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Monday, July 21, 2008 10:02 AM/EST
Parts of the Amazon.com S3 (Simple Storage Service) cloud computing infrastructure were down for at least 6 hours, according to news reports and the company's own health dashboard. The dashboard now shows that service is normal again, but as late...
Thursday, July 17, 2008 3:24 PM/EST
Alex Iskold at ReadWriteWeb is all wet today. The gist of his article is that business applications need to be efficient, almost Germanic in their precision, while software we use for personal entertainment can be more casual. Software is increasingly...
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 3:10 PM/EST
SAP may have finally jumped the shark, arguably sinking further into irrelevancy by imposing a single-tier pricing structure for maintenance of SAP ERP that will send small and midsize customers to rivals like Salesforce.com and NetSuite--including those who might have...
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 10:37 AM/EST
Talk about wish-fulfillment. An engineer with San Francisco's Department of Technology has locked the city out of its own computer system. Not very smart, though. Apparently he did this as a form of job insurance. It didn't occur to him...
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 9:33 AM/EST
What happens when superficial air-heads collide with superficial gear-heads? Someone gets called a jackass. (In case you're wondering, the air-heads are superficial because they're not interested in the substance of the issue and just want to make fun of the...
Tuesday, July 08, 2008 4:26 PM/EST
Reports that Google Docs suffered a severe outage today couldn't come at a worse time for Microsoft. Ordinarily, this is the kind of news that would have Microsoft and SAP and the other on-premises pterodactyls rubbing their hands with glee...
Tuesday, July 08, 2008 11:43 AM/EST
Call it sexism. Call it a double-standard. Call it the glass parachute shattering on the walkway of VMware headquarters. Just don't call it business as usual--unless, of course, we're talking about the fate of female tech executives. Diane Greene got...
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 2:38 PM/EST
Barack Obama may or may not get elected to the position of CEO of the United States in November, but he is showing other CEOs how to use Web 2.0 to drive innovation and buy-in. Obama, who has a LinkedIn...
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 7:07 AM/EST
Don't expect IBM to become a champion of SAAS any time soon. After a visit to IBM's Somers, N.Y., campus, I am convinced that while IBM's heart is with the Web, its feet are still mired in 20th century technologies,...
Friday, June 20, 2008 10:44 AM/EST
UPDATED June 23, 2008 My wife is in charge of online donations for a large international relief agency, and she recently received a strongly worded e-mail from the leader of a pro-Israeli group accusing her organization of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism,...
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