Let's look at the two major worlds of consumer commerce, and give a cold assessment of what we see, in terms of profits.

Last week I had a chance to do my second interview with Mark Hurd, recently departed CEO of Hewlett-Packard and now president of Oracle. We covered a great deal of technology landscape in 45 minutes, and one of the critical issues we covered...

How can you consistently increase company performance year after year, without any benefit to your company's stock value? This has got to be the question that is driving Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer crazy.

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Organizations are under greater pressure to engage a growing customer audience that will potentially access, use, and buy products and services via mobile devices. Understand the mobile application market and lifecycle and develop a strategy...

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Organizations are under greater pressure to engage a growing customer audience that will potentially access, use and buy products and services via mobile devices. Use this tool to help determine whether to pursue a native or Web mobile...

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Organizations are under greater pressure to engage a growing customer audience that will potentially access, use and buy products and services via mobile devices. Understand the mobile application market and lifecycle and develop a strategy that...

I have had a series of opportunities, over these last few weeks, to witness the industry confusion over the question of which platforms will succeed. Since the resolution, and understanding, of this question will drive much of the computing...

Apple and Google had interlocking boards, Adobe was Apple's lifelong development partner and ally, and even Intel had come back from the Dark Side of Wintel to make the chips used in Apple machines. What a happy family, all playing around the...

(14-Apr-10) The chief executive of technology reseller Softchoice Corp. is seeing a strong rebound in corporate spending on computers and servers, a trend consistent with chip maker Intel's results as the economy recovers. "We are seeing...

(By Info-Tech Analyst Jayanth Angl - Printed with permission from Processor magazine www.processor.com). IT leaders don’t have it easy. Maintaining a secure and reliable IT environment, usually with an undersized team and limited financial...

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The 2010 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) was something of a revival for the event. After a dip in attendance last year, the show drew 120,000 this year, with over 2,500 exhibitors. The big attractions this year were 3D displays, e-book readers,...

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In the last few years, the mid-market CRM landscape has changed due to the emergence of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) into the mainstream market and changes in consumer needs and buying behavior. Examine the summary findings from a recent...

(30-Jul-09) Consumers have almost non-stop appetites for watching video on the Internet, a habit that bidders for financially troubled Nortel Networks will consider when they look at its technology for bandwidth hunger. A key unit of Nortel...

While Instant Messaging (IM) is widely used as a collaborative tool, if its entry into the environment was entirely employee-driven, important business considerations might have been overlooked in the process. Even if informal IM usage is...

Many small enterprises struggle to find appropriate and cost effective tools for data storage, backup, and security. Often the latest consumer products match the needs of many small businesses and are the forerunners of enterprise-focused...