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NetBooks rebrands to WorkingPoint, hopes to create waves

The other evening I spoke with Tate Holt, CEO of WorkingPoint, the rebranded NetBooks. He told me that while the concepts behind NetBooks were fine, the execution was less than perfect. As a result, the company has spent the last year going back to the drawing board, figuring out what start up and very small [...]

Never fear transparency

Xero had an outage last evening UK time, 8.15am in New Zealand. The outage lasted 45 minutes and was attributed to data centre issues at Rackspace Dallas, its hosting provider. Xero isn’t alone. The Rackspace issue spread to others. As you can see from the sponsored feeds, the company kept users informed via its blog [...]

SaaS prices going up?

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The last couple of weeks I’ve been hearing a familiar sound: how do saas/on-demand businesses find a good business model? Each place I go I have heard the same question or a close approximation. This is important if you’re thinking about vendor viability. Earlier this [...]

Microsoft Money – gone

This from the Microsoft website:
Important notice: Microsoft Money Plus will not be available for purchase after June 30, 2009. All purchased Money Plus products must be activated prior to Jan. 31, 2011.
With banks, brokerage firms and Web sites now providing a range of options for [...]