The good news is that Windows XP Service Pack 3 can make your XP-loaded computer
run
faster
. The bad news is...well, as many of you know by now, there's been
a lot of bad news. Or maybe you don't know, because your computer keeps
rebooting
endlessly
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Posted by Lee Pender on 05/13/20080 comments
If you can't get XP SP3 to work, at least take some solace in the fact that
it's a
light
Patch Tuesday
this month.
Posted by Lee Pender on 05/13/20080 comments
In case you're wondering what's going on here, welcome to a special edition
of RCPU dedicated to unified communications. UC is one of those categories everybody
loves to talk (and write) about, but the truth is that there still seems to
be a lot of confusion about what exactly it is and who's doing what in it.
We're not here to explain all that -- not today, anyway -- but simply to point
out that for all the hype it gets, UC is still very much an emerging space with
a jumble of vendors, many very large, competing for both partners and customers.
Strictly speaking, we're not even the ones pointing that out; analyst firm Infonetics
Research is, with a survey of customers that shows that no
vendor has stepped up as a UC leader...yet.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 05/09/20080 comments
Dig with us, if you will, a paragraph from
this
press release
from Cisco and Nokia:
"To meet the market demands for seamless mobile convergence solutions,
more than 95 reseller partners have received dual certification from Cisco
and Nokia on the combined mobile unified communication solution. Certified
channel partners include Telindus, Computacenter, Dimension Data, E2E, Lutech
NextiraOne Italia, Touchbase, and T-systems."
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Gartner's U.K. operation, old chap, maintains that UC should not be about reducing
IT costs. Yes, you read that correctly. The lads (and lasses) at the big analyst
firm think that UC
should
be about "business agility"
and gets into some of the capabilities
that it feels can help businesses achieve that goal.
Posted by Lee Pender on 05/09/20080 comments
The VMware program just keeps getting better. Check out the press release
here
.
Posted by Lee Pender on 05/08/20080 comments
Really, the title of this entry says it all, but you can read more
here
.
Posted by Lee Pender on 05/08/20080 comments
The company that's based in New England and misspells the name of a Massachusetts
town in its name has a new version of its network-management software. An almost
overwhelming feature list is
here
.
And, yes, English readers, we know that you had a
town
called Ipswich
first.
Posted by Lee Pender on 05/07/20081 comments
So, supposedly this Xobni company has a tool that improves Outlook. We're listening
-- as are a lot of other people, including the austere
New York Times
,
which gives Xobni and its young founders the
full
feature-story treatment
.
Posted by Lee Pender on 05/07/20080 comments
Another short RCPU today, as duty calls at the mothership. It doesn't really
matter, though, because we're in a news trough. About all there is to talk about
is Microsoft flailing around looking to buy a Web company like a nerdy guy trying
to find a dance partner at a junior high cotillion.
Now that Microsoft has backed
off of Yahoo, Redmond is whispering
in AOL's ear. Yes, that's right -- AOL. Please try to contain your laughter.
This is a professional environment, mostly.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 05/07/20081 comments
It'll let you run your Intel-based Mac run Windows (and Linux), although why
you'd want your
Mac
to run Windows
, we really don't know.
Posted by Lee Pender on 05/07/20080 comments
FYI: You're in for some exceptionally short RCPUs this week because your editor
is still on (or, perhaps, over) deadline for
RCP
the magazine. We'll
resume normal service next week (hopefully) with plenty of verbosity.
In the meantime, thank goodness we can put this Microsoft-Yahoo thing to bed...at
least, for now. With Microsoft having dropped
its bid for Yahoo (over the weekend -- nice one, Redmond), it's all over
but the shouting and the endless speculation
and analysis.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 05/06/20080 comments