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Smartphone battleground: Apple and Google head to China

Smartphone battleground: Apple and Google head to ChinaChina is a whole different ball gameDoing business in China is unlike any other market, and Chinese consumers are notoriously hard to pigeonhole. Add to that a government that's ostensibly capitalist but still very totalitarian, and you have a tough nut to crack....

Tags: Handhelds, Cellular phones, Investment, Apple Inc., Smartphone, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-06

SaaS battlegrounds: Salesforce v Zoho

SaaS battlegrounds: Salesforce v ZohoRe: Love of lock-inIt is not really up to Benioff anymore - though he would love to lock users in. The web is the real platform today. Initiatives like Google's single sign-on (truly open - in the sense competition is allowed to play) are where the...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Sales force management, cloud computing, Zoho, SaaS battleground, Salesforce.com Inc., battleground, software-as-a-service

Discussion threads 2008-11-04

Microhoo update: Culture clash, Alibaba and board room politics

With the tech world on holiday in the U.S. for President's Day, the fate of Yahoo still hangs in the balance. That's doesn't mean the blogosphere has been taking a vacation from the topic. In the NYT, John Markoff and Matt Richtel write about the culture clash...

Tags: Board, Yahoo! Inc., Article, Microsoft Corp., Battleground, Alibaba Group, Corporate Governance, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Software, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2008-02-18

One Must Fall: Battlegrounds demo (Windows)

Battlegrounds is an online, 3D, multiplayer fighting game. OMF: BG represents a serious change in the philosophy of making fighting games. Instead of featuring two players facing off in a small space, Battlegrounds has up to 16 simultaneous players in huge arenas, fighting in team battles or all-out brawls. The...

Tags: Player, Battleground, Diversions Entertainment, Games, Microsoft Windows, Team Management, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Management

Software downloads 2004-03-12

Open-source fight on the 'wrong battleground'

Open-source fight on the 'wrong battleground'Not sure what he is talking about.The war is being fought on a lot of different fronts. There are a lot of people working on Desktop Software. We have StarOffice, DIA, MRProject, Mozilla, Evolution, GAIM, well, too many to mention. On the server, Apache, MySQL,...

Tags: Desktops, IBM Corp., Di Maio, IBM Lotus Domino, MySQL, Microsoft Corp., open source, Linux, desktop, OpenSource, battleground, server, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2003-11-14

Warcraft III - Return to Ashenvale Forest map (Windows)

This is the Return to Ashenvale Forest single-player map for Warcraft III. Shortly before the Burning Legions Defeat, the battle for Ashenvale forest was waged. Now, several years later, conflict has begun between former allies and once again, Ashenvale forest is a battleground.

Tags: Battleground, Aerys Darkblade, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2003-11-03

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The cloud computing battleground takes shape. Will it be winner-take-all?

This year has been one of relatively grand alliances between emerging cloud computing vendors as they fill holes in their capabilities and try to create appealing one-stop enterprise cloud services. We’ve seen major announcements so far from IBM and Juniper, Cisco/EMC/VMware, and most recently BMC and Salesforce....

Tags: Cloud Computing Battleground, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2009-11-24

CTIA: Qualcomm, AT&T execs reflect on Mobile's past, future

In many ways, it may feel like we've "arrived" when it comes to wireless technology. But Drs. Irwin and Paul Jacobs, the father-and-son duo who run Qualcomm, pointed out during a chat with CTIA President Steve Largent this morning that the industry has seen major changes over the decades and...

Tags: Device, Mobile, Network, AT&T Corp., Qualcomm Inc., CTIA, Networking, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-08

DOJ probes IBM's mainframe business

M/F competitionThere use to be plug compatible m/f from Amdahl and Fujitsu. When IBM switched from bi-polar to CMOS technology, the competition was unable to make the same switch. They have left the field.A few years ago, there was a small manufacturer of a PC server capable of...

Tags: Mainframes, Servers, IBM Corp., mainframe, U.S. Department of Justice, M/F

Discussion threads 2009-10-08

Nvidia: Next big supercomputer player?

Nvidia unveiled its next-generation graphics processing unit GPU architecture, dubbed Fermi, and announced a key supercomputing win with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The takeaway: Graphics and visualization are becoming key to scientific discoveries. And Nvidia could be a major player. Oak Ridge's supercomputer will be used...

Tags: Supercomputer, NVidia Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, Supercomputing, GPU, Fermi, Oak Ridge, CNET News, JMP Securities Alex Gauna, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-01

News to know: Twitter DOS attack; Cisco and IBM, Clunkers, Win 7 chart; Murdoch; CTO

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Twitter knocked offline by DDoS attack; Koobface returns with a twist Larry Dignan: Cisco CEO Chambers: IBM...

Tags: Denial Of Service, Facebook, Larry Dignan, CTO, Video, Cisco Systems Inc., Ryan Naraine, Twitter, Sam Diaz, IBM Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Corporate Communications, Microsoft Windows, Marketing, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-08-07

Smartphone battleground: Apple and Google head to China

The Apple vs. Google smartphone race is coming to China - and from early reports, it looks like Apple is eyeing the rougher road to the top. According to a report in the Financial Times, Apple couldn't come to a revenue-sharing agreement with the big dog mobile...

Tags: China, Apple iPhone, Google Inc., China Mobile Ltd., Apple Inc., Smartphone, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-08-06

Facing Windows 7 E browser issues head on

Facing Windows 7 E browser issues head onit is easier......when you have a browser to start with, so that you can install a browser of your choice, if you so wishJust use FTPMozilla is available from ftp servers. A small batch script to ftp get the desired copy and...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Web browser, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-07-21

Microsoft gets its edge back

Is it just me or is Microsoft a little more competitive than it has been in recent years? Microsoft has gotten under Apple's skin---at least its lawyers---got Google's attention with Bing and is even doing the Web app thing. Microsoft almost seems to be enjoying itself as honchos like Kevin...

Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Bing, Linux, Retail, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-16

First release candidate of Firefox 3.5 posts Friday as expected

First release candidate of Firefox 3.5 posts Friday as expectedHTML5 supportThe browser space is REALLY exiting these days!I can't wait until the final Firefox 3.5 release, so I can start playing with HTML5 video, etc.HTML5 seems to be shaping up to be the next browser battleground and should lend itself...

Tags: Web browsers, Firefox 3.5, HTML5, First Release, Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2009-06-22

Yahoo: Tops in display ads; AT&T, Verizon Wireless in ad war

Yahoo is the top dog in display ads in terms of display advertising and it's clear that Verizon Wireless and AT&T consider the Web a key battleground for customers, according to comScore data.  In a statement, comScore ranked the biggest display ad publishers. Yahoo captured 13.2 percent...

Tags: Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., AT&T Corp., Verizon Wireless, Advertiser, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-12

News to know: Windows 7; Top student laptops; Facebook; Larry Page's commencement speech

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: How many Intel CPUs will fail the XP Mode test in Windows 7? Larry Page's fine commencement speech. Andrew...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Microsoft Windows 7, Larry Page, Laptop Computer, Microsoft Windows, Data Centers, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-04

Hosted CRM, ERP: Another Microsoft and Oracle battleground in the making

Hosted CRM, ERP: Another Microsoft and Oracle battleground in the makingWill incentives work?The difficulties MS faces in new markets stem from the way that they have behaved historically.Nobody wants Microsoft, and where there IS choice people are using alternatives.It's only the illegal and anti-competitive pre-installed OEM lock-in that keeps MS...

Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Enterprise software, Microsoft Corp., hosted CRM, ERP, CRM, Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-05-01

Hosted CRM, ERP: Another Microsoft and Oracle battleground in the making

If Oracle CEO Ellison & Co. do make good on their hosted services threat, they'll be competing with Microsoft, which already offers hosted Dynamics CRM -- and has made noise about possibly delivering Microsoft-hosted ERP in some way down the line. But it's a tough market out there, as Microsoft,...

Tags: Hosted CRM, Oracle Corp., Financing, ERP, Microsoft Corp., CRM, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Investment, Financial Accounting, Software, Marketing, Finance, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-05-01

POLIS 1.1 (Mobile)

POLIS is using the one and only source for realtime national polls and election results, POLIS users get up-to-date feeds of all the national presidential polls, battleground polls, a national poll tracking button, and a Red State/Blue State map button. On election day, POLIS will feed minute-by-minute updates on exit...

Tags: Mobile, Election Day, Poll, Paradigm Technologies, POLIS

Software downloads 2009-04-30