Technology News: Blogosphere

Mac Bloggers Size Up Support, Elbow Into Enterprise, Muse on AT&T Memo

Friday - May 9, 2008

Three interesting topics were kicked around in Apple-minded blogs this week. Entirely unsurprisingly, survey results show that Apple tech support kicks butt in the PC industry at large. Also, AT&T is forbidding vacation time to hapless iPhone salespeople, and it appears Macs have gotten a foot in the door at work. Consumer Reports is one of the most respected product and service reviewing publications in the U.S. The magazine recently surveyed its readers and ranked the best tech support in the PC industry. [More...]

SAP Pushes Business Model Innovation With New BPM Tools

Wednesday - May 7, 2008

SAP will offer new business process and rules management capabilities for its NetWeaver service-oriented architecture platform. NetWeaver Business Process Management and NetWeaver Business Rules Management will allow companies to build or change business processes and rules without coding. [More...]

Goldsmith Jewelry: Tapping Into the Blogosphere Treasure Trove

Wednesday - May 7, 2008

As a small brick-and-mortar jeweler with retail stores in Central Florida, Goldsmith Jewelry may seem like an unlikely potential e-tail star. Goldsmith, however, has had early success by using blogging to drive traffic to its Web site and gain exposure for its fledging Internet store. The company is committed to continuing and refining those efforts, said Don Lair, the online arm's cofounder. [More...]

SAP's Mobile Awakening

Tuesday - May 6, 2008

SAP and Research In Motion announced last week that they were partnering to develop a native BlackBerry client to link to SAP CRM, and then, eventually, to the firm's other business applications. The move is a no brainer for SAP, writes Vinnie Mirchandani, an ex-Gartner analyst and founder of the advisory firm Deal Architect. [More...]

Pondering the Reiser Fallout

Monday - May 5, 2008

After the exuberance that followed Hardy Heron's landing not long ago, the mood on the Linux blogs shifted considerably last week in the wake of the conviction of ReiserFS file-system designer Hans Reiser of first-degree murder. Before the highly publicized trial, Reiser and his team were working on Reiser4. [More...]

'C' Is for Collaboration

Tuesday - April 29, 2008

Fittingly, the Google-Salesforce.com tie-up is many things to many people. The message for the larger industry is that CRM has to make room for collaboration in its suite set, says Rebecca Wetteman, vice president of Nucleus Research. "It is no longer just about the workflow -- it is about getting the right people together to solve a problem or address an issue." [More...]

Warning: Hardy Heron May Cause Linux Addiction

Monday - April 28, 2008

With the arrival of Ubuntu's Hardy Heron last week, it is perhaps an understatement to say that conversation on the Linux blogs was plentiful. The news was picked up on virtually every forum out there, including Slashdot (where more than 600 comments had already been made just a day after the release), the Linux Loop, All About Linux and Foogazi, to name just a few. [More...]

Six Apart Builds Blog Ad Network From Scratch

Tuesday - April 22, 2008

Six Apart launched a social media platform that the company wants to use to build a conglomeration of individual bloggers and corporation-run community networks that it will use to create a blog advertising network. The company announced the acquisition of Apperceptive, a largely open source Web development company. [More...]

Is Benioff Stuck in the '90s?

Tuesday - April 22, 2008

The big CRM news of the week was Salesforce.com's tie-up with Google to embed its CRM application in the search engine provider's productivity suite. Plenty in the industry were wowed by the development -- not all, though. Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu can be counted among the latter. [More...]

Mac Bloggers on a Psystar Feeding Frenzy

Friday - April 18, 2008

By far the biggest news this week has been the return of the Mac clones, courtesy of a tiny company in Florida doing business under the name "Psystar." While Psystar has sparked the imaginations -- and disdain -- of Mac lovers by offering a $399 PC capable of running Mac OS X, it hasn't been the only blog-worthy topic. [More...]

Six Apart Gives Facebook Bloggers Blastability

Wednesday - April 16, 2008

A new software application allows users to publish information from their Facebook social networking account directly to their personal blogs. Six Apart, steward of the TypePad blog publishing system, released Blog It, a software application that enables users to cross-post information on Facebook to blogs using software from most of the major blog hosting companies. [More...]

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