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New iPhone business apps: designing for usefulness

When Apple launched its new App Store earlier this summer, the assumption was that scads of businesses would develop applications for their iPhone-toting customers. Although there are more than 60 apps in the App Store's Business category, virtually no big-name companies have bothered to cough up one of their own. Since Apple plans to make at least 40 million iPhones in the next year, many of which will no doubt end up being used in the workplace, what's the holdup?


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Book: VMware ESX Server in the Enterprise

VMware ESX creates a myriad of problems for administrators, specifically problems having to do with the scheduling of various operations around the use of normal tools and other everyday activities such as deployments, VMotion to balance nodes, and backups. Most, if not all, the limitations revolve around issues related to performance gathering and the data stores upon which VMs are placed, whether SCSI, including iSCSI, or non-VMDK files accessed from NFS shared off a NAS or some other system.

| Feature | Virtualization | 08/27/08 at 10:11 am |

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Worst captchas of all time

Are you tired of having to squint at twisted letters whenever you want to leave a blog comment? Well, be glad that you don't have to jump through these hoops...

| Feature | Internet | 08/26/08 at 10:05 pm |

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Why SaaS could make your IT skills irrelevant

The IT industry is now preparing for a new round of upheaval as a result of SaaS adoption of offerings from the likes of Google (with its Google Apps) and Salesforce.com that let users run applications via the Internet. Zoho, a SaaS vendor that does most of its development work in India, has also sold a plethora of applications, including in staple, Microsoft-dominated areas like word processing, spreadsheets and presentations.

| Feature | Career | SaaS | 08/26/08 at 1:46 pm |

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