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Google to bid alone on 700MHz spectrum

Google will be there in January, when the FCC opens up the big auction for 700MHz spectrum. No surprise there, but press reports are now saying that Google isn't interested in any partners for its bid on the valuable spectrum. Many people had assumed Google would partner with a company...

Tags: Google Inc., Partnership, Business Week, Spectrum, Business Structures, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Finance, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2007-11-16

Yahoo's Callahan parses his testimony

Business Week has a copy of Yahoo GC Michael Callahan's far right written testimony to Congress, in which he explains his February 2006 testimony and why it was not a lie. In my testimony, I stated: "When Yahoo! China in Beijing was required to...

Tags: Testimony, Yahoo! Inc., Business Week, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2007-11-06

Is iPhone helping Apple lose its soul?

Business Week's Arik Hesseldahl writes that he won't buy an iPhone because he doesn't like how Apple "is keeping the iPhone from evolving in a manner consistent with its corporate heritage." Most of Arik's specific grievances seem to be focused not on the iPhone pricing...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Business Week, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-10-08

Digg gets more social and advertiser-friendly

If all goes to plan, later in the day Digg will roll out a major update to the social news site, to add a number of new social networking features: enhanced user profiles, private messaging, discussion boards, and privacy settings. Nearly all features that I called for in a post...

Tags: Digg, Business Week, MySpace, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2007-09-19

PC CPU shares in Q3 2005: Intel - 80.8%, AMD - 17.8%

Business Week Online has some helpful stats on PC and server microprocessor shares. The rivalry between Intel and AMD intensifies, as in Q3 2004 Intel had 82.1% share, compared to AMD's 15.9%. By Q2 2005 Intel owned 82.2% of the market, while AMD improved as well to 16.2%. By Q3...

Tags: Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Blog posts 2005-12-20

5K podcasting feeds in May 2005

Business Week quotes Feedburner data on the number of available podcast feeds. From 212 podcasts available on Nov 1st, 2004, the podcasting world doubled to 483 feeds by November 29th, 2004, then more than doubled to 1090 by Jan 10, 2005. By May 16th, 2005, there were 5302 podcasting feeds...

Tags: Podcasts, Business Week

Blog posts 2005-11-04

Business Week's VoIP doom and gloom: they may not be all wrong, you know

Business Week's Olga Kharif believes that the VoIP market has entered a phase what Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan terms "irrational exuberance.""I believe that we'll see the VoIP world coming down to earth sooner rather than later, too," she writes.Kharif seems to be basing her prediction on the belief that...

Tags: VoIP

Blog posts 2005-09-11

Additional Resources

Who's afraid of the big bad cloud?

Tech news has been dominated this week by Google's announcements regarding their upcoming Chrome OS. Plenty of geeks are excited; so are plenty of industry insiders and business analysts. You know who aren't excited? Those who say we aren't ready for an OS dependent upon "The Cloud." by...

Tags: Tech New, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-11-20

ChromeOS says tear down this network regulation wall

Costs"What is holding back network capacity is politics."What's holding back network capacity is huge costs.Yep, very important to push the ISPs to free up the bits. They would love to continue selling bandwidth through an eyedropper at very high prices. They need a push.Oh, and Microsoft will not like this...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Network technology, ChromeOS, netbook, fiber

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Rumored HTC 'Dragon' Google phone to spar with iPhone, Droid

The problem for competitors is that Google could throw a billion or more atmobile OS market including Android and ChromeOS. They just want a flood of cheap, very functional, very powerful mobile internet devices. They do not need ANY profits on the OS itself.Hardware manufactures like Palm, Blackberry, and Nokia...

Tags: Keyboards, Telecom & Utilities, Smart phones, Handhelds, phone, keyboard, Google Inc., physical keyboard, High Tech Computer Corp., iPhone Droid, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Cap and trade controversial in Australia

This is what happened:An Australian researcher who was critical of mainstream theories got censored.The new Inquisition: dare to raise your voice against the enviro-whackos and they get all angry.CEC FAILs againCEC claims: [i]"An Australian researcher who was critical of mainstream theories got censored."[/i]He wasn't censored for disagreeing with the global...

Tags: theory, CEC, global warming, Cap-and-Trade, carbon dioxide, tax

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Microsoft search share continues its slow upward crawl

Google is impossible to beatAt this point, unless something absolutely traumatic was to happen to Google, I dont see any change from the status quo for a while.It will certainly take much more than a Yahoo/MSFT combo thats for sure...Onuorahttp://www.windows7update.comhttp://www.windows8update.comMS is grasping at straws & patentsOnce they lose patents it...

Tags: Workforce management, Bing, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

'The Purpose of a Business is to Create a Customer' - Peter Drucker Centenary

This month marks the centenary of Management guru Peter Drucker's birth, and the Harvard Business Review - the Vogue magazine of management fashions - has a terrific section devoted to his legacy and ideas this month. The paper version is a keeper. Drucker's...

Tags: Performance, Knowledge, Drucker, John Hagel, Knowledge Stock, Lloyd, Strategy, Collaboration, Groupware, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-16

News to know: HP-3Com; AMD; Google; Blockbuster; Bing 2.0

News to know intro: Sam Diaz: HP announces $2.7 billion acquisition of 3Com; raises outlook Larry Dignan: Cisco vs. HP: 3Com acquisition ups the ante John Morris: AMD updates roadmap, promises "supercomputer in your lap" ...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Andrew Nusca, Blockbuster Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sam Diaz, Games, Linux, Open Source, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-11-12

CCHIT going on almost as if nothing happened

Republicans up to no good again.Another buck for doing nothing.CCHIT HappensThats it.We bought a package that was CCHIT certified, one of our requirements.We had plenty of other requirements for an EHR, but they wanted to make sure it was certified by someone else just incase the goverment came up with...

Tags: CCHIT, eHR

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

Epicor's implementation cost drive: what does it really mean?

Epicor's announcement Monday that it has created a shared benefits program for implementations looks like a step in the right direction for those of us that want to see lowered implementation costs. On the face of it, the offer is compelling. According to the press release:...

Tags: Epicor Software Corp., Customer, Benefits, Roi/Tco, Outsourcing, Human Resources, Finance, Managerial Accounting, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-11

Open source be not proud

microsoft over java???hardly.Ellison should use GPL v3 for mysqland commit 1 billion dollars to it.This deal will sail through and everyone will be happy.It is a pyramid schemeFor a long time open source companies were only "profitable" because their perceived value.MySQL is a very good example of this. They sold...

Tags: Databases, open source, MySQL

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

Sony to charge $24.95 for Bravia owners to rent "Chance of Meatballs" before DVD release

Meteor, please!I'm still hoping for an early arrival of the meteor that will finally make dinosaurs like Sony extinct! ;)These companies just don't get it. And I doubt they ever will.Sony when will you learnNo wonder Sony is bleeding money, they live in a fantasy world where they think...

Tags: LIKE IT, DVD, Sony Corp., Bravia owner, Bravia

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

Which should a small business choose: Windows Home Server or Windows Server Foundation?

Until quite recently, Microsoft officials emphasized the "home" in Windows Home Server WHS when explaining how that product fit into its server line-up. Last week, however, something changed. Microsoft officials added small office/home office SOHO users to its list of potential customers for WHS. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Small Business, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-11-09

Fidor Bank: a glimpse to the future?

While at the SOMESSO event last week I filmed Matthias Kroner, CEO of Fidor Bank. In this 9 min 43 sec video, Matthias explains the difference between the classical bank and the new form of community based bank. Fidor is the first bank...

Tags: Bank, Germany, Fidor, Banking, Financial Services, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-09