Monthly Archives: January 2008

25/01/2008 Posted in Design, IT 1 Comment

It hasn’t all been plain sailing for Apple…

By Ben Kepes

And I’m not referring to the share price turbulence of recent days. Check out some products from Cupertino with, ahem, less than stellar success in the marketplace. Newton anyone?

25/01/2008 Posted in IT, SaaS, Strategy 2 Comments

Another avenue for SaaS: Inventory Management

By Ben Kepes

Thanks to Zoli for pointing this out. Yet another business area has been introduced to the SaaS concept, SmartTurn have created the first Warehouse Management System (and yet another three letter acronym – WMS). WMS seems a fairly logical place to be using SaaS, it’s a discrete area of business,

24/01/2008 Posted in IT, SaaS, Web x.0 1 Comment

Microsoft and SaaS…

By Ben Kepes

The Unreasonable men posted about what the future holds for Microsoft as a SaaS player. It’s a great post, some of which I even agree with! Part of the rationale for the UM’s point of view is a leaked Microsoft memo which outlines the closely couple nature between the new

24/01/2008 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Diversity Poll Archive. Enjoy!

By Ben Kepes
24/01/2008 Posted in IT, SaaS, Society, Web x.0 1 Comment

Images lifted from MySpace private profiles….

By Ben Kepes

News that  a file creator has compiled a 17Gb file containing over half a million images lifted from MySpace pages. Seems some of the images were public but significant numbers where from private profiles including those of under 16 year olds. MySpace has since close the security hole but it’s

24/01/2008 Posted in IT, SaaS, Web x.0 1 Comment

Zoho wins crunchies award…

By Ben Kepes

I’ve previously talked about on-demand office productivity suite Zoho. I’m impressed by their offering and consider it ahead of Google aps in terms of functionality. Good to hear about them winning the award for “Best Enterprise Start-up” at the 2007 Crunchies Awards. The Crunchies are a project of GigaOm, Read/WriteWeb,

24/01/2008 Posted in Design, IT Leave a comment

Macbookair… revolutionary

By Ben Kepes

I’m gong to get lashed by some fanboys out there but what the hell. I saw this over on Rod’s blog and couldn’t resist…

24/01/2008 Posted in IT, New Zealand 1 Comment

Another Kiwi software success story…

By Ben Kepes

IBIS Technology is a Queenstown based software developer producing booking systems for tourism operators, ticketing agent and inbound operators. Started by Erik Bradshaw in the mid-nineties it now employs six or seven people and has high profile clients in the New Zealand tourism industry. It’s not SaaS, which loses it

24/01/2008 Posted in IT, New business, New Zealand, SaaS 1 Comment

PlanHQ – Friends of O’Reilly..

By Ben Kepes

Check out this video of Tim Norton from PlanHQ talking to Tim O’Reilly of Web2.0 fame. Tim is doing a copybook job of getting out, building profile and garnering attention – PlanHQ is a business to watch.

23/01/2008 Posted in Economic Development, IT, New Zealand, Strategy, Web x.0 Leave a comment

VC’s tightening belts…

By Ben Kepes

A piece on the CIO site suggested that the fallout from the sub prime crash will lead to something of a belt tightening in the VC circles but not a bubble burst (yet). Salient points; Cleantech could be the first to suffer because environmental causes usually takes a back-seat during

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Ben Kepes is an analyst, an entrepreneur, a commentator and a business adviser. His business interests include a diverse range of industries from manufacturing to property to technology. As a technology commentator he has a broad presence both in the traditional media and extensively online. Ben covers the convergance of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users. More on Ben

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