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Can Obama bring tech respect to Washington?

Senior editor Sam Diaz talks about how President-elect Barack Obama will use technology when he becomes president. Diaz says, while Obama might have to give up his BlackBerry because of security issues, he has plans to broadcast his weekly address over YouTube and appoint the nation's first chief technology officer.

Tags: Diaz, Handhelds, Security, Hardware, Diaz Memo, Barack Obama, Sam Diaz, Blackberry, YouTube

Videos 2008-11-24

Microsoft loses MLB but keeps swinging

ZDNet Senior Editor Sam Diaz talks about the recent announcement by Major League Baseball to drop Microsoft's Silverlight service for Adobe's Flash player. Diaz says it's a setback for Microsoft but he doesn't believe the loss of business will have long lasting effects since the company has also signed deals...

Tags: MLB, Microsoft Corp., Diaz Memo, Silverlight, Microsoft, Adobe, Sam Diaz, NBC, Netflix

Videos 2008-11-21

Additional Resources

Facebook hires former Genentech exec as CFO

Facebook today announced the hiring of David Ebersman, the former executive vice president and chief financial officer CFO of Genentech, as the company's chief financial officer. He won't join the company until September. Techmeme Back in March, the company started the search for a new CFO before...

Tags: Facebook, Genentech Inc., CFO, Real Estate, Financial Accounting, Personal Finance, IPO, Business Operations, Finance, Financial Services, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-29

News to know: Palm Pre weekend; iPhone Monday; Bing; DTV conversion; Twitter accounts

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Palm Pre weekend: Sprint could steal Palm's moment Matthew Miller: Initial Pre thoughts and answers...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Palm Inc., Microsoft Corp., Digital Television, Twitter, Sam Diaz, E-mail, TVs, H-1B, Embedded Linux, Cloud Computing, Tv & Home Theater, Online Communications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Operating Systems, Software, Linux

Blog posts 2009-06-08

News to know: HP, Vista SP2; Pre; Oracle licensing

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: HP's second quarter on target; Big units take revenue lumps; Headcount cuts ahead Mary Jo Foley: Where is Vista SP2? ...

Tags: Software, Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Performance, Service Pack 2, Palm Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Server, Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Blog posts 2009-05-20

Microsoft starts second round of layoffs. More to come?

Pink slips are being handed out around Microsoft again today, the second round of a previously-announced intention to trim 5,000 jobs. The question is: will there be more cuts? In her post on the All About Microsoft blog, Mary Jo Foley notes that Steve Ballmer, in a...

Tags: Job, Layoff, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Corp., Pink Slip, Recruitment & Selection, Pricing, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-05-05

News to know: Neeris, Sun-IBM, Storm 2, Sprint ad

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Dancho Danchev: Conficker worm's copycat Neeris spreading over IM Sam Diaz: Report: Sun and IBM clashed over executive...

Tags: Apple Xserve, Larry Dignan, Advertisement, Information Technology, Sun Microsystems Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sprint Communications, IBM Corp., 3G, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Strategy, Open Source, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-04-08

Facebook Fallout: Is it time for Zuckerberg to go?

For the record, I've never officially met Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook. But I've met guys who are probably like him. Young. Smart. Rich. Full of great ideas. And, yeah, probably a little bit full of himself, too. There's a lot of speculation about what's...

Tags: Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Blogger Nicholas Carlson, Blogging, Public Relations, Internet, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-04-02

News to know: Exectweet, Twitter, Intel options, iPhone 3.0, Vista share

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft + Federated Media + Twitter = ExecTweets Exectweets: Nice, but not the revenue plan for...

Tags: Revenue, Apple iPhone, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, Sam Diaz, Netbook, Intel Corp., Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operational Accounting, Hardware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance

Blog posts 2009-03-24

Former Google CIO Merrill out at EMI

Not quite a year ago, Douglas Merrill left his position as Google's Chief Information Officer and went on to try something crazy challenging - and maybe even just plain crazy. He accepted an executive's position at record label EMI and was handed the task of figuring out this whole digital...

Tags: Google Inc., Lawsuit, EMI Group Plc., Douglas Merrill, Digital Media, Digital Music, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-03-23

HP imposes more salary cuts for EDS employees

HP said late Friday afternoon that it was temporarily cutting base salaries for EDS employees by an additional 10 percent beyond what was announced last month. On February 18, the company said it was cutting base pay across the board and making adjustments to benefit plans as part of a...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Salary, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Personal Finance, Human Resources, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-03-13

Washington Post kills stand-alone business section

updated: The Washington Post said today that it will eliminate the stand-alone section devoted to business news, wrapping the news into the paper's A section instead, and will dramatically reduce the amount of stock data it publishes. The change takes effect March 30. The memo to employees has been posted...

Tags: Stock, Section, Washington Post Co., Post, Investment, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-03-13

Bartz announces new management structure at Yahoo but offers no details

update below with details of the new management structure Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz announced a management reorganization this morning in a blog entry titled "Getting our house in order" but offered no specifics on who's in and who's out. What we do know - via an SEC...

Tags: Team, Mobile, Yahoo! Inc., Bartz, Team Management, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Marketing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-02-26

News to know: Goldman's IT; Kindle 2; Google; Microsoft

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily .  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Calculating Risk: Panning for gold in Goldman's 'gut' Whitepaper: How IT helped Goldman Sachs step back...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Information Technology, Dana Blankenhorn, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Amazon Kindle, Strategy, Corporate Communications, Mortgages, Telecom & Utilities, Management, Marketing, Finance, Capital Structures, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-10

WSJ downgraded; Are layoffs next?

Is it wrong to keep believing in newspapers? Apparently Wall Street thinks so. And this time, the target is planted straight on the back of News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch and his Wall Street Journal. Peter Kafka reports on his Media Memo blog, which is...

Tags: Layoff, Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch, News Corp., Recruitment & Selection, Blogging, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-01-30

Newspapers in peril: NYT ad revs tank, looking to sell Red Sox; Media News forces furloughs

If you though the newspaper industry was in bad shape in 2008, it doesn't look like the battered print industry will do any better in 2009. This morning, the New York Times Co. said that total revenues were down almost 11 percent in the fourth quarter, compared...

Tags: Revenue, Layoff, Advertisement, Workforce Management, Operational Accounting, Human Resources, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-01-28

AOL to layoff 700, consolidate groups

AOL told its employees today that it will lay off 10 percent of its workforce - roughly 700 people - to help the company work through the recession. The reductions should be complete by the end of March and a consolidation of groups within the company are expected to follow....

Tags: Layoff, America Online Inc., Workforce, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Payroll Solutions, Human Resources, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-01-28

News to know: Mac at 25; Green storage; Android; Zune a misfit toy?

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know vi a email al ert and RSS daily .  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage . Christopher Dawson: The Intel convertible Classmate - 1:1 and beyond Adam O'Donnell: Will...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Storage, Microsoft Zune, Apple Inc., Sam Diaz, Desktops, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-26

News to know: Microsoft's layoffs, Google's profits, Win7 netbooks, White House tech

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Microsoft: 'We are not immune' to economy; Cuts 5,000 jobs; Earnings fall short Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft...

Tags: Google Inc., Layoff, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, White House, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-01-23

News to know: Jobs' medical leave; Windows 7; BlackBerry PDF vulnerabilities; Tech economy

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Jobs to take medical leave; Back in summer at WWDC? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes:  Steve Jobs takes "medical...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Job, Larry Dignan, Patent, Microsoft Windows 7, Adobe PDF, Leave, Vulnerability, Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Photograph, Microsoft Windows, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-01-15