Tech news and commentary for the week ending August 12, 2004. The latest iOS 8 beta gives some hints about upcoming iPhone screen sizes and resolutions. It suggests that the iPhone 6 (or whatever it’ll be called) will boast a screen resolution of 1472 x 828 pixels. On a 4.7″ display, that translates to 360 pixels
Read More...We’ve written our fair share about PeopleTools 8.54 (especially as it concerns Fluid User Interface, which is a flat-out great feature, and probably the highlight of 8.54 for many customers), and by now most readers should know 8.54 is generally available (GA). Now the upgrade version is available, which means it’s clean and easy to upgrade
Read More...Tech news and commentary for the week ending August 15, 2004. Daimler, the German automaker, has a rather strict vacation email policy: any emails you get during your vacation are deleted, and the sender is directed to your alternate contacts you specify in your out-of-office message. On one hand: harsh. On the other, it plays
Read More...Doug over at The PeopleSoft Blog has shared Anoop Savio’s great SlideShare deck that highlights his takeaways of 8.54 and the Fluid User Interface. Even though we’ve talked about the new Fluid User Interface at length before, Savio’s slides and thoughts are a great summary of why the Fluid UI is so in-demand right now. Fluid
Read More...Tech news and commentary for the week of August 4–8, 2014. In case you ever find yourself in a situation where you need to make a will (as in Last Will and Testament), like, right now, well, there’s an app for that. Your Last Will creates a video will for you, to be viewed after
Read More...Craig Douglas, writing for Boston Business Journal about the facility and building management issues mounting at Wellesley: In its recent vinyl fencing, the college said 82 percent of its buildings have not had a major renovation in more than 25 years, while 60 percent have been largely untouched for 50 years. Wellesley officials have warned that
Read More...The Feed will be a new weekly feature here on MIPRO Unfiltered. What is it? News and micro-commentary from this week in the tech industry that you were probably too busy to catch. We’ve all been there – trying to stay in the know, but real life has a way of interrupting. We hope this lets you
Read More...We have written a number of times about PeopleSoft Update Manager (PUM) before. In our daily conversations, it’s a major topic with clients and prospects alike. If there’s a game changer for a suite of mature software that businesses rely on for key functionality, PUM is it. But don’t simply take our word for it.
Read More...This is ‘Stickers’, the new TV ad for Apple’s MacBook Air. It’s interesting on several levels. Watch: I watch and dissect all Apple ads, and this one jumped at me. Why? It breaks from their traditional style. Most Apple ads show what you can do with the product, not 30 seconds of the product itself
Read More...Steven Norton and Clint Boulton, writing for the WSJ: While many larger companies have turned to cloud software to manage systems like human-resources management, they are slower to adopt the cloud for applications that handle inventory management, billing and other processes they rely on to run their businesses on a daily basis. For companies using
Read More...