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<title><![CDATA[Apple's new iPad 2 ad: Technology is not enough]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Apple's ads have verged on the prosaic of late.This is partly because the products have been so remarkable that the ads simply showed them and offered a logo at the end.However, with the release of a new ad for theiPad 2, Apple has decided to offer more than just a product demonstration. Instead, this is a statement of belief.It is a direct reference to something Steve Jobs said at the launch of this second iteration of Apple's astoundingly successful product.He said: &quot;It's in Apple's DNA that technology alone is not enough. It's technology married with liberal arts, humanities, that yields us the result that makes our heart sing. And nowhere is that more true than in these post-PC devices. And a lot of folks in thistablet market are rushing in and looking at this as the next PC.&quot;This ad, stealing a thought from the Golden State Warriors wonderful play-off run of 2007, begins with Apple explaining what &quot;we believe.&quot;Just as Jobs tried to explain to his excessively nerdified competitors, this ad declares that &quot;technology alone is not enough.&quot; It's only when &quot;technology gets out of the way&quot; that things become more delightful and, yes, all right, even magical. Why Because they become more human.It's odd that this seems so hard for many other technology companies to grasp.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Report: RIM to separate personal from work data]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 08:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Research In Motion will soon debut software that can segregate the personal from the professional.(Credit:RIM)Set to launch in two months, the BlackBerry Balance software will be able to separate personal e-mail, apps, and other content from those used on the job, Jeff McDowell, RIM's senior vice president for business and platform marketing, said in a Reuters interview published yesterday.The goal behind the software is to let BlackBerry owners rely on a single smartphone, so they can use the same device for business and social reasons. IT administrators--concerned about personal devices tapping into their networks--will also be able to manage and secure the corporate side of the phone while leaving the personal side up to the user.&quot;There are two fundamental use cases on the smartphone--enterprise and personal. The problem is that they are conflicting,&quot; McDowell told Reuters.As an example, people will be able to freely hop onto the Internet and use Facebook and other social-networking sites. But access to corporate e-mail through a BlackBerry Enterprise Server would be controlled by IT, with a virtual wall separating the two sides.Although BlackBerry owners and IT admins stand to gain, RIM also hopes to benefit from Balance. The BlackBerry maker has slowly been been losing its dominance of the corporate market to the wave ofiPhone and Android devices pushing their way into the workforce.Beyond appearing on smartphones, the Balance software will also find a home on RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook, which is due to hit the market as early as February.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Report: Open-source CRM provider SugarCRM worth around $350M (exclusive)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[SugarCRM, a developer and provider of open-source customer relationship management (CRM) software, is worth somewhere in the range of $350 &amp;8211' $360 million, according to a new report by research firm NeXt Up!The open source CRM provider is expected to bring in around $107.7 million in revenue in 2013 and $95.8 million in 2012, according to the report. That&amp;'s peanuts when compared to Oracle&amp;'s latest earnings report (which indicated thatthe company brought in $8.6 billion in a single quarter). But for a company that was founded only six years ago and one that charges half of what most CRM providers charge for open source software, it&amp;'s pretty good.The CRM space has exploded because it helps businesses of any size run more efficiently. It can provide a business with a number of tools that can help them handle customer service. Most come with analytics suites that help executives figure out which programs are working and which ones aren&amp;'t.SugarCRM has an advantage with smaller and mid-sized businesses because it is usually much cheaper than other CRM providers. The service can cost around half of what some of the major CRM software providers charge. It doesn&amp;'t have the full functionality that some of them, like Salesforce, have a4&quot; but it can do about 90 percent of what those services can, according to the report. Companies like Oracle and SAP likewise dominate the high end of the market that typically has a much larger budget for CRM-like software.SugarCRM users can deploy the software on in-house servers or on the public cloud, which involves shipping data through the Internet to remote servers that have a lot of computing firepower. The company partnered up with Amazon and Microsoft to let users deploy its software on Amazon&amp;'s EC2 and Microsoft&amp;'s Azure cloud computing services. 70 percent of SugarCRM&amp;'s revenue comes from licensing deals with partners that resell the software and help manage it, according to the report.But because it is so cheap and because the development is open source, it can be difficult and time-consuming to install the software, and the customer support can be lacking, according to the report. Around 70 percent of SugarCRM customers still choose to install the software on in-house hardware because it&amp;'s cheaper, rather than use hosted versions on public cloud servers.The company&amp;'s valuation is still not even close to some of the dominant forces in the CRM software market, but for a provider of open source software it&amp;'s a pretty decent number. Salesforce, for example, is worth around $18 billion based on its market cap, and Oracle is worth a massive $160 billion.Since it was founded, SugarCRM has collected around 600,000 users across 75 countries and is deployed on about 55,000 servers. The open source community that works on SugarCRM has around 150,000 active users and 22,000 developers. The community has made 800 applications that plug into the CRM suite to date.The Cupertino, Calif.-based company was founded in 2004 and has more than 150 employees. To date, SugarCRM has raised $46 million in venture capital funding from firms like New Enterprise Associates, Draper Fisher Jurvetson andWalden International. Its last round of funding came in 2008 when it raised $20 million.NeXt Up! is a research firm co-founded by Michael Moe, a former senior managing director and director of global growth research at Merrill Lynch.Next Story: If Google buys into coupons, it will still have to build Previous Story: A million people have pulled out their virtual wallets in Nexon&amp;'s MapleStory online gamePrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Amazon EC2, cloud computing, CRM, customer relationship management, Microsoft Cloud AzureCompanies: Amazon, Microsoft, Sugarcrm          Tags: Amazon EC2, cloud computing, CRM, customer relationship management, Microsoft Cloud AzureCompanies: Amazon, Microsoft, SugarcrmMatthew Lynley is VentureBeat's enterprise writer. He graduated from University of North Carolina, where he studied math and physics, in May 2010. He has reported for Reuters. He currently lives in San Francsico, Calif. You can reach him at mattl@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @logicalmoron.VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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