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- Effect on Yahoo will be debilitating
- In part one of this comment (Febuary 2/08 ) I said: Some mergers are defensive, some are driven by competitive opportunity, and others largely by management egos and investment bankers hooking for commissions. This seems to be one of the latter: Yahoo was over valued relative to its...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Heads, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Governance, Free Trade, Financial Accounting, Sales Force Management, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sales, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-05-04
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- Jerry Yang is busy...Writing email
- Yahoo filed its internal communications about Carl Icahn's proxy war plans with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The takeaway: Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang has been writing a lot of emails. To senior vice presidents at Yahoo, Yang delivered a few talking points following Icahn's first volley and...
- Tags: Jerry Yang, Annual Meeting, Board, Carl Icahn, E-mail, Stockholder, Director, Company, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- 6 Gbit drives coming
- Chip vendor PMC-Sierra and Seagate announced that they've . . . achieved interoperability between PMC-Sierra's end-to-end 6Gb/s SAS chipset and Seagate's early development 6Gb/s SAS Hard Disk Drives HDDs. This successful demonstration of 6Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI SAS interoperability provides server and storage system equipment...
- Tags: Disk, PMC-Sierra Inc., Serial Attached SCSI, Seagate Technology LLC, Serial ATA, Chipsets, Storage, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- MobileTechRoundup show #133, REDFLY and Nokia N82 arrive, IdeaPad U110 is rocking
- Listen here (MP3, 32.1 MB, 35:00 minutes) Subscribe to the show with this link RSS James, Kevin, and I were up early Saturday morning to record MobileTechRoundup show #133 and as you may be able to...
- Tags: MobileTechRoundup, Nokia Corp., James, Podcasts, Internet, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Rumor Mill: What's on the Apple horizon
- Rumor Mill: What's on the Apple horizonA rumour we haven't heard recently...I'm disappointed there haven't been rumours of Apple automobile products since the talks between Jobs and Volkswagen allegedly fell through. I'd love an iPod-esque car stereo system which synced with my iTunes over Wifi and gave me access to...
- Tags: Digital music, rumour, Apple Inc., Rumor Mill
- Discussion threads 2008-05-09
- Mark your calendars: Microsoft to push Office 2007 SP1 on June 16
- Systems administrators: Mark your calendars. Microsoft is going to start pushing the first service packs for Office 2007 and SharePoint 2007 next month. In December, when Microsoft rolled out Service Pack SP 1 for the 2007 Office System, company officials said they'd give customers a minimum 30-day...
- Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, Service Pack, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Update, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Wrestling MPire 2008: Management Edition (exe)
- After making its mark in the ring, Wrestling MPire 2008 heads backstage where the real power is. This special Management Edition takes the same great gameplay and turns it on its head by challenging you to call the shots instead of taking them. Create the saviour of wrestling and then...
- Tags: Ring, MDickie, Recruitment & Selection, Advertising & Promotion, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing, Management
- Software downloads 2008-05-08
- XP SP3: Now on Windows Update
- A week after deciding not to release Windows XP Service Pack SP 3 via Windows Update and the Microsoft Download site as planned, Microsoft has begun pushing the collection of updates and fixes through those channels again. On May 6, Microsoft both released officially SP3 and resumed...
- Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Windows Update, Service Pack, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services, Microsoft Windows, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Security, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Zune desktop 2.5 released with TV shows and social improvements
- My last post on the Microsoft Zune was made back in October of 2007 when the new Zune models were announced. I actually picked up a Zune 30GB classic at Woot for less than US$100, but have to admit after getting my iPhone it has seen very little use. I...
- Tags: Microsoft Zune, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Desktops, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- News to know: SAP; Hacking NASA; Apple; OpenSolaris
- Notable headlines: Nate McFeters: Hacking NASA: One small step for man, one giant leap for hackers? Common misconceptions about database security Sapphire 2008: Dennis Howlett: The changing SAP culture Larry Dignan: SAP's Apotheker: Business ByDesign costs led...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., OpenSolaris, Hacking, Yahoo! Inc., T-Mobile, SAP AG, Apple Inc., Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Stanford pushing for new parallel computing model
- Stanford pushing for new parallel computing modelNew Parallel Computing modelHi Christopher, is so interesting that in this times computers have been so far that the computer programs are getting obsolete in some way, i just only think that really the only thing what for we need more computer power is...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, computer, computing model
- Discussion threads 2008-05-04
- Brain waves used for faster image sorting
- Computers are fast for many tasks, but humans are faster for identifying objects or people in images. But is it possible to combine the speed of a computer with the sensitivity of the human brain? According to a IEEE Spectrum Online article, 'A Brainy Approach to Image Sorting,' several teams...
- Tags: Team, Analyst, DARPA, Image, Computer, Productivity, Team Management, Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-04
- Will OpenSolaris bring a chill to Sun-Ubuntu romance?
- You scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours. That seems to be the mantra of Ubuntu and Sun, both open source underdogs whose relationship and mutual platform support has been growing for three years. On the eve of the release of OpenSolaris, both companies are banging the drum that the...
- Tags: Ubuntu, OpenSolaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Linux, Open Source, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- Will computing save health care?
- Carey James Kriz is nothing if not an optimist. Dr. Kriz, who heads the American Academy of Urgent Care Medicine in Orlando, is convinced that technology is the answer to the train wreck called the health care financing system. Predictive Health, knowing what your...
- Tags: Dr., Health Care, Computing, Carey James Kriz, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- Fujitsu U810 UMPC gets AT&T integrated WWAN and a hard drive bump
- I thoroughly enjoy my Fujitsu U810 UMPC because it gives me a full computer in a 1.5 pound package that runs for at least 4 hours with a single battery and wireless connectivity. Fujitsu just announced the availability of a model with integrated AT&T Broadband wireless data support. These new...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Ultramobile PC, AT&T Corp., Fujitsu Ltd., Fujitsu U810 UMPC, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Microsoft Windows, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Operating Systems, Software, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- House committee passes 'gluttonous' Pro IP Act
- So, we have a credit crisis, a foreclosure crisis, a full-blown recession and no plans on how to get out of Iraq or how to create a regional solution. So what do we need? How about an intellectual property czar and stiffer penalties for unauthorized music downloading? ...
- Tags: Damage, CD, IP, Piracy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- The end of RIAA litigation
- The end of RIAA litigationAbout time!Finally one corporations abuse of people is being nipped in the bud! ]:)HA HA RIAA'S DEAD!!!Wasn't this yet ANOTHER No_Ax prediction that fell flat on its face, that RIAA would prevail??Man, the hits just keep on coming!"the decision" ?"the decision"?"the Howell decision"? It would...
- Tags: RIAA, RIAA litigation, snake, litigation
- Discussion threads 2008-05-01
- In the beginning (and the end) there was the mainframe
- Mainframes never go away--they just find a new use. One thing that has always amazed me about the mainframe is how IBM has managed to cram it into any new technology frontier. Cloud computing? Mainframe. SaaS? Mainframe enabled. Centralized IT? You guess it: Mainframe. What's more notable...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Mainframes, Servers, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- Reiser found guilty of first degree murder
- Software developer Hans Reiser was found guilty today of first degree murder in the death of his wife in late 2006, a conviction that carries up to 25 years in prison and a possible death sentence for the Reiser4 file system. [Techmeme] The verdict, delivered...
- Tags: File System, Ts'o, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Another reason Microsoft should give up on Yahoo: Morale
- Companies at least publicly traded ones are beholden to shareholders. But they also are beholden to their employees. And while most Softies are afraid to state for the record that they think Microsoft should abandon its takeover of Yahoo, that opinion is a real and prevailing sentiment among many in...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Mergers & Acquisitions, Microsoft Windows, Professional Development, Investment, Finance, Operating Systems, Software, Career, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
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