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Software Tool & Die Inc is pleased to announce that they have released a major update to their STD Foundation Classes for the production version of PowerBuilder 12.0 ... May. 24, 2010 10:26 PM EDT Reads: 4,013 |
 Enterprises today are spending billions of dollars to realize productivity and automation gains from the end-user experience. The processes are critical to the bottom-line of companies, and so that’s why many companies today are embracing end-user monitoring (EUM), as part of the...May. 22, 2010 12:53 AM EDT Reads: 3,243 |
 Every industry has head to head comparisons between popular products and they make great headlines but is the question really being explored? I say no. In fact, I think these comparisons are meant to throw meat to one side or the other and to stir the pot of controversy for one purpose...Feb. 5, 2010 03:00 PM EST Reads: 22,481 Replies: 1 |
 I don’t know about you, but when I get long emails my eyes go running around my head. Too many words for me to take in during a busy day when I’m sure I’m suffering from some form of ADHD as I try to multitask beyond human capability. So I ask folks to please, please, puLEASE not send ...Nov. 15, 2009 03:30 AM EST Reads: 4,820 |
 Everyone knows that the longevity and ultimate success of a platform lies in the developers willing to create on that platform. Creating a healthy developer ecosystem in which both the developer and the platform vendor can grow and prosper is very important. No one knows this better th...Nov. 15, 2009 02:45 AM EST Reads: 19,425 |
 Evans Data Corp announced that use of the Python scripting language has increased by 45% since Spring 2008 according to the most recent North American Development Survey to be released this week to subscribers. Only 13% of developers used Python before Google announced its App Engine p...Nov. 12, 2009 05:45 AM EST Reads: 5,558 |
 Google, whose Chrome can claim all of 2.8% of the browser market, has come up with an open source plug-in that runs Chrome inside Microsoft's still dominant Internet Explorer. How's that for brass. It calls the thing Chrome Frame and says it works with IE6, 7 and 8 on Vista and XP SP2,...Sep. 24, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,775 |
 Publisher and author associations sought today to cancel a key hearing in the Google Books case to allow private negotiations with Google over digitizing books online. Consumer Watchdog warned that important issues affecting copyright law should not be negotiated behind closed doors. N...Sep. 22, 2009 10:15 PM EDT Reads: 4,130 |
 Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition, Volume 44. Our topic this week on BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition, and it is the week of July 13, 2009, centers on Software AG's bid to acquire IDS Scheer for about $320 million. We'll look into why this could be ...Aug. 18, 2009 06:45 PM EDT Reads: 4,750 |
 "...I'll have one with everything." That is the possibly recognizable punch-line to an old joke about the Zen master ordering a hot dog. I am borrowing this as a theme for the on-going transformation of network architecture. Any successful design must follow the functionality requir...Aug. 7, 2009 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,514 |
 In a recent post to the CCIF mailing list, Bob Marcus outlined the coming opportunties and challenges facing what he described as "Government Cloud Storefronts". In the post he described Vivek Kundra's (US Federal CIO) vision for the creation of a government Cloud Storefront. This Stor...Jul. 29, 2009 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 8,239 |
 I just watched Google’s Jeff Ragusa’s video clip explaining the Google Apps reseller model. If I didn’t know any better I would have thought the Just for Laughs Festival I attend every year started early. Here is the big joke: Google is offering a whopping 20% of the Google Apps revenu...Jul. 16, 2009 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 7,662 |
 Lead nurturing is often thought about as being found with a flag waving when your leads decide to take action. Waiting to be found is not a strong strategy. In fact, sitting around passively encourages your leads to leak away to competitors working harder to engage them. The secret is ...Jul. 16, 2009 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 5,095 |
 I really like Google. They produce easy to use applications that work great. I use their search engine about a hundred times a day. Their applications make sense. But this announcement gave me goosebumps. If you didn’t hear that Google has announced that in 2010 consumers will have a c...Jul. 14, 2009 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 12,667 Replies: 2 |
 It’s Friday, and it’s sunny out here in Seattle, which means that no work will get getting done. In lieu of work, I did some digging with my contacts on the interwebs, and it turns out there is are a couple of screen grabs of the new Chrome OS floating around out there. I [...Jul. 13, 2009 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 5,410 |
 Who knows if Google can transform its strengths in handling megatraffic into the ability to develop a mega-OS?Google today is primarily an IT company. Yes, it is quite annoying Jul. 10, 2009 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,699 |
 Three days of the best conference for Flex developers went by fast. I’ve been attending this great event for the first time, and in the future, I’ll try not to miss this #1 gathering for Flex developers. While Adobe MAX is a lot larger... May. 22, 2009 05:25 AM EDT Reads: 3,523 |
 To take advantage of the OpenSocial implementation in Orkut sandbox, you have to create a Google Gadget with the OpenSocial feature, post the gadget on the Internet, and then add the URL of the gadget as an application. As I looked into the Google gadget API to build this, I found some...Nov. 6, 2007 08:45 AM EST Reads: 15,310 Replies: 2 |
 One of the Google folks working on OpenSocial sent me a message via Facebook asking what I thought about the technical details of the recent announcements. Since my day job is working on social networking platforms for Web properties at Microsoft and I'm deeply interested in RESTful pr...Nov. 6, 2007 02:45 AM EST Reads: 49,535 Replies: 2 |
 There are 50 million Facebook users who don't know what OpenSocial APIs are...and don't care. There are about 5,000 tech bloggers and developers who think it is a revolution that will 'Checkmate' Facebook and leave them with no moves. TechMeme has over 100 stories saying that OpenSocia...Nov. 6, 2007 02:30 AM EST Reads: 21,317 |
 As I write this, the stock price of Google, Inc. just exceeded $500 for the first time in the company's still-brief (two-year) history as a public company. That gives the search colossus a market cap of $150 billion, many times in excess of its physical assets - currently valued at $10...Dec. 13, 2006 12:00 PM EST Reads: 30,084 |
 Does the arrival of 'Google Apps for your Domain' sound the death-knell for Redmond's world domination? That is the question sweeping the industry this week as the owner of the world's most-used search engine released a set of hosted applications 'for organizations that want to provide...Aug. 30, 2006 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 38,597 Replies: 6 |
 What comes after Google? Where will the Web, the Internet, the whole nexus of telecommunications, i-Technology, and the quest for a better world, take us? My strong sense is as follows: if Web 2.0, as the joke goes, is about how we can make money out of Web 1.0, then Web 3.0 is going t...Jun. 14, 2006 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 39,239 |
 Like so many of the ideas that tumble out of the Googleplex into the public domain, Google Trends is irresistible. Jeremy Geelan puts the application, newly taken out of beta and now available to all cyberspace from the Google main page, through its paces by taking it out for a giddy s...May. 12, 2006 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 40,649 Replies: 7 |
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