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- You can look but you better not touch
- You can look but you better not touchDevil's in the details...The problem with the license, even for some proprietary ISVs and VARs, is that when you look at the code, there's a natural tendency to actively incorporate some portion of it(even through extending(1)). Then if Microsoft gets wind what you're...
- Tags: Retail, Channel management, Microsoft Corp., concession
- Discussion threads 2007-10-03
- AT&T now makes nice to get FCC merger approval
- AT&T now makes nice to get FCC merger approvalAT&T, the darkest phoenix.Mutha Bell is about to take its biggest step towards resurrecting their monopoly, and will get control of the Internet on top. And the government? They won't give a dead rat's ash about it, as long as...
- Tags: INTERNET, Mergers & Acquisitions, Network technology, Broadband Internet, FCC, AT&T Corp., Mutha Bell, concession, BellSouth Corp., merger
- Discussion threads 2006-12-28
- More Vista modifications on tap
- Microsoft reconfirmed on October 13 that it wont delay Windows Vistas launch in the European Union or South Korea. But Microsoft will be making further modifications to the product to appease EU regulators, Microsoft officials also acknowledged Friday. Heres what will be changing, according to a Microsoft corporate...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, concession, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-10-13
- Microsoft surrenders?
- Microsoft will support instances of Red Hat Linux in its Virtual Server and Microsoft Operations Manager MOM. Joking that it hurts my eyes CEO Steve Ballmer watched Red Hat Linux running on an early version of Virtual Server Service Pack 1, due for release by year-end.Ballmer also showed MOM controlling...
- Tags: concession, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2005-04-21
- Yet another nod to AMD by Intel?
- In a move that de-emphasizes the importance of clock-speed in system performance, Intel has announced that it's withdrawing its plans to release a 4 Ghz Pentium 4 next year. Given the way AMD has historically tried to downplay the importance of microprocessor clock speed in its long running battle against Intel,...
- Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp.
- Blog posts 2004-10-14
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- Times repeats Google spin on Yahoo ad deal
- Randall Stross, a business prof at San Jose State University, offers a full-throated defense of the Google-Yahoo pact, in the NYT today. Stross is currently working on a book called Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan To Organize Everything We Know and has...
- Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Auction, Stross, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- Apple, not Gear, deserves the blame for iTunes crashes
- Apple, not Gear, deserves the blame for iTunes crashesFUD modeEd I am unsure why this issue deserves your third story. Not sure why you feel terms like "tidal wave" are appropriate.You recently accused security software vendors of over egging the problem to help sell their products. So given that this...
- Tags: Digital music, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Apple iTunes
- Discussion threads 2008-09-17
- In the information age, IT innovation means everything
- In the information age, IT innovation means everythingInteresting.I think many IT failures are due to misundersyanding the company's business model. The nuances if you will. This is another reason to develop internally. To take it one step further. There are many good IT personnel that only understand IT. They don't...
- Tags: Strategy, Leadership, Operating systems, information technology, innovation, Linux, Unix, blog
- Discussion threads 2008-07-14
- Microsoft OOXML opponents won't back down
- After Hillary Clinton spoke last night I listened closely for what the loudspeakers would play. It was Tom Petty's hit "I Won't Back Down." (UPDATE: Clinton did back down Wednesday, with the official announcement now expected in two stages Friday and Saturday. OOXML opponents, meanwhile, fight on.)...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Hillary Clinton, Office Open XML, Opponent, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- HBO programming comes to iTunes
- Well, that didn't take long. After some rumors of an Apple/HBO tie up yesterday, Apple today announced that HBO content will be available for download today. This is great news because two of my favorite shows are Flight of the Conchords and The Wire. (I've been resisting...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Programming, Pricing, TVs, Digital Music, Marketing Research, Development Tools, Digital Media, Tv & Home Theater, Consumer Electronics, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Personal Technology, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Apple's 5 worst hardware flaws - and how to fix them
- Apple is often lauded for its design chops. And Apple's post-modern industrial design is lyrical next to Dell's neo-Soviet brutalism. But Apple makes some really stupid choices. Here are the top 5 - and the best workarounds. In reverse order: 5) Keyboards ...
- Tags: Headphone, Apple Macintosh, Disk, Mouse, Apple Inc., USB, Keyboards, Mice, Desktops, Hardware, Peripherals, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Who's tops in wind? The Spanish.
- Courtesy: Iberdrola. An annually updated ranking of wind energy companies shows Iberdrola is now Numero Uno. Every year Emerging Energy Research tracks the top wind energy companies based on how much electricity they generate. Spanish-based Iberdrola is now ahead of the previous leader,...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Energy Company, Wind, Iberdrola, EER, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- Buy techies with trust and freedom, not dollars
- Rewarding techies This is the 12th excerpt from the first book in the Defen series: The Board Member's IT Brief. The biggest problem you will face in hiring a good CIO is that, in systems, failure succeeds and success fails. In IT:...
- Tags: Job, CIO, Information Technology, Finance, Help Desk, Call Centers, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, It Operations, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- Rocketfish Universal Wireless Rear Speaker Kit
- The speaker cable requirements of today's multichannel home theater systems have created a sizable market for wireless speakers. It seems like everybody wants these things, but the engineering challenges of wireless speakers are steep, and a lot of wireless speakers sound pretty awful. There's a lot of truly awful products...
- Tags: receiver, Rocketfish Universal Wireless Rear Speaker Kit, speaker, transmitter, wireless, surround speaker
- Product reviews 2008-02-26
- Microsoft+announcement+coming+--+and+it%27s+not+about+Yahoo
- Microsoft+announcement+coming+--+and+it%27s+not+about+Yahooit will be a concession speachM$ will recognize that Linux is eating their lunch and they are going to drop some products or GPL their code.Linux and GPL have prevailed!RE: Microsoft announcement coming -- and it's not about YahooNetflix partnership w/xbox?RE: Microsoft announcement coming -- and it's not about YahooIt...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., open source, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-02-21
- Chinese spies arrested. What's the back story?
- In the underground world of spy vs spy one always has to question revelations about major spy incidents. Yesterday the FBI announced that they had arrested three men in New Orleans on spying charges and, oh by the way, another man, 72 years old who worked for Boeing up until...
- Tags: China, Bulgaria, Government, Federal Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- No+more+digital+product+keys+for+Windows+Anytime+Upgrade+users
- No+more+digital+product+keys+for+Windows+Anytime+Upgrade+usersblah!"blah blah blah Linux rocks yada yada yada Microsoft sucks blah"did I fully paraphrase your comment? If you're going to to evangelize Linux, don't do it here. Most people here won't use Linux specifically because no one likes being cajoled into anything (which you're trying to do). And be more...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Microsoft Windows Vista, No+more+digital+product+keys+for+Windows+Anytime+Upgrade+users, Microsoft Windows XP, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-02-07
- Hollywood dinosaurs and the Internet
- Not that this tops the list of things that matter to geeks, but if you live in Los Angeles like I do, it's hard to avoid news about such things. The Director's Guild of America DGA recently cut a deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and...
- Tags: Compensation, Hollywood, Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, Studio, Music, DGA, Internet, Sales Strategy, Benefits, Sales, Human Resources, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-01-18
- Why DIDN'T the MacBook Air get the new 45nm CPU?
- Why DIDN'T the MacBook Air get the new 45nm CPU?George Ou thank you for once, for not bashing APPLE. Top 10 thing wrong with MacBook Air[url=http://apcmag.com/7839/macbook_air_top_10_things_wrong_with_it]FYI[/url]Reason #11: It's a dongle.Design Time must have been a killer.The advantage to many PCs are that they work well with Top Down design. ...
- Tags: Notebooks, Processors, CPU, MacBook Air, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-01-16
- Onto Apple's Macworld stumble - $20 iPod touch upgrade
- Onto Apple's Macworld stumble - $20 iPod touch upgradeAdrian....this is one of the few times you write something about Apple and I agree with you, I see it as a screw the early adopters again. Maybe if there is enough backlash they will drop the $20 cost.I doubt it.I had...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Sarbanes-Oxley, Y'all, Apple Inc., Apple iPod Touch, iPod touch upgrade, Apple iPod, Macworld
- Discussion threads 2008-01-15
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