The rise of cloud computing looks like it has lead to the fall of SAP CEO Léo Apotheker, who resigned over the weekend.
It's not that cloud computing has been absent at SAP. There are a number of efforts underway. But it's the lack of any unified strategy that is most notable.
"They have been exploring the cloud," said Ray Wang of the Altimeter Group. "It's how quickly they have responded is the question of contention."
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SAP's headquarters are in Germany, and Wang says that may have contributed to the company's scattered approach to cloud computing. Full story...
Despite the proverbial "the customer is always right," the relationship between the customer and the company has long been organized for the benefit of the latter.
Panda Security is reporting a second incident of malware on Vodafone's HTC Magic, a Google Android smart phone.
Currently, your contacts live in address books that are distributed all over the Internet and your desktop.
The Web has hit a point where tracking pageviews is useless for startups.
There was a time when all you needed to succeed on the Internet were lots and lots of eyeballs, and the best way of measuring those eyeballs was by tracking pageviews (measuring exactly which pages on a website are viewed by individual visitors).
At the RSA Keynote a few weeks back, Amazon's Security Lead, Steve Riley participated on a panel with other security leaders of the industry.
In the wake of the financial meltdown, a new set of financial regulations proposed by Senator Christopher Dodd aimed at plugging the "too big to fail" loopholes could have some negative side effects for the angel investment community.
At times it feels like the concept of cloud computing is as ephemeral as a towering cumulus cloud on a summer day.
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Google just launched a new stable version of Google Chrome, the company's increasingly popular browser, which introduces a number of new features and more advanced privacy controls.
Google Apps is offering migration for Microsoft Exchange. The service is free with Google Apps Premiere or Google Apps Education.