Apple, AT&T mum on iPhone 3G issues

After his third iPhone 3G continued to cut him off in the middle of his conversations, Ryan Shaw had seen enough.

“The phone was a disappointment from the standpoint that it couldn’t maintain a consistent connection with the 3G network…All the other features were fantastic,” said Shaw, a sales professional living in a Cleveland suburb. But those other features weren’t enough to prevent him from returning to Verizon and the BlackBerry after deciding the hassle just wasn’t worth it.

Widespread complaints about the iPhone 3G’s reception have spread across the Internet in the month since Apple and AT&T released the successor to the original iPhone. The companies insist that nothing is wrong, but the complaints have been mounting through e-mails, water-cooler discussions, and message boards on Apple’s own Web site: iPhone 3G users are having trouble connecting, and staying connected, to the 3G networks in their areas.

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Software Business 2008 Conference Scheduled for October 30-31 in San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11 /PRNewswire/ — Webcom Communications, a leading media company that serves software, IT and technology markets, announced the program details for Software Business 2008, a two-day conference focused on current strategic business, financial and technology issues and growth opportunities facing executives and managers of software and SaaS companies. The conference is scheduled for October 30-31, 2008 at the San Francisco Marriott. Software industry leaders will give valuable insight on the most up-to-date developments and strategies in the software market. Software Business 2008 will feature more than 50 leading executives, managers, analysts and venture capitalists as presenters.

“Software executives need to stay competitive in the software industry,” said Shannon Given, program manager of Software Business 2008. “The conference will provide the latest strategies for growth into successful business models and future market opportunities.”

Software Business 2008 Keynote Presentations include:

– Is Hardware the Future of Software?

This presentation will examine whether hardware is the future of software, and if the ultimate evolution of IT may be a revival of the hardware/software bundle.

Jean-Pierre Garbani, vice president, principal analyst, Forrester Research, Inc.

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CSU program to turn all majors “green”

The School of Global Environmental Sustainability is expected to reach out to all of the university’s departments.

Colorado State University has launched a School of Global Environmental Sustainability that will eventually touch all academic disciplines and push even English majors to learn about technology that could clean up the Earth.

The university will spend $350,000 in the first year to develop the new school, which will eventually have its own majors and offer certificates in environmental sustainability.

But it will also take existing CSU colleges and force professors to work together on a new set of classes that will teach students — in creative ways — about environmental technology.

Engineering majors could get a certificate in environmental economics, for example. Interior design majors could take a course in green building materials. History majors could learn about American environmental history.

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Is Oracle Really Ready for BI and EPM?

Mark Smith

Instead of just making a broad set of statements on the recent Oracle announcements made on July 16th, this is a little more depth and perspective that might be useful for you as you think about Oracle and their BI and performance management approach to the market. Oracle updates on the market in their EPM and BI product areas were delivered by their key executives Charles Phillips, president of Oracle, Thomas Kurian SVP Server Technologies and John Kopcke, SVP and GBU of EPM and BI. Oracle rolled out their last product strategy over a year ago after their acquisition of Hyperion and portfolio of BI and performance management technologies. The last major update to customers from Oracle was at Oracle OpenWorld in fall of 2007, where there seemed to be more confusion than actual answers, as pointed out in this previous blog – Oh Oracle Let’s Be Honest Now.

The devil is in the details of these announcements, and the impact on your review or use of these products needs to be clear and precise to ensure that you chart the proper path forward. Oracle has continued to operate their EPM portfolio of applications and technologies in their middleware portfolio, and even their sales organization, which primarily focuses on IT, and has little focus on business. This is a conflict, as applications for performance management are not middleware but intended for business. The lack of clarity between their middleware and performance management applications has confused those in line-of-business areas, who do not care about Oracle database or application server, which is managed by IT. This is a critical issue that Oracle has as LOB are the individuals driving the sponsorship and budget for this class of applications called enterprise performance management (EPM).

Is Oracle Really Ready for BI and EPM?

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