FCC must draft new rules or rely upon the intervention of lawmakers if it’s to control Internet broadband service providers. 10 Biggest Tech Disappointments Of 2013 (Click image for larger view and for slideshow.) Verizon won a partial victory in its appeal of the Federal Communications Commission’s Open Internet Order. On Tuesday the usa Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit rejected Verizon’s claim that the FCC lacks jurisdiction over broadband providers, but in addition rejected the FCC’s try to regulate the corporate under common carrier rules. The ruling means that network neutrality can’t be enforced without further legislative intervention. The FCC’s rules attempted to make sure network neutrality by requiring high-speed Internet service providers to regard all Internet traffic equally. Without such rules, a network provider could, in theory, delay streaming video traffic unless a fee is paid or favor data traffic from selected partners. Verizon celebrated the court’s ruling, characterizing the FCC’s rules as an impediment to its ability to supply innovative new... Read More »

When working remotely, viewing content is excellent, but teams also ought to change documents, share updates, and kick off downstream tasks. Access-only mode doesn’t cut it anymore. 10 Best Tablets Of 2013 (click image for larger view) Most mobile apps today provide just a window of access to content. When working remotely, viewing content is excellent, but when my team or i can not change it, share updates, or kick off downstream tasks our hands are tied. The access-only mode that almost all people work in precisely doesn’t cut it anymore. There is a higher wayTo get work done we have to make edits, compare versions, add comments, advance workflows, or approve content — from any location, at any time, and from any device. I actually have worked with many companies that had success with traditional on-premise enterprise content management (ECM) applications. They liked the editing features, tight security, and solid version control, but now struggle to evolve to the actuality of the mobile working... Read More »

SAP wraps up 2013 with triple-digit cloud gains, but its cloud business leader, Bob Calderoni, has resigned. SAP on Friday reported that it ended 2013 with a 121% gain in cloud revenue, double-digit gains in Hana software revenue, and operating profits that hit the high end of its guidance for the year. SAP’s triple-digit cloud gains were propelled by the 2012 acquisitions of both SuccessFactors and Ariba, at a cost of a whopping $7.7 billion. But SAP will now have got to lead those businesses without their former CEOs. SAP acknowledged this week Bob Calderoni, formerly CEO of Ariba, has resigned. Calderoni stepped in to oversee SAP’s entire cloud business last May after Lars Dalgaard, previously CEO of SuccessFactors, resigned. As in terms of Dalgaard’s departure, SAP cast Calderoni’s resignation as an ordinary case of an entrepreneurial CEO moving on after seeing through an acquisition (and, presumably, the earn-out period in his contract). [Want more on SAP’s cloud business? Read SAP Does The Cloud Revenue Shuffle.] “After... Read More »

Despite brisk Chromebook sales, online usage of Chrome OS hardware on the web still barely registers with those measuring Web traffic. 10 Best Tablets Of 2013 (Click image for larger view.) By many accounts, Chromebooks are flying off store shelves. But wherever they’re landing, they’re doing so without leaving tracks. Online usage of Chrome OS hardware on the web still barely registers with those measuring Web traffic. There’s little question outside of Microsoft — which insists Chromebooks aren’t real PCs — that the Chrome operating system had a breakout year in 2013. After a slow start in 2011, Chromebooks now account for 21% of notebook computers sold inside the US, consistent with NPD Group. Two in three of the most productive-selling laptops on Amazon in the course of the 2013 holiday season were Chromebooks. Google’s Chromebook hardware partners now include eight of the tip computer makers on the planet. Chitika, a web based advertising network and Yahoo partner, recently concluded a five-month study of Chrome... Read More »

SAP’s marketing machine vies to offer the corporate formerly called “that German ERP vendor” a full new identity. Here is what customers should know. SAP was a stalwart tech vendor for greater than 40 years. With 251,000 customers, it is the acknowledged market leader for business applications. Two-thirds of the globe’s business transactions run on SAP systems, SAP says. And yet, SAP can also be in the course of an enormous make-or-break transformation. It’s unabashedly rebranding itself as an innovator in database and platform technologies. It has gone “all in” within the cloud because its leaders know core on-premises ERP revenues are in decline. It’s spending billions on splashy acquisitions — something it historically saw as a weakness. And it has embraced consumer trends similar to social collaboration and mobility with gusto. Its intended transformation is Prince-like. SAP’s marketing machine has deployed its vast resources to make the corporate (formerly) often called “that German ERP vendor” right into a “platform, in-memory and cloud software” market... Read More »