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- Sprint: Can it convince customers to stay?
- Sprint had some good news Wednesday: The wireless provider lost 901,000 net customers and only 776,000 post-paid subscribers in the second quarter. Wall Street was expecting more customer defections. For instance, Morgan Stanley was expecting post-paid subscriber losses of 947,000. But let's get real here: Sprint is on the ropes...
- Tags: Sprint Communications, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Wi-Fi, Wireless, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Open Computer (Photos: Psystar's Mac clones)
- Open Computer (Photos: Psystar's Mac clones)Waste of money?Why should I invest $399, and then purchase the OS X, with the probability that Apple will defend it's proprietary system legally? Why not just purchase a Mac Mini, which will cost me only $50 more? The $50 is worth no headaches. Remember...
- Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Psystar, Apple Macintosh, Open Computer, Mac-clone, Apple Inc., photograph, hardware
- Discussion threads 2008-04-15
- News to know: Linux galore; Black Hat Europe; Vista reliability; Google and censorship
- Notable headlines: Paula Rooney: Microsoft partners with open source Jaspersoft, Sourcesense Ubuntu's Shuttleworth: Linux server, client will be big in the cloud and mobile sectors Red Hat CEO: We haven't done a good enough job as an industry leader, or project leader ...
- Tags: Black Hat, Google Inc., Mobile, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Semantic Web, Linux, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- Comcast, other cable IP phone providers complain to FCC over Verizon's "retention marketing" tactics
- Cable television broadband Internet access and VoIP providers Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks have filed a complaint with the FCC against Verizon. The complaint alleges that Verizon takes improper "retention marketing" steps to retain customers that have committed to try VoIP services...
- Tags: FCC, Marketing, Complaint, Comcast Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., Retention Marketing, Cable, Federal Government, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Government, Networking, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- One reason for HD DVD owners to forgive Netflix
- One reason for HD DVD owners to forgive NetflixIs this the nail in the coffin?I know there are dual players out there, so no worries. But the question remains.. is this the nail in the coffin?Blockbuster and Netflix only support blu-ray now. Walmart seems to only sell blu-ray...
- Tags: HD DVD, DVD, Consumer electronics, Blu-ray, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., HD-DVD, coffin, NetFlix Inc., Warner
- Discussion threads 2008-02-12
- Microsoft+and+Yahoo%3A++Is+it+a+threat+to+Google%3F
- Microsoft+and+Yahoo%3A++Is+it+a+threat+to+Google%3FGiven the problems that MS will have digesting Yahoo, and switching Yahooto Windows, Google will probably only get farther ahead. This is extremely risky for Microsoft.MicrohooThe basic premise of makes some sense for Microsoft buying a competitor to boost their marketshare, but considering how much effort they've been putting into...
- Tags: Phishing, Microsoft Windows, Web browsers, Branding, Cyberthreats, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-01
- What about the trust issues in the Microsoft/Yahoo bid?
- Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Yahoo! raises many questions. High in the list will be discovering Microsoft plans for the merged development organizations. On the press call, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO was careful to point out the extent to which Microsoft 'respects' Yahoo!'s development efforts. The fact is that Yahoo! is...
- Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Del.icio.us, Yahoo! Inc., Fact, Flickr, Microsoft Corp., Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-02-01
- Juniper Networks exec to succeed Microsoft Business Division President Raikes
- In what I consider surprising timing, Microsoft announced on January 10 that one of its three corporate presidents, Jeff Raikes, is retiring in September 2008. Raikes will be succeeded by Stephen Elop, who until today was chief operating officer at Juniper Networks, according to a Microsoft statement....
- Tags: Juniper Networks Inc., Jeff Raikes, Microsoft Corp., Helm, Stephen, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-01-10
- Swimming in the Blu-ray tar pit
- As I noted in my blog yesterday, Blu-ray made the business decision to leave lots of features undefined, wrapped under a BD-J Java layer that can do pretty much anything...assuming manufacturers choose to actually do something with it. In contrast, HD DVD chose to standarize a lot of features up...
- Tags: Blu-ray, Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Business Structures, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Finance, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-01-09
- IBM remains way out in front on information access despite Microsoft's Fast bid
- Ever notice that Microsoft -- with cash to burn apparently -- waits for the obvious to become inevitable and then ends up paying huge premiums for companies in order to catch up to reality? We saw it with aQuantive, Softricity and Groove Networks. It's happened again with...
- Tags: Google Inc., Acquisition, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Strategy, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-01-08
- Open source Halloween: what scares you most?
- Open source Halloween: what scares you most?Microsoft .NETOpen source's biggest fear should be the .NET platform. With the speed development must move these days on the web and the web-based RAD tools provided by the platform, open source simply has not answer for it at this time. And it appears...
- Tags: open source, Microsoft .NET, Web, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-26
- Red Hat, Dell unveil JBoss OEM deal, IBM enlists Novell's help
- One year after Red Hat acquired JBoss, the battle is finally beginning to heat up in the open source middleware space.In what was described as a "coming out party" for JBoss post merger, Red Hat and Dell disclosed at LinuxWorld 2007 plans to prebundle three middleware stacks on Dell's PowerEdge Servers."Partnering with Dell allows us to be much...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Red Hat Inc., JBoss, IBM Corp., Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2007-08-07
- Palm jumps shark
- Sell your stock yet?Once the shining pioneer that took Apple's idea of mobile computing and scaled it to fit in your pocket, now the company that can't seem to figure out what they make or who they are. This week they announced their stellar new product, the Foleo fake laptop.Seriously...this...
- Tags: Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
- Siebel 2.0: The end of Salesforce.com
- Siebel 2.0: The end of Salesforce.comI guess I'm not part of the 90%My company uses Siebel. It may be good for selling refrigerators, but it it HARDLY even ADEQUATE for complex, multi-month rollout cycles of IT gear, software and services.I'd be better off with post-it notes and Lotus 1-2-3...
- Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Sales force management, Enterprise software, DreamFactory, CRM, SFDC, Salesforce.com Inc., Apex, Siebel Systems Inc., sf.com
- Discussion threads 2007-05-23
- Oracle cozies up to Spring developers by making EJB runtime open source under Eclipse
- Oracle has moved its TopLink Essentials Java persistence API set into the Eclipse Foundation community, the first time Oracle has overseen a runtime project with Eclipse -- and an indication that Oracles Java contribution days are numbered, if not over.Interestingly, TopLink, which was acquired by Oracle when WebGain disbanded several...
- Tags: Apache, Oracle, Java, GPL, Intellectual Property, Web Services, Sun Microsystems, Developer Tools, Eclipse, IDEs, Software Development, SOA, Microsoft, Enterprise Java, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology, Open Source
- Blog posts 2007-03-06
- Boot Camp: end of the beginning or beginning of the end?
- When Apple announced, last week, release of a utility allowing MacTel machines to boot and run Windows/XP we saw two basic kinds of reactions: some people immediately announced that this was the beginning of the end as MacOS X would now give way to Microsoft Vista, while other people concluded...
- Tags: Operating systems, Apple Computer Inc., MacOS X, Apple Mac OS, hardware, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-04-12
- Microsoft denies involvement in latest China case
- Microsoft denies involvement in latest China caseBusiness vs principleYes, businesses such as Yahoo and Google have to play in the China market, and to do so they have to be what passes for good citizens - of China. But no, that does not mean a knee-jerk response to petty...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, .NET, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-03-07
- Who will upgrade to Office 2007?
- That's the question Peter Galli at eWEEK has focused on in two recent articles that look at both the potential disruption the new version of Microsoft Office will introduce and the potential breakaway some customers may make to alternative office suites. The disruption comes from a new user interface...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Peter Galli
- Blog posts 2006-03-06
- Major Cable Operator Transparently Absorbs Acquired Assets Using Visionael Network Resource Manager
- The Cable Operator is a leading provider of cable, entertainment and communications products and services. They wanted to quickly discover and absorb the new network resources, transparent to customers, who were prone to defection following the original broadband provider's bankruptcy. Streamlined ongoing network management was a strong second requirement. The...
- Tags: Asset, Network, Cable Company, Visionael Corp., Networking, Cable, Telecommunications, Personal Technology
- Case studies 2006-01-11
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