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SAP users air support gripes
News The iPod and BlackBerry lost property mountain tips for better business travel In addition, the Group is sceptical about whether Enterprise Support is suitable for small and medium sized businesses. [25 Jul 2008]
Microsoft: Don't knock Vista 'til you've tried it
News In an interview Windows unit business chief Bill Veghte told silicon.com sister site CNET News.com that he wants to see his unit try new things to get the message across. With small businesses, for example, Microsoft earlier this month launched the... [24 Jul 2008]
Web 2.0 prompts love for open source
News The market for open-source databases is booming due to new workloads such as RFID projects, rich web applications and small portals, despite the unwillingness of enterprises to replace their Oracle, DB2 or SQL Server systems with open source... [24 Jul 2008]
Orange plots Eee PC mobile broadband coup
News Small business users have not been forgotten, but Orange reckons their hardware needs are a bit more hardcore as it is offering three HP laptops, complete with Windows Vista: the HP 6730s (Intel Celeron), HP 6730s (Intel Core 2 Duo) and HP 6730b... [23 Jul 2008]
Email: The tip of the cloud iceberg?
News The use of internet hosted email services - such as Microsoft's Hotmail and Google Mail - will fuel the business uptake of "cloud services". He added small businesses, those undergoing email transitions and those with complex geographic topologies... [03 Jul 2008]
Skype touts biz credentials
News Skype is touting its voice over IP (VoIP) technology for small businesses keen to work globally and keep costs down. Ian Robin, director of Skype for business said: "It's kind of showing Skype is a business tool already. [02 Jul 2008]
SAS becomes sun worshipper
News Business intelligence software company SAS is to build a solar electric power farm at its headquarters in Cary, North Carolina. SAS CEO, Jim Goodnight said employees and customers expect the company to be responsible corporate citizens and the... [26 Jun 2008]
HP shakes up printing division
News The three new groups will focus on consumers and small businesses, large enterprises and graphics that cater to large-scale printing of billboards, signs and professional photography, the NYT reported. [19 Jun 2008]
LinkedIn hits billion-dollar valuation
News Business-networking site LinkedIn announced on Tuesday evening it had netted $53m in a Series D funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures and with participation from existing investors Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners and Bessemer Ventures. [18 Jun 2008]
O2 offers business tariffs for 3G iPhone
News O2 has finally opened its arms to UK businesses large and small wanting to use the Apple iPhone. The operator said the 3G iPhone, which was announced yesterday by Apple CEO Steve Jobs at the company's World-Wide Developer Conference in San... [10 Jun 2008]
IBM sings a Symphony to rival Office
News IBM also launched a small-business package called Lotus Foundations, which is intended to compete with Microsoft's Small Business Server. IBM has launched a commercially supported version of its Lotus Symphony productivity suite, ready to take on... [09 Jun 2008]
When is a supplier gift/junket inappropriate?
News Free junkets, gifts, trips to big sporting events and free gifts are all still tools of the trade used by tech suppliers to try and get business out of CIOs and IT buyers - or 'building relationships' as it's more commonly known. [06 Jun 2008]
Northern Ireland builds high tech credentials
News And Conor Quinn, business development executive at Queens University's Institute of Electronics, Communication and Information technology (ECIT), said: "We have a very strong economic remit. Northern Ireland's small size has been seen by some as a... [02 Jun 2008]
Qwerty vs touch, WFH, iPhone 2.0, Segway madness
News And just to complicate things, a survey of US smart phone owners out this month found many BlackBerry owners moan about the keypad because its fiddly small keys apparently cause typos, and a substantial chunk of iPhone owners confess to being in... [30 May 2008]
Dell's smiling after quarter profits
News In the profits announcement, Dell acknowledged "conservatism in IT spending in the US particularly with its global and large customers as well as public, small and medium business accounts". He pointed to growth in all business segments in all... [30 May 2008]
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