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| FCC Examines Verizon's Doubling of Early Termination Fees The FCC wants to know why the carrier doubled what customers must pay if they bail out of their contracts early. feeds.pcworld.com |
Survey of Japanese Phone Owners Confuses Media Over IPhone Widespread reports that the iPhone has grabbed a dominant market share position in Japan may be a bit premature. feeds.pcworld.com |
New App Turns Your IPhone Into a Snow Globe for the Holidays Just in time for Christmas, the fine folks at RogueSheep--the company behind App Gem award winner Postage--have released SnoGlobe. feeds.pcworld.com |
Pixel Qi's New Laptop Display Technology Available Soon A display screen technology with good readability in direct sunlight and low power consumption will soon be available. feeds.pcworld.com |
BPM Consolidates: Progress Software Ups Stakes with Tibco in Latest Acquisition Dana Gardner submits:This guest post comes courtesy of Tony Baer’s OnStrategies blog. Tony is a senior analyst at Ovum. Is it more than coincidence that IT acquisitions tend to come in waves? Just weeks after IBM's announcement to snap up Lombardi, Progress Software (PRGS) Monday responds with an agreement to put Savvion out of its misery? In such a small space that is undergoing active consolidation, it is hard not to know who’s in play. Nonetheless, Progress’s acquisition confirms that Business Process Management (BPM)’s pure play days are numbered, if you expect executable BPM.The traditional appeal of BPM was that it was a business stakeholder-friendly approach to developing solutions that didn’t rely on IT programmatic logic. The mythology around BPM pure-plays was that these were business user-, not IT-, driven software buys. In actuality, they simply used a different language or notation: process models with organizational and workflow-oriented semantics as opposed to programmatic execution language. That stood up only as long as you used BPM to model your processes, not automate them. Consequently, it is not simply the usual issues of vendor size and viability that are driving IT infrastructure and stack vendors to buy up BPM pure plays. It is that, but more importantly, if you want your BPM tool to become more than documentware or shelfware, you need a solution with a real runtime.Complete Story » seekingalpha.com |