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- Apple iPhone 3.0 beta preview: The big takeaways
- Apple iPhone 3.0 beta preview: The big takeawaysIt is good that Apple caught upSeriously, I'm very glad that soon, all my iPhone brethren will get to see what makes smartphones so useful. It will come as a shock to most of you that fart applications are only the tip of...
- Tags: Smart phones, Apple iPhone 3.0, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., takeaway
- Discussion threads 2009-03-17
- The three big takeaways from yesterday's BlackBerry email outage
- The three big takeaways from yesterday's BlackBerry email outageAT&T OutageI'm an AT&T subscriber, and my BlackBerry email had crapped out on me too. I noticed it last night (around 11pm NY time). I think it started working again at around 6am this morning because I was woken up by the...
- Tags: Manufacturing, Blackberry Email, RIM BlackBerry, e-mail, BlackBerry email outage, outage, big takeaway, takeaway
- Discussion threads 2007-09-08
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- How to know when to send your email to the cloud
- Email will ultimately move to the cloud/software as a service model, but the math may not add up for larger companies. How do you know when to make the jump? Gartner analysts Matthew Cain and James Lundy went through the cloud vs. on-premise email conundrum, but what...
- Tags: Gartner Inc., E-mail, Online Communications, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- Microsoft lands Facebook, Twitter deals for Bing
- Microsoft's Bing search engine won non-exclusive deals to integrate Twitter and Facebook feeds, officials said at the Web 2.0 conference. The deal may be a sign that Google won't chase pricey search deals. The news, first reported by Kara Swisher at BoomTown, could be construed as a...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Twitter Inc., Microsoft Corp., Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
- Information workers loaded with tech they don't use, need
- Forrester has published a set of workplace benchmarks that reveal what workers generally need---and don't. The big takeaway: Workers have too much technology and software licenses when they'd really be happy with just a browser, email and a few handy social networking tools. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Information Worker, Worker, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-08
- PC vs. Mac: It's not zero sum
- Or...In 85% of cases the Mac is a secondary PC to a Windows OEM machine.And, of course, that doesn't include the Mac users who use Windows on their Macs rather than a separate Windows box. See, you can cut statistics any way you want.Macs are PC'sA better question would have...
- Tags: Desktops, Apple Macintosh, PC
- Discussion threads 2009-10-05
- PC vs. Mac: It's not zero sum
- You're a Mac. And you're a PC. You're both. Welcome to the reality that isn't what the zero summers---folks that think you need to be all Mac or all PC---portray. According to research firm NPD Group, 12 percent of computer owning households own a Mac, up from...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, PC, Household, Desktops, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-05
- Consumers only want 3D HDTVs, Blu-ray players if they don't cost extra
- Market research firm In-Stat has just conducted a survey that should prove sobering to the TV manufacturers and movie studios that are in a hurry to put 3D HDTVs into our homes. Not only are consumers lukewarm to the idea of 3D content, but they're also unwilling to pay much...
- Tags: 3D, Blu-ray, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-10-04
- Percentage of Internet users clicking on display ads halved in two years
- The percentage of U.S. Internet users who click on display ads has fallen 50 percent in the last two years, according to a study by comScore, Starcom and Tacoda. The findings Techmeme, an update to research conducted in 2007, found that 16 percent of Internet users in...
- Tags: Advertisement, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-01
- 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
- Smartphones: Is image really everything?
- If you want to conquer the smartphone market there's a clear recipe to follow. Be smart, add a lot of hip and cool and stir in productivity. Bake in some marketing buzz and you can hold pricing and become a signature smartphone. That's the big takeaway from...
- Tags: Phone, Palm Inc., Smart Phone, Smartphone, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-09-24
- Wireless: Examining the race to the bottom
- The wireless industry is facing quite a conundrum: Subscriber growth is faster than the relatively pokey video business, but revenue per subscriber is falling. Toss in the movement by Apple, Google and others to make wireless carriers mere dumb pipes and there's turbulence ahead. ...
- Tags: Industry, Video, Cable, Wireless, Wireless Industry, Craig Moffett, Tracfone, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-24
- U.S. national broadband strategy: Funding is the elephant in the room
- The Federal Communications Commission held a series of discussions about broadband polices, wiring rural locales and fostering innovation, but the elephant in the room was funding. The rough goal of the Feds' national broadband dreams is to wire everything in a high-speed access utopia. Radio waves, fixed...
- Tags: Broadband, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-14
- Rackspace goes for it: Plots infrastructure buildout; Notches enterprise wins
- Rackspace is adding cloud and hosting customers at a healthy clip and plopping down the capital spending to go with it. The company upped its 2009 capital expenditure outlook as it builds out its infrastructure and chases enterprise customers. On Rackspace's second quarter earnings conference call, the...
- Tags: Rackspace, Patrick Walravens, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- Does social media really correlate with the bottom line? Color me skeptical
- A study has found that revenue, gross margins and profits correlate nicely with companies that are the most engaged with social media. Should you build a portfolio around these highly engaged social media friendly brands? Probably not. A report by Charlene Li of the Altimeter Group and...
- Tags: Financial, Social Media, Financial Case, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-21
- Oracle's Fusion middleware master plan starts coming together
- Oracle on Wednesday launched its Fusion 11g middleware family and the effort is aimed at linking the technological underpinnings of all of the company's acquired applications, owning the market, creating one fundamental software stack for the enterprise, laying the foundation for a cloud strategy as well as a few other...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Chances, Miko Matsumura, Middleware, Programming Languages, Java, Enterprise Software, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-01
- Can Oracle give Java a boost (and monetize it better)?
- The prize in Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems is Java, but the big question is whether Larry Ellison and the gang can monetize the popular platform and bolster its standing against up and coming programming languages. In a research note, J.P. Morgan analyst Adam Holt examines Oracle's...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Middleware, Holt, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- Forget the iPhone: Palm targets RIM, business customers with Pre
- Few business customers look to Apple's iPhone as the solution for the enterprise. Perhaps it's the device's popularity with teenagers. Perhaps it's the device's pedigree as a media player. Perhaps it's because RIM exerts such power over the business community with its BlackBerry lineup, and the...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Research In Motion Ltd., Palm Inc., Sprint Communications, Smart Phones, Handhelds, Team Management, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-06-08
- Windows 7 to open another round in Apple-Microsoft rivalry
- Will Windows 7 blunt some of Apple's momentum? At least one analyst thinks it's possible. In a research note, JMP Securities analyst Samuel Wilson handicaps the Oct. 22 launch of Windows 7 (Techmeme, Microsoft statement). Wilson's big takeaway: Apple will grab the news flow with a new...
- Tags: Brand, Microsoft Windows 7, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, Wilson, Microsoft Windows, Sales Strategy, Branding, Notebooks, Operating Systems, Software, Sales, Marketing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-06-03
- How to Avoid Collaboration Traps, Create Unity and Get Results
- Collaboration - How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Create Unity, and Reap Big Results Morten T. Hansen Harvard Business Press ISBN 978-1-4221-1515-2 The great power of Morten Hansen's book 'Collaboration', the result of fifteen years of research into internal collaboration in...
- Tags: Hansen, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-05-10
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