“That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.” [Via Quotes of the Day]

Uit een wereldwijd onderzoek blijkt dat bedrijven aanzienlijke omzetkansen missen doordat medewerkers telefonisch niet door klanten bereikt kunnen worden. Het onderzoek onder 600 managers is uitgevoerd door Vanson Bourne in opdracht van Avaya, Inc. (NYSE: AV), leverancier van communicatienetwerken en -diensten aan de zakelijke markt. Hoewel alleen al 70% van…

IT organizations that fail to rationalize their application portfolios in 2005 are missing an opportunity to trim substantial costs from the maintenance budget, simplify their technology base and application portfolio, and lay the ground work for deciding the fate of existing applications; whether to leave as is, modernize, retire, or…

In the past several weeks, Microsoft announced two major changes that impact customers and their investments in Microsoft software. First, the company moved to increase its indemnification coverage to all customers, including individual consumers. Second, Microsoft stated that unlike IBM and Oracle, it wouldn’t charge customers additional licensing fees for…

PDAs and phones seem to be on a collision course as PDAs get connectivity, phones get bigger screens and richer operating systems, and device makers experiment with new form factors that attempt to marry the two. These integrated devices form the bulk of the “smartphone” category. However, the majority of…

Andy points to a report on Pacific Epoch which says that there might be 2 million users of Skype’s chinese version. And then asks the most important question: “Everyone looks at Skype’s impact on telephony, but what about on IM? Of late I personally have been having more chats with…

One Voice Technologies, taking a cue from science fiction novels, is set to introduce a Windows Media Center 2005 plug-in at CES 2005 called Media Center Communicator that will enable users to send and read E-mail, SMS text message mobile phones, Instant Message your buddies, place PC-to-PC video calls, and…

Microsoft gaat in 2005 een reeks nieuwe producten op de markt brengen en tal van projecten afronden. Enkele belangrijke programma’s zijn AntiVirus and AntiSpyware 2005, de beta-versies van Longhorn Client en Server en de beta van Office 12. [Via hcc!magazine nieuws]

Microsoft Partner Readiness Microsoft US is planning this workshop. I will try to have a re-delivery asap in The Netherlands. After our initial seminars there is a great interest for this. Update 30/12/04 : Thanks Ed for poining this one out 😉

Found this on Gary’s blog; a whitepaper on how to integrate SharePoint and Websphere by IBM