ECT News Network: Where Business Meets Technology

EXPERT ADVICE
Online Businesses: Recession-Proof or Just Lucky?

E-Commerce Times 07/09/08

The entire United States is debating whether the country is in the midst of an economic slowdown. Some of the signs are fairly explicit: steadily rising gas prices and their cascading effects on the average consumer, unemployment rate bumps and the continued fallout from the housing market bubble. Independent of which side of the debate you fall, there is one sector of the business world, outside of the oil industry, that continues to defy even the toughest economic naysayer: online businesses. [More...]

SUCCESS STORY
Data Brawn Meets Interface Brains

TechNewsWorld 07/09/08

The larger the business or government agency is, the bigger the volume of data it deals with. That translates into massive efforts to manage that data to meet ever-increasing compliance regulations for adequately maintaining electronic records. Any software company that can figure out how to manage this process better than its competition can become king of the vendor hill. Humans created 161 exabytes of data in 2006 alone. This was about 3 million times the information in all the books ever written, according to research firm IDC. [More...]

Which Is Faster - an Android or a LiMo?

LinuxInsider 07/09/08

Making good software for mobile phones is hard -- even for a technically adept company like Google. Indeed, it's so difficult that the fleet-footed champion of search advertising finds itself in the unaccustomed position of playing catch-up to normally slow-moving industry behemoths. As Google scrambles to release its mobile phone code sometime later this year, a nonprofit consortium of some of the world's biggest telecommunications companies and handset makers has quietly beaten the search giant. [More...]

INSIGHTS
Is Simplicity Enough?

CRM Buyer 07/09/08

Ease of use and software simplicity have been mainstay messages in CRM for many years. I have watched as this messaging has alternated with financial benefits for a long time, and I am not sure if it's random alternation or if there might be economic undertones, but it seems like we're trading themes at the moment. Over the last couple of weeks, I have taken briefings with new SFA companies that happily stress that their products are easy to use and thus promote user adoption. Moreover, they tell me that this aspect puts them ahead of longstanding competitors in the space. [More...]

OPINION
New iPhone? Been There, Lined Up for That

MacNewsWorld 07/09/08

Some Apple fanatics are already camped out in front of the New York Apple store waiting for 8 a.m. Friday, when the new iPhone goes on sale. However, I'm seriously wondering why, even to the point of suspecting that they're Apple shills trying to create a buzz. Don't get me wrong. I intend to get a new iPhone. However, this year, I am not going to camp out, like I did last year, the night before. Last year, it was a brand-new story, with a brand-new phone unlike anything the mobile technology world had ever seen. It was an experience. A once-in-a-lifetime experience, thank you. [More...]

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