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- Forrester: Credit crunch may freeze tech services projects
- Forrester Research in a report is confirming that the credit crunch is beginning to hit technology services firms. The extent of the damage is unclear, but IBM's lower-than-expected third quarter revenue its earnings are stronger than expected may indicate something worse is afoot. Forrester's...
- Tags: Service Provider, IBM Corp., Forrester Research Inc., Business Services, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Economy-pinched semiconductor industry: How to ride the storm
- The credit crisis and overall economic downturn is starting to hit the semiconductor industry, which saw 5.5 percent sales growth in August. Research firm iSuppli has cut its 2008 sales growth forecast for the semiconductor industry from 4 percent to 3.5 percent and potentially even more if economic conditions continue...
- Tags: iSuppli Corp., Semiconductor Industry, Lidlow, Semiconductors, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Oracle + Primavera
- Where are the lucky couple registered? Yesterday, Oracle announced that it would be purchasing Primavera. Details of the transaction have not been made public. Already we see that Oracle has stated that Primavera management and employees will become part of a global business...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Professional Services, Primavera, Project Management, It Operations, It service Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Symantec Goes Into The Cloud With Email Filtering
- Symantec today announced its acquisition of MessageLabs, a 520-person UK-based email filtering and security vendor. Given the cost and hassles that information & knowledge management professionls IKM Pros have keeping email spam down to a dull roar and keeping viruses outside the firewall, this is a great move for Symantec....
- Tags: Symantec Corp., MessageLabs Ltd., E-mail, Online Communications, Ted Schadler
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Yahoo-AOL: An integration nightmare on deck
- The Yahoo and AOL merger talks are proceeding at pace and now the bigwigs are conducting due diligence. In other words, a deal is quite possible, but the integration work is going to be ugly. Boomtown's Kara Swisher reports: Now, sources tell me, the circle of...
- Tags: America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Boomtown, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- The IT role in the mortgage meltdown
- The IT role in the mortgage meltdownNobody likes a WhisleblowerYou got blacklisted for publicly Whistle-blowing at a company meeting. For your trouble you lost a job, faced economic hardship, and had to explain at interviews why this employer would not give you a reference. You did not follow...
- Tags: Leadership, information technology, mortgage meltdown, IT role, U.S. Congress
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Can two AMDs be better than one?
- Can two AMDs be better than one?They should never have bought ATIATI was content with competing with NVIDIA, and if market conditions had let them fail at it, so be it. What we're seeing now is the failure of 2 companies, not just one.ExpensiveThe cash infusion may have been...
- Tags: Research & Development, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- eBay doubles down on payments as it buys Bill Me Later; Lays off 1,000
- EBay on Monday revamped its corporate portfolio laying off 1,000 workers, or 10 percent of its workforce, and buying online payment company Bill Me Later as well as a Denmark classifieds company. The layoffs were largely expected, but the Bill Me Later purchase for $820 million in...
- Tags: Payment, Amazon.com Inc., eBay Inc., Bill, E-business/E-Commerce, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Internet, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Why bother with desktop virtualization?
- The proponents of making proper use of desktop virtualization technology including access virtualization, application virtualization and VDI the combination of access virtualization and processing virtualization do their best to make it sound like the best things since pockets. Aren't today's laptops, desktops and handheld devices good enough to get the...
- Tags: Desktop, Worker, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Desktop Virtualization, Utility Computing, Storage Management, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- HP to jump into smartphones. Why?
- Hewlett Packard is jumping deeper into the crowded smartphone market, announcing plans for an iPaq smartphone that will be marketed toward consumers to be released first in Europe before the end of the year and later worldwide, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. In...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Smart Phone, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Does Sprint have a Nextel nibble?
- The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed sources, is reporting that Sprint Nextel has received interest in its Nextel business from Latin American carrier NII Holdings Inc. and several private-equity firms. But this is far from a done deal. Sprint has been exploring a sale of Nextel but...
- Tags: Nextel Communications Inc., Sprint Communications, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Android sucks oxygen from mobile broadband room
- Android sucks oxygen from mobile broadband roomany other Carriers?So Far it's only T-Mobile. There's all this hype, and I don't work/live in a major city. T-Mobile has the fewest towers in the country and is barely rolling out their G3 network to the major metropolitan areas. ...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, mobile broadband, mobile, oxygen, Qt Extended, OpenMoko, phone, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- HP Acquires LeftHand Networks, Virtualized iSCSI Storage Vendor
- Today, HP announced the intention to acquire iSCSI storage vendor LeftHand Networks for $360 Million in cash. LeftHand makes virtualized storage array software that can turn just about any server, PC or subset of disks on a device into a full featured IP based SAN array with features like space...
- Tags: LeftHand Networks, iSCSI, Hewlett-Packard Co., Storage Company, Storage, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Servers, Hardware, Andrew Reichman
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Agresso's answer to ERP addiction
- Earlier today I took a briefing from Agresso. Up front I'll say that I have something of a soft spot for this company. Some years back I did some very early formative work on what is now their BLINC Businesses Living In Change schtik and was...
- Tags: ERP Vendor, Oracle Corp., ERP, Agresso, Aggresso, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Andreessen joins eBay board
- eBay said that Marc Andreessen will join the online auctioneer's board of directors. The move, which is effectively immediately, brings some additional brainpower to eBay, which is trying to fend off rivals such as Amazon and Google. For instance, Amazon's fixed price model has been attracting merchants...
- Tags: Marc Andreessen, Board, Ning, eBay Inc., Corporate Governance, Social Networking, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- CA Dems: Scrutiny of Yahoo-Google deal threatens competition
- Seeing as how Google and Yahoo are both California companies, California House members have taken it upon themselves to tell the Dept. of Justice to butt out of the advertising swap between the two Internet honchos. In a letter of Attorney General Michael Mukasey, the Democratic reps said: ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Agreement, Computer Associates International Inc., D, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Ballmer needn't fear the Mac...just yet
- Boutique analyst firm Freeform Dynamics took a run at standardizing on Macs but the switch was not worthwhile. They're now back in the Windows fold. Their report starts by posing a series of questions about business benefit. They found that when pressed, business users were hard put to come up...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Cisco's Stepping Up To Collaboration As Business Transformation
- Following on the recent analyses by my colleague Rob Koplowitz on Cisco's Jabber and PostPath acquisitions, here are some additional things that Information and Knowledge Management Professionals should tune into regarding Cisco as the new collaboration kid on the block: First, Cisco is building a meeting-centric workspace...
- Tags: Team, Cisco Systems Inc., B2B, Team Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Ted Schadler
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- Dell: Netbooks won't change shape of PC market
- Company founder Michael Dell expresses doubts about the netbook form factor and discusses the company's push into services, as well as growing customer interest in green IT. Netbooks are unlikely to change the shape of the PC market, according to Michael Dell. A number of hardware...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., PC, Netbooks, Desktops, Productivity, Hardware, Steve Ranger silicon.com, Dell, Michael Dell, netbook, PCs
- News items 2008-09-25
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