Eating your own dog food

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Eating your own dog food

Dan Frommer for Silicon Alley Insider: Microsoft won’t pay for its employees’ Apple (AAPL) iPhone data service plans anymore, even if they’re used significantly for work purposes. Nor will it pay for Research In Motion (RIMM) BlackBerry service, or a new Palm Pre. Instead, it will only reimburse data plans for Microsoft Windows Mobile-powered smartphones.

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Apple and AT&T: this can’t end well

After the iPhone 3GS was announced and the blogs went either insane with lust or became more embittered that Apple didn’t deliver <insert feature here>, one story emerged from the keynote aftermath: the state of the relationship between Apple and AT&T. AT&T was notably absent on more than one carrier-focused presentation slide at WWDC, and

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Palm Pre review roundup (includes Pre welcome video)

Looks like the iPhone had better bring its game face to WWDC and OS 3.0, because the Pre isn’t kidding around.  It gets high marks for its WebOS, which allows real app multitasking, and reviewers unanimously praise its OS speed, browser, screen and overall user interface/experience. It gets nicked for a fairly poor keyboard, some

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Good luck with that

DigiTimes reports that Steven Guggenheimer, General Manager of the Application Platform & Development Marketing Division at Microsoft, plans to re-brand “netbooks” as “low cost small notebook PCs”. Guggenheimer pointed out on June 2 in Taipei during Computex 2009 that since some of the mini-notebooks already feature capabilities more than just purely Internet browsing – which

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Happy Friday: this week’s links

Lot of interesting things going on this week that can’t get their own blog post, but nonetheless are worth checking out.  Enjoy. Jon Rubinstein and Roger McNamee interviewed at D7 about the reinvention of Palm and the buzz surrounding the Palm Pre.  Lots of conference notes here, but the video demo of the latest Pre

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ANNOUNCEMENT: Two new whitepapers now available (PeopleSoft + Business Intelligence)

These have been circulating on our Twitter feed, but for all of our new blog visitors (hi everyone!), I thought I’d post our recently-published whitepapers here.  They are: PeopleSoft Maintenance Management: An Introduction and Overview of Benefits An overview of PeopleSoft Maintenance Management and its superiority relative to point solutions. This paper discusses the MM/ALM-centric

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MiPro Gives Back: voting results as of April 6

Probably the most important bit of information, so I’ll just throw it out there: today is the last day of voting.  Voting will officially close at 5 PM EST.  If you haven’t voted for your favorite charity, now is the time to do it. The winning charity or charities will be announced in one week,

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