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BlackBerry-maker RIM named world's fastest growing company

Research in Motion has claimed the top spot in FORTUNE Magazine's list of the world's 100 fastest growing companies. See why and see which other tech companies made FORTUNE's list. by Jason Hiner

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Fortune Magazine, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-08-18

Microsoft earmarks another $200 million for Windows advertising

Microsoft may not be willing to let Apple have the last word about Windows Vista, after all. According to a June 20 Fortune Magazine article, Microsoft has earmarked "an additional $200 million for Windows advertising this year, even though in nonlaunch years thre is typically no budget increase at all."...

Tags: Advertisement, Microsoft Corp., Fortune Magazine, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-06-20

"You touch the telephone network, you die," analyst says of VoIP woes

FORTUNE Magazine's Stephanie Mehta was wondering what exactly it is that places independent VoIP providers like Rest In Pieces SunRocket, Vonage, and others at such risk.No big secret. They don't own and control their networks, and are thus prone to routing issues as well as the health- or lack...

Tags: Vonage

Blog posts 2007-07-30

SourceForge gets 24 mln unique visitors a month

Fortune magazine runs some statistics on SourceForge.net, the open source developer community, that's property of VA Software. Monthly the site 24 mln unique visitors and serves 50 mln downloads. It hosts 111K open source projects, and daily distributes 1.4 mln e-mails as it hosts developer and support mailing lists as...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, SourceForge, Fortune Magazine

Blog posts 2006-02-15

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Congratulations to Steve Jobs, Fortune's CEO of the Decade

Fortune Magazine names Apple CEO Steve Jobs CEO of the Decade. by Sam Diaz

Tags: Steve Jobs, CEO, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-11-05

AT&T's "problem" customers get the blame

Fortune Magazine swallows the AT&T pitch hook, line and sinker in a story titled "Bandwidth hogs â€" iPhones and other smartphones." Writer Jon Fortt dishes up a steaming dish of bull shoveled straight out of AT&T PR: Now the wireless providers hawking those Internet-enabled mobile devices...

Tags: AT&T Corp., 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless And Mobility, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2009-09-02

Are we being smart about the smart grid?

A recent conference sponsored by "Fortune" magazine featured a panel discussion on the smart grid. How? Why? What? The panel was led by members of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.). Here are three of their suggestions: 1)...

Tags: Grid, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-04

OS execs split over fate of MySQL under Oracle's grip

  The fate of Sun's open source jewels -- especially MySQL -- has been heavily debated since Oracle announced its intentions to buy the Java giant earlier this week.  Few expect the Redwood Shores, Calif. database giant to mess with Java. It is a...

Tags: Oracle Corp., MySQL, Operating System, Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-04-24

Apple lands in Fortune 100 for first time since Jobs' return

Apple made its first appearance this week in the top 100 of the Fortune 500 since Steve Jobs’ return. The Fortune 500 is an annual ranking of America's largest Corporations. Apple has been a Fortune 500 company since 1983, but it fell off the top 100 on Fortune magazine’s list...

Tags: Job, Apple Inc., Fortune 500, Recruitment & Selection, Operational Accounting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-04-20

Apple tops PC makers in customer experience survey

Apple tops PC makers in customer experience surveyApple beat all i switched to Mac when I had a bad experience with HP and Vista. I will never go back.Hardly surprising, is it? :-)They have absolute control over both hardware and OS and most of the applications in it, Mac...

Tags: Desktops, Marketing research, Cyberthreats, Apple Inc., PC company, PC, customer experience

Discussion threads 2009-04-19

What Price Time? The Factor That Decides If Either Mac or PC Is Cool

It's been interesting to see how much attention has been awarded to Roger Kay's attempt to take down the Mac, What Price Cool? -- sponsored by Microsoft. That should have consigned the paper to the dustbin in the first place. Hey, if Hershey's commissions a survey of...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, PC, Desktops, Hardware, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-04-16

On the Hotseat: How Your Peers Are Tackling the Questions That Matter Now

Sage recently introduced an informative eBook, On the Hotseat: How Your Peers Are Tackling the Questions That Matter Now. Developed with FORTUNE magazine and Time Inc. Research & Insights, On the Hotseat has uncovered the frustrations small and mid-size businesses are experiencing with their current software solutions. This timely guide...

Tags: Sage Software, Tools & Techniques, Smb/Sme, Enterprise Software, Management, Software

White papers 2009-03-01

Microsoft readies a new 'netbook-like' Windows Server SKU

Microsoft readies a new 'netbook-like' Windows Server SKURemember Windows XP Fundamentals for Legacy PC'sThis kinda reminds me of that, so they made to choose a more appropriate name. (Windows Server 2008 R2 Starter). I think instead of muddying the water with more SKU's, why not make the traditional set of...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Servers, Operating systems, netbook, Windows Server SKU, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Ready, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows, server, car

Discussion threads 2009-02-24

Steve's Apple: 35,000 "wicked smart" people will keep things humming

Back in 1997, Apple was a company in turmoil. It was losing money. Its stock was at an all-time low. And it had experienced several failed attempts to improve the Mac operating system. Fast-forward to today and Apple is a brand name recognized around the globe for...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Steve, Digital Music, Digital Media, Desktops, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-01-22

Extraordinary Collaboration Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Image: E.M. Ward, "The South Sea Bubble" (1846) Tate Gallery UK David Freeman, who has positive views about disordered individual work practices in his book 'A Perfect Mess', wrote an interesting piece I refer back to a lot in Inc magazine September '06 'What's Next:...

Tags: Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-01-13

Will Tim Cook be the next Steve Jobs?

Last month, after a press event at Apple's Cupertino headquarters, I made an off-the-cuff observation about the future leadership of the company. In short, I commented on how Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook, who took a portion of stage time from Jobs to talk about new notebooks, was wearing blue...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., CEO, Leadership, Outsourcing, Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-11-10

Perens new crusade is patent law

Perens new crusade is patent lawBull, there is no lack of innovation.True, open source is not free to take others ideas but that is how it should be. Face it, open source is nothing but knock off copies of propriatary. Sorry but thats just how it is.As to...

Tags: Leadership, OPEN SOURCE, Software intellectual property, New software product, new crusade, Perens, crusade, patent law, patent, innovation

Discussion threads 2008-10-02

Katie Moussouris on HOPE 2008: HOPE Springs Eternal

Guest Editorial by Katie Moussouris of Microsoft If cyberspace is a mass, consensual hallucination, as William Gibson characterized it, then HOPE was a dream manifested in meatspace that would not die. While Hackers On Planet Earth has been running every other year since 1994, it was...

Tags: Symantec Corp., IP, Tool, Con, Katie Moussouris, Last HOPE, Wiki, Internet, Productivity, Security, Network Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-28

Talent development

Earlier this week I attended Fortune magazine's Brainstorm Tech conference which "aims to sharpen the thinking of the very well heeled attendees about the escalating impact of tech-driven change for all business and global society". There was a terrific menu of topics on offer:...

Tags: Talent, Collaboration, CEO, HCL, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Updated:Will social media lead to user generated unemployment?

[Updated with video.] I'm spending a few days at Fortune Magazine's invite-only Brainstorm conference. It's an excellent lineup of speakers and the audience is full of top tech industry luminaries. Brad Smith, CEO of Intuit, was just on stage and he spoke about trying to harness...

Tags: Intuit Inc., Social Media, Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-07-21