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SaaS market will ‘collapse’ in two years

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

Lawson’s CEO, Harry Debes says SaaS is the third attempt at “on demand” in his lifetime and predicts it will take the same path as the first two–to oblivion. Lawson’s CEO, Harry Debes, doesn’t believe in software-as-a-service SaaS. …
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Bill Gates: Software innovation poses privacy challenge

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Bill Gates told a Hong Kong gathering that society will need more explicit rules governing privacy boundaries around software as the mobile/PC line blurs. As software gets more powerful, privacy issues pose “an interesting software challenge”, said Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. Recounting a short history of software…
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AMD on road to recovery, says research firm

Monday, July 21st, 2008

Technology Business Research says Opteron and Puma are boosting AMD’s chip business, but the company could be hurt by the economic downturn. While AMD’s processor business is showing strength, the company is still in a worse position than Intel to face a dip in demand for the rest of…
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Silverlight to star in NBC’s online Olympics coverage

Friday, April 25th, 2008

NBC is relying heavily on Microsoft’s Silverlight to present its online Olympic coverage which will include about 2,200 hours of free on-demand video. Perkins Miller is counting down the days to the start of the Olympic Games in Beijing this year. NBC’s senior vice president of…
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