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Facebook's Zuckerberg makes Forbes' rich list: Facebook's Zuckerberg makes Forbes' rich listMoney doesn't by class......and that sniveling twit is a prime example.; Tags: Zuckerberg, Forbes, Facebook; Discussion threads 2008-09-18
Facebook's Zuckerberg makes Forbes' rich list: Mark Zuckerberg, founder of the so-called social utility Facebook, has made number 321 of the Forbes 400, a list of the richest people in America, with a personal wealth of $1.5 billion. by Steve O'Hear; Tags: Facebook, Forbes, Mark Zuckerberg, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear; Blog posts 2008-09-18
Forbes rewrites the history of open source: Forbes rewrites the history of open sourceI guess it was a political articleYou just convinced me that the purpose of this article in Forbes being written was to score political points. Which makes its rewriting of history doubly-disgusting.Libertarian?I'm pretty sure the GPL is normally associated with socialism, not libertarianism. Libertarians...; Tags: open source, Forbes, libertarian, software; Discussion threads 2008-08-18
Forbes rewrites the history of open source: Woods, for some reason, insists on calling open source "commercial open source," when the whole idea of open source was that it would be commercial. by Dana Blankenhorn; Tags: Forbes, Richard Stallman, Eric Raymond, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-08-18
Stealth iPhones: Stockpiled at Quanta's Fremont warehouse?: Forbes Brian Caulfield, who's been tracking the mystery phones' progress from China to the U.S., has posted some pictures of piles of unmarked boxes sitting alongside boxes of iMacs in the parking lot of a Quanta distribution facility in Fremont, CA., located between Apple's Cupertino HQ and the...; Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Box, 3G, Quanta, Fremont, Forbes, Apple iPhone, Desktops, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Hardware, Personal Technology; Blog posts 2008-06-07

Gates no longer the richest man thanks to Yahoo bid: The Forbes list of richest people is out and the big news is that Bill Gates is no longer the richest man. He's not even No. 2 anymore because of Wall Street's displeasure with Microsoft's bid for Yahoo. The richest folks are as follows (Techmeme, Forbes overview,...; Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Forbes, Folk, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Construction, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-03-06
Using bacteria as medical robots: Does the idea of turning bacteria into cancer-fighting robots sound like science fiction? Maybe today, but not in a near future. A researcher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has received a four-year grant of more than $1 million from the National Institutes of Health to study the feasibility of...; Tags: Mouse, Forbes, Bacteria, Salmonella, Mice, Robots, Hardware, Peripherals, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-03-02
A green roundhouse: According to Forbes, two architects are building a roundhouse to make it more energy-efficient. The architects claim that their 'new methodology dramatically improves all aspects of the design and construction of buildings.' Their first realization 'will be a 13,000-square-foot residence set on a 3.25-acre lot in the canyons above Beverly...; Tags: House, Forbes, Wall, Construction, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-02-26
To form an us: As regular readers know one of the big problems I see IT management facing every single day is the inability to identify and correct the misinformation senior executives pick up from the media and then unconsciously rely on to override our carefully researched and thought through recommendations. ...; Tags: Paul Murphy, Data, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook, Forbes, Notebooks, Analyst, IT manager, Desktops, PC, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets; Blog posts 2008-01-28
Fun with Sun in Forbes: Fun with Sun in ForbesAn off -line conversationTwo people have sent me email pointing out that SAP took full control of the MaxDB effort about a year ago.Here's how one of them phrased it:--Just an FYI - I apologize for being obtuse; but in October 2007, SAP assumed MaxDB sales...; Tags: MaxDB, MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc., SAP AG, Forbes; Discussion threads 2008-01-24
Fun with Sun in Forbes: Every once in a while you run into a comment that just begs for wider application. Take a look, for example, at this bit from Glyn Holton's "Best of 2007 Book Awards": One embarrassing trend that has gained steam this year is that of...; Tags: Oracle Corp., MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc., Forbes, SAP AG, Open Source, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-01-22
Forbes: patent trollers fueled by hedge funds, private equity: Since we are awaiting a Vonage-Verizon patent infringement decision by end of today, this article Ive just read has special relevance. None of the parties in this article are directly tied to Vonage, but I think you might appreciate a broader take on what is going on with all...; Tags: General, Regulatory; Blog posts 2007-04-24
40,000 downloads of Adobe Apollo since alpha launch: Forbes is reporting that there have been 40,000 downloads of the Apollo runtime since Adobe opened the public alpha on the 19th of March. In addition, there were 30,000 downloads of the SDK, the software to actually create Apollo applications. That’s a pretty astounding number for alpha software. Clearly the...; Tags: Servers, Forbes, Adobe Apollo, Apollo, Adobe Systems Inc.; Blog posts 2007-03-29
Web Celeb 25: The page view model run amok: I feel dirty. I need a shower. Like other bloggers, I just had to look at Forbes Web Celeb 25 list. Once there, I was caught in page view trap. Forbes model is apparently to get as many page views as possible without any regard for the reader. ...; Tags: General, Web Technology, Forbes; Blog posts 2007-01-25
Roger McNamee: Reinventing journalism: As the Web 2.0 Summit a few weeks ago, legendary investor and rock band leader Roger McNamee talked about his firm Elevation Partners recent minority investment in Forbes for a few hundred million. McNamee said a key part of his Forbes investment strategy is to be on the ground floor...; Tags: Forbes, journalism, Roger McNamee, Elevation Partners; Blog posts 2006-11-21
Mac OS X for business: Too little, too late: Mac OS X for business: Too little, too lateDefine "significant"---But that's where Apple has been trying to increase its market share, without significant positive results.---Take a look at recent gains by Apple. Forbes predicts them rising to 2.3% in 2006 from 2.0% in 2004. That may look like...; Tags: Operating systems, Apple Macintosh, Forbes, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, IT IS, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS; Discussion threads 2006-04-04
Forbes: Microsoft Vista: Not "People Ready": Forbes' Daniel Lyons was at the Microsoft"People Ready" event in New York last week. He has a veryinteresting take.... No one mentioned the fact that in1997, Microsoft held a similar event in New York City to declare that IBM's"big iron" was dead, because Windows...; Tags: People Ready, Microsoft Corp.; Blog posts 2006-03-22
Google Tunes predicted by Forbes: I posted an article about "Google Music Player" recently, and it looks like I might not be far off according to this prediction being made by Forbes.The stars are in line for a music offering like as iTunes from Google -- however it is still very speculative and there is...; Tags: Google Inc., Google Tunes; Blog posts 2006-01-26
Doc Searls on blogging vs. journalism: After the recent Forbes: Attack of the Blogs article, the blogosphere exploded in discussion about the article. Perhaps this was Dan Lyons intended effect after all, like yelling "fire" in a crowded theatre. Ten days later, the hue and cry has mostly passed,...; Tags: blogging, Forbes; Blog posts 2005-11-08
Forbes: Attack of the Blogs: Look, Mom, I'm in Forbes magazine! Ed Brill, an IBMer who works on Notes marketing and publishes his own blog (edbrill.com), responded on July 23 last year to Radicati's bearish Notes report. He questioned whether she had ties to Microsoft and referred readers to two...; Tags: Ed Brill; Blog posts 2005-10-28