Business Intelligence

Digitimes is reporting that the next version of Intel processors pricing has been revealed today. According to their sources, Intel confirmed pricing for its small form factor (SFF) CPUs for the Centrino 2 (Montevina) platform.

Are these the rev 2 MacBook Air chips?

Lots of discussion on e-mail once again, and how to effectively manage it, but it all comes down to sound RIM policies and practices

While ICANN lives large is distant lands, the domain name registration system drifts into chaos.

This pilot fish has provided off-site tech support for a small manufacturing plant for years — and he runs into lots of issues with users trying to fix things themselves first.

It's IT Blogwatch: in which it's rumored that Salesforce.com is asking Oracle to buy it. Not to mention the real story behind Pacman...

Tom Foremski reports:

I'm hearing from a reliable source that Salesforce.com has approached Oracle to gauge if there is any interest in a sale at $75 a share ... Larry Ellison will have to buy Salesforce at some point anyway ...

There is only one little catch....

The Wal-Mart/HP Video download service was closed down recently but it doesn't mean it wasn't a significant success - at least in getting studios to sign up. Maybe that is why Apple was interested in its head Kevin Swint...

I don't put much faith in Gartner Analysts, nor their long-term predictions – after all, they are just taking educated guesses. However, their predictions do show prevailing trends (fads?) in the IT industry which do affect buying patterns across the technology sector. In its Ten Predictions for 2008 and beyond Gartner said:

RFID-based passport cards will soon let you run through border checkpoints more quickly - if you're willing to give up a little privacy.

Remember when Oracle was a database vendor and Sun Microsystems sold workstations? The days when vendors fit into tidy niches are long gone -- but the benefits they provide still depend on one thing.

Brighthouse 3.0 is coming soon, making ad hoc queries to a data warehouse by business users not just real, but fast

Why waste your time hiring IT staff and attempting to train them in the practices that are second nature to RIM Professionals? Skip the middle man, and go to the source!

One of the biggest surprises of Macworld 2008 was the lack of an announcement on the professional line of Apple laptops. Most pundits, myself included were expecting these to come out last week.

That doesn't mean Apple's pro customers are going to have to wait much longer. A few of the stars are aligning that may bring Apple's flagship laptops a much needed upgrade within the next few months.

Whenever a big corporate entity swallows up a small one, customers of the latter company worry - worry about the future of a beloved product or whether the level of personal service will deteriorate. MySQL users, especially the hundreds of thousands using the open-source database for free, are right to fret a little about the implications of Sun Microsystems $1 billion purchase.

SANTA BARBARA, CALIF. -- Amateur golfers hoping to improve their game get tips from the pros. People hoping to cook better watch professional chefs on the Food Network. Most of us travel on business and work from the road some of the time. Who can WE turn to for advice?