Additional Resources
- Microsoft vs. Google: Are all monopolies created equal?
- Are Microsoft and Google really locked into a zero-sum game, where every gain in Google's search business translates into an automatic kick-in-the-pants for Microsoft? That seems to be the premise, to a degree, of a couple of new items -- one on the Financial Times and...
- Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Monopoly, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- No Brotherly Love: EarthLink will pull its Wi-Fi network from Philly
- EarthLink on Tuesday threw in the towel on its Philadelphia Wi-Fi project, which the ISP was trying to transfer to a non-profit or the city's operating group. Now EarthLink is trying to pull out its gear. EarthLink says in a statement: After months of negotiations with...
- Tags: EarthLink Inc., Network, Wi-Fi Network, City, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Networking, Wireless, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- The key to Windows success? It's all about the drivers
- The greatest advantage of the Windows ecosystem is that there are so many choices. The biggest problem with the Windows ecosystem is that there are so many choices. Ironic, isn't it? The sheer number of choices means you can almost certainly...
- Tags: Problem, Driver, OEM, Graphics Subsystem, Vista/Server 2008/Win7 Ecosystem, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Notebooks, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- EDS internal memo on the HP purchase
- HP acquired EDS in a deal valued roughly at $12.8 billion. The move was outlined Tuesday morning amid a healthy dose of skepticism. Here's a memo from EDS CEO Ron Rittenmeyer, who will now report to HP CEO Mark Hurd. To the EDS Worldwide Team: Today...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Branding, Strategy, Marketing, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- HP seals EDS deal; Services No. 2 behind IBM; Can Hurd run EDS better?
- Updated: Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd said Tuesday he plans to use a familiar playbook to integrate Electronic Data Systems: Leverage scale, squeeze costs -- and underpromise and overdeliver. "We're running the playbook we know how to run very well," said Hurd, on a conference call with analysts....
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mark Hurd, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Earnings, IBM Corp., Non-GAAP Earning, GAAP, Financial Accounting, Construction, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Microsoft delivers Office for Mac SP1; Will bring back VBA
- Microsoft on Tuesday said that it is releasing Service Pack 1 for Office for Mac and outlined a future roadmap that brings back Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). The software giant outlined the changes in a statement touting that Office 2008 for Mac is "selling faster than...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft VBA, Microsoft Corp., Desktops, Microsoft Office, Hardware, Office Suites, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- HP's bid for EDS: Opportunity costs loom
- The debate around Hewlett-Packard's purchase of Electronic Data Systems follows three primary questions. Is the EDS acquisition another Compaq--a deal that will take years to pay off? Is EDS the right acquisition for HP? Are there other places where HP should spend its money? HP on Tuesday...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Dennis, Tools & Techniques, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Microsoft's plan to block Linux on laptops
- Details of Microsoft's recently announced plan to extend the life of Windows XP for ultra low-cost PCs are trickling out. IDG News got its hands on what it says are Microsoft documents outlining the program for PC manufacturers. Until now, the big question was: What exactly defines...
- Tags: Linux, PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- CODA2Go and the economics of PaaS
- I had the opportunity to talk money last week with Jeremy Roche, CEO of CODA, the venerable UK-based business software vendor that has become the poster child for Salesforce.com's platform ambitions after the release at DreamForce Europe of its new on-demand financials application, built and delivered entirely on Force.com. Why...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Roche Holding AG, PaaS, On-demand, CODA2Go, Force.com, Coda, Sales Force Management, Sales, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- News to know: HP's to buy EDS; AMD; XP SP3; iPhone; Spam attacks
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: HP bidding for EDS; Deal would ramp up services. Dennis Howlett: HP to take out EDS: does it make sense? AMD rejiggers management; Forms central engineering group Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Integrate Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2.0 and Windows Media...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Hewlett-Packard Co., Nokia Corp., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Attack, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Podcasts, Data Centers, Homeland Security, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Government, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Wiretaps up, terrorism prosecutions down
- We have been told that our very safety, our "homeland security," is dependent on the federal government having extraordinary powers to snoop, listen and search without the traditional (pronounced "constitutional") checks provided by judicial review. One part of this equation works as advertised – the incursion...
- Tags: Terrorism, Terrorism Prosecution, Homeland Security, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- AMD rejiggers management; Forms central engineering group
- AMD on Monday named a new head of its computing solutions group and created a central engineering unit to improve execution at the chipmaker. Among the moving parts: Randy Allen was promoted to lead the computing solutions group at AMD, which focuses on the...
- Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Workforce Management, Semiconductors, Workstations, Processors, Human Resources, Hardware, Components, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- The physics of flocking in 3-D
- You might think that bird watchers are only amateurs armed with binoculars. But biologists have also been studying flocks of birds for a long time. And now, they're helped by physicists, according to this New Scientist article about how European researchers are capturing flocks in 3-D. With a couple of...
- Tags: 3D, Animal, Physicist, Handbook, Analysis, STARFLAG, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Sprint's inferno: Churn baby churn
- Sprint Nextel said Monday that it has lost more than 1 million customers in the last year. Sprint, which has been busy of late with a WiMax joint venture with Clearwire and alleged takeover overtures from Deutsche Telekom, provided a healthy dose of its financial reality with...
- Tags: Financial, Sprint Communications, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Is Cisco vulnerable to open source?
- A few years ago Cisco accidentally put some open source code in one of its Linksys routers. It released the code, then quickly brought out a new, closed source version. The point is that while Cisco is a good corporate citizen it is not a friend of...
- Tags: Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Vyatta, Open Source, Networking, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Powerset shows semantic search solution
- Beating the rush of press releases likely to flood inboxes during next week's Semantic Technology Conference, Powerset today announced the public availability of a service that adds a whole new dimension to searching for information from Wikipedia. Whilst much of the functionality unveiled today has been visible...
- Tags: Natural Language Processing, Team, Xerox PARC, Wikipedia, Powerset, Wiki, Online Communications, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- BlueICQ Bluetooth Marketing System (zip)
- BlueICQ Bluetooth Marketing System is a kind of Windows software, which can send multimedia messages to most mobile phones in the neighborhood without any cost. BlueICQ is the most avant-garde tool for all business owners to communicate with and influence their potential customers in a quiet and effective manner. This...
- Tags: Multimedia, BlueICQ Infotech, BlueICQ Bluetooth Marketing System, BlueICQ, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2008-05-12
- Hosted software development: an emerging market [includes podcast]
- Note: Click the player above to hear my podcast interview on hosted development with Jeffrey Walker and Jeff Leyser from Atlassian Software. Hosted software as a service (SaaS) development solutions have become an important option for mainstream programmers. These products range from straightforward offsite storage, such as...
- Tags: Software, Podcast, Environment, Emerging Market, Workflow, Tool, Development Environment, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Software Development, Development Tools, Management, Software/Web Development, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-05-11
- Informatica is on the block say senior sources
- I have heard from two senior sources in the software industry that Informatica [INFA] is on the block and it has approached Oracle [ORCL]. I don't know what the possible acquisition price would be or any further details. Informatica's share price closed at $16.45 on Friday May 9. It's...
- Tags: Informatica, Oracle Corp., Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Business Intelligence, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Management, Software, Data Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-05-11
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