With Nokia Siemens bidding on Nortel's wireless business and Avaya rumored to be grabbing up its enterprise gear, it is all but inevitable that the rest of company will be broken up and sold off in pieces, which raises questions. Here are some of them and the answers.
Social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn increasingly are being used by enterprises to engage with customers, build their brands and communicate information to the rest of the world.
As of early Friday morning, about 58% of our poll respondents think Apple CEO Steve Jobs should pass out for free those rubber-like wrap-around bumpers for the iPhone 4, so everyone can get back to the rest of their lives.
Microsoft has picked Bing as the branding for its new search engine, putting to rest months of speculation of what the next iteration of Live Search would be called.
If the question "What do you want from me?" screams in your head throughout the day, it might be time to re-assess the relationship you have with the rest of your organization."
In the good old days of CRM, the software ran on your servers and needed heavy customization to really work with the rest of your business. The staffing decisions were pretty straightforward: There might be implementation consultants, but the system needed an ongoing team of your own staff. In one of these classic on-premise implementations I came across just last year, the CRM "permanent staff" was 1 development/operational person for every 100 users.
While Bernard L. Madoff awaits sentencing from the comforts of his prison cell, the rest of world (financial and legal authorities) is untangling the web of investor connections, "feeder funds" and victims' transactional data that grew out of his now-infamous Ponzi scheme.
As social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn strive to formulate sustainable business models built upon advertising or the selling of premium services, the biggest hurdle they face might rest within their users' increased awareness of online privacy.
Boston is one of the nation's oldest and most respected cities. It's a cradle of technology; a national center of higher education; and generally a nice place to rest your head--I know because I lived in Beantown for nearly a decade.
China Mobile's 3G services are off to a slow start. So far this year, fewer than 3 percent of new China Mobile subscribers have signed up for the operator's 3G service based on a locally developed mobile technology called TD-SCDMA, with the rest opting for 2G services.
Construction has begun on the US$200 million New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) undersea cable network that is expected to connect Africa to the rest of the world by 2010.
Well, we blew it a year ago on the prediction that last month's U.S. presidential election would lead to historic turnout -- it didn't quite hit that mark -- and unprecedented problems with e-voting systems. The problems, it turns out, were for the most part precedented. On the positive side, we nailed the result, forecasting the election of Barack Obama. Not inclined to rest on that laurel (and a few others we also accurately foretold), we've set forth again to find out what industry analysts are forecast
As quarterly financial reports start to pour in from IT bellwethers like Google, Nokia and Intel, industry insiders are not worried so much about what happened last quarter as what's in store for the rest of the year.
Since the election, the political news cycle has revolved around the impending "fiscal cliff," a perfect storm of tax increases and government spending cuts set to take effect on Jan. 2, 2013. Although the IT industry may not have paid much attention, it's just as susceptible to the policy changes as the rest of the economy.
So we're done with the Apple iPad 3 (or iPad HD?) rumors, the anonymous sources, the Asian supply chain, the "evidence" that rests on other rumors, and all the rest.
In the preceding column, I opened the newsletter to a counter-intelligence specialist who prefers to remain anonymous. At the end of the article, he commented that the French intelligence services were pretty bold. Here’s the rest of his article.
The full-disclosure debate continues with a contribution from Prof. Ric Steinberger. As usual with contributions to this newsletter, the rest of this article is entirely his with minor edits:
A while ago, I wrote about increasing interest in using fault tolerant platforms to support virtual environments. As organizations start thinking about moving truly critical business applications into the virtual world, I’d think that knowing those virtual workloads are running in a highly reliable environment would let a lot of IT professionals rest easier at night.