Unified communications: What it means to your business by Deb Shinder - Nov. 30, 2007. -- Individual communications technologies are converging into an integrated whole. Unified communications (UC) is an outgrowth of a similar-sounding but different concept, unified messaging (UM). UC covers a broad range of applications read more...
The 10 biggest technology belly flops of 2007 by Jason Hiner - Executive Editor TechRepublic - Dec. 2, 2007. -- While 2007 gave us some fantastic technological innovations, it also brought the usual spate of bungles, miscues, and faux pas. Since I believe that you learn more from your mistakes than your successes, it’s important to look at some of the most glaring errors that read more...
The 10 most important business technology products of 2007 by Jason Hiner - Executive Editor TechRepublic - Nov. 21, 2007. -- Technology product developments came at a blistering pace in 2007, including big moves from major vendors like Microsoft, Cisco, and Apple, as well as exciting innovations from several upstarts. Here’s my list of the 10 most important business technology products of the year. read more...
Get Me The Geeks! - How Tricky Technology Is Giving Rise To The Geeks by Steve Kroft
(60 Minutes on CBS - originally this aired on Jan. 28, 2007. It was updated on Sep. 5, 2007.) -- It’s hard to say exactly when it happened, but sometime during the past ten years, most of us involuntarily surrendered a big chunk of our lives to computers, and to other networking devices that contain computer chips. read more...
The Future of the Workplace: No Office, Headquarters in Cyberspace - Some Companies Don't Care Where Workers Are as Long as They Get the Job Done. by BETSY STARK - ABC NEWS Business Correspondent - Aug. 27, 2007 -- Imagine a work world with no commute, no corporate headquarters and perhaps not even an office in the physical world at all. For Bob Flavin, a computer scientist at IBM; Janet Hoffman, an executive at read more...
Forget Exchange, the hosted email debate has moved on by ZDNet's Phil Wainewright -- Debating whether it's cheaper to host Exchange or run it in-house misses the point. The next generation of on-demand email services will knock Exchange into a cocked hat. "The nature of e-mail itself is changing and evolving. And IT shops will have a hard time keeping up … Folks want to add voice, video, chat, RSS feed subscriptions and more to their e-mail systems." read more...
Software business model challenged by SaaS, says Plattner by ZDNet's Phil Wainewright -- Delivering software over the Internet presents a critical challenge to traditional software business models, SAP chairman Hasso Plattner said in a speech last week. But that challenge to SAP won't come from the company's own A1S project, he hastily added in a press statement later. read more...
Putting the SaaS back into SOA by ZDNet's Phil Wainewright -- Back in 2002, recognizing that on-demand applications couldn't make progress without the emerging technology of web services, I switched my attentions from SaaS to SOA. Five years on, the tables are turned. Could it be SaaS's turn to rescue SOA? read more...