For some reason the monkeys got it into their heads this week that doing an international version of the IT Week Insider was a good idea.
We disagreed, and with good reason. The monkeys simply took the Insider and ran it through one of the free online translation tools. To them it made sense, to the sole Spanish-speaking member of the IT Week team it was, apparently, the worst insult you could have levelled at his mother. Is it accurate, for example, to translate “virtual machine” as “burro boda”? We don’t know.
Regardless of all the "hands across the ocean" fun, the monkeys have produced more than a handful of rather good stories. The best of which were randomly selected with a foot and some chewing gum.
You can read them here
News:
Analysts bet on Google/Salesforce
merger
As everyone knows, Google is a happy, smiling company that does no evil -
much like our popular departing prime minister. Tony Blair has a happy, smiling
face too, and talks a lot about doing good. Seeing what a success Blair has made
of his time at the top, Salesforce now appears intent on playing Brown to
Google’s Blair, in an effort to stamp out the axis of installed software. Why is
there this nagging feeling that it will all end in back-stabbing?
More news:
Taleo smartens on-demand staff
recruitment service
On-demand recruitment management firm Taleo has done what it does best –
released some kind of on-demand recruitment management stuff. The new version of
its internet-based service that uses Web 2.0 bells and whistles to attract and
retain the interest of job-seeking candidates. We would prefer a good health
plan and more than three hours holiday a year, but hey, you can't have
everything.
And the news goes on...
Half of firms to upgrade to new
version of Itil
Itil is set to release version 3 of its popular service management
guidelines next week, documents that are likely to be as well received among
businesses as pictures of poorly-clothed ladies on submarines. According to a
survey almost half of all IT managers are likely to adopt the guidelines, and
soon. The rest walked past the clipboard-clutchers quickly, mumbling that they
were late for a meeting.
Analysis:
CA shows its hand in Las Vegas
All aces? Five-card flush? What do you mean we aren't talking about playing
at the tables? They were in Vegas weren't they? Well, so long as someone married
a stripper we are fine with this. Madeline Bennett braved the talent in the land
of the one-armed bandit to fill us in on what CA has been up to. Good work
Madeline.
Comment:
Ponder sending work across the Pond
Offshore outsourcing often means sending work to parts of the world where
they are happy to work long hours for a handful of the local dinero each day.
It’s easy to fall into stereotypical ideas about where such places might be, but
as Lem Bingley argues, low-wage economies are cropping up in unlikely places.
Like California.
IT Week Podcast
Audio analysis of the week's events, this week Martin Veitch and David Neal chat
about Dell's new tablet PC and IBM's new Power6 processor.
IT Week Labs blog
Ricoh's new GelSprinter range makes use of a gel-based print technology,
designed to offer the benefits of colour printing but at a speed and cost closer
to a traditional office laser printer. Hilarious stuff.
Green Business News
The government has released a 343-page energy whitepaper and 207-page nuclear
strategy consultation. All well and good, but printing off those bad boys
probably used enough energy to light up Las Vegas for at least three seconds.
Surely, that would have been a better use of the money.
Can you believe that Sneak went to college? We did not. After all, this is a man who thinks that sandwiches should go in the recycling bins cos, "someone might find a use for them". Anyhoo. Here he talks about a psycho-social malady, which sounds like something the Thunderbirds chauffer might use as an excuse for 'going postal'.
Phil Muncaster blog
Phil on SAS, innovation and driving around Stockholm looking for action. Er,
Sassy!
David Neal blog
David Neal takes the Mickey out of a bloke who just climbed Everest. And this
from someone who just spent three weeks in bed! The cheek of it.
A tie-up between online CRM and search leaders could threaten Microsoft, SAP and rival SaaS vendors 21 May 2007
After a decade of runaway growth, the global IT outsourcing market is finally pausing for breath 07 May 2007
Vince Re, CA’s chief architect, discusses the firm’s strategies for integration, virtualisation and software-as-a-service 02 May 2007
Intelligent Energy ramps up funding for R&D and partnerships 04 Jul 2008
Focus on energy savings through fuel efficiency for homes and public and commercial buildings 04 Jul 2008
ActionAid accuses G8 of driving more people into poverty by pursing biofuels and cutting agri-aid 04 Jul 2008
More news
Businesses' new found focus on the environment may be welcome, but according to Conrad MacKerron, it is taking attention away from workers' rights issues – and the credibility of the entire green business movement could be at risk 03 Jul 2008
It may be a year old, but as Dell's Jonathan Perry explains, firms looking to get rid of their old IT kit still need to pay attention to the WEEE directive 02 Jul 2008
Telling customers about your environmental targets is all well and good but, as Paul Thomas argues, they are meaningless if you do not know how they are to be achieved 01 Jul 2008 More in-depth
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