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Location-based services mean business
News ABI Research's principal analyst Dominique Bonte said business applications of LBS, such as asset and vehicle tracking and workforce management, will become an important revenue generator for carriers in the future as more companies look to deploy... [17 Jul 2008]
Suppliers move away from licensing crackdowns
News But a spokesman for blue chip IT user group the Corporate IT Forum, said a recent poll of its members found most companies were now well versed on SAM (software asset management) and did not need the help of organisations such as Fast. [09 Jun 2008]
Yahoo! reports positive profits - Microsoft unconcerned
News Chief executive Jerry Yang told investors on a quarterly conference call: "We are totally committed to maximising the value of this asset. Our board and management team continue to be open to any and all alternatives, including a Microsoft deal. [23 Apr 2008]
Green IT can shave 20 per cent off costs
News Blowers told silicon.com sustainable practice goes hand-in-hand with good asset management. Radical solutions such as designing software to consume less processor cycles and using hardware that does not require a power-hungry AC-DC conversion... [17 Jan 2008]
Top 10 retail IT stories of the year
News However, a spokesman for the company denied it was a response to the success of brands such as Starbucks, saying it was to provide an asset for the country - how generous. The decision to only release the software to XP users caused uproar among... [19 Dec 2007]
Marks & Spencer hands £19m IT deal to Computacenter
News As well as a software management role, Computacenter will take on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) compliant asset disposal for the retailer, guaranteeing no obsolete IT will go into landfill sites. [12 Dec 2007]
CIOs face tough on-demand choices
News Fortis Investments, the global asset management arm of the group, is one company that has made a move into SaaS, ditching Siebel tools for its sales people in favour of Salesforce.com about three years ago. [20 Sep 2007]
Dell spends $340m on summer of SAM
News Dell said it is spending around $340m to buy Asap Software, a software asset-management (SAM) company, as part of an effort to simplify how customers can communicate with it. According to David Marmonti, president of Dell EMEA, the acquisition will... [03 Aug 2007]
Macs versus PCs - the battle continues
News In a recent interview, the CIO of property asset management company Capital & Regional kicked off the debate, telling silicon.com Macs are "smarter money and cheaper" than Microsoft's newest OS - a view that seems to be shared by some silicon.com... [18 Jul 2007]
Red Hat touts desktop Linux for developing world
News Red Hat said: "Virtual appliances can be used to enable functions such as network security, provisioning, monitoring and asset management, regardless of the state of the desktop operating system. Red Hat has announced a new version of its Linux... [10 May 2007]
TNT lights fuse on tech asset management
News The logistics giant has started with desktop software asset management and by the end of the year plans to have charted the software on its servers as well, said Steve Fell, supplier and asset management group manager at TNT Express ICS. [25 Apr 2007]
CA: We're not the company we were five years ago
News The model incorporates all information that defines a particular service - including asset details, service levels, prices, costs, quality, risks, exposures and consumers. CA is not the same company it was five years ago its president and CEO has... [24 Apr 2007]
Alliance & Leicester gets a boost from Finland
News As part of a five-year agreement, TE will provide a 24-hour support service for its Portfolio asset contract management software, used by the bank. The deal also brings a speedier processing contract management system along with improved disaster... [06 Mar 2007]
Microsoft customers get licensing help
News The programme is part of Microsoft's Software Asset Management (SAM) toolkit, which was launched last year to help businesses get to grips with complex licensing agreements and reduce their risk of unwittingly using unlicensed or counterfeit... [21 Feb 2007]
Microsoft launches licensing crackdown
News This process normally falls under the heading of Software Asset Management (SAM) but, as Dhaliwal explained, the company has come up with another name. We are calling this Software Audit and Asset Management or Saam," he said. [30 Jan 2007]
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