This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Dr. Lecia Barker: Senior Research Scientist for the National Center for Women & IT, Leading Educator, and Top Thought Leader. Lecia shares her insights into unconscious bias, attracting diversity into computing, maximizing educational environments […]
Posted on March 16th, 2010 by admin
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Axosoft, the developer of project management software OnTime is releasing a new version of its product that includes an innovative new way for developers to visualize, review and manage the life cycle of backlog items. The first 10 People to use coupon code “TechCrunch” to buy Axosoft’s OnTime Hosted Solution for 1 year from the […]
Posted on March 15th, 2010 by admin
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Cloud infrastructure giant Rackspace is welcoming a number of former Sun Microsystems employees this week. The employees came from Drizzle, an offshoot of open source database MySQL that aimed to create a “trimmed-down, faster version of the database system.” Oracle closed its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems earlier this year, and Drizzle developer Jay […]
Posted on March 13th, 2010 by admin
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Doug Cutting – Cloudera Hadoop, open source, Yahoo Veeple Interactive Video In the video above, Doug Cutting, the creator of the Apache Hadoop project, discusses how the technology was first developed for large web companies (like Facebook, Google, Yahoo, which all use the open-source technology). Essentially, Cutting says Hadoop was born out of need: the […]
Posted on March 13th, 2010 by admin
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Zoho, a web-based productivity suite that was called a “fake Office” by a Microsoft VP, is announcing a significant partnership with Google today. The startup will be a launch partner for Google’s recently launched Google Apps Marketplace, which allows vendors to sell applications that compliment Google Apps. Zoho will be integrating two of its app […]
Posted on March 12th, 2010 by admin
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Tonight, Google launched its Google Apps Marketplace, an online storefront for Apps products and services. Here are our notes from the announcement. And of course, the marketplace is launching with a number of pilot partners (50 to be exact). One of those partners happens to be recently launched Socialwok, a product that ads a social […]
Posted on March 11th, 2010 by admin
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Tonight, Google is hosting one of their Campfire One events at their headquarters in Mountain View, CA. They’re using the event to launch their new Google Apps Marketplace. This is the app store that business applications can use to reach the more than 25 million people and 2 million business that use Google Apps for […]
Posted on March 11th, 2010 by admin
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Oil and gas industry professionals in Asia Pacific lead the industry in the use of social media and collaboration tools at work, reports a recent Microsoft Corp. and Accenture survey, with three out of four respondents from that region saying social media tools improve their work performance. The Microsoft and Accenture “Oil & Gas […]
Posted on March 11th, 2010 by admin
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Editor’s note: This guest post is written by Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of salesforce.com. In it, he responds to critics of his last guest post arguing that enterprise software should be more like Facebook. Two weeks ago on TechCrunch I posted “The Facebook Imperative,” which posed a simple question, “Why isn’t all enterprise software […]
Posted on March 10th, 2010 by admin
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Business to business software can be a tough sell. Online B2B can be even a harder sell. While there is certainly money to be made, unless you’re one of the big players, the likelihood you’re going to succeed is pretty small. Starting today, Google is taking their roll as one of the big players and […]
Posted on March 10th, 2010 by admin
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