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Welcome to Mindtrek

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Dear visitor, here you are, welcome to open the door of our humble dwelling "by the Net".

You'll find here a  Knowledge Base , a collection of Articles and News on areas of interest and a Bookshelf sharing valuable information, mostly on information-technology topics.  Links to some articles and news follow.

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ARTICLES AND NEWS

 

RIM terminal decline?

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Unthinkable! RIM in decline? Winds of change...

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IBM Watson - a smarter future

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IBM Watson - the formidable Jeopardy! contestant

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Mobile Insecurity

Mobile-Security-FlawsFor decades mobile handhelds and cell phones were too little of a security threat to warrant attention from IT departments. Nowadays things are about to change and not for the better. The pervasiveness of intelligent mobiles in the enterprise creates new lucrative opportunities for cyber-criminals and adequate defenses are not there yet.

 

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Google unveils PayPass - the online wallet

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Google's launching new pay-by-phone service

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The dawn of the Mobile Enterprise

mobile_worldThe new age of the Mobile Enterprise is coming and there are good business and social reasons for this to happen. Certainly this will have an impact on IT policies and resources, therefore better be prepared.


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Microsoft flexing its ERP/CRM muscles

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Microsoft fights  to increase its business-software market share

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Ray Ozzie finally quits Microsoft

Ray_OzzieRay Ozzie, Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect, would be finally leaving the company. This is not a sudden departure, as rumors were circulating for almost a year.

 

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Project Management for the SME

pm1-smallIntroducing the Project Management best-practices and processes in Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) is challenging and rewarding undertaking. Doing it properly would be rewarding and beneficial for the bottom-line,but for this to succeed, the  Project Manager needs committment and competencies not usually found in the large enterprise, as well as an evengelist's mindset.   

 

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Project Management Tools Showcase

pm3-smallProject Management processes need to be supported by tools, for the sake of efficiency and cost control.
Nobody wants that people waste time in project meetings struggling with reporting and scheduling issues – better let the tools do it.

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Seeding the clouds

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Advances in network technologies and virtualization solutions enable businesses to take advantage of information technology services offered over Internet by specialized service providers. This revolutionary business model is referred to as Cloud-based computingCloud-based computing.


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Making the ends meet

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Productivity requires that the primary selection criteria for IT solutions should be ease of integration rather than features.IT solutions choices based on features by ignoring the integration aspect would quickly become  money sinks. 

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HP acquiring Palm

hp_palmWith the smartphone market growing fast, it is no wonder that HP saw an opportunity of stepping in by acquiring cash-strapped Palm.

 

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Deal under way for solar power out of space

space-based-solar-powerPG&E, California's largest power utility, plans to bring 200MW of energy from outer space.

 

 

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Requiem for Steve Jobs

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The Wizzard of Apple is now memory

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Apple Developers Conference

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Apple's disruptive Developers Conference winds down

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Lockheed hit by large-scale cyber-attack

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Lockheed-Martin, Pentagon's largest supplier,
affected by major network disruption.

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Enterprise mobility and the burden of choice

mobile_choiceThere is no question, sooner rather than later the IT departments will have to take ownership of the mobility in the enterprise, standardizing on technologies, software, infrastructure, security and support models. The choice is far from easy and multiple factors come to play

 


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HP rumored to talk Tibco take-over

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Hewlett-Packard Co exploring acquisition
of business SOA software company Tibco

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Calling to the skies

IpTel3-smallUnified Communications – combining voice, video, web-conferencing and many other sought-for feature, is now available in an assortment of cloud-based offerings, relieving enterprises of many worries and especially costs. The future is cloudy, in the positive sense.

 

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Windows Phone 7 out in the wild

windows_phone_7Microsoft unveiled 9 new  HTC, LG, and Samsung handsets based on the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 platform. The sleek phones will start selling in Europe onOct 21 while in North America a bit later, on Nov 08. A variety of models will be available  from device makers and operators in Europe, Americas and Asia-Pacific.

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Nokia and AT&T need developers

nokia-oviDevelopers for Nokia's MeeGo and Symbian platforms are offerred a US$10M in prizes, in a contest that Nokia and AT&Torganize for replenishing the OVI store.

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Agile Architecture

Agile_ArchitectureAgile Enterprise Architecture is the practice of making sure that the right people do the right things to do, in the right way, in the right place at the right time in the most simple and effective way.

 

 

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Architecture frameworks

gartners-ea-framework-smallInformation Technology systems do not work for, nor by themselves. The IT Architecture practice is the art and science of combining these systems and underlying IT components into synergetic continuums, for the benefit of the enterprise.

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Keep it simple

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Have you ever wondered what's the origin of the KISS principle, so popular in the North-American business and engineering cultures? Well, there are good reasons the KISS principle is held in high respect -The KISS principle is behind much of the achievements in engineering and science as well as the key to efficacy and effectiveness in industry and business.

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End of Juniper's funny creepy ad cartoons

juniper-30Say goodbye to all those funny, creepy cartoons pouring from Juniper's marketing guns. Kevin Pope, the humorist behind all those, fell out of Juniper's grace.


 

 

 

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