VMWare are very much on the radar at the moment. I’d be following them more closely, but the RSS feed on their website is seriously broken. VMWare put virtualization on the map, and as I digest the input from Interop in New York, and last week’s VMworld 2008, it feels like they are all over the map. [...]

The proliferation of mobile devices and mobile users has had an unexpected consequence: e-mail is going non-corporate. Although they will rarely confess to it, many employees are redirecting work e-mails to private e-mail addresses so that they can pick messages up while on the move, either via webmail or mobile devices. Why is that so bad? [...]

For those in the 2.0 world, this week was mostly about the TechCrunch50 – where a bevy of start ups compete to show their wares and try to win TechCrunch love. To cut to the chase, the winner was Yammer. The reason that is note worthy here is that Yammer is an enterprise offering – [...]

Last week I headed into London for Chinwag Live: Search vs Recommendation (sponsored by UK Trade and Investment and Sun Startup Essentials). The focus was on the consumer use of search technology versus recommendation web sites. The session was very well written up by Phil Wilkinson at Crowd Storm – “Shopping Search vs. Recommendation Sites” – with [...]

I’m always on the look out for applications that boost business productivity. A while ago Huddle caught my eye, and I’ve been watching them ever since. Huddle.net was founded in 2006 and is backed by Eden Ventures. They are one of the companies on the upcoming Digital Mission to New York, as well as an [...]