MTV is begonnen met het testen van een nieuw systeem waarmee gebruikers toegang hebben tot alles en iedereen wat maar enigszins met 'entertainment' te maken heeft. Het systeem heet ‘Overdrive’; en bevindt zich nog in de betafase. [Via Personal Computer Magazine RSS]

Ongeveer de helft van de Nederlandse informatiewerkers denkt dat de informatieverwerking productiever kan. Bij driekwart van hen wordt op het bedrijf al gewerkt aan verbeteringen. [Via Computable RSS]

WinInsider | Microsoft rises in Fortune 500 ranking Microsoft climbed five spots to reach 46th in the annual Fortune 500 ranking of the largest companies in the United States by revenues. Microsoft’s $36.8 billion in revenues for 2004 place it well ahead of all other software companies. The only other…

MSN MEssenger 7.0 is officieel in produktie gegaan. Je kunt hem downloaden via bijgaande link. Aan de slag met MSN Messenger

Forbes.com published a really confronting article about Lotus. I look forward to Ed Brill’s comments on this …The marketing folks in IBM’s Lotus division are starting to sound like the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, who insists he’s winning a fight even as he loses both…

Real-time collaboration using presence-based tools is still a few years away for most companies. [Via Collaboration news and analysis]

IBM/Lotus this fall plans to offer technology that will enable users to integrate VoIP or any other telephony service with their collaboration applications. [Via Messaging] Where did IBM get this idea ?

TechWeb – Very few midsize companies are expected to deploy Linux over the next three years, opting to stick with Microsoft Windows to avoid the high cost of maintaining IT systems running on two separate platforms. [Via Yahoo! News: Technology – Software]

Microsoft touts latest Windows v. Linux study | News.blog | CNET News.com Another Microsoft-funded study has been released that says Windows is better than Linux. This time the issue is reliability. The topic is a fairly interesting one. Microsoft commissioned Veritest to create a scenario in which Linux and Windows…