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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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Unintended Consequences and the Future of Maintenance Revenue: SAP Jettisons TomorrowNow: When Shai Agassi called me in early 2005, he asked me a loaded question: How would I respond if SAP decided to take the fight to Oracle by providing third party maintenance for Oracle's recently acquired PeopleSoft customers? I told him it would be an incredibly aggressive move, but that...; Tags: Revenue, Maintenance, Oracle Corp., Customer, SAP AG, TomorrowNow, Software As A Service (SaaS), Public Relations, Tools & Techniques, Mergers & Acquisitions, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum; Blog posts 2008-07-21
Vizio VP422: Vizio has taken aggressive pricing to a new level of low. The company's VP422, a 42-inch flat-panel plasma HDTV, can be had for the extremely low price of $799. While this set doesn't have the picture quality to qualify as the centerpiece of a home theater, it certainly could be...; Tags: Monitors & displays, TVs, TV & Home Theater, color temperature, Vizio, Vizio VP422; Product reviews 2008-07-15
Vista To Win in the Enterprise, The Ugly Way: I came away from this week's Microsoft Worldwide Partner WPC conference convinced, finally, that the future of Vista is assured in the enterprise. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't because of anything Microsoft said -- the combined mea culpa/back atcha delivered by Microsoft's Brad Brooks, the Corporate Vice President in...; Tags: Desktop, Information Technology, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Joshua Greenbaum; Blog posts 2008-07-11

What is Enterprise 2.0?: I'll be in Boston for the US Enterprise 2.0 conference next week. I'm looking forward to meeting face to face with a lot of people I converse with via Twitter (I'm @olivermarks on that platform when it's working...) and other digital connections, seeing old friends, and particularly...; Tags: Information Technology, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, Tool, Oliver Marks; Blog posts 2008-06-05
Email is the enemy: I'll always remember as a child a very old gentleman in Manchester, Northern England telling me about the Dickensian office he worked in during his youth - everyone sat in rows at desks equipped with ink wells and quills, writing and copying documents. The boss sat with a bullhorn on...; Tags: E-mail, Online Communications, Oliver Marks; Blog posts 2008-06-02
Lissajous 3D (exe): Make relaxing swirly patterns which change shape. You can use properties of real materials such as gold, pearl, ruby. Several hundred patterns included and you can make new ones to add to the screen saver. Includes wizard, randomiser, and background music. The classical Lissajous curves are traced by a point...; Tags: 3D, Pattern, Robert Walker, Lissajous Curve; Software downloads 2008-05-30
Collaboration 2.0...: For the last couple of years I've been in the trenches managing a sizeable collaboration space across three continents for a large multinational enterprise. The diplomacy, strategy, tactics and sheer hard work of managing, building and running this type of space can be all consuming, particularly with...; Tags: Strategy, Web, Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Web 2.0, Groupware, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Microsoft Interactive Media Manager (Images: Dawn of Silverlight ): Microsoft Interactive Media Manager (Images: Dawn of Silverlight )SilverlightSilverlight downloaded itself on me - without telling me what the hey it even is or does!NOW - what do I do with it?!???Why is MS so secretive?JVB; Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Interactive Media Manager, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-04-28
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
Failed Carbonite upgrade lets customers down: Failed Carbonite upgrade lets customers downCarbonite Online Backup - OutageI do not believe that Carnonite's response on this matter has been genuine.It was claimed that an upgrade was the reason for these difficulties and that the problem only affected customers who had installed version 3.5.89. This appears to be untrue.I...; Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Carbonite; Discussion threads 2008-03-11
Small business backup for Windows: Small business backup for WindowsMicrosoft has it's own time machineI'm shocked that you obviously did not research on this issue. Windows Vista and Server 2003 (yes, that means also "since 2003") has VSS, where any data on Drive C: (that's the default) is backed up automatically via shadow copies. Vista...; Tags: Backups, Windows Server Backup, backup, Small Business backup, small business, Microsoft Windows; Discussion threads 2008-03-05
Patent court rules in Microsoft patent spat: Patent court rules in Microsoft patent spatRare winStill leads me to be that MS support for software patents is misguided, though, even in terms of MS' own interests.Patenting software seems strange...Software patents seem strange because a developer can come up with hundreds of ways under the hood to make a...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, PATENT Process, Patenting software, patent, software, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-02-26
Tailored Solutions Delivered to Meet SDS's Visionary DAWN Project: Sydney Diocesan Secretariat SDS provides technology services to the archbishop, the assistant bishops and the archdeacons, the Synod and the Standing Committee, the Glebe Administration Board, Anglican Church Property Trust Diocese of Sydney and a wide range of other diocesan entities. The challenge was to create a network which connects...; Tags: Sydney, Nexon Asia Pacific, Sydney Diocesan Secretariat, Internet, Networking; Case studies 2008-02-12
If you don't like it, fork it: One of the big concerns arising from the pending Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo, and of proprietary open source in general, is the fear that a project's owner will abuse its power, even kill a worthwhile project. Well, fork that. (Picture from a YoLinux tutorial on the fork...; Tags: Project, Fork, Eclipse, Foundation, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-02-01
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
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Soulstorm demo (zip): Dawn of War - Soulstorm is the third expansion to the real-time strategy franchise Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War. The game is a standalone expansion and does not require previous ownership of any Warhammer games. Some of the new features include two new races--the Dark Eldar and the Sisters of...; Tags: THQ Inc., Games, Personal Technology; Software downloads 2008-01-24
Taking the 'complex' out of complex event processing: Complex event processing CEP has been getting a lot of attention as of late, and is seen as the next stage of evolution for SOA projects. Now it has the big vendors -- including IBM -- promoting it. How big will business event processing get? ...; Tags: IBM WebSphere, IBM Corp., BEP, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Web Services, Software, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-01-23