Submitted by Dave on Mon, 01/04/2013 - 01:12
Commercial software licensing remains a complicated and arcane issue for many business owners. Unless you have spent a great deal of time and effort designing and implementing a comprehensive business software asset management plan, the chances are that you are non-compliant in some way. Many business owners choose to take a blasé view of software licensing, and perceive the chance of “getting caught” as being low to non-existent.
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 15/03/2013 - 00:50
There's been widespread dismay over the past day with the news that Google has decided to shut down its popular Google Reader application.
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 07/03/2013 - 23:05
The rise in popularity of social networking services (“social networks”) has given businesses the ability to quickly and easily connect with an online audience of millions. Social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Google+ allow businesses to create dedicated online “pages”, without having to separately set up and manage a web server. The associated cost is generally zero, and the process of creating a page very straightforward.
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 23/02/2013 - 01:33
In the last few days Microsoft has officially moved their new Outlook.com webmail service out of testing and into a fully supported product. The Microsoft and Outlook brands have a great deal of cachet amongst large corporate users, so we'd expect a certain level of interest from businesses looking to use Outlook.com as an alternative to ISP or web company-hosted email. Customers may also be looking to switch from competing webmail providers such as Google's Gmail.
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 22/02/2013 - 01:58
IBM's recent New Zealand data centre outage highlights the risks of consolidating all of your business applications in the cloud platform. As widely reported in several news outlets, the outage severely affected many local businesses and schools. As quoted from this report in the New Zealand Herald:
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