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- Daily Debrief: Icahn's plans for Yahoo
- CNET News.com's Charles Cooper and Dawn Kawamoto, discuss Carl Icahn's plans for Yahoo, and the possibility of ousting Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and others to get Microsoft back to the table.
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., News, charlie cooper, dawn kawamoto, daily debrief, microsoft, yahoo, carl icahn, jerry yang, sue decker
- Videos 2008-06-04
- CA AG confirms HP-ordered breach of News.com reporter's personal phone records
- The California attorney general's office has confirmed that the personal phone records of News.com reporter Dawn Kawamoto were subject to unauthorized access by a contractor that was hired by HP in an effort to track down the source of the company's confidential plans that made their way into a Jan...
- Tags: telephone, Dawn Kawamoto
- Blog posts 2006-09-07
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- Report: Tech layoffs skyrocket in 2008; not looking much better for '09
- When the economy started to crumble for the housing, automotive and banking industries last year, there's was some optimism that Silicon Valley and the tech industry might be able to withstand the storm. Clearly, that was a short-lived dream. A report released today by...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Job, Layoff, Unemployment, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-01-29
- Intel chairman Craig Barrett to retire
- Intel announced today that chairman and former CEO Craig Barrett will retire from the board in May at the chip giant's annual shareholders meeting, according to CNET's Dawn Kawamoto. Barrett joined Intel 35 years ago and was most recently CEO from 1998-2005 before becoming chairman....
- Tags: Craig Barrett, Chairman, Intel Corp., Corporate Communications, Corporate Governance, Semiconductors, Marketing, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Hardware, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-01-23
- Slicing up Sun
- Being employed by a large technology company and being a freelance technology writer has its pitfalls, one of which is from a disclosure perspective: I'm not allowed to talk about strategy and forward-looking statements regarding the company I work for. The risk of...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Storage, Open Source, Processors, Servers, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- LG, Sharp admit to LCD price fixing; affected Apple, Dell, Motorola
- LG Display, Sharp, and Chunghwa Picture Tubes agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges for participating in a liquid crystal display price-fixing conspiracy and pay $585 million in fines, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday. The three companies worked in concert to set prices on thin-film...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., LG Electronics Inc., Apple Inc., Sharp Corp., Price, LCD, Motorola Inc., Monitors & Displays, Sales Strategy, Corporate Law, Hardware, Components, Sales, Business Operations, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- Yahoo investor doubles down: Is that double dumb?
- Capital World Investors disclosed Thursday that now holds more than 10 percent of Yahoo shares, or 135,542,600 shares, up from 69,647,000 on Dec. 31. Roughly speaking Capital World Investors doubled down, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. News.com's Dawn Kawamoto speculates that...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Investor, Construction, Financial Services, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- Microsoft-Yahoo: Radio silence phase is over; The two are talking
- Yahoo is reportedly holding informal merger discussions with Microsoft in a move that indicates a thaw between the two parties. Citing a source familiar with the talks, News.com's Dawn Kawamoto reported that the Yahoo and Microsoft are holding informal merger talks. Here's what the end of the...
- Tags: Merger, Yahoo! Inc., Radio, Microsoft Corp., News Corp., Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
- Microsoft makes last-gasp OOXML push
- Microsoft makes last-gasp OOXML pushHmmmmInteresting load of bunk.Funny, they could not even give one example of something in a legacydocument that cannot be translated to ODF. Nor could they give even one example of something required for MS Office that can not be supported by ODF.Statements like this show they...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Corp., OOXML, OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2008-01-29
- NetApp claims Sun's ZFS violates its patents
- Sun has been touting the ZFS storage software as a key advantage of its Solaris 10 operating system. Network Appliance is alleging that ZFS violates seven of its patents, and is seeking a permanent injunction that would prevent Sun from shipment or further development of the software, which has also...
- Tags: Patent, Network Appliance Inc., Open Source, Sun Microsystems Inc., NetApp, ZFS Storage Software, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-05
- 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
- Monitoring Mom and Pop from afar
- Long distance eldercareTake a brief glimpse at AT&T's new Home Monitoring Service and the Philips Lifeline, two tools that help caregivers monitor elderly people when they can't be at home with them. CNET News.com's Dawn Kawamoto reports.
- Tags: monitoring
- Videos 2007-07-04
- Second Life voice is coming: are you interested?
- Ive been a debunker of Second Life. Why? Its not real.But I have come to believe that when you inject real-life production value elements, and I dont mean Linden dollars into Second Life, then Second Life attains a patina of reality.In terms of exports from the carbon-based world...
- Tags: Second Life, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-25
- The New Yorker looks into HPGate
- Worth reading: James B. Stewart, most recently the author of DisneyWar, investigates HPGate, Hewlett-Packards misguided pursuit of boardroom leakers, for the The New Yorker. He doesnt shed much new light overall on HPGate in his article, to be published tomorrow, but provides some perspective and fresh details, such as on...
- Tags: General, Legal, Berlind, Hewlett-Packard, Hewlett-Packard Co., Patricia Dunn
- Blog posts 2007-02-11
- Build, buy or rent? Salesforce says build
- Build, buy or rent? Salesforce says buildIn through the back doorDawn Kawamoto draws attention to the business model which doesn't look that great when compared to a reseller model especfially in year 1. Having said that I can see this as another plank in the long term development of a...
- Tags: Sales force management, Salesforce.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-12-12
- How HP is different than Apple
- On 23 January, 2006 CNet reporters Dawn Kawamoto and Tom Krazit published a story ("HP outlines long-term strategy") that detailed HPs plans to improve the technology the company uses to manage its direct sales, its commercial printing efforts and acquisitions of software companies. The story was attributed to "a source...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Blog posts 2006-10-03
- On "PattyMail" disclosure, ZDNet to lead by example
- As cliche as it sounds, my father always impressed upon me that actions speak louder than words. So, this is a blog post about the transparent action that ZDNet is willing to take in the name of both Internet and privacy advancement. Last Friday, I posted two blogs regarding the...
- Tags: e-mail, HTML, PattyMail
- Blog posts 2006-10-02
- TRUSTe: Intent qualifies HP's "bugged" PattyMail as spyware
- Going back to the debate of whether HTML-enabled e-mails with traceable graphics in them should qualify as spyware, as an observer of how HP used HTML-email to trick CNET News.com reporter Dawn Kawamoto into opening and then forwarding a traceable e-mail what Ive been calling PattyMail these days, thats a...
- Tags: Maier, TRUSTe, e-mail, spyware
- Blog posts 2006-09-29
- Was HP's traceable "PattyMail" spyware? You decide
- If youve been following the HP privacy scandal at all, then youd know that HP resorted to or considered resorting to several techniques in hopes of smoking out whoever it was that was leaking information from its boardroom to the press. While pretexting -- fraudulently obtaining phone records by means...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., e-mail, spyware, PattyMail
- Blog posts 2006-09-29
- HP execs: Hear no evil. See no evil. Have the fun?
- After having to interrupt my coverage of the Congressional hearing to tape this weeks episode of the Dan & David Show, Im tuned back into the hearing which is still going on and, based on what Ive heard before regarding an e-mail that HP Mark Hurd claims not to have...
- Tags: Patricia Dunn
- Blog posts 2006-09-28
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