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3G Telecoms: Mobile age
VNUNet.com - Jan 5, 2006
The fact that corporates are discussing whether mobile video conferencing canadd value to their organisations, is indicative of how far 3G has come. It alsogoes some way tosuggest that the most expensive auction of all time and one of the biggestbusiness gambles ever could well be about to pay off. Box: Application ProvidersMicrosoft has made a very substantial investment in mobile data. JasonLangridge, UK mobility business manager at Microsoft, believes that business useof mobile data querying tools and data exchange is now very much a reality. ForLangridge, one of the main ROI cases, beyond mobile email, is businessintelligence. “Getting the executive dashboard with KPIs on your mobile deviceout of office over a cellular network is very powerful – especially when you candrill into the numbers. We are going to see a lot more of this,” he says... David Russell, director of telecom solutions for SAP, says that a number ofcorporates are already taking advantage of mobile solutions. “We’ve focused onbusiness intelligence, on management information and “anywhere, anytime”reporting. Customer relationship management (CRM) is also an important mobileapplication for the enterprise. "What we have is a mobile server at the enterprise office that takes the SAPscreens and renders them for a multitude of devices. The challenge is all aboutwhat is practical and pragmatic for the device. Basically, this is all availablenow. People do not have to wait for more bandwidth, they can equip their mobilestaff today.
http://www.vnunet.com/articles/print/2148086
InterQuad Learning launches www.interquadbooks.co.uk
Training Press Releases - Training Press Releases (press release) - Jan 9, 2006
uk or call 01753 898 346 and speak to our Microsoft Alliance Manager. Voted IT Training Company of the Year by the Institute of IT Training in 2004, InterQuad Learning is ranked in the top 5 IT Training Companies in the UK for 2005 (Source: IT Skills Research 2005, Pardo Fox). InterQuad is a Microsoft Gold Partner for Learning Solutions in the UK and is a partner for delivery of Microsoft Dynamics (AX, GP, NAV, CRM & RMS) training in the UK. InterQuad is the largest Citrix Authorised Learning Centre within the EMEA region. InterQuad is also a Novell Platinum Training Partner and an Education Centre for IBM Software. InterQuad leads the way in technical courses including A+, Network+, Cisco (in association with Fast Lane Consulting & Education), Unix, Oracle, Solaris, Java, Linux, ITIL (in conjunction with The Greymatters), Prince2 (in conjunction with Spoce), C, C++, Security and Prometric & VUE testing.
http://www.trainingpressreleases.com/newsstory.asp?NewsID=1696
Dear Subscriber to TheStreet.com Stocks Under $10,
thestreet.com - Jan 6, 2006
Even so, we will look
to book gains into strength next week and rebuild our cash
balance. One quick note: Ones are stocks we would buy now, while
Twos are stocks we would buy only on a pullback from
current levels. And as a reminder:
-- A Game Breaker is going to change the landscape of an
industry, as Intel, Microsoft and Wal-Mart did in their
sectors. Investors can make big money in these stocks by
getting in before the crowd. -- Inflection Point stocks have a broken business model
that's on the mend but has yet to be recognized by the
market. Investors who recognize a turnaround early can
pocket strong returns. -- Stealth Stocks are often unknown names to the general
public, but can be hugely profitable investments,
especially when they score well in the Alpha component of
our proprietary rating system... This is why we continue
to rate the stock a Two this week. Longer term, we believe
RightNow has the potential to double its annual sales from
here. With more corporations choosing on-demand, Web-
based, CRM software solutions because of the cost
efficiencies and ease of use, RightNow and competitor
Salesforce.
http://www.thestreet.com/k/su/_googlen/archives/200601061702.html?cm_ven=GOOGLEN&cm_cat=SU&cm_ite=003966
Design Gets Its Due in Davos
BusinessWeek - Jan 10, 2006
"BEYOND LIP SERVICE. Frankly, it doesn't get much better than this when it comes to a serious discussion about the use of design thinking as a management methodology. As Roger Martin puts it: "I think the reason innovation and design has percolated to the top of the WEF agenda is that big companies the world over have woken up to the fact that they have organized and controlled their firms to the point of stultification by using ERP [enterprise-resource planning], CRM [customer-relationship management], TQM [total quality management], and other reliability-oriented systems. They need to think in a fundamentally different way to reinvigorate their firms, and so they're reaching out to design and innovation. "In short, innovation, creativity, design -- whatever you want to call it -- is the new Six Sigma. The overarching question shaping the Davos program is, How do you operationalize innovation? How do you go beyond giving lip service to creativity, which is where 95% of all U.
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/jan2006/id20060110_094979.htm?chan=db
Oracle fees favour Sun users
VNUNet.com - Jan 9, 2006
“But it would be nice if users could understand theindependent research that gives these particular scalars. ”In his blog, controversial technology writer Nicholas Carr described Oracle’smove as the “latest sign that the traditional software pricing model is comingapart at the seams”, as software giants struggle to deal with multicore chipsand other trends such as virtualisation, open source and hosting. However, Oracle’s new pricing policy still falls short of matching that ofMicrosoft and some open-source rivals, which charge per processor socket ratherthan counting cores. Oracle said it will also continue to offer customers the ability to pay pernamed user, per period of time, on a perpetual basis, or, in a recent addition,per employee. The licensing announcement came as part of a busy end to 2005, as the firmsaid it expects to complete its purchase of Siebel Systems by the beginning ofFebruary. This follows the European Commission giving its approval to thecombination in December. The finalising of the deal should see Oracle add moredetail to its plans for the CRM software pioneer... The licensing announcement came as part of a busy end to 2005, as the firmsaid it expects to complete its purchase of Siebel Systems by the beginning ofFebruary. This follows the European Commission giving its approval to thecombination in December. The finalising of the deal should see Oracle add moredetail to its plans for the CRM software pioneer. Oracle also announced commercial availability of its Identity and AccessManagement Suite. The line combines Oracle and acquired technologies coveringweb access control, identity administration, federated identity management anddirectory services. Finally, Oracle said it would integrate Fortify’s sourcecode and tools into its secure development lifecycle.
http://www.vnunet.com/itweek/news/2148250/oracle-fees-favour-sun-users
Hardware Today: Dell Server Snapshot
Server Watch - Jan 9, 2006
Even within that category, however, its towers are split into two categories — value towers and performance towers. By "value," Dell means the servers are priced from $349 to $549 — an aggressive price for a full-featured server. The SC430, for example, comes with a Celeron, Pentium 4, or Pentium D dual-core processor, and a choice of operating systems (Microsoft SBS 2003, Windows Server 2003, Red Hat Linux, or Novell's SUSE Linux). As this server is basically a step up from a simple peer-to-peer network and typically acts as a small business' first server, customers can choose the lowest-cost options and walk away with a decent box for around $400. Moving up the tower line, the PowerEdge 830 has the same processor choices as the SC430. The 830 also has several optional features: RAID, SATA, or SCSI cards and hot-pluggable SCSI drives... It is designed for clustering, e-commerce, and database applications. Some companies are moving core databases running SQL Server or Oracle from older systems onto the 6800. Others are using it for e-commerce, CRM, and ERP. Fruehe mentions PeopleSoft and SAP as examples of ERP applications that can be run on this machine. "Demand is typically for back-end systems that have been on a proprietary RISC-based Unix hardware in the past, or maybe 4-way Intel," says Fruehe. "With 64-bit, there's better memory use and performance. "
While towers are certainly a mainstay of the Dell portfolio, its best-selling model is actually a 2U rack — the PowerEdge 2850.
http://www.serverwatch.com/hreviews/article.php/3576161
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