Recent Articles
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Why I Didn’t Buy an iPad 2
No, I didn’t get in line for an iPad 2. I usually get a lot of heat for my love of Apple products. My friend Richard Tubb even just poked fun at me on Facebook when he bought his first Macbook that I shouldn’t be laughing at him across the Atlantic. My Apple history is…
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1. Touch Screens Are Just Fine
1. Touch Screens Are Just Fine After the iPhone was first made available, some wondered how the enterprise would respond to the device featuring a touch screen, rather than the typical physical keyboard. Considering iPhone (and iPad) adoption is on the rise in the corporate world, it seems that it didn’t matter at all. In…
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The White iPhone?
The White iPhone? When Apple announced the iPhone 4, the company also showed off a white version of the smartphone. The only issue is, that device still hasn’t launched. And given its history, Apple might wait just until the iPhone 5 launches before it finally offers the white model. If the white version of the…
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Google Adds Smart Labels For Gmail Priority Inbox Users
Google March 9 added Gmail Smart Labels, another tool to help its 150 million-plus users sift through the loads of social-network digests, e-commerce messages and credit card statements they receive each day. While users may already create labels and filters to tell Gmail how to treat incoming messages, Smart Labels will automatically dump messages into…
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SAP’s Aggressive Business Application Roadmap
BOSTON—SAP is promising an aggressive 2011 roadmap for new applications that leverage its in-memory technology as well as a new release of its HANA system that company officials say enterprises could use instead of traditional databases from rivals such as IBM, Microsoft and Oracle. At a daylong event here March 9, SAP executives outlined 10…
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WaveMaker Acquisition a Smart Move for VMWare
When VMware’s Rod Johnson talks, people tend to listen. One person who clearly is listening to Johnson — general manager of VMware’s SpringSource division — is Paul Maritz, CEO of VMware, who commissioned Johnson to acquire WaveMaker and its Spring-based visual development tool that enables “non-expert” programmers to build Web applications quickly and easily. The…
