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- 2008: The security wishlist
- 2008: The security wishlistApple could publish code audit resultsI find that the Coverity scans of open source projects give a relatively objective assessment of the quality of open source code. I find it quite impressive that KDE is having 4.5 million lines of code scanned. The number of...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, monoculture, security, Apple Inc., vulnerability, diversification, Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2008-01-02
- The Google express train
- The Google train keeps coming. If you extrapolate from all the reporting, Google is going to out Facebook Facebook, suck out all the ad revenue from newspapers, gradually reformat the telco business model, virtualize the earth at Second Life's expense and take Microsoft and Yahoo out....
- Tags: Game, Google Inc., Facebook, Diversification, Industry, Strategy, Management, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-24
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- D6: Snippets of Microsoft's morphing business model emerge
- D6: Snippets of Microsoft's morphing business model emergeMicrosoft should not emulate appleMacintosh sales come from iPod sales which come from aggressive marketing campaigns. Microsoft needs to ignore Apple and focus on improving software that people use to get the work done. While the Apple may have cornered beatnik and trendy...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Strategy, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-28
- Bizarre merger of the day: United Online buys FTD Group
- United Online has one helluva Internet portfolio: Classmates.com, MyPoints, NetZero, Juno and now FTD, a florist. If you're looking for synergy you won't find it here. The company announced Wednesday that it will acquire FTD for $800 million Techmeme. The moving parts involved in that sum are...
- Tags: Merger, United Online Inc., FTD, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- Big Blue delivers big profits; Ups 2008 outlook
- IBM on Wednesday handily topped Wall Street estimates with net income of $2.3 billion, or $1.65 a share, on revenue of $24.5 billion. According to Thomson Financial, Wall Street was expecting a profit of $1.45 a share on revenue of $23.7 billion. IBM got help from a...
- Tags: United Parcel Service Of America Inc., Revenue, IBM Corp., Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- Oracle expected to navigate choppy economic waters
- Oracle will report its fiscal third quarter earnings after market close today and by most counts the company has bucked any economic downturn and should turn in strong results. Analysts are expecting earnings of 30 cents a share for the February quarter on sales of $5.4 billion,...
- Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Analyst, Sales Strategy, Middleware, Mergers & Acquisitions, Application Servers, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- Globalization's roots in the boom 90s
- Globalization's roots in the boom 90sJohn,If you think the first 70 pages are good, wait until you read the next 400 or so.I would differ on one thing though. I would say that rather than the ability of the American System to self correct, it is the fact that...
- Tags: globalization, boom-90s, regulation, outsourcing
- Discussion threads 2008-03-21
- Defending the Internet Everywhere Model - Strategies for Securing the De-perimeterized Network
- Network security is changing. In the next five years the Internet will be a ubiquitous transport layer. Most companies will rely less on private network infrastructure and more on the Internet as their primary connectivity medium. Network security will be redefined in a world where traditional perimeters don't work in...
- Tags: Strategy, Network, Network Security, SonicWall, Internet, Networking, Security
- Webcasts 2008-03-11
- Google: The four trick pony
- Google: The four trick ponyInteresting but Meaningless NumbersThese numbers are meaningless in the competitive context. The fact that Google Blogger gets 1/20th the traffic of Google Search is not relevant. What is relevant is that Google Blogger gets 90% (or 9%) or 3%) of all blogging traffic.Its like analyzing my...
- Tags: E-mail providers, Blogging, Microsoft Office, Picasa Web, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-07
- No more talk of proprietary innovation please
- Yahoo! (Picture from Yodel Anecdotal.) One of the most popular claims here by open source opponents is that proprietary companies do all the innovating. Those days are done. Spending your stock, your cash, and the change under your seat cushions for an operating competitor...
- Tags: Innovation, Fact, Microsoft Corp., Wall Street, Leadership, Open Source, Strategy, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-01
- Optimal Trader (exe)
- Trading software for all instruments that combines technical analysis with neural networks and modern signal processing. Many indicators have been improved with new technology. A large database for stocks, funds, ETF's, currencies and indices is available for free. Features: Pick Winning Stocks, Adaptive Noise Suppression, Neural Network Forecasting, Autoselect Models,...
- Tags: Stock, Neural Network, Analysis, Investment, Finance
- Software downloads 2008-01-16
- 10 green tech predictions for the new year
- Hello and Happy New Year! Searching for some eco-inspiration in 2008? Here are my 10 totally random green tech predictions, based partially on the wide variety of briefings that I've taken in the past five months and partially on nothing more than gut, which is how you'll choose to read...
- Tags: Google Inc., Green Technology, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-01-01
- Macs join the Army - Hooah!
- Macs join the Army - Hooah!This is going to help with security how?Yeah, yeah...monoculture and all that jazz. I work for a fortune 500 company (> $100B in market cap). Over 75K employees. When virus outbreaks occured only a small number of systems were actually infected. Only a handful of...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, UNIX, Hooah, security, monoculture, Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2007-12-21
- Baidu will contribute to Mozilla's piggybank too
- Mozilla's Chinese subsidiary has inked a search box deal with Baidu, the leading search engine in China (not to mention a white-hot stock). With the arrangement, recapped on Techmeme, Mozilla gets a little diversification. As previously noted, Mozilla is largely funded by revenue from Google, which pays to be...
- Tags: Baidu.com Inc., Mozilla Corp., Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-12-07
- Google's big green energy goal: A distraction?
- Google's big green energy goal: A distraction?Not such a bad ideaI think the press they will get if they manage it will be well worth the investment. Plus, they're unlikely to develop the technologies themselves and more likely to buy up and develop a startup energy co, providing valuable cash...
- Tags: Data centers, Google Inc., distraction, big green energy goal, green energy goal, energy goal
- Discussion threads 2007-11-27
- Ozzie: Innovation coming from consumer, not corporate, market
- Until fairly recently, many Microsoft watchers -- including Softies themselves -- would likely say that the Redmond software maker was far more focused on business users than consumers. But there's a noticeable shift happening in where Microsoft sees innovation taking place.Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie summed things up rather succinctly...
- Tags: Zune, Xbox Live, Xbox, Windows Mobile, Corporate strategy, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-07-31
- Compliance Risk Management
- The financial services industry is experiencing tremendous growth, diversification and innovation. Derivatives, globalization, product innovation, dynamic markets, and new methods of taking on and managing financial risk are key catalysts to profit growth and evolution. Wide-scale adoption of high-performance computing like that powered by AMD Opteron processors has further accelerated...
- Tags: Financial, Compliance, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Compliance Risk Management, Financial Services Industry, Enterprise Risk Management, Financial Accounting, Business Security, Business Operations, Finance
- White papers 2007-07-03
- Moore's second law proves need for open source
- Moore's second law proves need for open sourceOr at least slows down...I don't know that innovation "stops" without open source, but it would definitely grind to a crawl. Can you imagine what life would be like if the only tools to build software were commercial products? Ugh! OSS...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Java development tools, Scripting languages, Programming languages, Development tools, OSS, tool, open source, dictator, environment, Microsoft Visual Studio, software
- Discussion threads 2007-06-22
- A talk with Neptec before Atlantis launch
- The countdown for the launch of space shuttle mission STS-117 is going well and a liftoff of the shuttle Atlantis tomorrow evening is highly possible. One of the goals of this NASA mission is to expand the International Space Station ISS by adding two 17.5 tons trusses to it. To...
- Tags: Space &, Aerospace, Robotics, Engineering &, Innovation
- Blog posts 2007-06-07
- Salesforce.com and Google more than just partners?
- Mike Arrington of TechCrunch offers his chessboard logic as to why salesforce.com is acquisition bait and reasons that the company is a good fit for being absorbed by Google. Phil Wainwright also played out the salesforce/Google union logic in this post, and found that the two companies would are very...
- Tags: Web Technology, Salesforce.com, Office 2.0, Google, Enterprise 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
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