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Microhoo, MicroAOL, and challenging Google

Microsoft interminable hunt to cobble together an ad platform with greater market share continues, reaching now into AOL territory. There is merit in the goal, though much risk in the path which leads to it. by John Carroll

Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Ad Platform, Ad Market, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-07-17

Is Google a threat to world's ad markets?

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Tags: ad market, advertisement, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-12-02

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Poll: Best personal finance software?

A little while ago, before the massive recession threw everyone into the depths of their portfolios, I thought it would be prudent to graduate tracking my expenses from pen and paper to software. My parents have dabbled with Quicken, and I wasn't really impressed with Microsoft Money....

Tags: Software, Quicken, Personal Finance, Mint, 401(k), Retirement Plans, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Benefits, Finance, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Highlights from the Apple notebook event

Highlights from the Apple notebook event at Apple headquarters in Cupertino. Steve Jobs takes that stage and introduces Tim Cook who discusses Apple's 2-3x the market growth, Vista and their retail successes. US retail marketshare grows from single digits to 17.6% From 15...

Tags: Multi-touch, NVidia Corp., Apple Inc., Graphics, Aluminum, GPU, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-10-14

LiveBlog: Apple's notebook event

update: (Editor's note: The updates of this entry appear in reverse order.) 10:35 a.m. - There's an upgrade, as well, to the MacBook Air. For $1799, it has the new graphics technology, ports and so on, with a bigger hard drive, now at 120 GB. A...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Multi-touch, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Graphics, Tim Cook, Notebooks, Desktops, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-14

New pulseless total artificial heart

Two University of Houston UH engineering professors have received a $2.8 million federal grant from the National Institutes of Health NIH to develop a new artificial heart technology. In order to create a pulseless total artificial heart TAH, they 'are focusing on developing a control system that emulates how the...

Tags: Heart, Team Management, Federal Government, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Management, Government, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Yahoo, Google, DOJ play let's make a deal; Google could walk

Google and Yahoo are talking to the Department of Justice about heading off an antitrust suit over the companies' search advertising deal. According to the Wall Street Journal, Google and Yahoo are offering up concessions to the Department of Justice to push their deal through. For Google,...

Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., U.S. Department Of Justice, Search, Government, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-14

SE XPERIA X1 appears to be available now in Sweden

One of the most anticipated new devices in the Windows Mobile market, the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 now appears to be available in Sweden. Daily Mobile has unboxing photos of a production model and I plan to follow their site for more thoughts on the device. I saw a couple...

Tags: Sweden, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, T-Mobile, SE XPERIA X1, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Software, Marketing, Hardware, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Unleashing the Moore's Law of radios at last

What we need in the broadband market is more choice. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Radio, Broadband, Moore, Law, Network Technology, Broadband Internet, Internet, Telecommunications, Networking, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Dell negotiations: Street ball without the refs

Negotiating hardware deals with Dell isn't for everybody. In fact dealing with Dell can be downright difficult relative to other hardware vendors. That takeaway came from Gartner analyst Leslie Fiering's presentation at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo. In that presentation, Fiering noted that Dell's pricing isn't transparent if you're an IT...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Negotiation, Free Trade, Pricing, Finance, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-14

You know a trend has gotten broad when..

The New York Times, a well-known font of information in the area of information technology, published Revived Fervor for Smart Monitors Linked to a Server, an article by Ashlee Vance October 13th. If the NY Times gets around to saying something about technology, it's pretty well known by those in...

Tags: New York Times Co., Virtualization, Strategy, Desktops, Hardware, Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-10-14

And speaking of Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems is not a name we often associate with education outside of high-end technical fields at the university level. Of course, Sun is responsible for OpenOffice and has recently acquired both MySQL and VirtualBox, all of which (especially OO.org) have quite a bit of relevance here. ...

Tags: K-12, Sun Microsystems Inc., Virtualization, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-13

LG introduces Wirewize remote pay home theater tech support

Best Buy must get some huge margins from its Geek Squad tech support service, because it seems like everyone wants to copy that model of overcharging noobs for help with tech installations and troubleshooting. Circuit City has Firedog, and Office Depot has Tech Depot Services. Now LG Electronics is trying...

Tags: Home Theater, LG Electronics Inc., Cable, Wirewize, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Egnyte: using and sustaining Enterprise 2.0

Egnyte, in a nutshell, is a software as a service, cloud storage application. But it's a lot more than just that. It feels like your online home of files, storage and where you put your valuables. Egnyte started out because the small business, which is...

Tags: Apple iPhone, On-demand, Server, Enterprise 2.0, Egnyte, Backup Facility, Storage, Backups, Hardware, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-13

How will Silicon Valley startups be affected by a downturn?

Things were tough enough for startups in Silicon Valley before the credit crunch financial crisis because of extremely few exit strategies. There are almost no IPOs, and the M&A market has slowed to a trickle. The latest Wall Street crisis isn't helping. Here is a some...

Tags: Silicon Valley, IPO, Mergers & Acquisitions, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Financial Accounting, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Financing Startups, Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-10-13

OpenOffice 3 launch timed perfectly but will Sun, IBM exploit opportunity?

Sun and IBM could not have asked for better timing for the launch of OpenOffice 3, a major upgrade of the open source office suite. Both vendors are preparing to ship commercial offerings of StarOffice and Symphony based on the new OO 3 release and have a...

Tags: Desktop, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Training, IBM Corp., Symphony 1.2, Conversion Tool, OpenOffice, StarOffice, Open Source, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Facebook: Is there a Moore's Law for sharing?

Love it or hate it, that new look to Facebook - the one that everyone has been up in arms over - stems from our increasingly comfortable attitude about sharing tidbits of information about our personal lives. Admit it. The old site was getting cluttered with all of those shared...

Tags: Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Silverlight 2 is released, available for download tomorrow

Microsoft announced this morning that Silverlight 2 will be available for download tomorrow. So after a long beta period that included big events using Silverlight including the Olympics and the DNC, the bits are going to be out there. The press release includes some impressive numbers: ...

Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Silverlight 2, Productivity, Corporate Communications, Linux, Open Source, Marketing, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Opera 10 will be 'prettier'

Many users, especially of Apple, found Opera's latest version 9.6 unpleasant on the eye. But the company says its next major update will be prettier. The next major release of Opera for the desktop will be 'prettier' than the current version of the browser, claims the company. ...

Tags: Opera Software, Lawson Software Inc., Hicks, Web Browsers, Internet, David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk, Opera, browser, Opera 10.0

News items 2008-10-13

Open source protectionism?

I just caught a rather interesting piece by fellow blogger Dana Blankenhorn on the subject of the "value and values" found in open source ecosystems. Near the end, he references an article on InfoWorld which questions whether it is wise to "protect" open source development by mandating its use at...

Tags: Open Source, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-10-13