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News to Know: AMD benchmarks, iPhone hacking, SAP's new day

NEWS TO KNOW on a slow news dayGeorge Ou: AMD posts blatantly deceptive benchmarks on BarcelonaJon Lech Johansen: iPhone Independence DayAdrian Kingsley-Hughes: Let your iPhone run wild and free … free of AT&T that isPhoto Gallery: Cracking open the iPhone...and putting it back together againGigaOm: Why AT&T should offer free...

Tags: YouTube, Web Technology, SAP, SaaS, Oracle, News to know, Microsoft, iPhone, Google, General, eBay, Craigslist, Apple, AMD

Blog posts 2007-07-04

News to know: SAP responds to Oracle suit; Outlook archive; Twinhead Durabook

Notable headlines:Dan Farber: SAP acknowledges inappropriate downloads by TomorrowNow in response to Oracle suit.David Berlind: Is it time for the battery life equivalent of a 'nutrition label?'Robin Harris: Outlook's risky archives - and how to fix them.Review right: Twinhead Durabook D13RY.Microsoft document formats gain Mass. favor. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft...

Tags: News to know, General

Blog posts 2007-07-03

News to know: iPhone alternatives; Desktop virtualization diaries; Hacker's road to riches

News to know:Dan Farber: Powerset: The natural language search mashup platformDavid Berlind: The Desktop Virtualization Diaries prologue: The Good, the Bad, and the horribly UglyiPhone WatchMatthew Miller: What kind of choices do you have if you don't want an iPhone?David Berlind: Nokia's N95 costs more ($749) than the iPhone. But...

Tags: Personal Technology, News to know, iPhone, General, Apple

Blog posts 2007-06-29

News to know: iPhone reviews; Pink Dell; Enterprise Facebook

iPhone Watch iPhone Reviews: Not perfect, but worthy of the hype Engadget: How does the iPhone stack up in total cost? Mary Jo Foley:The iPhone will be compatible with Microsoft Exchange, after all ZDNN: Switching carriers for the iPhone Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: iYawn - It's not a tool, it's a shiny bauble Russell Shaw: Analysts predict...

Tags: Personal Technology, News to know, General, Apple

Blog posts 2007-06-27

News to know: Tim Berners-Lee; mobile Ubuntu; Kitchen Windows; Latest MacBook Pro review

Notable headlines:Canonical refines mobile Ubuntu Linux.David Berlind: Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee Unplugged right: Semantic Web better than APIs for data access. Out of the box experience with Lenovo's Thinkpads is simply unacceptable.Apple, AT&T stores prepare for iPhone frenzy. Dan Farber: iPhonomics and the post-PC era. Russell Shaw: Several iPhone presale...

Tags: News to know, General

Blog posts 2007-06-07

News to know: Ask3D; AMD; Smart watches; Browser holes

Notable headlines:Intel readies new chipsets. AMD hopes Barcelona demos whet IT's appetite.Matthew Miller: Are you sure there's not a place for a smart watch on your wrist? Gallery left.HTC beats Apple to the touch.Dan Farber: Ask3D brings a fresh look to search below. Ask launches new Web search site. ...

Tags: News to know, General

Blog posts 2007-06-05

Additional Resources

Dell repair adventure, conclusion

Well, our hero's story had a happy ending. The service tech came out to my office and replaced both the motherboard and the screen on my Dell laptop. After than magic was performed, the system booted up and ran just as it did before. I appreciate the help provided by...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Supplier, Digital Equipment Corp., Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-09-05

VMworld is bringing out the vendors

Planning for an announcement is a challenging task. Large suppliers know that just about whatever they do will be picked up by the media and presented to the world. Smaller vendors have a much more difficult time getting heard. So, picking the right place and time for an announcement is...

Tags: Supplier, Announcement, VMworld, Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-09-05

News to know: Windows 7; Patch preview; Office 2.0; Dell

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Critical WMP, MS Office bugs on Patch Tuesday swat list Dancho Danchev:Malware and spam attacks exploiting Picasa and ImageShack Mary Jo Foley:...

Tags: Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Comcast Corp., Microsoft Corp., Office 2.0, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Should political postings stay or go? A survey.

I've been blogging for ZD Net for several years, writing for ZD publications for almost 20 years. I've always found readers to be intelligent and thoughtful, which is why I continue to do this while doing other things as "work." My posting, A virus in your genes, think about that,...

Tags: U.S., R&D, Discovery, Blog, Politics, Survey, Creationism, Rational Rants, Research & Development, Blogging, Business Operations, Internet, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Handicapping the Fall Enterprise Software Race: SAP vs. Oracle vs. Microsoft

It's leapfrog time in enterprise software land, and the next frog to jump will be Oracle, which is hosting industry analysts next week in Redwood Shores and then hosting the entire world at its much-too-massive Open World Conference in San Francisco the following week. Oracle is...

Tags: Strategy, Small And Medium Enterprise, Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Smb/Sme, Enterprise Software, Software, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-09-04

EIC Podcast: Google Chrome; Apple; Dell and Salesforce.com

On this week's EIC squared podcast Dan and I talk Google's Chrome browser, Apple's iPod event next week and my theory that Dell and Salesforce.com should merge. On Google's Chrome browser we riffed on the importance of the launch, how it's really a battle over cookie files...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Web Browser, Sales Force Management, Web Browsers, Digital Music, Digital Media, Sales, Internet, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Are we "done" with rich Internet applications?

This week I've been putting together slides and preparing for my talk at Web 2.0 Expo New York City. I'm doing one titled "Making Sense of Rich Internet Applications" so it's more of a general talk covering everything from Adobe's stuff, to Microsoft Silverlight, to the mobile world, and now...

Tags: Rich Internet Application, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Office 2.0 Conference day one

David Allen discussed his 'getting things done' methodology with conference creator Ismael Ghalimi during the opening keynote session at the Office 2.0 conference at the St Regis Hotel, San Francisco. The core of the methodology is to free up the sophisticated processing unit that is your brain...

Tags: Google Inc., General Electric Co., Conference, Office 2.0, Matthew, Cloud Computing, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Analyst: Dollar daze around the corner for Web giants

J.P. Morgan analyst Imran Khan said Thursday in a research note that a stronger dollar will take a bite out of search, online travel and e-commerce companies. Khan's call Techmeme largely focuses on the fourth quarter given the dollar's resurgence began in the middle of the third...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Dollar, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Operational Accounting, Sales, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Red Hat acquires Qumranet

I just received a press release telling me that one of my clients, Qumranet, has been acquired by Red Hat.This was not entirely unexpected. Here's what the release said Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced...

Tags: Red Hat Inc., Qumranet Inc., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Sony VAIO TZ recalled due to overheating

Important news for Sony VAIO TZ owners: by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Sony Corp., Sony Vaio, Desktops, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Dell repair adventure, day 5, with updates

Since our last episode, our hero has been communicating with Bob Pearson, Dell's VP of Communities & Conversations, and Bill Bivin, Dell's Community Liaison, about getting my Dell Lattitude D620 back up and running. Both Bob and Bill give every impression of trying very hard to deal not only with...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Access Virtualization for Mac OS X - Aqua Connect ACTS 3.0

Aqua Connect is an exception. It focuses on providing access virtualization for users of Mac OS-based servers. (For those keeping track, the post, Aqua Connect Access Virtualization for Mac OS X, introduced the company back in December 2007.) This time, the good folks at Aqua Connect are in the process...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Access, Operating System, Environment, Unix, Aqua Connect, Apple Mac OS, Virtualization, Operating Systems, Apple Mac OS X, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-09-04

News to know: Oracle's Fusion guru quits; Dell; Windows 7 boot times

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Dennis Howlett: Breaking: Oracle's Andersen gone, where now for Fusion and vertical plays? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: New dual/quad core CPUs enter Intel price list, AMD drops prices ...

Tags: Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Oracle Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Portals, Operating Systems, Cellular Phones, Software, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-04