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- Lenovo confirms window shopping for acquisitions
- Lenovo on Thursday confirmed that it is talking to "independent third parties" about potential acquisitions and investments. In overseas trading Wednesday--Lenovo trades on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong--shares spiked 27 percent in heavy trading on various reports that the PC maker was going to pull the...
- Tags: Brazil, Acquisition, Lenovo Group Ltd., Window, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-11
- Dell negotiations: Street ball without the refs
- Negotiating hardware deals with Dell isn't for everybody. In fact dealing with Dell can be downright difficult relative to other hardware vendors. That takeaway came from Gartner analyst Leslie Fiering's presentation at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo. In that presentation, Fiering noted that Dell's pricing isn’t transparent if you're an IT...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Negotiation, Free Trade, Pricing, Finance, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Google losing cellphone battle?
- Google losing cellphone battle?Well, the idea is that CUSTOMERS will choose their phone, just like theychoose their PC. Dell does not need to do deals with internet service providers for instance. But, YES, right now, the carriers are the ones that select the phones that you can use with their...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Tea Vui Huang, Google Inc., phone, LiMo Foundation, Linux, carrier, cell phone
- Discussion threads 2008-05-14
- Dell adds Ubuntu 7.10 to its lineup
- Dell adds Ubuntu 7.10 to its lineupOne error in your statement...."- Turbo-Tax. Still stubbornly requiring IE and Windows for the online version."I used Turbo Tax last year - with FireFox on Windows XP. :)I don't have a problem?[B]"- Turbo-Tax. Still stubbornly requiring IE and Windows for the online version."[/B]...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Web browsers, DVD, Linux, Dell Computer Corp., Ubuntu, DVD Playback, Ubuntu 7.10, Turbo-Tax, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-12-19
- Fastest Windows Vista notebook - MacBook Pro
- Fastest Windows Vista notebook - MacBook ProIt would be more interestingIf they then did a comparison Windows to OSX on that same machine - using tasks that are common among all platforms for those tests.Cue Damage ControlDoesn't the awesome alien logo give it the edge though? The board room is...
- Tags: Notebooks, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, board room, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook Pro, Apple MacBook, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Macintosh, notebook
- Discussion threads 2007-12-04
- Dreamforce 07: Salesforce rolls out Visualforce
- Marc Benioff took the stage at Moscone Center before an estimated 7,000 salesforce.com adherents from 42 countries to tout a "new force for innovation." After several years of negotiation, the company nabbed the Force.com URL and promptly applied it as the new name to the the salesforce platform formerly Apex....
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, Sales Force, Logic, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-17
- News to know: Vista DRM; EU thumps Microsoft; SAP; DST; SCO
- Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Everything you’ve read about Vista DRM is wrong (Part 1). EU court crushes Microsoft's antitrust appeal. David Morgenstern: Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit: Love the sinner, hate the sin. Marc Andreessen: The three kinds of...
- Tags: Google Inc., Apple Macintosh, Digital-rights Management, SCO Group Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Currency Trader, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-09-17
- News to know: Leopard; Opera Mini; iPhone sightings
- Notable headlines:Photos right: Fourteen views of Mac OS 10.5 Leopard. Ryan Naraine: Apple plugs three Safari for Windows holes.Ed Bott: Day 3 with a new Dell and Vista.Larry Dignan: Opera Mini beta advances mobile Web browsing; Verizon Wireless blocks it at the door.Satellite companies partner with Clearwire.Ryan Naraine: There's a...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, General, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, News to know, Opera Mini, Opera Software ASA, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2007-06-15
- Ubuntu on Dells almost official
- Ubuntu on Dells almost officialEdubuntu on DellI can definitely see Edubuntu in the public education sector. Combine LTSP with Schooltool and the educational apps preloaded on Edubuntu, and you've got an excellent infrastructure for elementary and middle schools. High schools would most likely take Edubuntu and add KDE with one...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Ubuntu Community, Umbuntu, Linux, Ubuntu, Edubuntu, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-01
- Web 2.0 isn't dead, but Web 3.0 is bubbling up
- Web 2.0 isn't dead, but Web 3.0 is bubbling upWhen will Web 3.0 be bornThere will be a short intermission before the birth of Web 3.0, if the past is any indicator. First a few latecomers to the party will have to take a financial bath as the musical...
- Tags: Channel management, Web 3.0, Web, IKEA, E*Trade Financial Corp., Web 2.0
- Discussion threads 2006-11-12
- Zag steers new route to buying a car
- DISCLOSURE: I do not know how to drive a car. In fact, I have been weightless (on two Zero-G flights, for 16 minutes) longer than I have ever driven a car-like vehicle - twice, a golf cart in Florida long ago, and an electric car in Aspen this summer, for...
- Tags: INTERNET, CarsDirect
- Blog posts 2006-08-22
- Prediction- Google-powered Star Office suite for Dell
- CNBC reports that Google is in negotiation with Dell on a $1 billion deal that would let Google install some of its software on all new Dell computers.Fellow blogger Rich Tehrani writes that for that amount of money, we should expect something "radically" new. He surmises this could be...
- Tags: Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-02-07
- Microsoft reveals a softer side
- Microsoft reveals a softer sideReal NetworkCome on! Realplayer is the biggest piece of s*** on the planet. It doesn't get "play" on our network and I would NEVER recommend it to anyone. This is one fight that I'm actually cheering on Microsoft. Real should be classified...
- Tags: Litigation, Digital music, Digital media, Operating systems, RealNetworks RealPlayer, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2004-04-02
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