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Posted by Dion Hinchcliffe @ 12:03 pm April 18th 2009
, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dion Hinchcliffe

Last week’s announcement of Java support for Google App Engine (GAE), along with a host of new features aim specifically at businesses, served to reconfirm the Internet giant’s interest in providing enterprises with its [...]

Twitter has become primarily a business tool used by people in their late twenties to early fifties, according to new data from market research firm Nielsen.
The micro-blogging site has grown by 1,382 per cent since last year, from 475,000 unique visitors in February 2008 to seven million in February 2009.
The Nielsen data shows that the [...]

A Few Tools to Help Your Twitter Experience
Twitter has a whole world of available support applications you can employ to gain the most of the service for your business. Here’s a few of my favorites:
TwitterFox: This Firefox web browser plugin allows you to view Tweets within your web browser (in a popup menu). This is [...]

Can Twitter actually help my business or is it a complete waste of my valuable time? This was the very question I asked myself only a few months back.
Perhaps you’ve pondered the same?
When people I respect started singing the praises of Twitter, I decided to give it a go. At first I just didn’t get [...]

Capgemini, one of the world’s largest providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, is to extend its portfolio of outsourced services by offering Amazon Web Services. This adds to its cloud portfolio which includes Google Apps Premier Edition.
Capgemini has opened a new centre of excellence focused on cloud computing and Amazon Web Services. It will [...]

1. How often are the fuel prices updated? Our data provider MotorMouth updates prices twice each day from Monday-Saturday and once a day on Sundays. From Monday-Saturday fuel prices are progressively updated between 5:30am and 8:30am each morning and between noon and 3pm each afternoon. On Sundays fuel prices are updated between 10am and noon. [...]

There is a growing trend in mobile communication with a increase in competitors, make your calls cheaper to win more subscribers.  VoIP is doing for mobile what it did for corporations, making it possible for users to make calls for virtually nothing using internet technology.  Gorilla Mobile seem to be one of the emerging leaders [...]

Suzanne Tindal, Zdnet
Yesterday Vodafone revealed a number of customers had been hit with larger than expected bills after the carrier had not correctly transitioned them onto a new plan when they purchased an Apple iPhone.
Today one Optus customer told ZDNet.com.au that he had received a $693 bill with large data excess charges, despite the fact [...]

If you have any doubt that Web 2.0 is moving towards online communities, recall that News corporation paid US$580 million for MySpace, Google paid US$1.65 billion for YouTube, ClubPenguin sold to Disney for US$700 million and Cisco have recently acquired social network company Five Across for an undisclosed sum.  The big boys tend to know [...]

Media organisations would like to spread rumours that cloud services are losing their 24×7 lustre, but this is not true based on growth of cloud computing users.  The cloud issue is gathering more press because more people can possibly be effected by this outages.  The truth is that your computer sitting on your desk has [...]