The search market is a very fragmented place. And it’s been very active recently as well. To make it simple, you can divide the search market into two groups. In the entry-level group you will find products such as the Google Search Appliance and Google Mini, Oracle Secure Enterprise Search, and Microsoft´s MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint […]
Read MoreBack in 2004, Jonathan Spira wrote about The Thumb Generation, knowledge workers that are found in many lands, often without so official a designation, but who are instantly recognizable by their indefatigable use of their BlackBerry or other handheld device to read mail and exchange text messages. At that time, he also noted that productivity gains […]
Read MoreDo U feel OK to write msgs NE way you pls? Or do you think that we should spend as much care and attention in the composition and writing of e-mail messages as we would writing notes with pen and paper? The very intangibility of electronic messages has created a situation in which the normal […]
Read MoreLast week at LiveLinkUp 2007, Open Text announced Enterprise Connect, a solution aimed at improving the user experience in enterprise content management. Based on .Net and Web services architecture, Enterprise Connect aims at simplifying the knowledge worker’s life. Enterprise Connect allows knowledge workers to work with content through customizable business views from within familiar desktop […]
Read MoreIf you are in the enterprise software business and your competition has a major product that not only has 95% of the market but is so standard that many think no work can be done without it, what would you do? If you are IBM and the competitive product is Microsoft Office (which is second […]
Read MoreThe good Stunning display Full technical compatibility with BMW’s in-car Bluetooth telephone interface Uses iTunes to manage music content Thinner than the Motorola Razr Replaces several devices (great for travel) The jury is out “Innovative” multitouch user interface (slow for typing) Only uses iTunes to manage music content The bad Wi-Fi from iPhone causes in-car […]
Read MoreIn the knowledge economy, it is hard to imagine the concept of time standing still. E-mail, instant messages, phone calls, voice mails, text messages, social networks – these all move time ahead at twenty-first century speed. But time standing still? That couldn’t happen. 12 days ago, I found out it could indeed happen. Some of […]
Read MoreS. F. Spira, born Siegfried Franz Spira in Vienna, Austria in 1924, passed away September 2nd. Everyone knew him as Fred but also as the founder and CEO of Spiratone, a company that started out as a small photographic laboratory in the 1940s and grew to become the largest supplier of photographic accessories in the U.S. […]
Read MoreThis past May, with great fanfare, Palm unveiled the Foleo, a laptop that included a paradox at no extra charge. Palm billed the Foleo as a “smartphone companion.” Indeed, at its launch, Palm co-founder Jeff Hawkins explicitly acknowledged the shortcomings of the smartphone form factor for doing intensive e-mail. With a 10.2″ color screen and […]
Read MoreThe corollary to information overload is meeting overload. Although meetings were common decades ago, they have proliferated in an age of easy communication. Conference calls (and even video conference calls) with far flung colleagues, a host in Chicago, participants in Vienna, Sydney, and Jerusalem, among others, are not uncommon. What is crucial here is the […]
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