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Did Google really trump Amazon?

O'Reilly Radar has the O'Reilly verdict on O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference "Diamond Sponsor" Google!SURPRISE? Google Maps "Street View" is AWESOME, and the O'Reilly inside verdict is spreading like wildfire across the blogosphere:This morning Google gave their 2D maps an incredible realworld addition. Its a street-view, that in certain cities, will let you...

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Blog posts 2007-05-29

Web 2.0: Is O'Reilly's vision a keeper? Amazon vs. Alexaholic

Web 2.0: Is O'Reilly's vision a keeper? Amazon vs. AlexaholicWeb 2.0 Principles and Best Practices is not a book ?Tim O’Reilly has helped publish many a tech how-to manual. But, has he really written the definitive book on Web 2.0?they released a book for business leaders in Nov 2006 –...

Tags: vision, connotation, O'Reilly, Web 2.0, Tim, Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Inc., Web

Discussion threads 2007-04-23

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Netbooks dominate Cyber Monday sales

Netbooks dominated the Computers & PC hardware bestsellers list on Amazon this Cyber Monday, the biggest online shopping day of the year in the U.S. Netbooks FTW! Chalk it up to a small form factor (7-10 in., about 3 lbs.) and an even smaller...

Tags: Monitor, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Sales, LCD, MSI, Monitors & Displays, Notebooks, Hardware, Components, Notebooks & Tablets, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Why Amazon needs Kindle 2.0

Kindle-mania has arrived this holiday season -- but will it stay for good? In a recent article on Forbes.com, Andy Greenberg writes that Amazon's next e-reader won't be a game-changer, but it will keep killing the competition -- and that's why Amazon needn't upgrade its fabled gadget....

Tags: Sony Corp., Apple iPod, Amazon.com Inc., Kindle-mania, Greenberg, Kindle, Digital Music, Digital Media, Wireless, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Top Web companies in October 2008

Parent Audience, 000 Time 1. Google 128,667 1:57:26 2. Microsoft 121,819 2:35:43 3. Yahoo! 117,715 3:22:08 4. AOL LLC 88,028 3:34:41 5. News Corp. Online 78,135 1:36:45 6. eBay 60,543 1:40:32 7. InterActiveCorp 60,092 0:17:20 ...

Tags: Internet, NB

Blog posts 2008-12-02

News to know: Apple and anti-virus; Vista SP2; Kumo; Palm; Linux

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Christopher Dawson: Just what does it take to switch to desktop Linux (part 2)? Ryan Naraine: Apple: Mac users should run multiple anti-virus Breaking...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Nokia Corp., Antivirus, Service Pack 2, Palm Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., SOA, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Security, Viruses And Worms, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Turkey, stuffing and Macs?

It appears that Americans enjoyed a healthy serving of Macs over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Writing for Fortune's Apple 2.0 blog Philip Elmer-DeWitt analyzed Apple's domestic sales on Amazon.com over the critical Black Friday selling weekend. He concludes that Apple's online sales got off to a better start than...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Electronics, Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-11-30

Shopping - How do you do it?

According to online retailers Amazon.com and eBay, online sales surged on Black Friday as consumers looked for good deals on Wii games consoles and the iPhone and iPod touch. But what's your preferred shopping method? by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Retail Company, Person, Sales Strategy, Retail, Sales Force Management, Sales, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-11-30

Top Web companies in US in October 2008

Rank Property Audience, 000 Total Audience 190,616 1 Google Sites 147,035 2 Yahoo! Sites 144,903 3 Microsoft Sites 123,483 4 AOL LLC 111,259 5 Fox Interactive Media 90,636 6 eBay 70,737 7 Ask...

Tags: Site, Advertising & Promotion, Networking, Marketing, NB

Blog posts 2008-11-27

Apple retail stores to match prices

In a surprising move for the consumer electronics turned retail heavyweight, Apple has internally announced that retail store employees can match prices of other authorized retailers. The key phrase here is "authorized retailers" which means that Apple isn't going to price match some gray marketer selling Macs...

Tags: Retail Company, Reseller, Apple Inc., Retail, Desktops, Hardware, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-11-25

Cloud definitions and economics

Like Phil Wainewright, I attended the excellent CloudCamp in London several weeks back. Unlike Phil, I walked away with more questions than answers but with my enterprisey antenna on high alert. Two things struck me. Rhys Jones of Royal Bank of Scotland's assertion that while cloud computing...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., PeopleSoft Inc., James, Cloud Computing, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-11-25

News to know: Ubuntu; New Macbook; BlackBerry Storm; Google layoffs

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Christopher Dawson: Are you sure you don't just want to use Ubuntu? Netbooks + Ubuntu: OS solid but... Robin...

Tags: Ubuntu, Google Inc., Layoff, Apple MacBook, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Notebooks, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-11-25

Microsoft, Amazon take different paths to cloud caching

Amazon and Microsoft, two of the leaders in the evolving cloud-services space, are offering customers a number of wares that -- at least on the surface -- sound similar. But in the area of caching, the paths of the two providers are diverging. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Content Delivery, Velocity, Content Delivery Network, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., CloudFront, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-11-24

Verizon snoops peek at Obama's cell phone records

Nosy Verizon employees improperly accessed and peeked at Barack Obama's personal cell phone records, the company said in a statement acknowledging the privacy breach. In the statement, Verizon Wireless chief executive Lowell McAdam apologized to the President-elect and vowed that the errant employees will be disciplined.  The...

Tags: Employee, Phone, Verizon Communications Inc., Cell Phone, E-mail, Cellular Phones, Security, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-11-21

News to know: Dell; Army bans USB drives; Salesforce; Microsoft

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Cost cutting pays off for Dell; IT spending, demand 'challenging' Sam Diaz: Salesforce bucks trend for Q3; shares rising. Unsealed court filing: HP's Hurd...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Corp., USB Flash Drive, Internet, Open Source

Blog posts 2008-11-21

Amazon CTO: Cloud infrastructure keeps companies focused on innovation

On the night of the historic U.S. presidential election, news outlets across the country streamed live video of the news coverage on their Web sites. Obviously, the Web traffic that night, compared to others, was exponentially greater. But it's not as if news organizations went out and spent boatloads of...

Tags: Innovation, Amazon.com Inc., Infrastructure, Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-11-20

Mozilla's financials: 2007 strong; Portfolio takes 2008 lumps

Mozilla's 2007 annual report reveals a foundation that's well funded--primarily by a Google search deal--and can weather a downturn. Nevertheless, 2008 is going to be a different story as Mozilla's portfolio has taken some big hits. In 2007, Mozilla had revenue of $75 million, up 12 percent...

Tags: Mozilla Corp., Taxes, Financial Management, Mutual Funds, Investment, Free Trade, Retirement Plans, Operational Accounting, Financial Planning, Finance, Human Resources, Benefits, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-19

Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Budget home theater setups

This is the first of a series of buying guides for those looking forward to this holiday season as a time to assemble a home theater system. First up: budget setups. Whether you need to create a home theater...

Tags: Panasonic, Plasma, DVD Player, Home Theater, LCD, 1080p, Prestigo SRU8010, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Tv & Home Theater, DVD, Media Players, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-11-19

Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Top 5 Netbooks

The biggest surprise of 2008 was the arrival of netbooks. Asus was the first in the pool with its Eee PC, and after some initial hesitation, the big guys were forced to jump in as well. Acer, Dell, HP and Lenovo are all among a long...

Tags: ASUS, Hard Drive, Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, Battery, Memory, Acer Inc., Intel Atom, Intel Corp., Dell Inspiron, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-11-19

Did Microsoft really kill OLPC?

I posted a number of pieces Monday about OLPC and its XO laptop now for sale on Amazon in a reboot of the Give One Get One program, one of which declared that OLPC was dead. A year ago, that would have been worthy of a pretty serious flame...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-11-19