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Which stock to buy today: YHOO, MSFT or GOOG?: The Microsoft-Yahoo deal implosion was a near certainty when the talks began. Two cultures as convinced that they are superior to one another can never coexist, so forget blaming anyone for what was inevitable. At least it didn't take two years and billions of dollars in real losses, as compared...; Tags: Google Inc., Stock, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Operational Accounting, Business Structures, Finance, Mitch Ratcliffe; Blog posts 2008-05-05
Getting pumped with your iPhone (or iPod): PumpOne has announced a partnership with Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide's new lifestyle brand, aloft hotels – portable personal trainers for road warriors. The service is designed for tech-savvy aloft hotel guests aloft hotels is Starwood's eighth hotel lifestyle brand and opens its doors to guests this...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Hotel, Apple iPod, Guest, Workout, PumpOne, Business Structures, Workforce Management, Handhelds, Finance, Human Resources, Hardware, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-04-28
Softchoice screens for green: IT reseller Softchoice, which carries roughly 350,000 products in its database, has added a feature to its Web site that helps buyers filter for green purchasing criteria. The service is made possible through a partnership between EPEAT (the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool) and CNET Channel. (A...; Tags: Product, CNET Channel, Business Structures, Retail, Web Site Development, E-business/E-Commerce, Manufacturing, Finance, Internet, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-04-23
Google-Yahoo search test an alleged hit; Squeezes Microsoft: Yahoo is reportedly moving closer toward outsourcing search to Google in a move designed to gain leverage in any talks with Microsoft. Let's be clear: This story was leaked to the Wall Street Journal because Yahoo is likely to meet with Microsoft again soon. According to the...; Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo Search, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Portals, Business Structures, Corporate Law, Web Technology, Outsourcing, Internet, Finance, Business Operations, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-04-17
What if News Corp., MSN and Yahoo were a separate company?: For the first time since Microsoft announced its intentions to buy Yahoo, I see one way the coupling might make (a tiny bit of) sense. As of late yesterday (April 9), Yahoo is now rumored to be contemplating a merger with AOL (talk about the ultimate anti-Microsoft...; Tags: MSN, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., News Corp., Business Structures, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Entrepreneurship, Financial Accounting, Finance, Investment, Business Operations, Management, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-04-10

Lyric Finder (exe): Lyric Finder in partnership with realLyrics.com searches online database for lyric. Using Lyric Finder, to find lyric of your favorite song, you can download lyric at your desktop itself. Lyric Finder eliminates the need of going to visit a site just to search and download lyric. This version is the...; Tags: Lyric, RealLyrics, Lyric Finder, Business Structures, Desktops, Storage, Databases, Finance, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; Software downloads 2008-03-31
EIC podcast: Comcast-BitTorrent; Oracle; Facebook and OpenSocial, Adobe: In this week's EIC squared podcast we cover the Comcast-BitTorrent partnership and what it means--and doesn't mean. Dan notes that there are a lot of loose ends to tie up before we declare these two P2P bosom buddies. Meanwhile, I look at Oracle's earnings and what its...; Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Facebook, Oracle Corp., Google OpenSocial, Dan, Podcasts, Taxes, Free Trade, Business Structures, Internet, Financial Planning, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-03-27
Adobe's Photoshop Express and the big picture: Adobe on Thursday unveiled the beta of Photoshop Express, a Webtop version of its photo editing juggernaut. Depending on who you listen to Photoshop Express is either a worthwhile contender in a market that includes a bunch of Web photo editing tools or an instant also ran...; Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe PhotoShop, Webtop, Webware, Grunin, Business Structures, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-03-27
TopCoder: breaking the development cost rules: According to my friend Vinnie Mirchandani, beating US internal IT development costs is tough going. He should know, it's part of what he does day in, day out. But what if you need access to high quality development resource on an emergency project? What if you're thinking of development outsourcing...; Tags: Developer, Partnership, America Online Inc., TopCoder, Development Cost, Business Structures, Finance, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-03-25
Non-profit OpenSocial Foundation formed as Yahoo jumps onboard: Yahoo today announced their support for OpenSocial, the Google-led standard for developing applications that work across supporting social networks (e.g. OpenGadget). Except, technically at least, OpenSocial isn't the sole property of Google anymore, following the formation of the non-profit OpenSocial Foundation, whose custodiands MySpace, Google (and Yahoo)...; Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Google OpenSocial, Social Networking, Intellectual Property, Business Structures, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Research & Development, Business Operations, Finance, Steve O\'Hear; Blog posts 2008-03-25
More battle lines are drawn: Yahoo backs Google's OpenSocial: On the same day Microsoft announced new interoperability deals with five social-networking sites, Yahoo announced it has joined the Google-backed OpenSocial social-networking intiative. Yahoo announced on March 25 that not only had it joined the OpenSocial group, but that -- along with MySpace and Google -- Yahoo...; Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Google OpenSocial, Strategy, Business Structures, Management, Finance, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-03-25
Checkers-7 (exe): Checkers-7 is a collection of the popular checkers games: American, Brazilian, Canadian, International, Pool checkers, Russian, Sparse checkers. With the help of the program Checkers-7 you can play chess both with the computer and a human partner. You can widely change the appearance of the program window. And of course...; Tags: Appearance, Style-7, Checkers-7, Corporate Governance, Business Structures, Construction, Productivity, Games, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Personal Technology; Software downloads 2008-03-24
Web Link Builder (exe): Scan the web for link partners. A must have for webmasters and SEO experts. Find link partners, directories and search engines to submit your site in a snap. Drive traffic to your site from search engines. A tool written by SEO professionals has been tested and proven to rise ranking...; Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Web, Search Engine, Partnership, Wtd, Business Structures, Search, Marketing Research, Finance, Marketing; Software downloads 2008-03-24
How open will Verizon make its new spectrum?: So now that Verizon has officially won the precious C-block 700MHz spectrum, the question is, what happens now? Will they deliver a reasonably open network with this incredible new spectrum? At Public Knowledge, naturally, they're dubious. Susan Crawford, a visiting law prof at the U. of Mich.,...; Tags: Network, Verizon Communications Inc., Spectrum, Business Structures, Networking, Finance, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-03-21
BigFix fixes up some utility rebate incentives in Northwest states: For you energy-minded IT professionals who prefer only to work with companies that are part of the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star program, I wanted to alert you that power management software supplier BigFix has become an Energy Star partner. The company also has qualified for a number of electric...; Tags: Incentive, BigFix Inc., Productivity, Business Structures, Finance, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-03-18
Lab Partners (exe): Lab Partners now includes two options: Random Partners and Lab Partners by Grades. With random partners, you can load a student list for a given class, create random groups of two, three, four, or five students, and then print them out. Students who are absent can be removed or new...; Tags: Partnership, Student, Multimedia Science, Business Structures, Finance; Software downloads 2008-03-17
Microsoft Dynamics Revenues: Is More Really Less?: Back in the summer of 2006, Microsoft did something that I confess I became complacent about: The gang from Redmond stopped breaking out separate numbers for the Business Solutions group, which at the time was comprised of its flagship ERP products – Navision, Great Plains, and Axapta – plus the...; Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, Revenue, Growth, Microsoft Corp., Business Structures, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum; Blog posts 2008-03-13
Doggie Dash (exe): Help reluctant pet spa partners Walter and Scarlett get a Dinertown business up and running! Featuring the goal of delivering a happy and perfectly pampered pet to its owner every time, Doggie Dash incorporates the customer service fun of the Diner Dash series with the new challenge of cleaning, grooming,...; Tags: Customer Service, PlayFirst, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Business Structures, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance; Software downloads 2008-03-11
Green.tv, earthy video online: From organic vegies to Uzbeki cotton to water wars in California. They got your video over at green.tv. Founded two years ago by a British activist, the online video network is growing and has partners including Greenpeace and the U.N. Saus the founder, ""It's important...; Tags: Video, Level, Corporate Communications, Business Structures, Marketing, Finance, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-03-06
Regional Engineering Firm Cuts Virus Incidents 100%, Remote Management Costs by 50%: Sebago needed a remote access and presentation virtualization solution that would meet its growing security and performance requirements. Somma and his team were focused on performance, cost of additional hardware, operating system capabilities, interoperability with its existing technologies, as well as Sebago's reliance on Websense for third-party Internet content filtering....; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Virus, Remote Access, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Virtualization, Business Structures, Microsoft Windows, Telecommunications, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Finance; Case studies 2008-03-06