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Give workers a say in corporate IT
Insight perspective Don't fear employees' involvement in workplace tech, according to an analyst. Just learn to manage it appropriately.
Tags: IT Management, Handhelds, Personal Computers, Security, Mobile Device, Dale Vile, research director, workplace, online application, Web
Ovum: Let OS-makers run app stores
News Operators should leave running of mobile app stores to platform makers, advise analysts, who identify Orange and China Mobile as players that will succeed.
Tags: Mobile applications, Mobile platforms, Outsourcing, Ovum, Mobile, China Mobile Ltd., Microsoft Windows Mobile, T-Mobile, partnership, Nokia Corp.
Asia among world's highest broadband penetration
News South Korea and Hong Kong top list of markets with the highest household broadband penetration globally, according to Gartner.
Tags: Personal broadband, Bandwidth, Next-generation technology/networks, SMB, Hong Kong, Gartner Inc., Broadband, Broadband Penetration, Japan, social networking
E-media contest for Asean
Blogs SEACEM, ChangeFusion and Freevoice are now accepting applications for "ASEAN E-Media Startups Competition". The goal ...
Firefox counters Google's browser speed test
News Mozilla fights back against Chrome, saying the upcoming version of Firefox beats Google's browser in a JavaScript race.
Tags: Web browsers, Web Browser, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Firefox, performance, Microsoft Windows XP, JavaScript, CNET Networks Inc.
Gates-Ballmer relationship mared by rifts
News The chairman and CEO have been close friends and business partners for nearly 30 years. But they sometimes clashed over sharing power, according to a Journal report.
Tags: Leadership, Decision-making, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates, Google Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, product development, software, Microsoft Office
End of an era for Office 2000
News Support for Office 2000 expired Tuesday, 10 years after Steve Ballmer announced a Web-based version of the productivity suite.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Office suites, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Office OneNote 2003, productivity suite, software-as-a-service, online application, Web, Microsoft Office, Office suites
Google links apps with Groups for quicker sharing
News Documents, calendars and other items can now be shared among a defined group of people, removing the need to give access to individuals one by one.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web services, E-mail Address, Video, GROUP, e-mail, product manager, blog, Google Apps, online application
Firewalls failing to keep generation Facebook in check
News Generation Y imposes challenges to network security at work, companies must find ways to keep the net generation staff happy while protecting enterprise data.
Tags: Data security, Data services, Firewalls, Content management, Authentication and encryption, Security, Datamonitor, Quocirca, Worker, Silicon.com
Salesforce.com has cloud in its Sites
News Customers can build and run their external Web sites using vendor's Force.com Sites cloud platform as well as use other functionality such as analytics, programmable logic and workflow.
Tags: Cloud computing, Starbucks Corp., EMEA, CRM, Web Application, Cloud computing, Customer, analytics, Silicon.com, Web Site
Google's Gears turns one
News The project formerly called 'Google Gears' is increasingly being used to make online apps function when connectivity is unavailable.
Tags: Database management, Web services, Web browsers, Google Gears, Google Inc., Database, software, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Opera Software, desktop
UK CIOs: All our apps will be in the cloud by 2013
News Business applications will increasingly head into the cloud as consumer technology filters through to business, according to U.K. CIOs.
Tags: Web services, Business applications, Cloud, Google Inc., CIO, Microsoft Office Live Workspace, software, Facebook, software-as-a-service, Internet
Flash, HTML, Ajax: Which will prevail?
News news analysis Web apps are getting richer and more widespread, but it is unclear which of several competing technologies will power them.
Tags: Web sites, Software, Programming languages, Protocols and platforms, Network standards/protocols, Web Browser, Google Inc., Rich Internet Application, intellectual property, Programming
Check out Project alternatives: Basecamp and QuickBase
Techguide Learn more about 37signals' Basecamp and Intuit's QuickBase, two highly-capable alternatives to Microsoft Project.
Tags: IT project management, Project management, Microsoft Corp., Intuit QuickBase, 37Signals, Microsoft Project, Overkill, Basecamp, software, File-sharing
Oracle Database 11g ready for launch
News Almost nine months after the release of a beta version, Database 11g is set to launch on Wednesday but customers may be slow to upgrade.
Tags: Database management, Databases, Open source
