Latest network applications news.
‘Death by SOA’ hasn’t doomed SAP’s ERP applications just yet, 07/30/07: Some industry observers believe SOA will spell the end of the ERP market as we know it. For now, though, SAP’s enterprise resource planning tool is helping users embrace SOA.
Japanese automakers rev up new OS for cars, 07/31/07: The highly intelligent, networked car of the future will hit a milestone this week as 10 Japanese automakers are poised to announce they are developing their own operating system to help set a standard platform to build controls for everything from the engine to the entertainment system.
F5 introduces box-to-box Web acceleration, 07/30/07: F5 Networks is introducing software that makes its Big-IP web acceleration devices able to talk to each other and optimize WAN links, pitting it more directly against rivals Expand, Juniper, Packeteer and Riverbed.
Buzzblog: E-mail etiquette question: Thanks or no thanks?: We’re talking about those e-mail messages that say nothing but “thanks” … even though the sender already said “thanks” in the e-mail that started the exchange. “The unadorned thanks,” if you will. Unnecessary? A waste of time for one and all? … Or just being polite? Chime in. Vote in our poll.
Google adds 2-D capabilities, browser client to corporate mapping tools, 07/26/07: Google on Wednesday added the browser as a client option for its corporate geospatial tools and introduced an API for rendering 2-D maps and adding them to Web-based applications.
Desktop on a USB drive ready for enterprises, 07/30/07: Software that lets you carry your data, applications and personal desktop around on a USB-attached device is expanding into enterprises.
Video: A dirty job for IT: Keith test-drives a USB device with file detection software that aims to find objectionable content stored on a PC notebook.
HealthPricer and the value of CSEs, 07/30/07: Now that there are so many merchants online, the consumer has a problem even when they know what they want to buy: Too much choice.
Genius.com shines light on e-mail marketing performance, 07/30/07: On-demand sales and marketing services start-up Genius.com is releasing a new product, Genius Team, to enable sales managers to assess how effectively their staff are using e-mail to target prospective customers.
BBC looks to court online viewers with media player, 07/27/07: The BBC has released a public beta of its own software application for watching video online, hoping to engage younger people who are consuming more and more of their content over the Internet.
Video: Baseball Hall of Fame slow to induct digital video, 07/26/07: Baseball Hall of FameThe National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., has over 10,000 hours of audio recordings and video footage in many different native formats, but has not yet jumped on the digital video merry-go-ground. Benjamin Harry, media archivist and recording manager for the Hall of Fame, talks with Network World’s Jason Meserve about the hesitation to go digital and the challenges of preserving analog media for future generations of baseball fans. (16:04)
