Plumtree last week began rolling out a major new version of its portal software product line, including new bundling options, broader platform support and a stand-alone product the company intends as the first in a line of customized industry applications.
Coming soon to a Web browser near you is a new search engine called Congoo that promises to provide regular users with once-again-free access to a selection of otherwise pay-to-peek content - albeit on a limited basis and with a few strings attached.
Google may be a media darling flush with cash, but any attempt on its part to muscle into productivity and collaborative applications will find the company in an underdog role it might not be ready to handle, according to IT professionals and other industry experts.
Last week's column discussing how the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Individual Assistance Center Web site required people filing claims to use Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6.0 generated a lot of feedback.
Not only has widespread adoption of this lifesaving application failed to take hold in corporate networks, it is my understanding that many of you have gone so far as to expressly prohibit - prohibit! - the use of WeatherBug in your organizations. How do you sleep at night?
PayPal last week introduced a suite of services aimed at letting merchants offer buyers three payment options with the goal of giving PayPal customers more flexibility and control over the checkout process, the first nonhosted offering from this provider of online payments.
When we look at Sun's Scott McNealy or Oracle's Larry Ellison, we see successful executives who every once in a while get tired of the game and take a physical or mental time out. Not Gates. He has just what he wants: a new Holy War.
Hey, let's all write blogs about the inner workings of our companies, warts and all. ... Transparency is the rage, you know. But before we get cracking, let's make sure our resumes are polished and our bank accounts can withstand a stretch of unemployment.
06/12/2005 08:00 PM
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