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'In 2008, Vista will make mobile internet fun.' (UPDATED)

...that's what HTC head Peter Chou said this morning after introducing the Diamond Touch, a slick piece of smartphone that exudes all the right iPhone notes. The one-touch phone, of course, is worth talking about: Windows Mobile® 6.1 Professional with Qualcomm MSM 7201A 528MHz processor WCDMA...

Tags: Mobile Internet, Mobile, Microsoft Windows Vista, Chou, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-05-06

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Taking the reins and tending the cows at WebEx

As a direct result of rolling out web meeting capabilities across its entire organization in the past six months, Cisco has found that its travel and expense budget is down by almost a third. The statistic is an unexpected benefit of acquiring WebEx in a deal that closed last May,...

Tags: WebEx Communications Inc., Statistic, Cisco Systems Inc., Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-01-24

Graphene-based transistors on the way?

The idea of replacing silicon with carbon to make computer chips is not new. However, using graphene -- a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice -- wasn't feasible because it is not possible today to make wafers as big as ones made from silicon. But two...

Tags: Technique, Researcher, Stamp, Transistor, Semiconductors, Productivity, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-12-19

News to know: Dell's tablet PC; SAP on VMware; Office Live Workspace; The transistor's birthday

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Dell launches its first tablet PC; Hopes touch boosts interest. Techmeme. VMware, SAP in virtualization support pact; Will ERP implementations become easier? David Morgenstern: Waiting for Leopard's iSCSI support News.com: Silicon Valley celebrates...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Advertisement, Hewlett-Packard Co., PC, Tablet PC, Transistor, NetSuite Inc., Microsoft Office Live, SAP AG, VMware Inc., Tablet, Microsoft Corp., Tablets, Microsoft Office, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Office Suites, Software

Blog posts 2007-12-11

Oracle stair-steps to on-demand

Oracle president Charles Phillips took some time out this afternoon to give me an overview of the company's software-as-a-service architecture, following up on the earlier discussion with fellow Enterprise Irregular bloggers. Oracle is concerned that glib assertions and misconceptions about multi-tenancy are causing people to undervalue its own expertise...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Database, Pod, Oracle Corp., On-demand, Customer, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2007-11-12

HTC will be launching an Android handset in the 2nd half of 2008

I am listening into the conference call between Google, T-Mobile, HTC, Qualcomm and Motorola where the Open Handset Alliance and Android open source platform was announced. Eric Schmidt, Chairman and CEO of Google Inc., Andy Rubin, Director of Mobile Platforms, Google Inc., René Obermann, CEO of Deutsche Telekom, parent company...

Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Mobile, T-Mobile, Handset, Open Handset Alliance Announcement, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2007-11-05

Google outlines the Open Handset Alliance; Will it succeed?

Google rolled out its mobile plans Monday in a group it calls the Open Handset Alliance, an effort that encompasses the search giant's Android software and a bevy of partners. Andy Rubin, director of mobile platforms at Google, wrote in a post. Despite all of the...

Tags: Google Inc., Alliance, Eric Schmidt, Phone, Mobile, Open Source, Goal, Social Media, Handset, Android, Gphone, Advertising & Promotion, Strategy, Marketing, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-11-05

Google reveals some of its mobile gang

Google outlined some of the participants of its Android mobile software in a media alert a few minutes ago. Google detailed a noon ET conference call for the Open Handset Alliance, an alliance of more than 30 partners. The executive lineup hints at the key bigwigs in...

Tags: Google Inc., Mobile, Wireless, Wireless Operator, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-11-05

MB DNA Analysis (exe)

MB is a free multi-functional DNA/protein analysis program. Its main advantage is that it combines all of the most widely used features needed for an advanced molecular analysis of genomic/proteomic data. Features of MB are a fast restriction analysis algorithm, promoter analysis, calculation of molecular weights and chemical properties of...

Tags: DNA, Protein, Analysis

Software downloads 2007-05-24

Liveblogging SaaScon: Tim chou and the end of software

I'm here in San Francisco at SaaScon, which is the first major conference on Software as a Service since the ASP boom dot-busted back in 2001/2002 (by the way, I'm on the SaaScon advisory board — see disclosure page). The opening keynote is Tim Chou, who led Oracle's...

Tags: software, Tim Chou

Blog posts 2006-09-25

Day 5: McNealy, Gosling, Gage: "Forget the box"

Summary: With a mixture of sadness, relief, and hope for the future, former Sun CEO Scott McNealy took the stage this morning at the final keynote address of JavaOne 2006. Saying "All of us are desperately trying to grow ponytails" (a reference to new CEO Jonathan...

Tags: Java

Blog posts 2006-05-19

Secure open source at least a year away

Following Coverity's announcement yesterday that their Prevent system had caught a very dangerous bug in X Windows, I was given the chance to talk with their chief scientist, Andy Chou.The news he had was bad or good, depending on how you look at it. It will take over a year...

Tags: X Window, X Windows

Blog posts 2006-05-03

Workflow on demand

One sign that the on-demand applications sector is thriving is when companies start to prosper on the back of it. One such company is Nsite, which last week announced a new $4 million slug of funding from its existing investors. Nsite helps automate the decision-making and approval processes that dog...

Tags: NSITE, Nsite pricing, on-demand

Blog posts 2005-09-02