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- News to know: Facebook; OpenOffice; Firefox; RIM
- Notable headlines: Paula Rooney: Firefox 3 RC1 code complete, due in late May Joe McKendrick: Is anyone ready to process a trillion events per day? Tom Foremski: Informatica is on the block say senior sources Michael Krigsman: Hosted...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Facebook, OpenOffice, Research In Motion Ltd., Mozilla Firefox, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Microsoft Windows XP, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Another net neutrality bill, in a Comcast-charged atmosphere
- Another net neutrality bill, in a Comcast-charged atmosphereLots of profit......jobs and innovation in jeopardy? Too bad we didn't jeopardize Sub-Prime lending when we had a chance. Same kind of profit potential here for the telcos IMO.Drop ComcastThere are lots of ISP's out there.AT&T Yahoo comes to mind.Could Comcast's big usership...
- Tags: INTERNET, Broadband Internet, Comcast Corp., Comcast-charged atmosphere, Net Neutrality, net neutrality bill
- Discussion threads 2008-05-09
- Is Microsoft the answer to Africa's health woes?
- In my story earlier today I pointed out how African researchers see mobile data networks as the key to improving health outcomes on the world's poorest continent. The French group formerly known as Fone+, now combined under Craig Mundie into Microsoft's Unlimited Potential Group, is pushing precisely...
- Tags: Mobile, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Smart Phones, Healthcare, Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- Another net neutrality bill, in a Comcast-charged atmosphere
- The latest net neutrality bill, offered by Reps. John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), is a second try to treat neutrality as an antitrust issue, Ars Technica says. It's essentially the same bill that failed in 2006. The bill is intended to "promote competition,...
- Tags: Bill, Comcast Corp., U.S. Congress, Net Neutrality, Internet, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- Google's open source problem is Affero
- The best open source protection for "the cloud," as Gordon Haff notes today, is the Affero GPL license. (Picture from our Tech Republic's GeekEnd blog, written by Jay Garmon.) Affero closes the "ASP loophole" described by Fabrizio Capobianco here in March. It defines what SaaS delivers as...
- Tags: Google Inc., ClipperZ, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- Oil's superspike may make telecommuting the norm
- Can the price of crude--currently above $125 a barrel and the high gas prices that go with it--make telecommuting the norm? These questions come up typically with crises and natural disasters. For instance, if there was an avian flu outbreak workers across the U.S. would have to...
- Tags: Information Technology, Worker, Telecommuting, Help Desk, Call Centers, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, It Operations, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- Got a .edu email address? Pick up Microsoft Office Ultimate for $60!
- Got a .edu email address? Pick up Microsoft Office Ultimate for $60!Broken links galore!There are broken links at the NY Times site which have been replicated here. Congrats to both!I'm curious as to why this story isn't reporting the fact that this offer was originally set to expire 04/20/2008.The...
- Tags: Pick-up Microsoft Office Ultimate, e-mail address, OpenOffice, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-05-08
- Brewster Kahle offers a cookbook for fighting security letters
- Just talked to Brewster Kahle at the Internet Archive about their successful settlement with the FBI of a lawsuit over a National Security Letter. The FBI had demanded personal information on a user; the Archive replied with a lawsuit challenging the propriety of the NSL. As part of the settlement,...
- Tags: Security, Electronic Frontier Foundation, FBI, Library, Brewster Kahle, Cookbook, National Security Letter, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Zune of the future may come with copyright cop
- Zune of the future may come with copyright copIt certainly would be nice if MS showed some backbone ...... and said that its customers would hate it, so forget about it. MS is really irritating when it comes to siding with big content against its customers.Zune of the future should...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, AmazonMP3, Microsoft Zune, Zune IS, digital-rights management, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-08
- News to know: AMD; Oil and telecommuting; Verizon's EV-DO modem; Linux
- Notable headlines: Jason O'Grady: Review: Verizon UM150 USB EV-DO modem Gallery (right). Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Live Mesh to get more competition -- from Sun News.com: AMD revises server road map Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: How long can AMD...
- Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Oil, Telecommuting, Sun Microsystems Inc., EVDO, Verizon Communications Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Linux, Modems, WiMAX, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Federal Government, 64-Bit, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Components, Wireless, Government, Processors, Semiconductors
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Microsoft going it alone? Not exactly
- Microsoft going it alone? Not exactlyI'm with you....Facebook - why on earth would MS do it? It just doesn't make any sense - hell look for new business models, don't just play dumb catch up!More over here - http://diversity.net.nz/ms-considering-a-facebook-purchase/2008/05/08/It's called flounderingWhen they can't go forward, they can't go back, and...
- Tags: Operational accounting, Microsoft Corp., revenue, VCSY, Vertical Computer Systems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-07
- Microsoft going it alone? Not exactly
- Trying to parse Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates' every utterance in search of clues about what Microsoft is doing next is a dangeous game. (Remember the recent Windows 7 date confusion spurred by a recent Gates' utterance?) On May 6, headlines across the Web declared that Gates told...
- Tags: Facebook, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- Always-on boosted by British government study
- Always-on boosted by British government studyAlways On ... and the Food PoliceWhat happens when the cops show up at the grocery store and arrest you for purchasing that Twinkie(R)? Or you get a surcharge bill from your insurance company because your food purchases don't match your prescribed diet?Not likely? Well,...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, Always-On, insurance company, diet, insurance
- Discussion threads 2008-05-07
- Free software great and small
- Free software great and smallFree software great and small[i]In brief, it's a kinder, gentler version of Linus Torvald's quote that Linux is headed for "world domination, fast". [/i]BWAHHAHAHAHAHA! I had to laugh at that quote.Blah blah blah, Are you linux users really that dillusional? We've been hearing about how...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, OPEN SOURCE, Face it Linux, Linux, Free Software, LINUX IS
- Discussion threads 2008-05-07
- Everyone loves the Eee
- Everyone loves the EeeI'm thinking about getting one soonJust yesterday I seen one at an electronics store and I was really tempted to buy it. I'm currently running a super-small Linux distro(http://www.slitaz.org/en/) on my desktop PC, but I want to use the Eee for that and free up my desktop...
- Tags: Linux, Desktops, Eee, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2008-05-06
- Diggnation for enterprise?
- The cool kids in Silicon Valley think they have all the fun? Check this out: Diggnation for Enterprise featuring SAP's Bill McDermott, Henning Kagermann and Leo Apotheker at SAPPHIRE08 in Orlando. In contrast to Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht, this is an altogether...
- Tags: Leo Apotheker, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Why I didn't like "Microhoo"
- Yesterday was not a good day to be Jerry Yang. A year after returning to the helm of the company he co-founded, Yang found himself faced with an unsolicited bid from Microsoft, one that offered to pay a 50% premimum over the price of Yahoo stock. Though not ruling the...
- Tags: Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Developer Orientation, Team Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, DVR, Management, Investment, Finance, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- UK Health Program: a Very Sick Patient
- UK Health Program: a Very Sick PatientYou wait ages for a failed IT project and then four come along at onceThe failure of an IT project in the National Health Service is one of a number of failures in information technology recently. Other disasters are to be found at the...
- Tags: Other Disasters, patient, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-05-05
- SAP CEO: Ballmer should have bought Yahoo
- SAP CEO: Ballmer should have bought YahooMS shouldn't be allowed to buy any big companiesThey should get their own house in order first, release worthwhile OS's, and put an end to their sick anti-competitive bullying.The world needs free markets and competition to thrive, not one huge monopoly.The more MS can...
- Tags: INTERNET, Kagermann, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., SAP AG, Steve Ballmer
- Discussion threads 2008-05-05
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