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- Take two: Microsoft says business licensees to get Windows 7 bits on September 1
- Take two: Microsoft says business licensees to get Windows 7 bits on September 1Nahh..."What?s your take? Will many business users be among the early adopters of Windows 7?" Business's are usually the last ones to upgrade, they have alot of testing to do, then beta testing with some...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows 7, business licensee, Microsoft says business licensee, Microsoft Windows Vista, Take-Two, MICROSOFT SAYS, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-07-13
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- Will the Palm Pre come to Verizon? Analysts debate
- Do any of you realize that analysts get paid to GUESS about things?So here we have a bunch of idiot analysts GUESSING what might, or might not, happen regarding Verizon and the Palm Pre. Give me a break.It's like the report I heard in Bloomberg TV the other morning. The...
- Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Handhelds, Federal government, WebOS, Verizon Communications Inc., Pre, Palm Inc., Palm Pre, phone
- Discussion threads 2009-09-25
- Microsoft Security Essentials or Forefront: Which should a Windows user choose?
- Free for business use?Interesting... According to this table, MCE can be used in servers (2008 R2) and, since there is nothing in contrary, it seems that is also free for use by businesses - most of the other free offerings (Avast, AVG...) are only free for non-commercial use.RE: Microsoft Security...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Microsoft Security Essentials, Microsoft Security, Microsoft Corp., MSE, Windows User, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-09-14
- A look at On2 Technologies and why Google wants it
- It's not very often that Google makes an acquisition and the target inspires a collective "who?" But that's what happened when the search giant bought On2 Technologies, a penny stock trading in obscurity on the American Stock Exchange, for 60 cents a share. And unless you've followed the wonderful world...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., On2 Technologies, Video, H.264, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-05
- A buy side response to the enterprise buyer's Bill of Rights (and a partial solution)
- My first post of today pointed towards an all too familiar enterprise project 'fail' and the documented experiences of one project person trying to reach completion on a now two year implementation. Coincidentally (I didn't know this was in the pipe), Mike Krigsman provides a critique of Forrester's Enterprise Software...
- Tags: Consultant, SAP AG, Bill, Principle Reason, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- Who should Software Freedom sue on FAT32?
- Who should Software Freedom sue on FAT32?What did MS do wrong?They are not bound by the GPL. They are free to license their technology to anyone they want, under terms agreeable to both. (I assume there might be some Federal restrictions there, but I don't think we crossed that...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, MS Just, FAT32, Microsoft Corp., Software Freedom Sue, GPL, MSFT, software
- Discussion threads 2009-03-07
- Freescale to use Android, ARM for $100 Netbook
- Freescale to use Android, ARM for $100 NetbookAnd, Microsoft will be left scrambling yet again. Have they already startedthe port of real Windows to Arm, or will they try to use Windows CE here.Fake business plan - Consumer snow job1) Save on license fees? Everyone seems to agree any MS...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, netbook, ARM, Freescale
- Discussion threads 2009-02-18
- Forget Yahoo, forget Dell: Should Microsoft buy Palm?
- Forget Yahoo, forget Dell: Should Microsoft buy Palm?That would be a dumb idea......from the tech standpoint. If they are going to use Palm for the OS then they could simply take Android for free. Now of course this doesn't sit well with the marketing image that they have set forth...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Palm OS, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Wireless and Mobility, Dell Computer Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Palm Inc., Microsoft Corp., operating system, mobile
- Discussion threads 2009-01-20
- JavaFX Q&A
- To learn more about the technical aspects of today's launch of JavaFX including its support in NetBeans and Eclipse I spoke in depth with Eric Klein, VP of Java Marketing at Sun, and Octavian Tanase, Senior Director of the Java Platform Group. For a more business oriented perspective see the...
- Tags: Developer, Application, Mobile, Ed, Eric, FX, JavaFX Script, Q., FX Common, Flex, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Slicing up Sun
- Being employed by a large technology company and being a freelance technology writer has its pitfalls, one of which is from a disclosure perspective: I'm not allowed to talk about strategy and forward-looking statements regarding the company I work for. The risk of...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Storage, Open Source, Processors, Servers, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- FCC opens up wireless 'white spaces;' Assessing winners, losers and wild-cards
- The Federal Communications Commission has opened up so-called wireless white spaces--unused spectrum between broadcast channels--in a move the agency hopes paves the way for 'Wi-Fi on Steroids'. In a statement following the FCC's 5-0 approval Techmeme, Chairman Kevin Martin said: Opening the white spaces will allow...
- Tags: FCC, Google Inc., WiMAX, Broadband, Spectrum, Federal Government, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Telecommunications, Government, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- Schwarzenegger terminates new data breach bill (again)
- California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed data breach notification legislation for the second time in the last year. The bill, dubbed the Consumer Data Protection Act, would have required retailers that take card transactions to disclose more detail about any data breach. Schwarzenegger's veto comes after the...
- Tags: Bill, Payment, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Agency, Schwarzenegger, Advertising & Promotion, Operational Accounting, Marketing, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- News to know: HP; Apple patches; Microsoft; Social networking
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: HP to cut nearly 25,000 jobs as part of EDS integration Larry Dignan: IBM targets HP's server beachhead HP vs. IBM: The looming IT...
- Tags: Security, Facebook, High Tech Computer Corp., Larry Dignan, Mozilla Firefox, Hewlett-Packard Co., Network, Patch Management, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Shuttleworth, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Apple Mac OS X, Social Networking, Operating Systems, Digital Media, Software, Internet, Apple Mac OS, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- Microsoft social-networking licensee on the rocks?
- High-profile Microsoft-technology licensee Wallop may be calling it quits, at least on the social-networking-platform side of its business. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Wallop, Wallop Site, Social Networking, E-mail, Wiki, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-09-15
- William Shatner signs off on video autographs
- William Shatner signs off on video autographsBeam my up Scotty"Beam me up Scotty...there's no intelligent life down here! Another P.T Barnum is born.What a complete waste. What ever "respect" I had for Shatner before reading this article, has completely vanished.Any fool who pays for this "service", who actually believes that...
- Tags: Corporate communications, William Shatner, video autograph, video
- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
- Are there enough suckers in the world to make a market for Mac clones?
- Much like the fascination one finds when driving by a traffic accident, the Mac community is abuzz with questions of whether or not the supposed Mac cloner Psystar is a real company and will sell real Mac clones. But the real question is whether anyone in their right mind will...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Machine, Psystar, Desktops, Hardware, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- hakia licenses OntoSem technology to third parties
- New York-based semantic search company hakia will today use the Search Engine Strategies Conference to announce that their Ontological Semantic technology, OntoSem, is available for licensing. Illinois-based RiverGlass, Inc. is the first licensee, and will work to enhance their existing real-time analytics solutions with OntoSem. I spoke...
- Tags: Lexicon, Ontology, OntoSem, RiverGlass Inc., Hakia, Semantic Web, Strategy, Internet, Management, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-03-18
- DRM - in a nutshell
- DRM - in a nutshellOne link explains it allI think that this will sum up my feelings on the matter:http://www.mininova.org/tor/807591information is freedom. done.RE: DRM - in a nutshellWow! Had to do a double-take to make sure I'm actually reading ZDNet - I thought facts were forbidden here.Anyways, top-notch article...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, user benefit, digital-rights management
- Discussion threads 2008-02-08
- Is Microsoft bound by GPLv3?
- Is Microsoft bound by GPLv3?The FSF has never before been interested in money damagesThe history of the FSF and other supporters/users of the GNU GPL has been compliance, not money damages. Seeking money damages would simply open a can of worms given you then have to figure out the...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., GPLv3, GPL, GPL V3, compliance, Free Software Foundation
- Discussion threads 2007-08-30
- Hey Eminem, blame the system, not Apple
- Hey Eminem, blame the system, not AppleDoesn't matter"The first are the very poorest: artists and songwriters, and they'll be the first ones to out of the business."That doesn't matter. What matters is sticking it to the record labels. Besides, we all know no songwriters or performers are getting paid; the...
- Tags: Apple Inc., CD, Eminem, songwriter, music, CD sale
- Discussion threads 2007-08-17
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