SAP is now offering its high-end MaxAttention support service to customers in China in response to increasing demand there for its ERP software, the company announced Thursday.
Operators around the world are getting ready to launch commercial LTE services, and users should get ready to pay a premium for mobile broadband using laptops, if TeliaSonera's pricing is anything to go by.
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.
As I continue to see the big banks and the small banks go after each other about who should pay a larger premium to the FDIC, I thought of a poll question. Feel free to take the LinkedIn poll, but so far there are some pretty interesting trends.
At Crazy Cringely's House of Windows Upgrades, we're slashin' prices to the bone. Are you jonesin' to upgrade from Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 Home Premium? It won't cost you $129. Not $127, or even $124. Just $119.99 -- a savings of nearly 8 percent over the cost of upgrading from XP to Vista! Can you believe it?
The term "premium netbook" initially sounds like a self-contradiction, particularly given the evolution of this particular species. After all, netbooks were conceived not just to be small and light -- they typically weigh two-and-a-half to three pounds -- but also inexpensive. For instance, the Asus Eee PC, the first successful consumer-oriented netbook, cost $400, and there are now equivalent or better systems available for less than that.
Bebo is launching local-language versions of its social networking site in five European countries, offering premium video content via media partners, the company said Monday.
We interrupt our normally scheduled newsletter planned for a VoiceCon report to discuss Cisco’s announcement last week that it plans to acquire WebEx for $3.2 billion. The deal represents about a $300 million premium to buy the market share leader in Web-based conferencing and collaboration.
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, Foote Partners has released its most recent quarterly skills pay survey and guess what … bonus pay for non-certified IT skills is up and skills pay for certified skills is down … again. The average premium pay for non-certified workers grew from 7.0% in Q4 05 to 7.6% of base pay in Q4 06. Average skills pay for certified skills for the same period remained flat at 8.2% of base salary.
Industry watchers say this year will mark a major milestone in IP networking: U.S. carriers will buy more routers for use in their private, premium-service IP backbones than for the Internet backbone.
The upcoming Firefox OS will appear on higher-end smartphones, and not just entry-level handsets, with Sony expected to release a premium device running the operating system, a Mozilla executive said.
The pay gap between certified and non-certified IT skills is narrowing, according to fresh research on skills pay from Foote Partners. The research firm said premium pay tied to non-certified and certified skills grew an average of 2.1% and 0.7%, respectively for the six months ending April 1.
An apparent attempt to recycle discarded internal reports has ended up in the compromise of credit card and bank number information belonging to more than 240,000 subscribers of The Boston Globe and Worcester Telegram & Gazette.
Linux has the text of 60,000 error and debug messages built-in. With bytes at a premium on phones and other devices, developers are looking for a way to make the kernel smaller and less chatty.
Three major U.S. carriers have agreed not to charge their customers for premium text messages, which have emerged as a route for unauthorized third-party charges on mobile phone bills.
Premium pay for networking skills is on the rise as executives turn their thoughts to retention, Foote Partners reports. A recent study from the IT workforce research firm finds that an increase in hiring, retention concerns, disappointment with offshore outsourcing and high demand for IT consultants are all driving up skills pay for specific specialties.
Offshore outsourcing has reduced the need for companies to award as much premium bonus pay for certain IT certifications and skills as they did in previous years. Foote Partners' Quarterly Hot Technical Skills and Certification Pay Index shows that extra compensation for IT skills dropped 16% over the past two years, while premium pay for IT certifications dropped 6.5% over the same period.