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Asian open source continues marching ahead

Asian open source continues marching aheadWhich is whythe American computing industry is on the verge of losing more than it can afford. Thing is it's not just Asia, but South America, Africa, Europe. They are all pursuing Open Source on many levels from server to desktop to applications down to...

Tags: computing industry, Asian open source, open source

Discussion threads 2007-09-06

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Making Money with Twitter

Twitter Japan Digital Garage, which is already advertising supported, are experimenting with a pay per tweet model. Media.asia are reporting According to local reports, the plan will allow audiences to view some text on all tweets but will charge a fee to...

Tags: Twitter Inc., Twitter Japan, Media.asia, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales, Finance, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-27

Open source reputations build brand loyalty

Bing might be lower if..I continue to use Google on a regular basis, but when setting up PCs and having a Windows update change the search provider to Bing, I get frustrated and have to change it back. I am sure that I have entered a query in there...

Tags: Branding, Linux User, Bing, brand loyalty, Open source reputation, open source, Google Inc., brand, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-24

RIM and Google: The Perfect Storm?

A "Perfect Storm": The Linux-based Android OS, and tight integration with Google's web services, running on  BlackBerry hardware and connected to RIM's corporate messaging/calendar syncing infrastructure would be an unstoppable mobile enterprise device platform that not even Apple's iPhone, Windows Mobile or Palm webOS could dare...

Tags: Google Inc., Research In Motion Ltd., RIM BlackBerry, Handhelds, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-05-27

The Ultimate Tablet: On Palm's webOS?

Palm's soon to be launched Pre on the Sprint mobile network will introduce the first webOS-based device into the consumer market. But should webOS be restricted to just smartphones? What about larger devices such as a tablet in the conceptual rendering above? (NetPilot Tablet Design Concept...

Tags: Device, Palm Inc., Tablets, Notebooks, Keyboards, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Peripherals, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-05-26

Red Hat maps dispel some open source myths

Red Hat maps dispel some open source mythsNot surprisedThis is for the best anyway. Who really wants to use Chinese software? Everything they make is inferior quality. Their software won't be any different.Americans and available "free time".Perhaps the big reason open source does well in the US...

Tags: Red Hat Inc., open source, software

Discussion threads 2009-04-22

Cisco's big data center plans: Assessing winners and losers rack by rack

Cisco's big data center plans: Assessing winners and losers rack by rackI would argue... that Cisco could be a loser by locking customer's into the BMC tools instead of using a open architecture for management. [i]Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein...

Tags: data center, Cisco Systems Inc., big data center plan, data center plan, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2009-03-16

The Disintegrating BearingPoint

More than bankruptcy to worry about BearingPoint, the consultancy that once was part of KPMG, has entered a very different era in its history. The firm’s U.S. operations filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this week. Moreover, the company’s Asian operations may be sold off to another...

Tags: Bankruptcy, BearingPoint Inc., Asia, BGPT, Litigation, Personal Finance, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Business Operations, It Operations, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-02-21

IBM is tops in patents

IBM is No. 1. The No. 1, patent holder, that is. And for the 16th year in a row. In a press release, IBM announced it had been awarded 4,186 patents in 2008, twice as many as Microsoft and Intel and three times as many as HP....

Tags: Patent, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-01-14

Microsoft: The top 5 risks; Will it cut 2009 outlook as PC market stumbles?

Microsoft: The top 5 risks; Will it cut 2009 outlook as PC market stumbles?Hmmm... Agree in poart, not others.Over all sales are going to drop, no way the entire world can be in this situation without it hurting MS too. As far as online, I don;t think its...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Strategy, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, PC

Discussion threads 2008-12-11

Is China an open source friend or foe?

Is China an open source friend or foe?It's classic agitprop ...The story came from Radio Free Asia, which is a U.S government funded station and an outlet for U.S propaganda. How do I know this station is an outlet for U.S propaganda? Because Radio Free Asia cannot be broadcast back...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, Red Flag Software, Internet Cafe, open source, Red Flag Linux, Internet

Discussion threads 2008-12-04

Open source valuations remain birdseed

Open source valuations remain birdseedYou'll never be Bill Gatesdoing anything short of inventing a time machine. Get over it and spend some time with your family, hiking, or something else worthwhile.Maybe it is time for some of thesecompanies that make a living supporting these open soure products to send...

Tags: OSS, open source, goodwill

Discussion threads 2008-11-05

OSUM portal from Sun

Yes, that acronym is pronounced "Awesome." Cheesy acronyms aside, the Open Source University Meetup is actually a great idea. Joe Hartley touched on it during our interview and Sun Microsystems formally announced it yesterday. OSUM is a social networking and learning site devoted to Sun Microsystem's ecosystem...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Student, Portal, OSUM, Open Source, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-30

Lawyer claims that Microsoft is "biggest hacker in China"

Lawyer claims that Microsoft is "biggest hacker in China"This is not the right time at all for MS to push the issue. With the globaleconomic crisis especially, MS will not be able to get blood out of a turnip. This will just cause negative nation-wide publicity in China, and you...

Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., piracy, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-10-22

ReportLab Toolkit 2.2 (Windows)

Our free Open Source PDF library is suitable for web publishers, developers or creative design professionals who need to quickly and easily create or automate complex (even data-driven) documents. It lets you create professional documents programmatically without being locked into one special technology and/or platform. It has grown over years...

Tags: Document, Microsoft Windows, Font, Graphics, Dinu Gherman

Software downloads 2008-09-12

The kids are all right with Linux

The kids are all right with LinuxThe kids are all right with Linux...well maybe.Let's see. You say "The new system should be more rugged than the old, the terminals are cheaper to replace, and the central system is physically inaccessible, so there will be less mischief. Before any kid can...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Ubuntu

Discussion threads 2008-08-11

China: A potential, new antitrust battleground for Microsoft

China: A potential, new antitrust battleground for MicrosoftI wonder how much marketshare MS would loseI wonder how much Chinese marketshare MS would lose if they pulled out of China? If leaving China leads to the loss of [url=http://www.newlaunches.com/archives/only_244_copies_of_genuine_windows_vista_sold_in_china.php] 244 sales[/url], maybe China would actually be doing MS a favor! :)They...

Tags: Linux, Corporate law, SECURITY, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Communism, Microsoft Corp., new antitrust battleground, antitrust battleground, antitrust

Discussion threads 2008-06-18

Linux-based Unison server to challenge Microsoft Unified Communications Platform

A group of former execs from a Microsoft messaging hosting partner are going to launch a Linux-based unified communications platform that will compete directly against Microsoft. Unison, a two-year-old developer based in New York, plans to release into beta testing the Linux server and Windows client code...

Tags: Platform, Unified Communications, Enterprise Version, Microsoft Corp., Unison, Linux, E-mail, Open Source, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Hardware, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-02-27

Commercial the dominant word in open source

Commercial the dominant word in open sourceYes, MS is forced outside of their comfort zone!MS does NOT like that they can not force everybody over to higher end hardware to run Vista. MS is now forced to TRY to make XP run on low end hardware to deny Linux an...

Tags: open-source community, Microsoft Corp., open source, man-hour, dominant Word

Discussion threads 2008-01-01

Cloud Computing for Students

Cloud Computing for StudentsRather absurd..."Without opportunities like this, most CS students graduate without ever writing anything bigger than an application written in one programming language that runs on a single machine."Why not? Most large universities have big, heterogeneous environments with Windows, Apple, and several flavors of Unix. As...

Tags: SEARCH, Marketing research, search engine, search engine marketing, programming, Timev Media

Discussion threads 2007-10-08