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Data scientists: IT’s new rock stars These days, just showing up to work as a data scientist will get you attention. The evolution of the data scientist role is making even those who are successful in IT wish they could go back. In an interview with Network World last month, […]
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The Android app has been available for about a month Facebook has attracted “just about” 1 million downloads of its Home application in its first month of availability. The app, which takes the place of the home screen on supported devices, puts Facebook much more at the center of the […]
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The company aims to draw users away from Gmail and Yahoo Mail Microsoft on Tuesday began publicly previewing a new webmail service for consumers called Outlook.com that will eventually replace Hotmail. Microsoft also expects that Outlook.com will draw people away from competing consumer webmail services like Google’s Gmail and Yahoo […]
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Business One 8.82 includes an expanded CRM app, simplified order fulfillment, and improved forecasting functions SAP on Thursday announced a version of Business One, its ERP (enterprise resource planning) suite for small companies as it revs up the marketing strategy behind its Business ByDesign on-demand suite. Best Microsoft MCTS […]
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You know the Reese’s ad about how chocolate and peanut better go better together? I bet whoever came up with the ViewSonic ViewPad 10 had the same aspiration. The problem is this dual-OS tablet is not a delectable combination. Think creamed spinach and red licorice, not peanut butter and chocolate. […]
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Microsoft Office 2010 takes on all comers: SoftMaker Office 2010 For several years now, SoftMaker Office has been accruing a reputation as a low-cost replacement for the Microsoft Office product line. It’s indeed much cheaper than Office 2010: $79 to Office’s $149, $279, or $499 (the MSRPs for the Home […]
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Bids are expected to be received for social networking site MySpace by the end of the week, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. News Corp, which acquired the site in 2005 for $580 billion, is said to be seeking bids of at least $100 billion for the site. At […]
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Perhaps Apple chose the wrong time to get out of the server market. The company stopped selling Xserve at the end of January. Now the 2010 server numbers are in, and they’re looking pretty good. Server shipments grew 16.8 percent during 2010 and revenue by 13.2 percent, year over year, […]
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A third new service is a patent-pending technology called Orthogonal Array Beam Forming (OABF). WLAN vendors over the past two years have been adding support for various optional parts of the 11n standard, (see from May 2010, “Major Wi-Fi changes ahead”) including transmit beam forming (sometimes “beamforming”). The same waveform […]
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Last month, Microsoft’s legal department proclaimed it doesn’t consider itself bound to the terms of version 3 of the General Public License, with respect to certificates it distributed for software, services, and support from Novell. Today, the Free Software Foundation responded by saying if Microsoft distributes software covered by GPLv3, […]