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While much of Microsoft's focus is (understandably) on the upcoming Windows 8 release, they have also gone ahead and quietly developed a "Fixit" configuration tool for Windows Gadgets, which have been a part of the OS since Vista but haven't ...
Some time ago we talked about the 3 parts of the sales pipeline: front, middle, and end from a sellers ...
Microsoft is feeling the heat. Both private and business users who at one time spent most of their computer time in the Windows/Office/Internet Explorer universe are defecting. Microsoft Office still dominates the market for full-featured productivity software, but an increasing ...
In the current issue of Vanity Fair, Kurt Eichenwald writes about Microsoft’s Lost Decade (the naughts). In case you’re wondering, in the 2000s the company’s stock flat-lined. In an interview about the fascinating article, Eichenwald talks frankly about CEO Steve ...
I have been a long time practitioner of business analytics, the use of quantitative methods to improve business processes. Starting ...
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Big guns are finally coming to the battlefield of app wars; they actually got underway a few years ago as businesses started to head cloudward, but now major players like Microsoft and Google are fighting over which one will get ...
Much is often made about customer relationship management (CRM) software solutions, but some of the best options for midsize business to connect with customers come in the form of stand-alone social media efforts like Facebook or Twitter. Clients now expect ...
The Google Penguin and Panda updates have significantly affected the way companies need to look at search engine optimization (SEO) techniques. Gone are the days of paying for spammed links and low-quality content, replaced instead by a world where content ...
These are boom times for vendors and specialists in mobile device management technology. For IT departments at most midsize firms, the news may not be so good. The bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend in the workplace is driving a spike in mobile-device ...
Customer relationship management solutions are becoming an increasing priority for businesses in North America and Europe, according to the results of recent surveys conducted by technology and market research provider Forrester Research. The reports, Forrester Wave: CRM Suites for Midsized ...
Dropbox storage saw an automatic increase on Tuesday, July 10, with Dropbox Pro accounts receiving doubled storage capacity, without a corresponding increase in service fees. The $10 per month plans, which previously received 50GB of storage, were ramped up to ...
Social media buyouts by tech giants have become the norm in recent months, with start-up companies receiving huge payouts from providers like Oracle, Salesforce.com, and Microsoft. Powered by the same technology that drove cloud adoption, the social media craze is ...
VMWare announced that it has agreed to acquire DynamicOps, a developer of virtualization management and cloud provisioning. DyanamicOps started as a spin off of an IT unit at financier Credit Suisse. With its global presence and more than 350,000 clients, ...
Perhaps the most storied business rivalry of the personal computing era is about to expand to a new battlefield. Microsoft is taking its long-running battle against Apple to hardware. It represents a notable shift for the Redmond giant, whose very ...
Computer hackers have become a major problem for most businesses. There are thousands of incidents on record about hackers stealing customer data, employee data, and business data by breaking into business computer systems. Hackers have been known to shut down ...
In recent years, cloud computing initiatives have been on the rise with more enterprises and organizations realizing benefits in terms of cost and efficiency. Although cloud adoption has become a more common trend within organizations, the average CIO and IT ...
Salesforce.com has acquired GoInstant, a Canadian start-up that provides "interactive co-browsing" technology. The tools, which require no user software downloading, allow two or more people to browse the same web page interactively.This technology solution offers a way to alleviate one ...
There are tremors of economic uncertainty reverberating throughout almost every segment of IT. Through it all, cloud computing continues to grow as strong as ever. With performance and management benefits that non-cloud solutions have difficulty matching, it's little wonder that ...
Software start-up GitHub has received a $100 million investment from one of Silicon Valley's leading venture capital (VC) firms. It is the first investment for the four-year-old company, which has grown to nearly 2 million users and more than 3 ...