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Isnt This Android a Dream? It’s Android TimeThe Dream from T-Mobile sports a very familiar Google widget clock interface in this pic.Photo: Mobile Roar Isnt This Android a Dream? – How Does the Dream Stack Up to the Competition? The Dream is sandwiched by Softbank and T-Mobile smart phones, giving prospective buyers an idea of […]

Inside Salesforce Ideas Inside Salesforce Ideas – The Basic Idea With Salesforce Ideas, ideas are posted in a public forum where they get voted on, moving the most popular ideas to the top of the stack. Inside Salesforce Ideas – Viewing Ideas Ideas can be viewed by category. Inside Salesforce Ideas – Submitting Ideas Here […]

Microsoft’s withdrawal of its offer for Yahoo ended a three-month saga replete with big bucks, big egos and big implications-for the companies involved, for their customers and for the industry in general. Even after Microsoft raised its bid for Yahoo by $5 billion, to $47.5 billion, negotiations fell through. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said his […]

/images/stories/heads/szygenda_70x70.jpgAmid ongoing corporate difficulties, General Motors has been leaning heavily on CIO Ralph Szygenda to cut waste and speed innovation through a fully outsourced approach to IT. In 2006, GM awarded $7.5 billion in outsourcing contracts, and before 2011 the company will award another $7.5 billion. That “big bang” moment in 2006 followed a stormy […]

In the midst of being acquired by IBM for $5 billion-a deal expected to close this quarter-business intelligence software developer Cognos released Version 8.3 of its Cognos platform at a Jan. 15 event in New York. During the launch, Cognos president and CEO Rob Ashe sat down with eWEEK Senior Writer Renee Boucher Ferguson to […]

Use Cases in Product Testing Use Cases are a concept from software and system engineering that is employed to capture the functional requirements of a system. Software developers identify Use Cases to set the parameters for how a product will behave under various conditions. This method of understanding and defining requirements is an effective method […]

Delivering better service to customers is one of the top IT initiatives for 2008, and many companies are looking to business intelligence, collaboration and workflow, and data and systems integration to help achieve that goal, according to results of a Ziff Davis Enterprise Editorial Research survey and interviews with IT professionals. And despite the hype, […]

IT memory lane It isn’t often that the pioneers of IT get together and swap stories in public about the old times—those long-ago days before iPods, Facebook, instant messaging, and all the quick and easy technology we enjoy and take for granted. When these gatherings do happen, the de facto home for them is the […]

Fear and Greed in Silicon Valley The mortgage crisis continues to wend its way through the national psyche. The occasional rays of sunshine—such as the Abu Dhabi Investment Groups $7.5 billion investment in Citigroup and comments from a Federal Reserve official to the effect that the Fed may soon cut interest rates again to stimulate […]