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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

Google trying not to cross 'the creepy line'

Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Fox Business last week that "we're trying not to cross what we call the creepy line" when it comes to the data it gathers. CEO Eric Schmidt told Fox Business last week that "we're trying not to cross what we call the creepy line"...

Tags: Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Internet, Network Technology, Networking, Google, privacy, Tom Krazit CNET News

News items 2009-11-09

Arguing About the Collaboration Toolkit: Cisco's Enterprise Collaboration Platform

In the aftermath of last week's San Francisco Enterprise 2.0 conference there's been some lively debate about what constitutes '2.0', including some great comments on my previous post. Meanwhile Cisco have literally just announced their Enterprise Collaboration Platform, which will be broad set...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Cisco Systems Inc., Tool, Productivity, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-08

News to know: Windows 7; Google Dashboard; Driving while texting; Steve Jobs; Droid

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: Ballmer: So far, Windows 7 sales are "fantastic" Dana Blankenhorn: What the Google Privacy Dashboard can...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Google Inc., Web, Dana Blankenhorn, Verizon Communications Inc., Mary Jo Foley, Dashboard, Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Channel Management, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing

Blog posts 2009-11-06

Ballmer: So far, Windows 7 sales are "fantastic"

RE: Ballmer: So far, Windows 7 sales are One report has at 4% market share the weekend of launch so im sure its past that already.Has Windows 7 marketshare eclipsed total OS X marketshare yet?Just wondering. :)MSFT: 1/2000 = $56. Today, $28.40Win 7 may not be the catastrophe the last...

Tags: Sales strategy, Businesses, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, stock split, Win7, recession, Steve Ballmer, sales, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Andrew McAfee & Enterprise 2.0 conference

A very busy week in San Francisco at the inaugural West coast Enterprise 2.0 conference, which has proved very successful so far. I'll write a longer post after the conclusion Thursday, but for now here's a brief video discussion between myself and Andrew...

Tags: McAfee Inc., Enterprise 2.0, Conference, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-04

Walmart unveils 15.6" HP Pavilion G60 laptop for $298

hmmfor once, i agree with you. why are they still making the celeron...? shouldn't the atom replace that?Intel Celeron?is Inhel still making this 10 year old crap?surplus maybe? ntnti feel 298 is bad for celron processor..but still good option for ppl who r new to these creepy labtops..RE: Walmart unveils...

Tags: Notebooks, Desktops, Processors, HP Pavilion, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., laptop computer, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

EU showdown over Oracle-Sun; Objections seem imminent

Oracle is reportedly gearing up for a formal rejection by European regulators of its bid to acquire Sun Microsystems, according to a report in the Financial Times. An official statement of objection, the first step in blocking the $7.4 billion deal, could come as early as this week - but...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Regulations, Open Source, Databases, Government, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-11-04

Are the Microsoft layoffs over now?

I hope soI hate seeing "SoandSo killing X amount of jobs" in the news =/Ballmer should be the first to get laid offHis reklessness to ignore the FOSS and cling to the proprietary model drove M$ into the ground.Q1 revenues of $13Bn generating $3.5Bn in net profit ...... would tend...

Tags: Operational accounting, Financial services, accounting, Creative accounting, Microsoft Corp., layoff

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Motorola and Palm; will 2009 be designated as a comeback year?

Many of us believed that Palm was on the ropes and getting ready to go down for the count at the end of 2008, but they came out swinging at CES with the announcement of the Pre and WebOS. Motorola was a leader in the mobile phone business for years,...

Tags: Palm Inc., Motorola Inc., Motorola DROID, Cellular Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2009-11-04

U.S. Ethics Committee staffer file-shares sensitive document

So the answer will be change the technology, right??...I certainly hope not. The person responsible should be fired immediately, if this group is supposed to be so secretive and protective of their data. Putting ANY work-related material on your personal computer is not only a bad idea, it may be...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), U.S. Ethics Committee staffer, U.S. Ethics Committee, sensitive document, staffer, file-sharing

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Washington: lots of talk about global warming

Fuller: Too many blogs about the LIE of global warming.Global warming b*llshit demolished:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1533290/Climate-chaos-Dont-believe-it.htmlGuys (or should I say - Fuller), stop LYING.Also, stop saying there's a problem and then coming up with burdening 'solutions' to non-existent problems. The latest FASCIST idea: Blame Children for 'global warming'. Yeah right.http://unitedfamiliesinternational.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/children-to-blame-for-climate-change/Fuller, why are you...

Tags: global warming, carbon dioxide

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Headline 2010: e-Reader device failure

The market knows best, right? Markets are bloody paths to progress. At this writing there are approximately 52 e-reader devices coming to market in the next 12 months. Fifty-two different devices coming to market (Here's what I wrote about Steve Jobs' approach to reader devices when there were just 45...

Tags: E-reader, Sales, Hardware, Markets, E-books, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2009-11-02

Clean install with Windows 7 upgrade media? Get the facts!

Unbelievable"Last week I complained about Microsoft?s shoddy documentation of how its upgrade procedures are supposed to work. I?m delighted to report that I got a tremendous and immediate response from within Microsoft, offering assistance in my testing and also promising to clean up and expand their documentation."So what exactly did...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, product key, acccount, clean install, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-11-02