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RSS monkThe Weekly Round-Up: 10.08.07
Round-Up A monk. Steve here. I'm glad you guys could join me today - because I've got something pretty cool to tell you. That's right. In fact, you're not going to believe it. It's really cool. It's un-bel-ive-able! [10 Aug 2007]
Firefox vs IE: The battle of the stats
News James Governor, of analyst house Red Monk, said he was not surprised to see figures suggesting Firefox's fast growth in market share was beginning to slow a little as Microsoft returned to growth. Mozilla's Firefox... [13 Oct 2006]
'Stop buying IT' bosses told
News James Governor, analyst at Red Monk, said Carr's comments are welcome in an industry that is short on "comedians". Nicholas Carr, a perennial thorn in the side of the IT industry and author of the 2003 Harvard Business... [04 Oct 2006]
CRM shake-up: On-demand switchers signal maturity
News James Governor, analyst at Red Monk, said this switching between on-demand players - rather than reverting to previous on-premise packaged software alternatives - indicates on-demand businesses have overcome their most... [25 Jul 2006]
Want to ditch those software licence blues?
News James Governor, analyst at Red Monk, said a hosted offering would definitely "provide some benefits to asset management". The purported benefits of the software as a service model, such as cost, scalability and time to... [22 May 2006]
Microsoft unveils eight versions of Vista
News According to James Governor, analyst at Red Monk, a possible eight SKUs will serve to confuse consumers and bump up Microsoft costs. Microsoft has hinted that Vista will debut in up to eight versions. [21 Feb 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Security appliances
Cheat Sheet James Governor at Red Monk said: "Appliances are one of those things I keep expecting to see explode but we're really not. What does this do? Well as you might imagine, it's an appliance - often a black or silver... [20 Feb 2006]
Spam: CA plans to kick it to the Qurb
News James Governor from analyst house Red Monk told silicon.com: "CA is the über-aggregator of technology companies. Computer Associates has splashed out on yet another company in the security space - this time acquiring... [26 Jul 2005]
Firms failing to get their heads around back-up
News James Governor, analyst at Red Monk, told silicon.com tape is far from dead but like many technologies the issue boils down to how they are used. Red Monk's Governor added: "Organisations need to do a... [22 Mar 2005]
Are fraudsters hiding in your SOX?
News James Governor, analyst at Red Monk, said: "Any company which simply stores everything is creating problems for themselves further down the line. The complex and copious amounts of data being stored on corporate networks... [07 Mar 2005]
Microsoft secures £500m, nine-year NHS contract
News James Governor, an analyst from Red Monk, said that the deal comes at a good time for Microsoft, given the OGC's recent statement. Microsoft has won a nine-year contract, worth an estimated £500m, to put its software on... [04 Nov 2004]
Five million Firefoxes released into the wild
News James Governor, an analyst at Red Monk, said that it is not just Web users that are interested in Firefox.software vendors are also showing an interest. Firefox browser passed the 5 million download mark on Monday,... [18 Oct 2004]
Google to fight Microsoft with own browser?
News James Governor, a principal analyst at Red Monk, said that he would be surprised if Google was not working on browser technologies. While Microsoft may fancy capturing some of Google's search action for itself, Google... [22 Sep 2004]
Grid computing reaches new prime
News Mersenne primes are a particular variety named after Marin Mersenne, a French monk born in 1588 who investigated a particular type of prime number: 2 to the power of "p" minus one, in which "p" is an ordinary prime number. [03 Dec 2003]
Women receive EU plaudits for high-tech endeavour
News Chairman of the judges panel, Stephanie Monk CBE, told silicon.com that she this year's winners will act as an inspiration for other women who want to break through the glass ceiling and in particular make the most of... [17 Jul 2000]
