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Q&A: Why one of UK’s top entrepreneurs believes in EG
John O'Connell co-founded, grew, publicly floated and eventually sold British software firm Staffware back in 2004...
ByQ&A: Compuware’s CEO on that buyout offer and APM
Firm remains independent, for now
ByMicrosoft bangs Windows Server 2012 R2 drum
Says virtualisation, networking and storage key improvements
ByGeneration Y ‘hanging up’ on call centres
Research finds email, SMS and social increasingly popular channels
ByScoop: Pentaho IPO ‘inside two years’
Big Data analytics firm says it's nearly ready
ByMapR eyes IPO as Big Data takes off
Hadoop platform player says it's almost ready
ByCisco insists it WILL keep Snort alive
Says it will invest in and learn from open source community
ByShock, horror: people don’t like Facebook ads
New research may seem obvious, but what are the implications for Facebook?
ByOne to watch: Monitise
Revenue doubles four years in a row
ByQ&A: Why IT must look to business outcomes
CBR sits down with Samson David, VP & global head of business platforms at Indian IT services provider Infosys.
ByExpert reaction: Microsoft buys Nokia’s phone business for $7.2bn
CBR rounds up the reaction to Microsoft's big mobile gamble.
ByQ&A: HDS on the importance of ‘measurable gain’
EVP Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) Global Solutions, Hicham Abdessamad, says there are no more blank cheques, but private cloud…
ByScoop: HDS quietly taking on Splunk in big data
Never one to blow its own trumpet
ByQ&A: Why Citrix spent $54m on ShareFile
I caught up with ShareFile's inventor Jesse Lipson, to talk about how he started the cloud storage and collaboration…
ByBaker’s versus Bakers’ debate sends Twittersphere bonkers
Apprentice finalist Luisa Zissman sparks controversy with new logo
ByInfographic: The body as a source of big data
A nice infographic from NetApp shows how even the human body can be given the big data treatment
ByThe Sun takes website down as it erects paywall
Readers will need to pay when it comes back online
By10 Twitterers urged to ‘turn it off and turn it on again’
The old mantra is alive and well in the Twittersphere
ByGoogle Play overtakes Apple for downloads
But Apple App Store takes more than DOUBLE the money
ByInfographic: The web in 60 seconds
An amazing new infographic shows just how much happens on the web in a single minute.
ByVideo: CBR meets BMC before it goes private
With plans to be taken private in a $6.9bn buyout, CBR sits down with BMC to talk strategic direction…
ByMicrosoft goes OPEN SOURCE (well, kinda)
An OpenJDK for Windows Server on Azure, you say?
ByAre UK firms missing trick with international e-commerce?
Survey suggests online investment doesn't extend overseas
ByNHS saves £5m on MEMORY STICKS
And the ones it has bought are encrypted
ByPeople more keen to talk about sex than phone numbers
Meanwhile data quality again shown to be key to customer communication
ByIs your employer invading your privacy?
Survey finds users unsure of what employers can see on their mobile devices
ByForget pay, IT contractors want job security
A new survey shines light on job security fears of IT contractors
ByWho are you calling legacy?
Users consider their IBM i (AS/400) platforms 'future-proof'
ByBig Data vendors making “remarkable claims”
Informatica CEO speaks out
ByOracle gets into bed with its rivals
Oracle's integration partnerships with salesforce.com and NetSuite will have some observers scratching their heads. And rightly so.
ByQ&A: Can Getronics break out of its niche?
Getronics, the global ICT services group, recently outlined its strategy for UK growth, 12 months after its acquisition by…
ByQ&A: how do you make big data more actionable?
Jason Stamper talks to Andres Reiner, CEO of big data software company PROS, which specialises in demand and pricing…
ByQ&A: Is your storage ready for virtualisation?
Jason Stamper talks to Kieran Harty, the co-founder and CEO of virtual machine-aware storage specialist, Tintri.
ByCloud or on-premise? A Telefonica Digital Q&A
Jason Stamper talks to Tim Marsden, global cloud services director at Telefónica Digital about performance and latency around the…
ByHow do you solve a problem like virtual backups?
Virtualisation backup and replication firm Veeam says it's found the answer.
ByMarc Benioff is wrong: all-cloud is too extreme
A Q&A with Mark Barrenechea, the CEO of Canadian enterprise information management firm, OpenText.
ByUK firms ‘lose £12bn a year’ through poor customer service…
...or do they?
ByThe cloud storage firm that’s out of its Box
The ludicrously young and driven co-founder and CEO of cloud storage firm, Box, is shaking up the market. But…
ByWindows 8 reboot: Expert reaction
Comments by a senior Microsoft executive have been interpreted by some as confirmation that Windows 8 has proven a…
ByGreased lightning
Ludicrously fast flash-based storage is finally ready to challenge incumbent mechanical disk arrays. Jason Stamper reports on an industry…
ByQ&A: Calculating the true cost of the data centre
Jason Stamper sits down with the co-founder and CEO of Romonet, Zahl Limbuwala.
ByQ&A: The cloud collaboration firm that’s still on-prem
Jason Stamper sits down with the co-ounder and CEO of Egnyte, Vineet Jain. Egnyte offers secure cloud collaboration and…
ByFacebook builds a home on Android: expert reaction
Social networking site has 'out-Googled Google'
ByQ&A: how to optimise infrastructure performance, physical or virtual
Jason Stamper talks to John Thompson, former CEO of Symantec and now CEO of Virtual Instruments, a firm that…
ByOracle moves on telecoms again with Tekelec buy
Division between IT and telecoms narrower than ever
ByBox IPO “quarters away”
Cloud collaboration firm's CEO looking to flotation
ByDell gets flash with cache
Last week Dell launched Fluid Cache application accelerator technology, providing a 'hot' storage tier within the server itself. I…
BySAP “facing downward pressure on pricing”
But it's all about helping customers get faster 'time to value'
ByIs it worth even trying to secure the perimeter?
With enterprise borders becoming increasingly hard to identify, is it time companies rethink traditional perimeter protection strategies, if they…
By14% of staff have deliberately destroyed their company mobiles: research
A further 13% have thought about it
ByDell president says integration will take time
More work to do as Dell goes private
ByAre appliances getting too complicated? No, they’re not
So-called 'function inflation' can make our lives simpler, not more complicated as claimed by The Guardian
ByQ&A: Can you find performance in the cloud?
I sat down with SoftLayer's EMEA chief Jonathan Wisler, to hear how the cloud hosting firm differentiates itself, and…
ByQ&A: The start-up Birsting onto the BI scene
The CEO and co-founder of Birst, Brad Peters, tells me what he learned at Siebel, why Birst is different…
ByOxford Uni must do more than block Google Docs: updated
University accused of Google-bashing
ByWill Dell suffer in private?
Dell has chosen to go private, but it still has some serious challenges to overcome
ByOneLogin survey notes the two-edged sword of cloud apps
78% will increase cloud app usage, 71% use apps unsanctioned by IT
ByDell could be taken private this week
Sources say SilverLake deal imminent, Michael Dell to take majority stake
ByIs BlackBerry Balance really a ‘killer feature’?
Security needs people and process more than technology
ByWill BlackBerry 10 save RIM from oblivion?
Canadian firm changes name to BlackBerry, but still needs the new OS to kick some serious butt
ByOvum says RIM is approaching dodo status
Argues that BB10 won't save the BlackBerry maker
ByYou read it here first: Compuware confirms Covisint spin-off
May 2011 scoop comes to pass
ByWhy do so many data migration projects end in disaster?
Analysts say over a third of projects fail
ByAlfresco bags respected new CEO, preps IPO
Content management firm rings the changes, CBR talks to founder
ByAn easy catch? 6 out of 10 office workers phished daily
6% get more than 10 phishing emails a day
ByAnalyst firm Ovum says CES is ‘increasingly dated’
Focus on hardware rather than software and services means it misses real innovation
ByTablets are replacing PCs: it’s officially official
Gartner adds that tablets will push up the average price of new PCs
ByIBM bags biggest patent haul for 20th year on the trot
6,478 patents awarded to Big Blue in 2012, more than Apple, HP, Intel and Oracle put together.
ByQ&A: JDA on becoming a supply chain gorilla
Just before Christmas privately-held Red Prairie completed its $1.9bn acquisition of JDA, the two supply chain software firms combining…
ByCompuware implies Lloyds outage is performance-related
Lloyds, RBS and Halifax customers frustrated by outages on New Year's Eve
By26% of $1bn+ companies working on Big Data: research
34% in evaluation and planning phase
By41% in business think data is a cost centre, not an asset
CBR survey finds worrying trend
ByFormer CA CEO John Swainson: “I don’t need to be CEO again”
President of Dell's new software division is happy where he is
ByCimtrek hopes to ease Lotus Notes users’ ‘pain’
Enables migration from Notes to cloud
ByDell: staff on BYOD are more productive
And it's not just when they're in the office
ByAre you an email filer or hoarder?
Which practice do you, er, practise?
ByQ&A: Why CFO’s can’t trust their own data
I've just had a catch up with Hugo D'Ulisse, head of information management at SAS UK. I was keen…
ByQ&A: The changing shape of enterprise content
John Newton has had an influential career in the content management market, having co-founded and led the development of…
ByQ&A: Why version control has moved beyond app dev
This month I sat down with Christopher Seiwald - who founded Perforce in 1995 and is currently president and…
ByQ&A: Unlocking the power of Big Data
Jason Stamper talks to NTT DATA's Heather Moore, head of UK, and Jonathan Birch, head of infrastructure for EMEA.…
ByLies, damned lies and Apple
When does marketing hyperbole cross the line into a bare-faced lie?
BySybase CEO finally leaves SAP
Former Sybase chief credited with turning the firm around says he has successfully integrated Sybase into SAP
ByQ&A: The risk from within and the power of obfuscation
Jason Stamper talks to A. Adam Wilson, SVP and general manager of Informatica's Information Lifecycle Management division, about the…
ByQ&A: Progress’ CTO on the company’s turnaround
Progress Software had been offering a broad range of application development, deployment, integration and management tools as well as…
ByQ&A: is solid state storage ready for prime time?
According to Gartner, the enterprise server and storage solid state disk (SSD) market generated $2.6bn in revenue in 2011,…
ByWhy I’d put more money on Workday than Facebook
Could the cloudy HR specialist have a bright future?
ByMicro Focus ‘slammed for elephant stunt’
Legacy modernisation firm 'disrespectful' to elephant kingdom
ByBYOD: Bring Your Own Devastation?
Staff say 'yay' to their own devices, IT says 'nay' to security, management and cost
ByPhew: IBM has sold some PureSystems
It had all gone a bit quiet since April
By“I don’t know and I don’t care”: Hurd disses Benioff
'Am I bovvered?' asks Oracle pres
ByBT says official London2012.com website “will cope”
Insists it won't be a source of embarrassment
ByGovernment’s Olympic remote working lead not followed by private sector
A new survey shows few private sector organisations have remote working plans in place for Olympics, but do expect…
ByAre agile software methods still relevant?
A ski resort in Utah was the unlikely meeting place for some of the leading minds in software development…
ByOrganisations struggling with data: report
Big data is a big challenge and it's costing companies hard cash, Oracle study suggests
ByFifty Shades of Grey “bigger than the Bible”
Bestselling bonkathon outstripping Holy tome
ByMoney for old rope?
25% say legacy systems hold them back, but cost 25% of total IT budget
ByBada bing bada boom as Bocada backs up better
Finally an end to unreliable backups?
ByDid Microsoft’s Surface announcement fall flat?
Google Trends suggests Microsoft has at least created some buzz
ByDell: it’s all about convergence, baby
VP reminds us that Dell has bought its way to being a full systems vendor
ByClear as crystal: how Swarovski got its single pane of glass
Austrian cut crystal firm speeds online checkouts by 20% with APM
ByWeird science? A Q&A with Informatica’s cryogenicist
So what is the role of a senior vice president of enablement and CMO? CBR's Jason Stamper sits down…
ByJaspersoft carpet-bombs self-service BI
Open source firm says it is on the cusp of a business intelligence revolution
ByProject watch: self-service in the public sector
I recently went to a roundtable with two public sector organisations - Buckinghamshire County Council and Merton Borough Council…
ByIs Cisco the sleeping giant of the server market?
Firm gears up for another server push
ByNetApp comes out swinging as it sees more of 3PAR, Compellent
Storage firm concedes it faces competition, but jumps to number two slot
ByProgress Software: ‘It ain’t over’
Rejigged firm to become cloud development and deployment maven
ByCIMtrek promises IBM-friendly Notes migration
Says it doesn't have to be an anti-IBM play
ByProgress Software’s annus horribilis
Firm cans 10 products and lays off 10% of staff
ByOracle’s Hurd says iPad rival absurd
Oracle president says device less important than backbone
ByIs card fraud falling in real terms? Don’t bet on it
The latest stats are misleading according to some experts, and card fraud is still a massive problem.
ByHP launches eBay-friendly printer-camera type thing
TopShot scanning thanks to arm-mounted camera ideal for eBayers, less ideal for holiday snaps
ByCompuware revs portfolio for ‘new normal of mainframe’
Says mobile banking and e-commerce has changed mainframe workloads
ByJaspersoft, Red Hat love-in gathers pace
Only a matter of time before Jaspersoft becomes Red Hat BI
ByOver half of SMBs give a rat’s ass for disaster recovery
Too many SMBs have an 'am I bovvered?' attitude
ByWindows 8 tablet success “not guaranteed”: futurologist Robert Scoble
Former Microsoft blogger says victory is by no means certain
ByCBR’s Top Predictions for 2011: how we scored
How accurate was CBR's crystal ball this year?
By‘Phone hacking’ was despicable, but it was not hacking
Private investigators hired by tabloids were 'blaggers', not hackers
ByWhy Facebook’s ‘black box’ pisses people like Robert Scoble off
News Feed, Timeline offer greater control but some algorithms are a mystery
ByRemember remember the 13th of December: it’s an expenses nightmare
Yep, it's the busiest day for expenses claims
ByIs Atos’ plan to abandon email a ‘total non-starter’?
Social email purveyor harmon.ie says Atos CEO is throwing the baby out with the bathwater, and I have to…
ByDesktop automation saves law firm Kennedys a fortune
Automation roll-out leads to 'tremendous' savings as it works towards its own app store
ByI’m sending eCards this Xmas – how about you?
Are you going traditional snail mail or 'saving the planet' with an eCard?
ByCould the UK’s original ITV kill Apple iTV brand?
British broadcaster would have a strong case. Or would it?
ByUpdated: Most Britons think under-12s should not own mobiles
But other research suggests parents do buy them for them
ByIT industry facing growing skills crisis
Despite 2.6 million UK unemployed, tech firms still can't find quality staff
ByBest of breed or the stack? You tell me
Which approach has your company adopted, and with what level of success?
ByHow safe, secret or private is InPrivate browsing?
Not as secret as you might think...
ByOracle ups Salesforce.com fight now, with RightNow
Gets more aggressive in its competition with former love child
BySteve Jobs: too cool for school
After his death, tributes have compared the businessman to Einstein, Edison, da Vinci; but what's his real legacy?
BySteve Jobs was a lot of things. But a Leonardo da Vinci?
Softbank CEO says Jobs was "genius of our time"
ByLarry Ellison cancels Salesforce.com’s CEO
Marc Benioff dumped off the Oracle OpenWorld agenda
ByOnly about an hour before Apple faithful wet their pants for iPhone 4S/5
Rumour roundup suggests Apple's latest gizmo will be more 'magical' than previous iPhones
ByThe ousting of Leo Apotheker: the HP back story
The decision to oust CEO Leo Apotheker was not taken on a whim, but HP's board is amongst the…
BySteve Jobs resigns, but won’t leave Apple yet
Iconic Apple leader clinging on to power a little longer
BySavvis: don’t think private cloud is easy pickings
If it was, everyone would have cracked it already
ByHow The Sun was hacked and Murdoch ‘died’
Groups such as LulzSec have security teams on the run
ByThe most exciting British innovation since cat’s eyes?
British software champion may have cracked augmented reality
ByLieberman CEO puts the boot into RSA for security failures
Philip Lieberman says breach will cost RSA $400m, accuses EMC of "milking the cow dry"
ByEditor’s letter, May 2011
Jason's forward to the May 2011 issue of CBR.
ByCompuware revs application management suite, touts Google Page Speed deal
All Compuware APM tools now branded Gomez
ByMuch maligned law firm handed “paltry” fine for data breach
"Bullying", "aggressive" ACS:Law fined a grand for data breach
ByBPM guru bemoans “disappointing” state of BPMN 2.0 take-up
Too few vendors up to speed
BySony PlayStation hack: how the bad guys won
Hackers are winning the battle against some of the most sophisticated technology firms in the world. Be afraid...
ByOh, matron: Techies strip off for charity
Why a group of vehicle tracking geeks got their keks off
ByIs this the end for email?
Are we really ready to swap email for social networking and instant messaging?
ByThe more friends we have on Facebook, the more stressed we become
New study finds social network gives us the heebie-jeebies
ByCBR’s Top 6 Predictions for 2011: back to the future?
As the world of IT moves back to centralised computing and tablet computers enjoy a renaissance, CBR outlines our…
ByPity the IT helpdesk: they like January even less than you
Christmas gadgets and forgotten passwords keep support staff busy
ByThe iPad versus the Samsung Galaxy Tab: decisions, decisions
As the Samsung Galaxy Tab cruises past the million devices sold mark there are early signs the iPad may…
ByUK police only received 7,545 calls about Facebook this year
Is it really a hotbed of criminal activity?
ByGet charged to see your own news coverage? Yes you can
Court rules Newspaper Licensing Agency can charge organisations to see their own coverage
ByUK & Ireland SAP User Group turns up pressure before next week’s Annual Conference
Group says users wants better roadmap visibility
BySearchmetrics: enterprises “getting serious” about search engine optimisation
Company offers tools to help companies answer the question, 'how can I make my website more search engine friendly?'
ByHas the Information Commissioners’ Office lost its bottle?
Google breached Data Protection Act but faces no fine
ByIt’s David versus Goliath as the CEO of TweetDeck takes on… Steve Jobs
"Twitter client" CEO calls father of Mac, iPhone, iPad a big fat liar, while Jobs makes more muddled arguments…
ByFour reasons Windows Phone 7 is not enough: Gartner
Don't shoot the messenger
ByNeed a new identity? Just steal someone else’s on a social network
Wheretheladies.at highlights security, privacy fears
ByWhy we could all pay for the government’s privacy pathos
BT's trial of controversial ad targeting technology some years ago has led to the EC suing the British government…
ByBMW tries its hand at British mod with new Mini Scooter E, fails
New electric scooter may be modern, but it's not very mod
ByTwitter hover hack causes havoc
Site slow to plug security loophole
ByHow often should you replace your PC estate?
To refresh or not to refresh, that is the question
ByEau de The Sun, anyone?
The Sun launches its own perfume that it says smells a bit like Coleen Rooney, SJP and Britney rolled…
ByFrom chess champ to BPM evangelist: CBR meets Alan Trefler
Jason Stamper talks to Pegasystems' founder and CEO about how the firm beat the downturn with record quarter after…
ByIs location-based advertising the future?
Mobile start-up promises advertising revolution, but what are the implications?
ByWhat’s the ROI of social networking?
It's time to ask if your organisation's social networking activities are a waste of time and money.
ByGoogle’s wi-fi “eavesdropping”: ICO won’t act
UK Information Commissioner's Office pays Google a visit, leaves quietly
ByiMelt! Why iPads don’t like a bit of sun
Apple faces lawsuit because iPad "overheats under common weather conditions".
ByAutonomy buying Open Text?
The rumour doing the rounds is that British search and content management maven Autonomy could be about to announce…
ByUPDATED: Apple must choose between good and evil
So will it recall the faulty iPhone 4?
ByMystery partnership of no interest to anyone belatedly revealed
The un-named partner in a news story back in 1999 can at last be named, but does anyone actually…
ByWhat does latest cloud adoption survey really tell us?
A cloud adoption survey of just over 200 senior IT types across Europe by Brocade threw up some eye-catching…
ByIs ‘green IT’ a massive contradiction?
Few realise that the global IT industry produces about the same amount of greenhouse gases as the world's airline…
ByFrom potholes to ice roads, and back again
While you may curse potholes on British roads, estimated as they are to cost motorists £2.8 billion per year,…
ByFoursquare, Gowalla, Brightkite, Loopt: a stalker’s dream?
In the six pages of coverage given to new social networking phenomena Foursquare and Gowalla in the latest issue…
ByI joined the queue for an iPad (but not to buy one)
Regular readers of this blog will be only too aware that I'm not in the market for an iPad…
ByTony Blair lands green energy gig
Image via WikipediaThe decision by Silicon Valley-based Khosla Ventures to hire Tony Blair as strategy adviser on green energy…
ByBlogger critical of Yahoo’s Carol Bartz gets comeuppance
Michael Arrington, the founder of TechCrunch, found himself on the end of an expletive or two from Carol Bartz,…
ByTibco builds on “two-second advantage”
If you didn't make it along to Tibco's TUCON user conference in Las Vegas this week, you missed a…
ByWho’s winning the election on Twitter?
Image via WikipediaDavid Cameron may have famously poked fun at social networking site Twitter when he said in a…
ByQ&A: Bob Beauchamp, BMC CEO
Despite the recession, service management maven BMC announced sales up 4% and a record quarter. Jason Stamper caught up…
ByFirst in line to buy an iPad? My commiserations
Steve Jobs wasn't kidding when he said the "technology road is bumpy".Those familiar with my initial thoughts on the…
ByIs the iPad even a Kindle competitor?
Interesting piece in ZDnet today riffing on the differences between Apple's somewhat closed and restrictive model when it comes…
ByUnsolicited offer for Novell spurs its board to action
In a recent cover profile of the company, I asked whether Novell's CEO is the right man to return…
ByTwitter’s silent majority
New research has cast the social networking site Twitter as somewhere hordes of people have signed up, tuned in…
ByActuate CEO podcast: sometimes there are fights
"I like the Italian family culture... damn sometimes it comes down to arguments and fights - it can get…
ByWar of words in the SOA management space
You may not think that there would be a lot to get worked up about in the relative niche…
ByDo you like listening to political robots?
While you may seek a cheap thrill from telling political campaigners exactly what you think of their parties, you've…
ByWill the government now act on open source?
Since early 2004, it has been the government's stated policy to use open source software in the public sector…
BySOA Software expands in face of AmberPoint acquisition by Oracle
It's not easy being a small, services oriented architecture (SOA) management and governance player. But if anyone was wondering…
ByCBR Podcast: Novell CEO on his bold new strategy
I caught up with the president and CEO of Novell, Ron Hovsepian recently, to find out more about the…
ByThe 10 biggest iPad disappointments
The much-hyped launch of Apple's new tablet-style computer on Wednesday has done little to change my belief that it's…
ByGartner assures us Apple is launching tablet style Mac tomorrow
If anyone was wondering whether all the hype about a possible Apple tablet computer -- variously being called the…
ByMorning Roundup: pick of the comment
Our pick of the best of the morning readingWhy I will wait in line again (Scobleizer)Web watcher Robert Scoble…
ByWhy I’m slating the iSlate
Amongst the thousands of news articles and blogs gushing over the anticipated launch of an Apple tablet computer next…
ByShould Google have done more about China years ago?
Action over China is long overdue There are around 1.3 billion people who live in China, not one of…
ByProgress Software buys BPM player Savvion
Hot on the heels of news that IBM is buying business process management company Lombardi, Progress Software has announced…
ByRemote working could avoid snowy absenteeism, but at what cost?
It kind of goes without saying, but I guess someone had to say it: if your staff can work…
ByBT may go to court over digital spectrum plans
The British government's plans for providing fast broadband internet connection to each and every British household by 2012 --…
ByMerry Christmas!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our readers, from the editorial team at CBR.We've got lots…
ByCompuware extends user experience testing to mobiles
This week application management and testing player Compuware announced Vantage for Mobile, which it says could help mobile operators…
ByMost influential of the decade? Vote now!
We're compiling an article on the most influential technologists of the decade, and we'd like to know who you…
ByCBR podcast: co-founder and COO of open source integration firm, Talend
Last week I hooked up with the co-founder, COO and chief architect of open source data integration player, Talend.…
BySMBs ‘get’ social media, still read trade mags
One in four small to medium sized businesses in the UK are using social media to connect with customers,…
ByDon’t roll back in anger! Riffing on security in the cloud
One of the first questions that delegates at CBR Dining Club events ask when you talk about cloud-based services,…
ByIBM confirms Guardium database security acquisition
It was one of the worst-kept secrets in the technology sector M&A market of the year: IBM confirmed it…
ByIs IBM about to buy Guardium?
There are reports that IBM is about to announce it is acquiring Guardium, a database security technology firm. On…
ByApple amends its Ts&Cs after Office of Fair Trading have a word
By now you may well know my thoughts about Apple's patchy track record when it comes to the treatment…
BySell your World of Warcraft weapons for hard cash
Incredibly, there is a real market for the virtual assets such as armour and weapons in the online role-player…
ByCompuware explains Gomez acquisition
Last month Compuware, the firm that says it 'Makes IT Rock Around the World', announced the acquisition of Web…
ByLabour’s ‘Twitter tsar’ in sense of humour failure shock?
After a satirical blog I wrote asking whether the magician Paul Daniels would make a better 'Twitter tsar' than…
ByWould Paul Daniels make a better ‘Twitter tsar’?
News that Labour has hired what some are calling a ‘Twitter tsar’ - in the shape of Kerry McCarthy,…
ByPodcast: SuccessFactors on clouds, competition and enterprise social networking
Update: The podcast two years before SAP bought SuccessFactors for $3.4bn
ByCBR podcast: cloud computing, guinea pigs and territorialism
Here's a short podcast I recorded yesterday with Maggy McClelland, managing director of Colt's Managed Services division, and Steve…
BySupercomputer produces pretty picture
Take a butcher's at the below: pretty, isn't it? It's the visualisation of a supernova performed on a supercomputer…
ByCBR Vodcast: Beyond Virtualisation to Cloud Computing
In this two-part vodcast, I talk to Nick Drabble, Dynamic Infrastructure Leader in IBM's Software Group, about taking the…
ByBartz puts brave face on Yahoo numbers
Yahoo's CEO Carol Bartz is trying to keep upbeat about Yahoo's prospects, as its latest results continued to disappoint…
ByCisco takes over 2012 Olympics role from Nortel
So Cisco has become Official Network Infrastructure Supporter for the London 2012 Olympics, in a tier two deal which…
ByExclusive Progress Software CEO Podcast: Iona and Beyond
I recently caught up with Rick Reidy, who was made president and CEO of application development, SOA management and…
ByNo, cloud computing isn’t SaaS
It seems there's still a great deal of confusion about the similarities between cloud computing and software as a…
ByOpen Text CEO podcast: on Vignette, overlaps and Autonomy
I met up with John Shackleton, the CEO of Open Text on Wednesday. I was keen to understand a…
ByCBR podcast: IBM’s UK CEO
I interviewed Brendon Riley, chief executive of IBM UK and Ireland last week, and recorded a short segment of…
ByAs Hazel Blears resigns…
Hazel Blears was quick to realise that if she hired more than one taxi to take her home, she…
ByRackable VP explains name swap to SGI
George Skaff, VP of marketing, explained the surprise decision for his company to change its name from Rackable Systems…
ByThat’s all, tweets, as Birdsong Radio sings its last
Birds join queues of jobless as unemployment hits animal kingdomIf you've flicked through the digital radio channels in the…
ByRackable seeks SGI crown jewels
Rackable Systems remained convinced that Silicon Graphics must have some invaluable IP hidden somewhere.Rackable Systems has bought Silicon Graphics…
BySGI lives on as Rackable changes its name
Rackable Systems has just completed its acquisition of Silicon Graphics, and intends to change its own name to SGI…
ByCBR calls it right: Vignette succumbs to acquisition
In the July issue of CBR magazine, we featured a profile of Vignette, including an interview with CEO Mike…
ByQuick take: Open Text buys Vignette
6th May 2009PRESS RELEASE Open Text to Acquire Vignette Waterloo, ON and Austin, TX, - May 06, 2009 -…
ByMicro Focus buys Borland, Compuware’s ASQ biz
Legacy modernisation vendor Micro Focus has acquired Borland, the venerable application lifecycle management (ALM) firm with a torturous recent…
ByApple to buy Twitter? Shiver me timbers
Valleywag is reporting the rumour that Apple is close to sealing a deal to buy social networking site Twitter,…
ByAmazon exec lashes out at McKinsey cloud computing report
Andy Jassy, senior vice president of Amazon Web Services, slammed a recent report by McKinsey & Co that was…
ByThe Sky is Falling: the 1976 US swine flu scare
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ByDon’t panic: swine flu is no more dangerous than ‘normal’ flu
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ByLawson CEO says SaaS is doomed inside of two years
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ByOracle buys Primavera, Symantec buys MessageLabs, TCS buys Citigroup services
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ByProgress will merge Iona Artix, Sonic ESBs
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ByGetting off the Cloud
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ByIona bought by Progress Software
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ByLast few days of Windows XP sales…
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ByLombardi talks on-demand BPM
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ByLessons in ‘Enterprise 2.0’. Lesson 1: don’t mention Enterprise 2.0.
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ByArtist’s impression of new 3G Apple iPhone revealed
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ByEnterprise 2.0 Conference off to Web 2.0-style start
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ByCBR Dining Club speaker named EMEA analyst of the year!
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ByNumara claims service desk management rivals are “going backwards”
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ByBlackBerry Bold: RIM’s iPhone killer?
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ByBPM on demand, anyone?
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ByAny port in a storm: EMC buys Iomega
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ByWhy bad SOA is worse than none at all
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ByWhy IT matters more, to more people, than ever
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ByMicrosoft’s bid values Yahoo! at 40% of Google
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ByLooking back on 2007, and towards 2008
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ByAnd another thing… lessons on the Underground
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ByJim Shelley is TV critic of the Guardian: but why?
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ByCheck out our BI special report
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ByIf you read one thing tomorrow…
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ByHM Revenue & Customs: I trust you
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ByO2 lifts lid on iPhone, but giving an inch will not stop hackers taking a mile
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ByOracle bids for BEA.. will SAP buy Tibco?
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ByShould BEA be sold?
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ByAll in a sleepy cause: industry does its bit for charity
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ByCaveat Emptor! Sound Advice for IT Buyers
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ByEnterprise architecture coming of age?
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ByHow to solve the Tour de France doping crisis
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ByYou’re bought! Sir Alan sells Amstrad
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ByHow does enterprise architecture fit with SOA?
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BySAP cocks up its figures
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ByIT managers couldn’t give a fig for ‘green IT’
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ByOracle bags ESB guru Dave Chappell from Sonic
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ByGiven India, Russia et al, can you possibly compete?
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ByTony Blair slams Web 2.0, patronises blog readers
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ByYou’re hired! I resign! The Apprentice’s stupidity amazes again
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ByJoshua Treo: Bono invests in Palm
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ByBra-size revelations putting consumers at risk: PayPal
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ByDid Google Over-pay for DoubleClick?
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ByCorrection: dotMobi blogger not so anonymous
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ByLawyers plan blogosphere invasion
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ByThe wonder of Moore’s Law
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ByCould Beyonce be advertising Vista?
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ByOn losing my podcast virginity
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ByWho are you calling ‘legacy’?
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ByDoes successful SOA need enterprise architecture (EA)?
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ByCA dumps Unicenter
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ByWant to get rich in UK IT? Head for the hills
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ByOn 4GLs and why ‘Web 2.0’ is a step back in time
You may or may not have seen a little piece I did for our news desk on Progress Software’s…
ByWhy iPhone will cannibalise iPod sales
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ByAt last, some iPhone cynicism sets in
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ByDoes iPhone signal end of PC era? Ha!
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ByDefraggers attack Vista, each other
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ByWhat were the most trafficked articles in 2006?
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ByWhy Palm still covets Palm OS
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BySAP to buy Tibco?
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BySpecialisation: the new generalisation?
Rather than these very broad application suites that do over 100% of what we want them to but require…
ByWho has the fastest BPEL server (and should you care?)
In the SOA space generally and business process management (BPM) market specifically, there is little in the way of…
ByShould you spend more on IT?
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ByWhy on earth do people buy Macs?
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ByAre big tech firms better than small ones?
Is big necessarily better? Are a large vendor's products always superior to a small vendor's thanks to its ability…
ByHP Ditches OpenView Brand
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ByKey Absentees From Eclipse ALF
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ByiPods should be banned from work: lawyers
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ByIBM trials “Beer Living Lab”: honeshtly
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ByDoes Google’s YouTube buy rekindle dot-com madness?
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ByIsn’t technology great?
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ByWatch it HP investigators: I’ll set my cats on you
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ByNow WebMethods snaps up Infravio
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BySun to salesforce.com: we love you guys
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ByBorland CEO on firm’s “tough year”
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By‘Office 2.0 Conference’ gathers pace
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ByWebMethods buys into ‘semantic web’
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ByUS still dominates web
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ByIT still not business-focused enough?
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ByWhy IBM bought FileNet (hint: it wasn’t for the technology)
News that IBM has shelled out $1.6bn to buy content management and business process management vendor FileNet caused a…
ByGoogle accuses Post of “genericide”
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ByVendors add portals like Gillette adds blades
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ByAre AOL search histories less risky than first thought?
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ByWhat do people search AOL for? Now we know
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ByPortals are back as Oracle readies another
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BySun Microsystems: the Dot in Web 2.0?
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ByMercury Falls as Temperatures Soar
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ByGnome worries about OpenGL future
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BySorry Business 2.0, but Schwartz and Ballmer still matter
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ByWill SGI Become the Next Data General?
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ByGates’ Exit Met with Ambivalence?
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ByUnderstanding Bill Gates’ Long Goodbye
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ByHas world gone mobile (and football) mad?
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ByScoble leaves Microsoft, puts cat among media pigeons
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ByWhy Google attack is Microsoft’s not-so-secret secret sauce
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ByThings to do when you’re bankrupt: Buy some champagne
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ByAjax is hitting enterprise IT already
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ByBruce Perens asks for Open Source Help in Microsoft PR Fight
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ByBorland on slashing staff and selling Delphi
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ByMillions of bloggers suffer BlueFrog spam war outages
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ByWeb 2.0 is the new rock and roll
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ByGold to hit $1,000 an ounce? Big deal
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BySchwartz’s first blog as Sun CEO
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ByScott McNealy’s best quotes: a tough comedy act to follow?
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ByMy first Web 2.0-style ‘mashup’
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ByRevealed: The first Google homepage
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ByThe ROI of blogging, and whether Jonathan Schwartz’s blog pays for itself
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ByEven Channel 4’s Jon Snow agrees I’m overworked
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ByWhy public tech firms are going private
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ByWhat’s up with the Web Services stack?
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By85% of IT Project Failures “Actually Rather Good”: New Research
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ByWritely or wrongly, Google buys Upstartle
Finally putting meat on the bones of those long-held rumours that Google would come out with some sort of…
ByIf babies were like software…
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ByHas Oracle ousted BEA at HP?
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ByWhat has Sun done with SeeBeyond?
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ByThe day I met Ken Livingstone
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ByRightNow crows about open source uptime
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ByCorrection: racism in the media?
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ByIs Intel branding at risk of dilution?
I thought that when Intel announced that its new tag line is 'Leap Ahead' - a line, incidentally, which…
ByWhy are Autonomy and Fast at each other’s throats?
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ByHP revolutionises colour printing with mono option
I thought I had seen it all when Canon said a good way of getting fit is printing more…
By2006 predictions already coming to fruition
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ByNew laptop trend threatens public speakers
A good example of the new trend of going along to a presentation and then spending your time playing…
ByIT still matters, just not how it used to
It's been two years since Nicholas Carr wrote his now infamous article "IT Doesn't Matter" for the Harvard Business…
ByCheeky Selfridges milks iPod virgins
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ByWhat to expect in 2006
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ByIs Systinet sale final nail in UDDI coffin?
Mercury Interactive's announcement earlier this week that it is to acquire UDDI repository specialist Systinet could be taken to…
ByGet healthy in the office: print more
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ByMy best – and last – blog of 2005?
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ByJust how Stealthy is Self-Destructing StealthText?
There's a new text messaging service that promises that the messages you send automatically self-destruct, thereby stopping any secret…
ByWill Palm Still Fly on Windows Mobile?
According to research and consulting company Strategy Analytics, the Palm Treo 650 smartphone from Palm is the highest-rated converged…
ByDoes Sonic’s ESB Definition Stack Up?
Sonic Software, an operating company of Progress Software, published what it considers an "Architecture and Lifecycle Definition " of…
ByIs Self-Healing Here Already?
“The era of self-healing technology is here," said Alan Ganek, chief technology officer, IBM Tivoli Software and vice president,…
BySteelTrace a Likely Acquisition Target?
It's not always easy to guess which companies might be bought and which will soldier on independently, but my…
BySerena Gets Early Christmas Present
Change management software vendor Serena Software must think Christmas has come early, announcing that it has just been awarded…
ByWhy Did Veritas Sell Out?
Gary Bloom, now vice chairman and president of Symantec and previously the CEO of Veritas Software, defended his company's…
ByWhy BlackBerries Won’t Run On Anything Else
RIM's biggest challenge right now is clearly that patent suit from NTP, but I had another question for the…
ByHow Do You Wake a Sleeping PC?
Remote access vendor 01 Communique Laboratory claims to have solved the problem of having to leave PCs switched on…
ByIs Microsoft’s Covenant Not to Sue Enough?
While full details are still sketchy, Microsoft's new license for its Office Open XML formats will include a "covenant…
ByShould New Borland CEO Be Afraid?
Application lifecycle management vendor Borland Software announced it has appointed Tod Nielsen to the position of president and CEO,…
ByRed Hat Outlines Management Vision
Guest blog by CBR Deputy Editor Matthew AslettLinux distributor Red Hat has outlined its development focus for the next…
ByCompanies Urged to Switch Off PCs: Remote Access Vendors Less Keen?
New research just out from Fujitsu Siemens highlights the cost of employees leaving their PCs on overnight - the…
ByEvidence Deadline Approaches for SCO Versus IBM
After two and a half years and hundreds of legal filings, the open source community should finally get what…
ByBallmer: Microsoft Losing More Than Winning Against Linux
Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer was on good form during a Q&A session with an audience at a Gartner Symposium…
ByPalm, RIM Team Up for BlackBerry on Treo
Palm and Research In Motion said they are working together to bring BlackBerry Connect to Palm's Treo 650 smartphone…
ByWho Really Runs the Internet?
Guest blog by Kevin Murphy:Paul Mockapetris, who invented the internet’s domain name system, was asked a few years ago…
ByMicrosoft, Yahoo IM Deal Aimed Not Only at AOL
News that Microsoft and Yahoo are forging an agreement that enables users of each of their instant messaging (IM)…
ByInaccuracies Abound as Media Digests Sun and Google Pact
The more that is written about the alliance between Sun and Google announced on Tuesday, the less it appears…
BySun Basks in Google’s Reflected Street Cred
So after all the fuss before Sun and Google's press announcement yesterday evening, the truth turned out to be…
ByGoogle and Sun Join Forces: But For What?
Sun and Google are gearing up to make what looks like it could be an historic announcement later today,…
ByGoogle Office Still in the Wings?
Ajax Office, a proposed project to create an open source, web-based suite of office applications, has fallen by the…
ByPalm, Microsoft Gang Up for New Treo
For the first time Palm announced it will be putting Microsoft's Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system on its 3G-enabled…
ByDon’t pocket your iPod nano*
* unless it's in a hard case "Is that a broken iPod nano in your pocket, or are you…
ByString of Tech Acquisitions Leave Few Raised Eyebrows
Of the recent string of tech company acquisitions - Oracle's takeover of Siebel, eBay's acquisition of Skype and HP's…
ByHP Buys Peregrine: Not So Unpredictable
News that HP is to acquire infrastructure management player Peregrine Systems is less than surprising, not least because Peregrine's…
ByOracle, Siebel Questions Abound
By CBR Ebusiness Consulting Editor Angela Eager (Jason Stamper is on vacation) The only thing that was surprising about…
ByCBRonline Scoops Outstanding Award
By CBR Deputy Editor Matthew Aslett (Jason Stamper is on vacation)CBR is honoured to announce that its www.cbronline.com website…
ByAnalyst Criticism Highlights Novell’s Transitional Problems
By CBR Deputy Editor Matthew Aslett (Jason Stamper is on vacation) Financial analyst house Credit Suisse First Boston this…
ByGoogle Has Microsoft Rattled
By CBR Deputy Editor Matthew Aslett (Jason Stamper is on vacation) While the 'flowery' language used by Microsoft CEO…
ByLights, Camera, Search: Google Launches Google Films
As if any proof were needed that Google is intent on parachuting into new advertising opportunities, it's just launched…
ByBorland’s Interim CEO Steps Up Acquisition Hunt
Borland Software's interim CEO, Scott Arnold, told me in an interview last week that one of his first priorities…
ByOtellini Doesn’t Want to Save the Planet, But To Save Intel’s Skin
So Intel's CEO Paul Otellini says that the company is chasing a new goal: instead of striving for ever-faster…
ByTibco Explains “Time-Based” Pricing Model
I had the scoop on integration vendor Tibco's plans to roll out a rental-style pricing model last week: so…
ByWhy Symantec is Buying Again
Not so long after Symantec took out storage management software vendor Veritas, it's on the acquisition spree again, this…
ByFor Sale: One Space Shuttle, Excellent Condition
One space shuttle for sale, in excellent if somewhat controversial condition. Probable new space craft project forces reluctant sale.…
ByIs ‘Hot Coffee’ Sex Less Worrying than GTA Itself?
News that Rockstar, makers of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas have issued a patch to prevent access to the…
ByNASA Astronauts: “Oh What a Perfect Day”
The astronauts of space shuttle Discovery have thanked NASA for inadvertently giving them a day off, since bad weather…
ByHas Google ‘Blackballed’ Naughty News.com?
CNET News.com claims that Google won't talk to it until July 2006 in response to "privacy issues" raised in…
By“ESB Inventor” Riddle Solved?
The question over just who invented the enterprise service bus, or ESB, saw another dramatic twist yesterday as Gartner's…
ByWhy iPods Will Not be Hurd Again at HP
Seems HP's new CEO Mark Hurd was wholly unconvinced of the logic of a major systems and services company…
ByHold the Front Page: SPAM DANGER LOOMS
This press release just came in, and it was sufficiently newsworthy for me to post it straight up here…
ByHow Accenture Riled Siebel
Accenture accidentally unleashed The Wrath of Siebel yesterday, by publishing a piece of research that found that poor customer…
ByCould You Be Banged Up for Wireless ‘Piggybacking’?
The case last week of a UK man who was found guilty of piggybacking on other people's wireless local…
ByOpportunitistic Break-up Call from Borland Shareholder
There's always a shareholder who believes he can do a better job than the company's management and board, and…
ByIs Oracle’s Multicore Licensing a Smokescreen?
As widely reported, Oracle has announced a new pricing scheme which it says makes it more affordable for customers…
BySomething For the Weekend, Sir?
We could do with a bit of cheering up in London right now. So with great pleasure I leave…
BySo Long: Borland’s Dale Fuller
In what must have been one of his last interviews before he resigned under the cloud of a profit…
ByNASA Sued Over Deep Impact
Regarding NASA's 'Deep Impact' washing machine missile strike at a comet: When I asked in my blog the day…
ByComet to NASA: “Ouch!”
Does no-one else feel a tiny bit squeamish about NASA firing a 23,000mph missile the size of a washing…
ByYou Wait Ages for a Bus…
First there was the Mule open source enterprise service bus (ESB) project, hosted by Codehaus. That's on version 1.1…
BySun Buys SeeBeyond: Now That’s More Like It!
As I said in my previous blog about Sun’s acquisition of tape maven StorageTek, it would have been a…
ByApple Switch to Intel: Evolutionary Improvement to Revolutionary Machines
There's been an awful lot of column inches devoted to Steve Jobs' announcement that he is going to port…
ByMicrosoft and Sybari: Take Aim at Foot, Pull Trigger
News this week that Microsoft is to discontinue sales of Sybari anti-virus software for Linux and Unix platforms, now…
ByWhy PSP UMD Porn is a Red Herring
News that Hollywood is looking to launch pornographic titles on Sony's PlayStation Portable - a device aimed predominantly at…
ByBT Fusion Could Cost More Than You Think
There might just be some rather big cost implications with BT Fusion that the company isn't overly keen to…
ByWhy Geldof Shouldn’t Blame eBay
Sir Bob Geldof described eBay's actions as "despicable", for allowing people who received the tickets to the forthcoming Live…
ByHow Skype Fused BT
News of the launch of BT Fusion is not altogether unsurprising. If you missed the announcement, BT said it…
ByComputer Associates Buying Nik-who?
CA is buying Niku, professional services automation (PSA) vendor turned IT governance player. Pretty much all the PSA companies…
ByApple Intel Switch Leaves Plenty of Questions
In the true spirit of democracy, this is CBR deputy editor Matthew Aslett's take on the Apple switch to…
ByAnd the Daftest Headline of the Month Award Goes To….
...the Office of National Statistics, which just issued a press release entitled "Confectionery still a children's favourite". Stone the…
ByStorageTek: A Little Old School for Sun?
There's nothing disastrously wrong with Sun buying StorageTek. It's a profitable company and a better home for $4.1bn of…
ByFrom Digital Radios to… iPods
Apparently the iPod, designed by Jonathan Ive, or the Internet, designed and invented by Tim Berners Lee, could shortly…
ByRecordable Radio: About Time Too
I've often bemoaned the fact that - despite video recorders having been around even longer than Betamax hasn't -…
ByMan on Littlewoods Cover Shock
News has broken that after 72 years of its catalogues, Littlewoods will for the first time be putting a…
ByGoogling Google for ‘Google’
You may remember back in February I performed a wholly unscientific comparison of Google, MSN Search and Yahoo!, in…
BySalesforce.com vs. Microsoft Office? No Contest
You should never start an article, or even a blog entry, for that matter, with an apology. So I'm…
BySiebel: Struggling With Its Own CRM?
Let me get this straight: Siebel claims to be the leader in customer relationship management software and services, and…
ByBMC: Ouch, That’s Got to Hurt
It's now clear that BMC's transition from a legacy systems management company to business service management (BSM) vendor is…
ByHP’s New CEO: Questionable Qualifications?
When HP announced it has finally found a new CEO in the shape of former NCR CEO Mark Hurd,…
ByAsking Jeeves About Wife’s Affair
I just Asked Jeeves the question: "Has Ask Jeeves Been Sold?", and bizarrely, the online butler did not come…
ByIs Oracle in danger of over-extending itself?
No sooner has Oracle completed the PeopleSoft acquisition than it is off putting in a cash bid for Retek.…
BySchwartz for (HP) President
Since HP CEO Carly Fiorina quit last month, there's been the usual Some-Bigwig-CEO-Position-Is-Now-Available speculation as to who might take…
ByWhat Have You Been Thinking for the Last 24 Centuries?
Check this: "We have done very little about thinking for the last 24 centuries. I have developed tools for…
ByShould Geac Be Buying Again?
With all of the recent M&A activity in the enterprise applications space, competition is getting hotter all the time.…
ByIs Capellas the right man for HP?
Since Carly Fiorina quit her post as HP's CEO after differences with the board, there has been speculation that…
ByInconsistencies Plague Data Accuracy Market
Sometimes you just have to laugh. In January last year I wrote a news story in which Datanomic claimed…
ByToo Little Too Late for Quark?
The news yesterday was that private desktop publishing company Quark Systems is trying to improve its standing with its…
ByMy Search is Bigger Than Yours
MSN has come out fighting in the web search space in an attempt to claw back some valuable market…
ByWould the Real Doodler Please Step Forward
One is leader of one of the most powerful economies in the world, and the other is Tony Blair.…
ByFly on the IT Wall
If only we could listen in on the next strategy meeting between Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Oracle president…
BySymantec-Veritas Deal Curries Little Favour
The reaction to Symantec's proposed $13bn acquisition of Veritas was bad enough: Symantec's shares were trading at around $33…
ByApple to revolutionise computer industry with ‘Q88’? I doubt it
UPDATE: The day after I wrote the blog below, Apple announced that it is suing ThinkSecret (the website that…
ByPeopleSoft: Was it Really Worth It?
So PeopleSoft finally folded and succumbed to the Larry Ellison juggernaut. The immediate question I would have for PeopleSoft…
ByPlaying the Numbers Game
And your meaningless statistic of the day is: "95% of UK bosses see IT security as a major concern."…
ByPeopleSoft to Buy Oracle? Whatever Next?
There was a funny commentary on Oracle's ongoing fight to take over PeopleSoft on CBS MarketWatch the other day,…
By“Good times”? For whom?
I was surprised on reading Ovum principal analyst David Bradshaw's brief analysis of Salesforce.com's latest results today. Not because…
ByDon’t google me, I’ll google you
Have you noticed how the search engine Google is starting to pervade everyday life? All sorts of people are…
ByTV: Be Gone!
If you’re after a conspiracy theory, here's one. The web site of a company selling a gadget that can…
ByGlossary of Terms: ‘Buffer Overrun Vulnerability’
Buffer Overrun Vulnerability: noun 1) what one is faced with when one stops one's car a little too deep…
ByHP: To Invent or Not to Invent?
Since HP's logo has for some time read 'HP invent', one might justifiably wonder exactly why it is that…
ByInternet, with a capital ‘I’?
I was bemused to see news that Wired News no longer intends to capitalise Internet, Web or Net. According…
ByIT Matters, Just Not How it Used To
Nicholas Carr, author of the now infamous article "IT Doesn't Matter" for the Harvard Business Review in May last…
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