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Gates: Beating Asia piracy will take 10 years

Gates: Beating Asia piracy will take 10 yearsSAPing Goodwillhttp://finance.yahoo.com/q/bs?s=SAP&annual25% growth in 2002->2003 in Goodwill43% growth in 2003->2004If SAP gets software patents in Europe, will they bump up the intangible asset valuation by similar rates?False value 'Goodwill' Rights"In the long term, Gates said, both China and India would respect intellectual property...

Tags: piracy, Beating Asia, Beating Asia piracy, Linux, west, goodwill, software

Discussion threads 2006-01-27

Additional Resources

Ready for real Indian medicine?

Ready for real Indian medicine?Reply from C.A. ChienDear Mr. Blankenhorn:Thanks for your note. To clarify: (1) I wanted to document my inventive system-design and inter-connection work on [i]Medical Onshoring[/i]; thus, the USPTO filing; (2) as to the "how," head to --http://tinyurl.com/6c4tj4" .. Covering the professional world (e.g., health care, computing),...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, Medical Onshoring, health care

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

Forrester: Vista is 'New Coke' in the enterprise; Firefox, Apple gain a little

Forrester: Vista is 'New Coke' in the enterprise; Firefox, Apple gain a littleNew Coke?Actually, given the way it has been and is being sold, is it not the New Kool-Aid?With Vista selling so well already ...... as shown in revenues from the previous quarter, Microsoft can expect to gain substantially...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Mozilla Firefox, Forrester Research Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Mac OS X, Mendel, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

SanDisk reports loss; stock takes beating after-hours

SanDisk reports loss; stock takes beating after-hoursYawn...Well you almost managed to finish a blog without somehow mentioning iPhone, but you couldn't quite manage it. Sure the iPhone must be responsible for the downturn in memory card sales, heck they sold a million of them. Who cares if Nokia sold almost...

Tags: Flash memory, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows, S3 Inc., SanDisk Corp., Apple iPhone, virus, stock

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

LCD TVs recommended over plasma TVs in retail, Samsung and Sony top recommended brands

LCD TVs recommended over plasma TVs in retail, Samsung and Sony top recommended brandsPlasma and LCD can fight it out all they want...I still think the best value in HD TV's is DLP.There's no other way you can get a huge 61" 1080P set with ports galore, a gorgeous picture,...

Tags: TVs, Monitors & displays, TV & Home Theater, TV, LCD, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., DLP, lamp, plasma TV, LCD TV, Sony Corp., brand

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

News to know: Apple, Crapware; Icahn and Yahoo; Brocade

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Apple's Mac shipments surge; Lowballs on outlook; Jobs health worries Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple reports record Q3 08 Does Apple need to announce a post Steve Jobs plan? Dennis Howlett: Apple chaos theory Jason O'Grady: Apple Q3 2008...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Sony Corp., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Apple Inc., Mice, Utility Computing, 3G, Open Source, Hardware, Peripherals, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2008-07-22

SanDisk reports loss; stock takes beating after-hours

Shares of SanDisk are getting clobbered in after-hours trading, down more than 13 percent after the company reported a net loss of $68 million, or 30 cents per share, and a one percent drop in revenue for its second quarter. A surprised Wall Street had been expecting earnings of 13...

Tags: Card, Phone, Memory Card, SanDisk Corp., Stock, Cell Phone, Flash Memory, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-07-21

AMD on road to recovery, says research firm

Technology Business Research says Opteron and Puma are boosting AMD's chip business, but the company could be hurt by the economic downturn. While AMD's processor business is showing strength, the company is still in a worse position than Intel to face a dip in demand for the rest of...

Tags: Recovery, Technology Business Research, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, AMD, Opteron, processors, servers, PCs, Victoria Ho, ZDNet Asia

News items 2008-07-21

Levi Strauss: SAP rollout 'substantially' hurt quarter

Levi Strauss: SAP rollout 'substantially' hurt quarterWhoa Nellie.....Through the magic of Google alerts I discovered something I said five (count 'em 5) years ago was used to bolster the notion that an ERP implementation SAP specifically was the cause of Levi-Strauss' revenue problems in Q2 2008.I really would have loved...

Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Sarbanes-Oxley, Cultural Change, SAP AG, Levi Strauss, ERP

Discussion threads 2008-07-19

Torvalds attacks IT industry 'security circus'

The Linux creator has some harsh words for creators of the OpenBSD operating system, as part of a wider critique of what he sees as self-centered behavior in the IT security industry Linux creator Linus Thorvalds has labeled makers of the OpenBSD operating system a "bunch of masturbating monkeys",...

Tags: Information Technology, Industry, OpenBSD, Bug, Attack, Linux Creator, Torvalds, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Linux, Security, Software, Linus Torvalds, Linux kernel, Liam Tung, ZDNet Australia

News items 2008-07-17

eBay beats expectations; calls PayPal a "gem" and Skype a "killer" app

Updated: eBay reported second quarter earnings today, beating Wall Street's expectations with revenues of $2.2 billion, up 20 percent from the second quarter of 2007. It reported non-GAAP profits of $568 million, or 43 cents per share. GAAP profits were $460 million, or 35 cents per share. Wall Street...

Tags: Revenue, Skype Technologies S.A., Quarter, PayPal, eBay Inc., GAAP, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-07-16

It's a start: Spammer gets jail time

It's a start: Spammer gets jail timeI dont see spaming as a jail-able offense.I would love to give jailtime to companies that send crap to my mailbox.The issue is waisted time and resources. It costs x dollars to clean that up, so you owe me x dollars, if dont...

Tags: Spam, spammer, anti-spam

Discussion threads 2008-07-16

Intel's second quarter delivers; Cheap laptop demand up

Updated: Intel on Tuesday reported second quarter earnings of $1.6 billion, or 28 cents a share, on revenue of $9.5 billion, up 9 percent from a year ago. The results topped Wall Street expectations. According to Thomson Financial, Intel was expected to report earnings of 25 cents...

Tags: Revenue, Paul Otellini, Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., Operational Accounting, Chipsets, Sales Strategy, Finance, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-15

Survey: 39 percent of iPhone 3G buyers own PCs

Survey: 39 percent of iPhone 3G buyers own PCsLooking at the data another way,there were fewer Mac owners getting iPhone 3G's than the original iPhones. Not just %, but raw number. Wonder what conclusions could be drawn from that?Good luck with the corporate TrojanYeah I don't see this being any...

Tags: Cellular phones, Desktops, Apple iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3G buyer, 3G, survey, Apple Inc., PC

Discussion threads 2008-07-14

Beating the Casino in BlackJack (zip)

Just Released. Beat the casinos with these incredible BlackJack techniques and methods. Learn Card Counting techniques and the Basic BlackJack Strategy. Hard to believe. Check it out and turn these systems into a daily income for you. Basic Strategy Tables included in the ebook. Following the Basic Strategy dramatically reduces...

Tags: Technique, Casino, PI-EX Network, Productivity, E-books, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-07-14

Google's iPhone app is really good

Google's iPhone app is really goodOMG! How many iPhone stories can ZDNet pump out in 36 hours???C'mon ZDNet this is ridiculous...how many more iPhone / Apple stories are you going to bombard us with??????Then stop reading them!What's so difficult about that concept? There seem to be a lot of things...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Google Inc., Microsoft strategy, Apple iPhone, Donnieboy, Google iPhone app, people like, Google iPhone

Discussion threads 2008-07-12

Iomega eGo Camo portable hard drive (250GB, camo)

The $149 250GB Iomega eGo Camo external hard drive is built extra tough to withstand the rigors of transportation and daily use. The ruggedized styling, low cost, and average transfer speeds make this an ideal choice for someone that tends to plays rough with their electronics. Once Iomega adds an...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Iomega eGo, Iomega Corp., Iomega eGo Camo, hard drive

Product reviews 2008-07-11

iPhone Fatigue

Let's go to the videotape. Or, at least the digitized history of the iPhone. Jan. 9, 2007 – Apple introduces the iPhone at MacWorld. "iPhone is a revolutionary and magical product that is literally five years ahead of any other mobile phone," according to CEO...

Tags: Apple iPhone, 3G, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-07-11

First impressions of the Nokia E71, a QWERTY device for the business user

First impressions of the Nokia E71, a QWERTY device for the business userJaw-dropping entertainmentI still can't beleive how sad some people are that they video themselves getting a phone out of the box... seriously.Details...Great intro, Matt. I'm pretty excited for this to be released.There are a few things that I...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Corporate communications, phone, Nokia E71, QWERTY, Nokia Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-10

SIMORE menu screen (SIMORE dual SIM converter smartchip)

SIMORE menu screen SIMORE dual SIM converter smartchipBut , does it WORK?Great pictorial, but does it actually work for both accounts?RE: SIMORE menu screen SIMORE dual SIM converter smartchipok does it work on a HTC? were can I buy it in Portugal??????RE: SIMORE menu screen SIMORE dual SIM converter smartchipok...

Tags: SIMORE dual-SIM, SIMORE dual-SIM converter, SIMORE menu screen, menu screen

Discussion threads 2008-07-07