http://www.silicon.com Results for conference en-us http://www.silicon.com/i/s/feeds/simple_logo.gif http://www.silicon.com 124 50 News feed from silicon.com http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://software.silicon.com/applications/0,39024653,39668399,00.htm That's according to customers attending the SAP UK and Ireland SAP user group conference in Manchester this week when asked what the business software company could improve on. Wang urged conference attendees to make sure SAP communicates with them... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:34:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39668394,00.htm It's not just mobile phones: when I was speaking to an IT manager at a recent industry conference about disaster recovery policy, I asked him how much data was involved - expecting the answer to be in the terabytes. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:25:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://services.silicon.com/itoutsourcing/0,3800004871,39661655,00.htm It was like looking at a bowl of spaghetti - it did not seem to have any coherence and it was not clear who was doing what," she told the conference. Outsourcing deals typically promise to deliver cost savings and increased efficiency - but all too... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:00:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://hardware.silicon.com/servers/0,39024647,39668393,00.htm At its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles last week, Microsoft gave attendees a close-up look at a self-contained server unit from one of the company's datacentres. This particular unit had been stationed outside Microsoft's... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:18:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://software.silicon.com/applications/0,39024653,39658906,00.htm The tie-ups were announced at Salesforce.com's annual Dreamforce user conference in San Francisco this week, where BMC CEO Bob Beauchamp and CA CEO John Swainson both joined Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff on stage for the announcement. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:56:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39656455,00.htm Speaking at Salesforce.com's Dreamforce user conference in San Francisco, CEO Marc Benioff said Chatter was the company's "fourth cloud" - joining its Sales Cloud, Service Cloud and Custom Cloud. Salesforce.com has unveiled a technology that it... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:20:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,1000000085,39890503,00.htm Chief executive Marc Benioff announced the service in San Francisco at the company's Dreamforce conference, which he said drew 19,000 attendees. Salesforce.com on Wednesday announced a social-networking service called Salesforce Chatter for its... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:57:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39890501,00.htm I hope that you will all download it," Microsoft senior vice president Kurt DelBene said at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. Microsoft announced on Wednesday that the beta of Office 2010 is now publicly available from... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:45:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://hardware.silicon.com/servers/0,39024647,39655945,00.htm Azure will be made commercially available from 1 January, Microsoft's chief software architect, Ray Ozzie, announced yesterday at the company's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:55:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/itdirector/0,39024673,39650565,00.htm At the recent Workplace Trends conference, one speaker dared to ask: "Do we even need an office these days? In this age of mobile working, should businesses consider ditching their offices? Richard Leyland weighs up the pros and cons. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60813175p,00.htm The high data rate demand for applications such as real-time audio, video, online gaming, service on demand, and live conference has always kept challenges way ahead of available technical dexterity. WiMAX with very high data rate and huge spectral... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39617378,00.htm At the recent TechEd conference in Vienna, ERP software specialist SAP showed an application called Gravity it has designed for Google Wave that allows staff to draw flow charts to model business processes, as seen here. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:39:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39615161,00.htm Speaking at a cabinet creative industries conference yesterday, the business minister said proposals made back in August will feature in the Digital Economy Bill expected before Parliament in November. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:46:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://software.silicon.com/os/0,39024651,39612406,00.htm Google is a company whose products usually start by capturing the imagination of consumers and then business gets interested but we have already had an enormous amount of interest [from companies]," Rasmussen told the SAP TechEd conference in... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:40:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/retailandleisure/0,3800011842,39597173,00.htm About six or seven months ago I did not have a clue about what cloud computing was and was invited to speak about it at a conference so I had to find out about it - since then it has fundamentally changed my philosophy of IT management and... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:45:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/careers/0,39024671,39574739,00.htm Speaking at a recent industry conference, Larry Huston, the first VP for innovation and knowledge, said: "The company's intellectual assets are not just 'our know-how', but also 'who we know. It might just come from renegade geeks, says Richard... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/careers/0,39024671,39572682,00.htm As career analyst and author Dan Pink pointed out at July's TED Global conference in Oxford, economists as far afield as MIT and the London School of Economics have shown increased financial rewards actually make people less likely to succeed at... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/retailandleisure/0,3800011842,39565922,00.htm The system uses data from its Nectar customer loyalty scheme to determine a customer's tastes and prints off customised vouchers at the checkout, Sainsbury's CEO Justin King revealed in a conference call with investors on Wednesday. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:54:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/itdirector/0,39024673,39558612,00.htm Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer speaking at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference in July this year Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has admitted the company could do more to simplify its software licensing. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:33:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://software.silicon.com/os/0,39024651,39558608,00.htm Steve Ballmer at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference earlier this year Ahead of a visit to the UK, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sat down with silicon.com's sister site CNET News.com to share his thoughts on Windows 7, competition with Google... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:58:01 +0000