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Speak into your iPhone for fast Google search results
By Onuora on November 16, 2008  |  Comments 1

Speak into your iPhone for fast Google search results

Google continues its efforts to optimize the mobile experience on the iPhone with their new speech recognition search application that will lets iPhone users ask questions verbally and receive back Google search results.
This new search functionality will also take advantage of the iPhone location-based technology and sometimes give you back local results.
Other recent improvements in [...]

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Microsoft e-mails show 'Vista Capable' changes helped Intel
By Onuora on November 15, 2008  |  Comments 0

Microsoft e-mails show ‘Vista Capable’ changes helped Intel

Pressured by Intel Corp., Microsoft Corp. relaxed the rules for a crucial Windows Vista marketing program — a move that let the chip maker sell older graphics chip sets that were incapable of meeting the original requirements, internal e-mails show.
The move angered some Microsoft executives, including the then-head of Windows development, who said it would [...]

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Say it aint so..Wookey to SAP?
By Onuora on November 11, 2008  |  Comments 0

Say it aint so..Wookey to SAP?

John Wookey, former senior vice president of applications development at Oracle, is taking a job with Oracle’s bitter rival, SAP, according to a source with knowledge of his plans.
 
An SAP spokesman declined to confirm the news Monday. “We always want to inform our employees about any company news first,” said SAP spokesman Saswato Das said. [...]

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How Obama Will Use Web 2.0 For Change
By Onuora on November 08, 2008  |  Comments 0

How Obama Will Use Web 2.0 For Change

November 07, 2008 — CIO — During his campaign, President-elect Barack Obama delivered on the democratic promise of Web 2.0 technologies by using them to give voices to millions of Americans who had traditionally been drowned out by TV pundits, politicians and wealthy donors.
And he’s already shown he’ll continue to use them when he’s in office. That [...]

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Taking a peek at Web 2.0 Summit
By Onuora on November 07, 2008  |  Comments 0

Taking a peek at Web 2.0 Summit

Living up to a $15 billion valuation has got to be tough for a company only 4 years old.
That’s the stress that Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, must live with, though he denies that he’s under much pressure.
Last year, Microsoft made a $240 million investment in the Palo Alto social networking site for a 1.6 [...]

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SAP Co-CEO Grilled on Maintenance Increase
By Onuora on November 06, 2008  |  Comments 0

SAP Co-CEO Grilled on Maintenance Increase

During his presentation at a Goldman Sachs event on Wednesday, SAP co-CEO Henning Kagermann faced a series of questions about a topic SAP is eager to leave behind: its decision in July to move all customers to a fuller-featured but more expensive Enterprise Support package.
“What I learned is, we could have communicated it a little [...]

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Oracle puts 'social' in corporate CRM
By Onuora on November 05, 2008  |  Comments 0

Oracle puts ’social’ in corporate CRM

PHILIPPINES–Enterprise software giant Oracle has embedded social networking functions into its latest customer relationship management (CRM) offerings, allowing the applications to emulate social networking sites.
At a briefing here Tuesday, company executives said the new social CRM applications are aimed at leveraging popular social networking sites such as Facebook, Friendster and LinkedIn, and enabling these applications [...]

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Why Dubai rules Nigeria's computer market
By Onuora on November 04, 2008  |  Comments 0

Why Dubai rules Nigeria’s computer market

More than 3,000 exhibitors and 120,000 visitors made this year’s edition of Gitex in Dubai the biggest ICT event in the Middle East and purportedly the third-largest in the world.
For Nigeria and other West African ICT markets, Gitex offered some insight into why computers imported directly from Dubai continue to dominate locally assembled PCs.
Whether Nigeria’s [...]

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Linux Vs. Windows 7: The Coming Showdown
By Onuora on November 04, 2008  |  Comments 0

Linux Vs. Windows 7: The Coming Showdown

It’s inevitable. With Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)’s showcasing of Windows 7’s pre-beta edition at PDC, the Boys From Redmond have thrown down a gauntlet to the Linux community that’s been angling to take over the netbook market (and then maybe the desktop).
Anything you can do, they say, we can do better.
The conventional wisdom: 7 may be [...]

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Windows Server 2008 R2 Perks Up Virtualization
By Onuora on November 04, 2008  |  Comments 0

Windows Server 2008 R2 Perks Up Virtualization

In addition to Hyper-V, Terminal Services, the company’s presentation virtualization technology, gets a significant boost and a new name.
When Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) lifted the veil on Windows Server 2008 R2 last week, the company’s big push into cloud computing and Windows 7 largely trumped the server update.
However, with a series of improvements to things like [...]

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Windows 7 doomed by economic outlook

WHILE REVIEWERS are giving the thumbs up to Windows 7, Microsoft might have problems shifting the new operating system when it hits the shops next year.
Many companies have hung onto Windows XP because Vista required too many hardware upgrades. Instead they said that they will wait until Windows 7.
Microsoft CEO, the shy and retiring, softly [...]

Antivirus firms shrug at Microsoft’s free security suite

For some security companies, Microsoft’s decision to offer a free anti-malware product, code-named Morro, won’t result in a dramatic change in how they do business.
Morro will be available in the second half of 2009 and will protect against viruses, spyware, rootkits, and Trojans, according to Microsoft.
Rowan Trollope, senior vice president of Symantec’s consumer business, characterized [...]

New York Debate Audience Can’t Decide if Google Is “Evil”

NEW YORK, NY, Nov 19, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) — Intelligence Squared U.S., the Oxford style debate series sponsored by The Rosenkranz Foundation, announced the results of its fourth debate of the Fall 2008 season, “Google violates its ‘don’t be evil’ motto.”
A sold out audience at Rockefeller University’s Caspary Auditorium, New York City voted [...]

Yahoo Drops to Five-Year Low as Microsoft Backs Away

Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) — Yahoo! Inc. shares dropped below $10 for the first time in more than five years after Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer squelched speculation that he would revive takeover talks.
“We’ve moved on,” Ballmer, 52, said today at a shareholder meeting in Bellevue, Washington. He reiterated that a partnership between Microsoft [...]

Employees sue for unpaid Windows Vista overtime

Windows Vista is in more legal hot water and this time the ones getting wet are the companies who’ve rolled out the operating system, not Microsoft.
A series of lawsuits have been brought against major US companies by staff claiming unpaid overtime based on the time it takes Windows Vista to start up and shut down.
Mark [...]

Microsoft Provides Update on Growth Opportunities and Innovation Outlook at Annual Shareholder Meeting

REDMOND, Wash., Nov 19, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ — Microsoft Corp. today held its Annual Shareholder Meeting, where Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer discussed the company’s plans to drive continued long-term growth and shareholder value in a challenging economic environment.
Ballmer also highlighted the new Windows Azure and Azure Services Platform technologies that position Microsoft [...]

E-Discovery Requests Loom Large for Financial Services Firms

As regulators delve into firms’ archives to try to pin down responsibility for the current financial meltdown, experts anticipate that litigation will rise sharply.
The FBI already announced that it is investigating Freddie Mac, AIG and Lehman, and it is expected that countless other firms will be asked to produce data to support other investigations.
Vivian Tero, [...]

Microsoft feared Mac vs. Vista comparison in ‘05, insider e-mails show

November 18, 2008 (Computerworld) More than a year before Windows Vista’s release — and long before Apple Inc. started poking fun at the operating system — Microsoft Corp. officials were already worried about comparisons between Mac OS X and Vista, insider e-mails disclosed yesterday revealed.
An e-mail thread from October 2005, more than 15 months before [...]

Microsoft Co-President Warned Colleagues ‘Vista Capable’ Was Misleading

Former Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) co-president Jim Allchin called the company’s decision to allow PC manufacturers to label machines not capable of running all of Windows Vista’s features as Vista Capable “terrible” and “misleading,” according to new e-mails unearthed Monday as part of a consumer fraud suit against the company.
“I believe we are going to be [...]

Key features in the upcoming Windows Server 2008 R2

When Windows Server 2008 R2 is released in 2009 or 2010 (that is the current projected timeframe), there will be some important features about this release.
The most prominent is that Windows Server 2008 will solely be an x64 platform with the R2 release. This will make the upgrade to x64 platforms not really a surprise, [...]