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In Telecoms.com: More Google phone rumours

Reports are emerging that the much rumoured Google phone is already in prototype and could be commercially available within a year. The web giant is…

In NewsIsFree Search: What SOA needs to learn from Ruby On Rails

Convention over configuration.

A while back I talked to lessconfig, based on the lesscode idea.

What is the default config for SOA? Why don’t we try and solve the 95% before we move on to the edge cases?

Big SOA with reg/rep and so on- who needs it? Who is using it? Remember UDDI? It was designed to handle WSDL complexity. But very few organisations needed it. UDDI was designed to offer extreme configurability. Who most likes extreme configurability? Consultants.

Enterprises need to stop and ask themselves what problems they are actually trying to solve, rather than what problems they ever might need to solve. What does the business actually need, not how do we spend this budget? Developers can handle exceptions - that is what they’re there for. Jeff seems to disagree, although I am not sure.

The Java world is finally getting it, with Spring bringing convention over configuration to JEE’s complex API set.

SAP began to show real value when the vendor and its customers began to understand useful generic configurations. What’s canned SOA? That’s what we need to work out. I don’t think SOA is dead - I just think it needs to grow up… and act a little more conventional.

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In SAP Info: Technologie: Jungbrunnen für Altsysteme

Mit den zusammengesetzten Anwendungen SAP xApps lassen sich Altprogramme in serviceorientierte Architekturen einbinden. Die SAP-Partner im BPM-Konsortium bringen nun erste SAP xApps speziell für Banken auf den Markt. Zudem bieten sie Werkzeuge an, mit denen Finanzdienstleister eigene Lösungen entwickeln können.

In Webmaster World: Industry News: Google Announces TV Ads Trial

“That’s why today we are excited to announce our trial to deliver Google TV ads.”

In SiliconBeat: Movers and shakers in the valley: Agassi, Chang, Gur and Siegel

Here are the latest moves in the Silicon Valley venture/executive world:

Shai Agassi, heir apparent at SAP, steps down %u2014 The 38-year-old Agassi, the Silicon Valley-based president of Software company SAP, was being groomed for the chief executive job, but became impatient. Stepping down, he has bold plans to help convert his native Israel and its neighbor Jordan into fuel-less economies with nationwide electronic transportation systems. That%u2019s a noble vision, and we wish him well. (See story in Merc.)

Tim Chang joins Norwest Venture Partners %u2014 The electrical engineer and Stanford MBA (bio here) has departed venture firm Gabriel Venture Partners, and will take his trade to Norwest. He made the move, he said, because Norwest gives him a better platform to exploit his experience in Asia %u2014 namely, Japan, Korea and China. A principal, he%u2019ll focus on %u201Cnext generation%u201D companies serving the mobile phone. Users won%u2019t be firing up a browser on their phone and going to a portal, he argues. Rather, they%u2019ll configure RSS feeds to pull content to their phone. Aside the orange RSS buttons you currently see on Web pages, you%u2019ll soon see %u201Cmobilize me%u201D buttons, to facilitate the shift to mobile, he argues.

Saar Gur moves to Charles River Ventures %u2014 Gur, 30, has had a colorful history since moving to Silicon Valley from Pittsburgh in 2001 to attend Stanford business school. Unperturbed by the valley%u2019s post-bubble funk when he graduated in 2003, he and a partner raised about $12 million and bought what appeared to be a bunch of undervalued businesses and land in Connecticut. Within two years, he%u2019d sold it, making three times his investment. That gave him the confidence to dabble. He helped run marketing company Adteractive, but left to invest in and help a variety of start-ups, from RockYou, to Admob and Flixster %u2014 all of them showing decent momentum. He was also co-founder of Brightroll. He%u2019s known to have a big Rolodex. At CRV, where he is a junior partner, he%u2019ll invest in consumer Internet, mobile and energy. Susan Wu, btw, has also been promoted to junior partner. CRV has recently become one of the more lively and impressive venture teams in the valley.

Sue Siegel joins Mohr Davidow Ventures as partner %u2014 Siegel helped build Affymetrix, joining in 1998 as a sales exec in 1998. The company pioneered %u201CGeneChip%u201D technology, which helped with personalized medicine. Siegel was most recently president at the company; she saw it grow to $300M in sales. She worked at GE

Healthcare, E. I. DuPont, Eastman Kodak, and Bio-Rad Labs. She%u2019s on the board of stealth company, Pacific Biosciences. She brings MDV%u2019s healthcare team to three partners.

In iLounge: News: iPhone being released on June 11?

CNET News.com%u2019s Gadget Blog claims that Apple%u2019s iPhone will be available on June 11th. %u201CEver since Steve Jobs%u2019 keynote at the Macworld Expo in January, we%u2019ve known that the iPhone is being released sometime in June. But we haven%u2019t known exactly when,%u201D the site reports. %u201CNow Cingular is confirming that the release date will be June 11. A customer service manager at Cingular (we called 800-947-5096 and%u2026

In PC PRAXIS: Google startet Google Notebook in deutscher Sprache

Google gibt am 29.03.2007 den Start von Google Notebook in deutscher Sprache bekannt. Google Notebook ist ein persönlicher Browser, der es Nutzern ermöglicht, Informationen aus dem gesamten Web zu sammeln, zu organisieren und weiterzugeben und Internetrecherchen jeder Art – von der Urlaubsplanung über Preisvergleiche bis zum Kauf eines Autos – einfacher und

In CFCN Plus: Google gives New Orleans pre-Katrina look

In CBS MarketWatch.com - MarketPulse: New report says Web addresses to run out by 2012

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — The original pool of Internet Protocol addresses used to connect devices to the Internet could be exhausted by 2012, a new report shows. The projection is “the earliest I’ve ever seen,” said Vint Cert, the Google Inc. senior executive who was addressing reporters Friday as chairman of ICANN, an Internet governing body also known as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. Web address reports like the one just presented at ICANN’s Portugal meeting spotlight the growing importance, and prevalence, of the Internet. The findings also usually curry favor with supporters of a new set of Web addresses, known as IP version 6 or IPV6, that would be enough for every one on earth to have 1,000 different Web addresses apiece. But IPV6 is controversial because it forces companies that rely on the Internet to invest in upgrading their infrastructure, among other expensive changes.

Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on this news.

In Spiegel Online: Netzwelt-Ticker: Länger schwimmen mit Google

In Infoweek.ch: Cablecom erneut am Pranger

Cablecom betreibt laut “Kassensturz” Kunden, die gar keine Kunden sind.

In Moneycab: Business: SAP kündigt neue Version von SAP All-in-One an

Der Walldorfer Software-Hersteller SAP kündigt eine neue Version der SAP All-in-One-Lösung für mittelgrosse Unternehmen an. Die Software basiere auf mySAP ERP und der SAP-NetWeaver-Plattform und erlaube mittelgrossen Firmen die EDV mit SOA-Software (serviceorientierter Architektur) zu vereinfachen, teilte SAP mit.

In PR Web: Business: Mark Goode Cites ‘Warcraft’ Skills as Indicator of Leadership Capability in Business

Business and financial observer Mark Goode has drawn attention to the link between business management skills and those required of gamers to excel at “World of Warcraft” offered by Blizzard Entertainment. (PRWeb Jan 26, 2007)