New Fundings:
- Lombardi Software, a business process management software company, said it has raised $10 million in its Series B recap round.
- Mark Logic, a developer of an enterprise-class database specifically built for content, has announced its launch with $6 million in funding from Sequoia Capital.
- Peakstone, a provider of software to help IT departments manage online application performance from the user perspective, said it has closed its Series A1 recap round with $5 million.
Main Dish:
- WalMart is admitting that RFID is not yet ready for primetime. They are scaling back the requirements laid out last year when they said all vendors would have to tag pallets shipped to their distro centers. They are also pushing out the timetable to allow vendors more time to implement.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/29/technology/29radio.html
- Merrill's Global Software Report
http://www.cwes01.com/9093/24013/ds/10767368.pdf
- if this is innovation in the music industry... the founder of WebMD is putting CD's in beverage cup tops and the executives are falling over themselves. It must be that the execs are so tired of the firestorm over downloading that they will glom onto anything that makes them look like they are doing something different. By the way, I heard that the record company executives are also stubbornly holding onto their memberships in the Flat Earth Society in the belief that they may yet be proven correct.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/29/technology/29arnold.html
- The NYTimes has a lot of good stuff today, Prince is opening up his own online music store offering .99 cent downloads of all the songs he owns. I can see alot of musicians doing this with their own collections, and an opportunity for a new form of business that promotes and aggregates the offerings for a percentage of the gross... yeah, we could call it a "record company" and do other stuff to, like promote live demonstrations called "concerts" and so on.
- the U.N. wants to take over the Internet... God help us.
http://www.broadbandreports.com/shownews/41473
- John Udell has a great column on the progress that social software is making within the enterprise.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/03/26/13FEsocial_1.html
- Social computing wiki
http://raindrop.msresearch.us/wiki/frame.aspx
- Barry has a post on this as well, Phil Wainewright has a critical piece on IBM and BEA announcing BPELJ, a standard for enabling devlopers to build business apps with their stuff... specifically, intermingling proprietary Java standards with the Open Source BPEL standard.
http://www.looselycoupled.com/blog/lc00aa00025.html
- Blogs vs. email
http://raindrop.msresearch.us/id/1000101/default.aspx
- M$oft wants to get into the blog searching business... I think I'll stick with Technorati. Here's a picture of it http://joshp.typepad.com/15/2004/03/blogbot.html
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/technology/8291524.htm
- M$oft does get blogging, not only providing their people with an unrestrained attitude toward it, but actually listening to what bloggers are saying
http://blog.funknstyle.com/archives/2004_03_26.html#000291
- M$oft does NOT want you to use OpenOffice, so they wrote a competitive guide that shows how MSOffice is cheaper, better, and faster. Here's a detailed rebuttal to the M$oft "guide". I use OpenOffice and like it a lot. via slashdot
http://www.newsforge.com/software/04/03/27/0134204.shtml
- Here we go... nanotech health scares. Buckyballs are causing harm to fish, according to this study.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994825
- I like quotes as well, here's a small collection. Let's hope it expands.
http://www.smalla.net/tidbits/
Comments