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Engin Sezici

Engin Sezici is blogger-at-large at SYS-CON Media where he held corporate positions earlier in his career. Engin likes to travel through Europe and Greek Islands, reports on technology subjects from around the world and lives on a private island in the Bahamas when he is not on the road. You can reach him at engin(at)sys-con.com.

Do Not Buy Your BlackBerry From AT&T

By Engin Sezici

I am one of the very first BlackBerry users - I've been one since 1997 when it was first introduced at the annual JavaOne Conference in San Francisco. Since then I went through more BlackBerries probably than even JetBlue founder David Neeleman. With all the love ...

Jun. 18, 2008 07:45 PM Reads: 3,641 Replies: 12

Free Guest Passes for the SOA World Conference & Expo in New York City

By Engin Sezici

SYS-CON's upcoming '3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo' faculty includes such distinguished speakers as: Al Aghili (Managed Methods), Alan Chhabra (Egenera), Andi Mann (Enterprise Management Associates), Andrew Conte (APC), Andy Astor (EnterpriseDB...

Jun. 18, 2008 03:45 PM Reads: 3,562

Five Live SYS-CON.TV Demos Show NetBeans 6.0 Being Put Through Its Paces

By Engin Sezici

As developers continue to migrate to NetBeans from other IDEs, the NetBeans community has experienced tremendous growth. To date there have been more than 16 million downloads and a 300% increase in email list subscribers during the past three years, and now NetBean...

Jan. 18, 2008 09:15 AM Reads: 15,013 Replies: 1

As Enterprise RIA Development Market Mushrooms, Marc Fleury Joins Board of Appcelerator

By Engin Sezici

Appcelerator CEO Jeff Haynie is quoted as saying about Fleury, 'We believe the knowledge he developed building JBoss, to the point where it quickly became a true challenger to much larger competitors and a substantial industry force, will be invaluable to Appceler...

Jan. 6, 2008 12:00 PM Reads: 21,150 Replies: 1

Google's Knol vs Ulitzer

By Engin Sezici

Google's Knol sounds like a knee-jerk reaction and retaliation to Jimmy Wales' public insults and threaths for more than a year. At least that's the common perception out there. Blogger Michael Arrington writes: 'Knol is not much different than existing products. ...

Dec. 25, 2007 06:00 PM Reads: 13,709

Adobe Open Sources BlazeDS

By Engin Sezici

Adobe is open sourcing the remoting and messaging technologies in its commercial LiveCycle Data Services ES - Adobe's route to the Internet - as a new product called BlazeDS. The widgetry, along with the Action Message Format (AMF) protocol specification, is being...

Dec. 25, 2007 04:15 PM Reads: 9,475 Replies: 1

Adobe Hits Record Revenues

By Engin Sezici

Adobe earned $222.2 million, or 38 cents a share, up 21%, on record fourth-quarter revenues of $911.2 million, up 34% year-over-year, exceeding the company's revenue target of $860 million-$890 million. It attributed the results to Acrobat, its Creative Suite 3 pr...

Dec. 24, 2007 12:45 PM Reads: 14,629

NetSuite IPO Flies Up, Up and Away

By Engin Sezici

First on Tuesday the number went from $13-$16 to $16-$19 and then on Wednesday to $19-$22 only to finally settle Wednesday night at $26 (after Oracle posted its latest glorious numbers), meaning NetSuite has raised almost $161.2 million and got itself a market cap...

Dec. 23, 2007 07:30 PM Reads: 6,842

High-Tech Public Relations and Alan Zeichick of SD Times - Analyze This!

By Engin Sezici

Within minutes of my blog entry, I received the strangest email notification, alerting me to another blog written by Alan Zeichick, 'co-founder and editorial director of BZ Media, which publishes SD Times and Software Test & Performance, and which also produces th...

Nov. 30, 2007 01:45 PM Reads: 28,659

Katerina Muchachos, Kayikci and SOA World

By Engin Sezici

I asked what she did for a living. She said she was a software engineer working with SOA. I did not think about my plane ride much until I arrived in San Francisco to attend the SOA World Conference & Expo this past Monday and Tuesday. The first day of the confere...

Nov. 15, 2007 01:00 PM Reads: 29,109

Two Roads "on Target" at SOA World Conference & Expo in San Francisco

By Engin Sezici

Two Roads focuses on partnering with Information Technology to control and streamline the process of securing candidates, explains Two Roads' Ron Terry. 'We are able to accomplish this by working with the hiring managers to assess skills and company culture, which...

Nov. 11, 2007 01:45 PM Reads: 6,267 Replies: 1

Amanda Chapel An Anonymous Public Relations Blogger

By Engin Sezici

Buongiorno, il mio nome Amanda Chapel. I have 15 plus years experience in marketing communications. I am a former vice president in the Consumer Marketing Group at Weber Shandwick, one of the world's largest PR firms. Prior to Shandwick, I spent about 10 years bou...

Oct. 26, 2007 12:00 PM Reads: 14,666 Replies: 1

Bodrum, Turkey and Mykonos, Greece

By Engin Sezici

This 4th of July marked my sixth visit to the Divan Palmira Hotel in Bodrum, Turkey. My visit this year, which was quite different then the quiet escapes I've had in past years, prompted me to write a review for the first time. The Divan Palmira Hotel is located i...

Jul. 11, 2007 07:00 PM Reads: 12,803

Million Dollar Docks for Your Yacht in South Florida

By Engin Sezici

If your goal is to have your yacht docked in your backyard, this high-end realtor can have you settled in in no time. Peggy Turk is the type of realtor most people never meet. After all, how many people shop for homes ranging from $2-45 million? And how many shop ...

Apr. 6, 2007 01:30 PM Reads: 13,206

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