Korea Opens Software Centre in Silicon Valley

January 18, 2011

No doubt, that despite the global economic slump, Silicon Valley still attracts the world’s most brilliant technology minds and their innovative start-ups. And this time, it’s time for Korea’s software industry to make the move.

Because unlike their hardware counterparts like Samsung, LG, Hyundai or Daewoo, Korean software companies have not achieved any kind of global recognition for their products and services.

But today’s opening of the Korea Software Promotion Centre in San Jose, Calif., by the Korean Trade and Investment Agency (KOTRA) might challenge the status quo.

In establishing this new centre – the second after Tokyo – the Korean government intends to promote and assist the most promising Korean software companies, through value added services including localisation, marketing, business development, participation in industry conferences and tradeshows, etc.

For the Korea Software Promotion Centre grand opening KOTRA chose what it considered the ten hottest Korean B2B software companies, from software tools to database products, from transportation payment systems to mobile GUI embedded solutions and tools, to DRM security and control or USIM Smart Card solutions. And Korea’s most promising software companies are:

  • DigitalAria: creates 2D & 3D graphic user interface-FXUI™ for embedded devices including Mobile Phone, Car AVN UI, CE and etc. .
  • ESTsoft: provides PC utilities, ALTools; BizHard, a web storage solution for SMB; Internet Disk, a web storage solution; and CABAL online, a MMORPG.
  • Fasoo: the largest independent DRM vendor and holds most DRM developers in Asia.
  • Infinitt: provides affordable, state-of-the-art medical imaging and information capabilities for Radiology, Cardiology, Orthopedics and Dental healthcare facilities.
  • Insprit: developed a “convergence” platform to manage & control various convergence-devices inside the home network as well as outside
  • JIRAN Soft: develops security software like SpamSniper (anti-spam), CoolMessenger (Secure Business IM) and OfficeHARD (Secure Online Storage Solution)
  • LG CNS: it’s team of 7,000 IT professionals provides IT services including SI (System Integration) & NI (Network Integration), outsourcing, etc
  • Solacia: the first to commercialise the Dual-USIM card technology that will be used in all WCDMA, HSDPA and WIMAX Devices.
  • Somansa: it’s Mail-i solution solution monitors, archives, and retrieves in/out going messages and data from corporate e-mail, personal web mail, FTP, Telnet, IM, Twitter, Web bulletin, P2P, Tunnel, Proxy, Terminal, and bypassing traffic via Port 80
  • and Ware Valley: develops 3rd party solutions for database security, database vulnerability assessment and database management & monitoring

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[FailCon] How New York Times Gadget Guy Almost Lost His Job Using Microsoft Office Mac 2011! (Video)

October 26, 2010

Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 Internal bug list... yet to be fixed!

It’s a true story that just happened last week to New York Times tech columnist David Pogue!

Using Pogue’s own description, Office Mac 2011 is “buggy”, “un-stable”, “problematic”, and “missing features.” Something he experienced first hand when Outlook for Mac failed several times to send his review of the Microsoft software to his editor’s work email account (the one set by default) and got him almost sacked!

So before upgrading to Microsoft’s latest office suite for Mac, make sure to watch the video below first

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[FailCon] David Pogue: RIM BlackBerry Storm, A Piece O’ Crap (Video)

October 26, 2010

Why RIM failed the Blackberry Storm

During his keynote on consumer products failures, New York Times columnist David Pogue shared his personal RIM nightmare story with the audience here at FailCon.

For Pogue, RIM decided to ship the incomplete Blackberry Storm in the Fall of 2008 because it was under pressure to deliver it to Verizon for the start of the holiday season.

“It [Blackberry Storm] was horrible. It was a piece of crap. It was so filled with bugs, I will be on the phone every day with RIM… It just doesn’t work,” explains Pogue.

But what made this a complete disaster for RIM is it continuously denied that the Blackberry Storm had any problems, despite tons of consumer complaints on the Web and a devastating email Pogue received from one of the Storm team member:

“When you wrote that this product was released prematurely, you were absolutely right, and everybody here knew it… Internally, many of us argued that we would be hurting ourselves by rushing it out the door. Obviously, our managers disagreed,” reads the email.

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HP CTO Confirms Windows 7 & WebOS Slate Tablet Release (Video)

September 16, 2010

HP CTO Phil McKinney at the Demo Fall 2010 conference

The HP Slate mystery is finally solved.

At the Demo Fall 2010 conference earlier this week, HP CTO Phil McKinney confirmed that the Palo Alto, Calif.-company will launch 2 versions of its upcoming Slate tablet.

The Windows 7 version aimed at the enterprise market will hit the market by year’s end, while consumers will have to wait early next year, probably in the first quarter of 2011, for the WebOS-powered Slate.

“Based on customer feedback, that Slate is really the item that the enterprise customers want. They have many of the Win7 applications. We’ve got a number of customers in retail, healthcare and financial services that have specific Win7 applications and yet they want that portability factor. So the Win7 Slate that comes out later this year will be aimed at the enterprise corporate customer market,” explains McKinney.

More on the video below:

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Profitably Unveils Cloud Analytics Service; Picks Fight With SAP, IBM, Microsoft (Video)

September 15, 2010

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[Video] Parallels Mobile App Runs Windows On iPad, iPhone, iPod touch

September 14, 2010

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[Video] New SAP? Think iPad!

September 14, 2010

SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott surprised the DEMOfall 2010 conference audience this morning with an impromptu iPad demo!

“I figure this is call Demo and probably many companies out there today didn’t expect SAP to necessarily take charge and come to this conference,” said McDermott who loves Silicon Valley and the innovation there.

What I want to do is demonstrate how the world is changing and it’s changing at the edge of the enterprise, added SAP’s CEO. “We’re announcing today at DEMO these business analytics applications that are co-innovated with and for customers to change the game”.

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EMC: Dell Needs Storage Specialist 3PAR More Than H-P

August 27, 2010

EMC President Pat Gelsinger weighs in on Dell and H-P's fight to buy data-storage company 3PAR

For EMC President Pat Gelsinger, HP would be able to better monetize the acquisition of storage company 3PAR than Dell because of its current strong position in the high-end enterprise market.

“Clearly they [HP] have a position in the enterprise. They should be able to sell that [3PAR]. But there are always integration issues,” explains Gelsinger. “I think HP has a better position to monetise it because of their stronger position higher in the enterprise. So if you look to who will get more value out of the 3PAR acquisition, I think HP is in better position. But that makes all that important for Dell.”

Despite the strong Dell/EMC partnership, Dell largely don’t have a product at that level, adds Gelsinger.

“So they have to extend their sales capabilities higher in the enterprise to be effective with it. It certainly makes it A fun sport to watch the competition. With HP’s board to prove that they are still active and can move forward despite their CEO.”

And from an EMC perspective, Dell would actually be a much better suitor.

“I would prefer 3PAR not being on HP’s hands because I think they can actually compete with us. They have a salesforce that could sell it,” confides the EMC executive.

If HP ends up acquiring 3PAR, it will certainly hurt its partnership with Hitachi – which currently supplies HP with high-end storage products. On the other hand, with or without 3PAR, EMC is commited to the Dell relationship.

“I certainly prefer that they [Dell] didn’t add this [3PAR] to the complexity of the mix. But wether they do it or not we’re going to be great partners with Dell,” adds Gelsinger.

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[Video] SMB Is Suitespot for SAP+Sybase, co-CEO says

August 19, 2010

At the SAP+Sybase media event today in Boston, both software companies unveiled their roadmap for the next 9 months to launch an “Unwired Platform” that will bring SAP applications anywhere, to any device.

A strategy that is paramount for SAP, if it wants to reach its ambitious goal of 1 billion users in 2015; 3 times the number of its current user base.

“60% of the world’s transactions touch SAP,” said SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott.

According to McDermott, the 38-years old German company is now:

  1. The #1 software business applications company in the world;
  2. The #1 in business intelligence software;
  3. The #1 in business analytics software;
  4. And now the #1 mobile leader in the business software industry after the Sybase acquisition.

In a follow-up interview, I’ve asked Bill McDermott what the Sybase acquisition means for SMBs:

The small companies want mobile even more than the big ones because they don’t have the infrastructure, the onsite systems. So either the computing powers coming on-premise, from on-demand or in the cloud, everyone wants to enable it on device. Especially the small and mid-size ones.

Small and mid companies are the suitespot for SAP and Sybase because the mobile is going to go even faster, is going to be even more important for companies that don’t have a lot of infrastructure and a lot of complexity/ They’re going to want to enable their mobile workers.

McDermott went also to great length to explain that SAP is not a “command and control” kind of company anymore and that its management team is very racially diverse pointing to Sybase CEO John Chen (Chinese) and SAP CTO Vishal Sikka of Indian origin.

“Look at this leadership team. Coming from all corners of the globe. All different skillsets. All different cultures. The know-how is amazing. It’s a very collaborative management team. Not a control and command style,” adds McDermott.

Not sure why he thought this was an important thing to point to. Perhaps there was a time when everybody at SAP were blond with blue eyes, fluent in German and wearing a tie!

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Is Apple Making iPhone 3G Totally Unusable To Force Upgrade?

July 28, 2010

The best thing an iPhone 3G user can do is to "downgrade" their not-so-smart phone !

Such customer disdain from Apple comes as no surprise.

It’s been a month since Apple released iOS 4 for iPhone 3G and 3GS and that consumers have been complaining – even on Apple’s discussion forums – of all sorts of problems directly related to the upgrade: unbearably slow, rapid battery drain or excessive heat!

And by the way, the upgrade to 4.0.1 doesn’t help either.

But the worse is Apple’s attitude. Just like with “Antennagate” Apple pooh-poohed criticisms, that is, until today. FINALLY! Steve, where are you? Still in Hawaii?

Apple is investigating reports that the latest iPhone operating system causes problems for users of the iPhone 3G, after a series of complaints on Apple support forums and technology blogs,” writes the Wall Street Journal online.

Here are examples of customer complaints.

But the iphone is very slow with IOS4. It doesn’t work as smooth as it used to be. Also new applications such as the iBook application are very slow, doesn’t respond smooth on screentaps etc.

This is absolutely ridiculous, the additions to the 3G handset are consolidation of email, a zoom to the camera and folders on the homepage….so why the **** has the handset slowed to snails pace??!

5 seconds to open the text window. Another 3 seconds to get a popup text input keyboard. 3 seconds to open the email window

This is such an outrageous situation that even the most loyal Apple fans are feeling that the Cupertino, Calif. is forcing them to upgrade to the iPhone 4 by making their iPhone 3G totally unusable!

“This phone has gone from being a dream to constantly annoying me. Not a way to make friends. I would upgrade to an iPhone 4, but I’m feeling pretty angry that Apple has forced my hand by making my 3G unusable,” wrote a user on the Apple support discussion forum.

So, Apple here’s YOUR roadmap for the next few weeks:

  1. Fix the iOS4 operating system or at least give your most loyal customers an option to downgrade to the older operating system!
  2. Fix the iPhone 4 antenna. Recall the whole damn thing and finally sell a flawless device that actually works the way it should;
  3. Fix the white iPhone 4  manufacturing and please stop lying about shipping dates
  4. Oh, and I forgot… and this one is for the boss… APOLOGIZE for all the trouble your lies caused to faithful fans and aggrieved customers!

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