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A lot happened at Insights, the Sage partner meeting held in Nashville earlier this month, though not necessarily at the press release level. I was there and got a sense of change happening. It was the first anniversary of new CEO Sue Swenson coming on board and our first opportunity to see the imprint she is making on the company.
Although it’s facing increasing competition in various sectors, Apple continues to be the darling of investors. Its share price soared above $130 by the close of market Tuesday, which was an increase of more than $8 from Friday’s closing price. That increase followed the release of a research note by Morgan Stanley analyst Kathryn Huberty.
Although it’s facing increasing competition in various sectors, Apple continues to be the darling of investors. Its share price soared above $130 by the close of market Tuesday, which was an increase of more than $8 from Friday’s closing price. That increase followed the release of a research note by Morgan Stanley analyst Kathryn Huberty.
As the business use of mobile devices such as laptops and smartphones proliferates, IT departments are scrambling to implement adequate security safeguards both inside and outside company walls. The cost of implementing security measures is problematic for many small-to-medium-sized enterprises, but the alternative can be worse.
As the business use of mobile devices such as laptops and smartphones proliferates, IT departments are scrambling to implement adequate security safeguards both inside and outside company walls. The cost of implementing security measures is problematic for many small-to-medium-sized enterprises, but the alternative can be worse.
There are more signs that the unveiling of Microsoft’s revamped Live Search — codenamed “Kumo” during its development phase — is at hand. It’s been widely speculated that Steve Ballmer will introduce it this week at the Wall Street Journal’s D: All Things Digital conference. Rumors about the launch have been filtering into the public domain. The latest? The official name for Kumo is “Bing.”
When he tried to log on to Nokia’s new Ovi app store Tuesday, ABI Research senior analyst Jeff Orr found a lot of blank screens. “They either got off to a wild success because everybody’s trying it, or more likely, there are some bugs along the way,” Orr said. The Finnish mobile phone giant made it official later Tuesday morning.
RFID has been on a bit of a roller coaster ride. It started with a bang a few years ago, when Wal-Mart and the Department of Defense issued their edicts that all suppliers would need to get on the RFID bandwagon within a set time frame. Well, that deadline has come and gone, and uptake has fallen well short of the mark.
Cloud computing is a hot tech growth category that shows no signs of cooling. These are still early days, though, and companies that are experimenting with this computing model are doing so in a piecemeal fashion, or on a case-by-case basis. The result, for some firms, is a mishmash of IT functionality — some of it in the cloud, much of it still on the ground.
The role of enterprise architecture has never been more important, and never have IT departments had to be as responsive to the businesses they support as now. So how are enterprise architects perceived in a daunting economic recession, as saviors or door stops? During a recent panel discussion, at The Open Group’s 22nd annual Enterprise Architecture Practitioner’s Conference in London, this question was probed.
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