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- News to know: Yahoo's home page; Barnes & Noble; Microsoft's Linux Code; 3G iPod Touch
- 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. Sam Diaz: Yahoo's new home page: Spending more time in your world Larry Dignan: Barnes & Noble partners with...
- Tags: Apple iPod, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Apple iPod Touch, Barnes & Noble Inc., Linux, 3G, UNIX, Operating Systems, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Open Source, Wireless And Mobility, Software, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-21
- Microsoft's store foray: Compensating for the tech retail implosion?
- Microsoft's store foray: Compensating for the tech retail implosion?Good pointMS realizes it can't base its business model on inertia, so the retail store is not a bad idea. Also, I feel far more confident with the Apple store employees than I do with the employees at Best Buy, rightly or...
- Tags: Retail, Desktops, Microsoft Corp., retail company, Apple Inc., PC
- Discussion threads 2009-07-20
- News to know: IBM; SAP; Microsoft; Sarbanes-Oxley; EMC
- 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. Larry Dignan: IBM rolls out the 'Smart Cube' with app market: Think enterprise iPod-iTunes combo Joe McKendrick: Goodbye, SOX? AP: Supreme Court to...
- Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Craigslist, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Microsoft Windows 7, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., EMC Corp., Netbook, IBM Corp., Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Storage, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2009-05-19
- The coming wireline business implosion (and how you'll wind up paying for it)
- Is the wired telecom business just as doomed as beleaguered automakers like GM and Chrysler and the newspaper industry? It's quite possible a few years down the line. And this wireline fallout will have ramifications well beyond the usual suspects such as AT&T and Verizon. Simply put, cutting the...
- Tags: Bailout, Business, Craig Moffett, Finance, Financial Planning, Free Trade, Larry Dignan, Network, Networking, Personal Finance, Phone, Taxes, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Telecommunications Company, Telephony, Verizon Communications Inc., Wireline
- Blog posts 2009-05-18
- NEXT09: domination = stagnation: now the crumbling empires
- NEXT09 is one of Europe's most important conferences. It brings together some of the edgiest thinkers from around the world, people who challenge accepted norms and put some of the big issues into sharp relief. Today, Umair Haque and Andrew Keen provided conflicting yet paradoxically complementary views of what the...
- Tags: Domination, Oracle Corp., NEXT09, Haque, Sales Force Management, Investment, Financial Services, Sales, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- Engineering, tech 'suddenly sexy' for college grads
- Engineering, tech 'suddenly sexy' for college gradsWe need more tech typesGood, let's get some investment back into technology and education. Far better than giving out badly thought out loans.Let's just hope that these students make better scientists, dealing with actual facts, than they did as business types making up...
- Tags: Financial accounting, financial
- Discussion threads 2008-11-15
- More optimistic views on the future of enterprise software
- With SAP’s decision to forgo its 2009 guidance a paradoxical beacon of truth in a falling market, I have decided to return from vacation a day early and get busy trying to gauge the market for enterprise software in the coming year. It’s not an easy task, needless to day,...
- Tags: Technology Sector, Enterprise Software, Recession, Dot-com, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-10-30
- What if News Corp., MSN and Yahoo were a separate company?
- What if News Corp., MSN and Yahoo were a separate company?Microsoft would NEVER spin them off. A wholly owned subsidiary YESMS still wants to be able to convert all of the servers to Windows, and make sure that they do what Microsoft wants in the war against open source. MS...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, MSN, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Bungie, server, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-04-10
- Yang hits back at Ballmer; mentions antitrust concerns
- Yang hits back at Ballmer; mentions antitrust concernsYahoo and investors just have to be patient.No reason for them to get in a hurry. Yes, MS is in a hurry, SO WHAT???MS is setting themselves up for further antitrust actions ...In the current political climate they are likely to get a...
- Tags: Corporate law, Financial accounting, Investment, Microsoft Corp., Yang, antitrust, Yahoo! Inc., Steve Ballmer, stock, antitrust concern
- Discussion threads 2008-04-07
- Microsoft-Yahoo: They don't call it a hostile takeover for nothing...
- Microsoft-Yahoo: They don't call it a hostile takeover for nothing...Off we goI think the takeover is a bad idea, but what do I know? Time will tell who's right. I'd still hate to see Yahoo go down in flames since, IMHO, they're a good company and I don't...
- Tags: Real estate, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-11
- Why isn't more effort going into tech refurbishment?
- You've gotta love the analogies people come up with to describe the magnitude of their efforts to help the environment. (By the way, guilty as charged.) The latest statistic I present for consideration is Hewlett-Packard's declaration that it recycled almost 250 million pounds of hardware and print cartridges in 2007...
- Tags: Pound, Hewlett-Packard Co., Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-02-05
- The implosion of music DRM
- The implosion of music DRMWhat's so hard to understand?* DRM-free is worth more to the purchaser* DRM costs the distributor* The cost of DRM is passed to the purchaserNet result to the purchaser: higher price, lower value.Basic economics.Tiers has been done...Tiers has been done with the tiers relating not to...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, music, digital-rights management, implosion, DRM-free
- Discussion threads 2008-01-04
- Packet8 CEO: in light of SunRocket's demise, we're hearing rumors of more VoIP market exits
- Â As the CEO of the second-largest after Vonage "pure play" VoIP provider, Packet8's Bryan Martin is pretty much plugged in to the whole sector. At ITExpo I had an informal background conversation with Bryan. He feels that the SunRocket implosion cost all VoIP providers some credibility on...
- Tags: VoIP, Phone, Packet8, SunRocket, VoIP Company, Price Elasticity, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-09-13
- Rackable: New CEO; same old woes
- Rackable Systems said former CA CTO Mark J. Barrenechea will take over as CEO of Rackable Systems, the beleaguered server and storage system maker. Barrenechea had been on the Rackable board, according to a statement. He resigned as CTO of CA last May following an exodus...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard, Hardware Infrastructure, General, Dell, Datacenter
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- Will Oracle's perception issues hurt SAP lawsuit?
- Will Oracle's perception issues hurt SAP lawsuit?Some assumptions are being made to fill in some unkowns.The data on the support site is not wide open nor, at least when I worked with it, as simple to get on as registering with fake credentials. How the faked accounts got...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., SAP AG
- Discussion threads 2007-03-23
- Web 2.0's legacy: The startup Petri dish
- The legacy of Web 2.0 is on parade in New York City--a never-ending stream of startups armed with PowerPoints, infomercials and terms like long tail, mashups and mindshare. One exec used four Web 2.0 buzzwords in a sentence. Bottom line: Its...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Web, Petri, AlwaysOn
- Blog posts 2007-01-31
- Do Web 2.0 start-ups need profits?
- Michael Arrington today cites “a failure by companies to drive earnings enough to keep up with stock prices” as a principal reason for the “Web 1.0 implosion.”It is a surprising public perspective from Arrington, given that his Web 2.0 TechCrunch phenomenon, “founded on June 11, 2005,” rarely discusses the need...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Web
- Blog posts 2007-01-07
- HP and November elections
- HP and November electionsLegerdemainYou're missing the main act, John. The Government has just run through with almost no debate one of the greatest reductions in civil liberties in US history; the Government is now clear to collect, in real time and without oversight, the exact same data [i]on everyone[/i]...
- Tags: U.S. Congress, Hewlett-Packard Co., Watergate
- Discussion threads 2006-09-28
- Finding harmony among iPod rivals
- Finding harmony among iPod rivalsToll road"It is important for the industry to create an open, industrywide standard for docking connectors that will give consumers greater access to the digital entertainment they have stored on devices"You mean like a toll road connects cities?Sounds like yet another WMA DRM automatic license passing...
- Tags: Digital music, Quality, Digital media, Web browsers, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., Apple iPod
- Discussion threads 2005-11-30
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