As the economy turns, some signs of a slowdown finally touching the tech sector
are starting to emerge.
RCP
Editor in Chief Scott Bekker brings us up
to date in IDC's latest semi-dire predictions
here
.
Posted by Lee Pender on May 14, 20080 comments
Redmond is hoping that its new "openness" will allow the company
to
avoid more
than a billion dollars
in Eurofines. We're with you on this one, Microsoft...but
we don't like your chances.
Posted by Lee Pender on May 13, 20080 comments
The former Microsoft bigwig will
serve
as CEO
of Bill and Melinda Gates' charitable foundation, and more power
to him, we say.
Posted by Lee Pender on May 13, 20080 comments
If you can't get XP SP3 to work, at least take some solace in the fact that
it's a
light
Patch Tuesday
this month.
Posted by Lee Pender on May 13, 20080 comments
The good news is that Windows XP Service Pack 3 can make your XP-loaded computer
run
faster
. The bad news is...well, as many of you know by now, there's been
a lot of bad news. Or maybe you don't know, because your computer keeps
rebooting
endlessly
More
Posted by Lee Pender on May 13, 20080 comments
Gartner's U.K. operation, old chap, maintains that UC should not be about reducing
IT costs. Yes, you read that correctly. The lads (and lasses) at the big analyst
firm think that UC
should
be about "business agility"
and gets into some of the capabilities
that it feels can help businesses achieve that goal.
Posted by Lee Pender on May 09, 20080 comments
Dig with us, if you will, a paragraph from
this
press release
from Cisco and Nokia:
"To meet the market demands for seamless mobile convergence solutions,
more than 95 reseller partners have received dual certification from Cisco
and Nokia on the combined mobile unified communication solution. Certified
channel partners include Telindus, Computacenter, Dimension Data, E2E, Lutech
NextiraOne Italia, Touchbase, and T-systems."
More
Posted by Lee Pender on May 09, 20081 comments
In case you're wondering what's going on here, welcome to a special edition
of RCPU dedicated to unified communications. UC is one of those categories everybody
loves to talk (and write) about, but the truth is that there still seems to
be a lot of confusion about what exactly it is and who's doing what in it.
We're not here to explain all that -- not today, anyway -- but simply to point
out that for all the hype it gets, UC is still very much an emerging space with
a jumble of vendors, many very large, competing for both partners and customers.
Strictly speaking, we're not even the ones pointing that out; analyst firm Infonetics
Research is, with a survey of customers that shows that no
vendor has stepped up as a UC leader...yet.
More
Posted by Lee Pender on May 09, 20080 comments
The VMware program just keeps getting better. Check out the press release
here
.
Posted by Lee Pender on May 08, 20080 comments
Really, the title of this entry says it all, but you can read more
here
.
Posted by Lee Pender on May 08, 20080 comments
So, supposedly this Xobni company has a tool that improves Outlook. We're listening
-- as are a lot of other people, including the austere
New York Times
,
which gives Xobni and its young founders the
full
feature-story treatment
Posted by Lee Pender on May 07, 20080 comments