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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
