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Melissa MitchellPresidentMGME Technology Services

Microsoft has burned too many bridges, IT departments will wait a long time before reinvesting.

July 14, 2009

Analysis of:Six in 10 companies plan to skip Windows 7: survey | tech.yahoo.com

1. ROI with many MS products is low when simply upgrading 2. The total cost of ownership for MS updates is price prohibitive for even enterprise businesses

Hans van RietschoteChief Executive OfficerMercury Swan Consulting LLC

US and Europe joining to fight cyber crime?

July 13, 2009

Analysis of:U.S. and Europe Jointly Establish Cyber-Crime Force | online.wsj.com

From the headline in this article it sounds like the US and Europe are joining in a anti cyber crime task force. However if you read the details then it become clear that this is not really a giant project that will "prevent identity theft, computer hacking and other computer-based crime".

Hans van RietschoteChief Executive OfficerMercury Swan Consulting LLC

SharedBand: a UK start-up solving the main issues with using The Cloud: availability and capacity

July 13, 2009

Analysis of:SharedBand Service Plan Details | us.sharedband.com

There are two main problems with when using "The cloud": availability and capacity (bandwidth). Once your Internet connection goes down or slows to a trickle due to capacity limitations you will wish you never got rid of your local data and application. But help is on the way in the form of a UK start-up called SharedBand.

Hans van RietschoteChief Executive OfficerMercury Swan Consulting LLC

Here is why Google making its own operating system

July 10, 2009

Analysis of:Hardware makers support Google OS | news.bbc.co.uk

Google is doing everything possible to glue people's eyeballs to their web pages. In doing so they compete with Microsoft who is also trying to glue people's eyeballs to their web properties while at the same time trying to guarantee the survival of their desktop revenue.

Hans van RietschoteChief Executive OfficerMercury Swan Consulting LLC

Dell providing free consultancy to boost sales of their PowerVault DL2000

July 1, 2009

Analysis of:Dell puts customers on fast track to storage efficiency | www.nationmultimedia.com

The backup market is competitive and at the same time very sticky, meaning once customers buy a backup solution they will stick with it. This means that the only place for growth is in the SMB space where customers are shopping for price. De-duplication is a great cost savings features so very attractive to the SMB customer.

Hans van RietschoteChief Executive OfficerMercury Swan Consulting LLC

Cisco slowly making strategy changes as the world moves to cloud services

July 1, 2009

Analysis of:Cisco Won't Take on Amazon in Cloud | www.pcworld.com

Cisco is realizing that over time more and more of their current customers will be moving to cloud based services, but unlike others they will not provide cloud "capacity" instead focusing on Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings and the "tools" needed to run an efficient cloud offering.

Hans van RietschoteChief Executive OfficerMercury Swan Consulting LLC

Waiting for the iPhone app that can target ads specifically to the individual user

June 30, 2009

Analysis of:AdMob Report: Apple Gains in Mobile Usage | theappleblog.com

It looks like the iPhone is not just another smart phone. iPhones (and the non phone version the iTouch) are responsible for 70% of the 3.8 billion ad views done in the USA by smart phones. Worldwide the iPhone does 31.4% of a total of 8 billion ad views. So isn't it about time to target ads to the iPhone specifically?

Hans van RietschoteChief Executive OfficerMercury Swan Consulting LLC

Is Google going to use their dark fiber to create a competing voice network?

June 29, 2009

Analysis of:Internet Telephony: Google Voice | www.pcmag.com

PC magazine did their typical in-depth review of Google Voice and found it to be very good. The only thing missing they said is consistent call quality. And as others have pointed out before it will be hard for Google to control this quality, or will it?

Hans van RietschoteChief Executive OfficerMercury Swan Consulting LLC

Intel and Nokia working togehter to create the laptop and smart phone successor

June 29, 2009

Analysis of:Nokia and Intel Look to the Future of Mobile Devices | www.wirelessweek.com

Intel and Nokia are working together to create a new "device" that will not only be the successor to the laptop but also to the smart phone. This new product will have all the advantages of the smart phone and all the advantages of the laptop/netbook.

Hans van RietschoteChief Executive OfficerMercury Swan Consulting LLC

Vodafone and AT&T improving in-home mobile reception to boost revenues

June 24, 2009

Analysis of:Vodafone promises indoor mobile signal boost | www.v3.co.uk

More and more people are starting to realize that mobile phones are much more practical than the old fashioned "land line phone". With a mobile phone you are always reachable and a mobile phone has a built-in address book unlike the land line where you have to look up the number (on your mobile phone!) before you can dial it.  Given the almost limitless number of minutes that cell phone plans provide these days, it seems to make sense to abandon the land line. However one problem remains: the cell phone reception inside homes is not always perfect. 

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