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- Seven perfectly legal ways to get Windows 7 cheap (or even free)
- Only suckers pay retail. You don't have to pay full price for Windows 7. Most people have much better options available, if you just know where to look. I've researched deals in three separate categories: upgrade offers available to anyone, special deals just for students, and subscriptions intended for technical...
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- Best Buy Black Friday ad leaks online. Here are the HDTV and Blu-ray deals.
- For electronics fans, the Holy Grail of Black Friday ads is the one from Best Buy, which can list more deals on laptops and home theater stuff than general retailers like Wal-mart and Target can squeeze into their circulars. Unfortunately, those deals are never as good as you hope—is this...
- Posted by Sean Portnoy in Home Theater on: Nov 14, 2009 6:50 AM
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- Another day, another Windows 7 study. The latest comes from Retrevo, a consumer electronics shopping site, which asserts that users aren't keen on Windows 7 netbooks running Starter Edition. I bet I'm not the only one who would beg to disagree with many of the survey's findings.
- Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Nov 10, 2009 7:07 AM
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- Contrary to rumors, Google did not release a beta version of its much anticipated Chrome operating system today. And nothing is coming anytime soon: the final version is at least a year away, the mega giant web company said. But there was some significant news for the community today. Google...
- Posted by Paula Rooney in Linux and Open Source on: Nov 19, 2009 10:52 AM
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- Posted by Dan Kusnetzky in Virtually Speaking on: Nov 10, 2009 3:00 AM
- Cisco Announces Hosted Email Service
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- American Express OPEN is using social media to spur its own growth, but the growth of its small business customers.
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- Salesforce Chatter: Social operating systems emerge on the IT stage
- The next big shift: Intranets, portals, and software suites that are the integrating force of the social fabric for our organizations. This morning's announcement here at Dreamforce today from Salesforce of Chatter, an enterprise-class realization of Facebook and Twitter, is further evidence of the industry's push for social Web capabilities...
- Posted by Dion Hinchcliffe in Enterprise Web 2.0 on: Nov 18, 2009 2:33 PM
- IBM feels cozy on sidelines as Oracle-Sun deal languishes in anti-trust purgatory
- It's my contention that we're only now entering the true data-driven decade. And all that data needs to run somewhere. And it's not going to be in MySQL, no matter who ends up owning it.
- Posted by Dana Gardner in BriefingsDirect on: Nov 18, 2009 3:44 AM
- 3D gaming comes to the Zune HD, video of all 6 new games
- This past weekend I mentioned the Zune HD firmware 4.3 update that added predictive text and a better browsing experience. As part of that update, Microsoft announced that support for 3D games and apps was added as well and it didn't take long for them to deliver as we now...
- Posted by Matthew Miller in The Mobile Gadgeteer on: Nov 11, 2009 6:30 AM
- 18 truths: The long fail of complexity
- Enterprise systems are inherently complex, often involving many business processes, people, and organizations across a company. Given this built-in complexity, it's no surprise that failures abound; it's amazing these systems function at all. We could make these same comments about any complex, mission critical system. For example, look no...
- Posted by Michael Krigsman in IT Project Failures on: Nov 6, 2009 5:55 AM
- A Tale of Two Software Worlds: Old ERP vs. SaaS
- Dreamforce's attendance really puts a strong data point on how attractive SaaS is becoming. Other vendors this week have provided additional data points that point to a troubling time ahead for laggard ERP vendors.
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- AOL/Facebook in the Enterprise
- In 1994 America Online trailed Compuserve and Prodigy, a third subscription option in how you hooked your modem up to the internet to go cyber surfing. What propelled AOL to global dominance by the end of that decade was their proprietary 'rainman' platform, which enabled partners to build out...
- Posted by Oliver Marks in Collaboration 2.0 on: Nov 18, 2009 10:20 PM
- Can the Economist entirely be trusted?
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- Sourcing executives are setting their strategic direction for 2010 and beyond and increasingly asking: “What role should we play in SaaS buying decisions?” Many sourcing executives see SaaS coming into their firms under the radar screen, through divisional, try-and-buy style purchases, often low-cost enough to go largely undetected – at...
- Posted by Liz Herbert in Forrester Research on: Nov 9, 2009 12:11 PM
- CRM Association-Netherlands Rocks Het Huis!
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