What Warren Buffett sees in IBM that others don’t

Great news for IBM as Warren Buffett’s company spends $10.7 billion to buy more than 5% of IBM’s stocks. That comes as a big surprise by the billionaire who till now has been reluctant to invest in high profile technology companies in the past. In his interview to CNBC Mr Buffett said “If you’re in some country around the world and …

Microsoft Issues Temporary Fix Against Duqu malware

Microsoft has released a temporary remedy to protect against Duqu malware, the fairly recently discovered malware which somewhat is similar to the extremely harmful Stuxnet worm. Nevertheless, the actual repair just handles the Ms Word aspect of the situation; customers are still going to be susceptible to Duqu malware until they will upgrade their own …

Cloud Computing set to revolutionize how we do business

Today few of us could manage for long at work without e-mails, socially they are useful but in business they are, for even the smallest businesses, essential. E-Mails revolutionized the way we work: it changed how we share information including the volume, how often and how quickly and it sped up the entire world economy …

What’s New in New Version of Lotus Notes 8.5.3

Based on IBM description of the new version 8.5.3 of Lotus Notes, the following enhancements were delivered in a new version: Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3 includes entitlement to the IBM Connections files and profiles components adding significant capabilities to help clients become a social business Enhanced new mail notification which optionally provides a pop up preview (containing both …

Konica Minolta rebuild Business process management system with Open Source option

Konica-Minolta sell much of their hardware at the higher end of the market, in fact much of it they lease as is common with more expensive equipment for businesses large and small. Leasing may work well for both Konica Minolta as an alternative to financing and work well for clients who do not wish to …

Lotus Live Error 1008

Here is an error one of my demo clients has been having since a week ago: “ERROR 1008: Your LotusLive servers are down for maintenance. We should have them running shortly.” This Error is the most recent one. The user has not had an access to LotusLive Notes since about a month ago. Prior to this one, …