laptop solution. I can’t speak for all, but as a fairly mobile person and a writer, I find the idea of ultra-portable devices with good ... More About: Portfolio , Project Management , Organization , Management , Telecommunications
So you wanna be a Management Star - Introducing Scott Berkun
2007-09-05 09:38:00 Here is the thing : after a while in the IT tech area, one feel like stepping to another level. What is it going to be ? Architect ? Consultant ? Marketing and product definiton ? Manager ? This is a post for the ones that made the last choice. Next stop : management Most of the ... More About: Technology , Blogroll , Project Management , Management , Consulting
Software programmers: hurry up - the hardware is already there!
2007-09-04 09:00:00 Engadget recently published two articles about a product no one of us can buy: Festo’s new robotic arm, called Airic’s arm. In order to get an idea about the impact of this development I strongly recommend to watch the video on Festo’s website showing this arm and its almost natural movements. All those readers among ... More About: Hardware , Software , Europe , Programme , Ready
SAP vs. Oracle: virtuous M&A?
2007-09-02 23:51:00 Over the last 6 years, the Oracle has consistently outperformed its arch rival SAP (see chart below: SAP’s in red) Could M&A be more virtuous than organic growth after all? This is a real, tricky question: Oracle mostly grows through a well-thought acquisition strategy whilst SAP has always preached organic growth. Most people, including my humble ... More About: Software , Google , Globalization , Microsoft , Finance
?Guess who I am? #10: what is Frogz? who is Frogz?
2007-09-01 16:56:00 People call it Frogz. Who is this frog and what’s it about? I’ve seen it everywhere around the blogosphere for a couple weeks and I still don’t understand its purpose. The frog seems to be traveling the world (was seen in South Korea, and here Marine took a picture of it in Colorado; but she ... More About: Entertainment , Guess Who , Guess
3l0g Day 2007, part Two
2007-08-31 15:34:00 As it happens, BlogDay(tm) 2007 has very strict 5 rules about how to do this thing. Anyway, we here at Tech IT Easy are not that good at following any rules and anyway, who are they to tell us how to do this thing. Blogs are about decentralized individual empowerment, not following a centralized ... More About: Internet , Part
Happy Blog-Day - 5 Blogs for you!
2007-08-31 00:15:00 Hello everybody, Today is blog-day, the day we geeks celebrate the new digital age, where every word, thought, sight, and sound is digitised and broadcast to millions of households. So what blogs to we love? After some intense debate (not), and in no particular order, here are five blogs that I would like to extend the ... More About: Internet , Education , Blogroll , Friends , Consulting
US subprime crunch impact on high tech
2007-08-30 02:31:00 There has been a good deal of literature on the recent subprime mortgage financial so-called crisis. I haven’t seen anything related to the impact of this downturn on the high tech industry. Let’s hence cross the chasm and write a brief note about it. In short and broadly speaking, what the subprime lending crunch is all ... More About: Software , Security , Europe , Economics , Globalization
Welcome to Tech IT Easy new blogger Emmanuel Perez-Duarte
2007-08-29 01:00:00 It’s an honor for me to introduce as a blogger on Tech IT Easy one of the best photo editing amateurs ever, and a star on the Flickr community: Emmanuel Perez-Duarte. Check his works of Art here. Faithful readers of Tech IT Easy had already read about Emmanuel here in a post dedicated to the ... More About: Software , Europe , Economics , Internet , Education
WebKit - or, Of frameworks and browsers
More articles from this author:2007-08-27 11:09:00 The browser market is looking a bit confused right now, with “true web” on smartphones and IE7 strenghtening IE’s dominance of web and other players shuffling around. All while Google hands money to all for having that search box there in the toolbar. The next major version of Firefox, 3.0, will probably be released somewhere around ... More About: Browsers , Internet , Frameworks , Ework , Browse 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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