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Singularity Summit 2007: Google co-evolving with the Web

Singularity Summit 2007: Google co-evolving with the WebEconomic growth in the 21st century“Norvig doesn’t expect AGIs to suddenly appear overnight. The U.S. Gross Domestic Product index, for example, shows constant exponential progress but it doesn’t seem like any great acceleration can be seen OR PREDICTED due to technology, Norvig said....

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Google Inc., Web, HBE, Peter Norvig, GDP Growth

Discussion threads 2007-09-14

Indonesian small business IT spending reached $1.6 bln in 2005

The small business segment in Thailand and Indonesia invested a total of $1.3 bln and $1.6 bln in IT, respectively, in the last 12 months. The context for this commitment to IT investment is a dramatic growth in GDP. Robust domestic demand resulted in a growth rate of 6.3% for...

Tags: small and medium business, GDP Growth, GDP

Blog posts 2006-01-15

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The end of Zune? It's not just the music anymore

Is this the beginning of the end for the Microsoft Zune? In a story about Microsoft's quest to beat Google, the Financial Times writes that Steve Ballmer seems "all but ready to throw in the towel on the Zune," which hasn't come close to being an iPod killer. The piece...

Tags: Apple iPod, Microsoft Zune, Music Player, Microsoft Corp., Music, Digital Music, Digital Media, Media Players, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-01-09

Ballmer takes on Google, the economy and Windows 7

What does Microsoft's CEO worry about most? It's Google, Google, Google. Steve Ballmer also talks about the state of Windows, taking software to the web, and the troubled economy. Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer arrived at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas with his usual optimism, but he...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Q, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Microsoft Windows Vista, Netbook, Microsoft, Google, economy, CES, Ina Fried CNET News.com

News items 2009-01-09

Trust: the Satyam Partnering Disaster

The images above, taken from Satyam's website, are now worthy of the fail blog. The shock waves rippling through the markets following Satyam's chairman and co-founder Ramalinga Raju's admissions of accounting fraud are world news, being dubbed 'India's Enron'. You...

Tags: Satyam, HCL, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Finance, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-01-09

Welcome to the Consumer Electronics Show. Sales Are Flatlining.

The semi-annual forecast of industry sales for consumer electronics makers just came out. And the projection is that, despite the transition to digital TV and lust for portable electronics of all types, sales are going down this year. Not by much. Percentage-wise,...

Tags: Consumer Electronics Association, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-01-08

EMC cuts 2,400 jobs

EMC said Wednesday that it will lay off 2,400 workers, or 7 percent of its workforce, as an effort to cut $350 million in costs in 2009 and $500 million in 2010. The company also added in a statement that its fourth quarter revenue will be $4...

Tags: Job, EMC Corp., Storage, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-07

Verizon picks MSFT search, gets ready for Kindle killers

Between the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and an investor conference in Arizona, Verizon Wireless is making headlines today on issues ranging from a mobile search deal to plans for Kindle killers to Monday morning quarterbacking about the launch of the Blackberry Storm. Reuters is reporting...

Tags: Mobile, Verizon Communications Inc., Mobile Search, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Advertising & Promotion, Search, Marketing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-01-07

Satyam fallout: Should customers stick? Full text of chairman's stunning letter

Indian outsourcing company Satyam has cooked books, a $1 billion cash sink hole and its chairman and founder B Ramalinga Raju has fabricated figures. Meanwhile, Merrill Lynch has bailed on being an adviser to the company and shares of the firm were down 90 percent or so in premarket trading...

Tags: Board, Satyam, Maytas, Task Force, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-07

Sun acquires cloud computing vendor

Sun Microsystems said Wednesday that it has acquired Q-layer, a Belgium company that automates cloud computing deployments. Sun didn't offer a lot of detail in its statement. Q-layer will become part of Sun's cloud computing unit. The general idea is that Q-layer's technology will allow Sun to...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Q-layer, Cloud Computing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-07

MoneyWorks Cashbook 5.2.7 (Mac)

MoneyWorks Cashbook formerly CashWorks is an integrated cashbook and general ledger that is the ideal accounting system for cash based businesses and bookkeepers doing accounts for other organisations. MoneyWorks Cashbook allows you to enter transactions manually or import them from downloaded bank statements QIF format. It provides comprehensive bank reconciliation,...

Tags: Bank, Apple Macintosh, MoneyWorks Cashbook, Cashbook, Financial Services

Software downloads 2009-01-07

The 2009 Green Wars Being Fought Now

In Washington D.C. the stakes are high. The stakes are huge. The stakes are for a major porton of the cash that will go into the United States' mounting federal debt. That means big money. How much will Obama's version of the federal government put into...

Tags: Health Care, Stimulus, U.S. Senate, Vertical Industries, Taxes, Benefits, Healthcare, Free Trade, Enterprise Software, Software, Financial Planning, Finance, Human Resources, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-01-05

Service firms to struggle in 2009

Big and Small, Local or International - Operational Excellence a Global Mandate The big news this weekend was that U.S. manufacturing had plunged in December to the lowest level since 1980 and that new factory orders fell to a 60 year low. The outlook outside the U.S....

Tags: India, Service Firm, Benefits, Operational Accounting, Human Resources, Finance, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-01-05

Software & Services - 2009 dictates value delivery a must

Sunday morning - 7 am – suburban Chicago Driving down a major retail stretch of road Whizzing past one closed retailer after another – many of these now closed for good Pass a worker removing signage from a failed retailer ...

Tags: Software, Economy, Business Economy, Sales Strategy, Retail, Business Services, Tools & Techniques, Sales Force Management, Financial Accounting, Sales, Management, Finance, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-01-04

First reactions to Windows 7

First reactions to Windows 7Wow, Vista has 1/5 of the Market?Not bad for such an unqualified failure that Vista is supposed to be. I'd imagine militant iBoi's and FOSS Bolsheviks could only dream of that kind of market share.As far Win7, I don't expect the echo chamber of FUD that...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), desktop virtualization, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, First reaction, Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2009-01-04

Ace Computers to release $999 CableCard-equipped home theater PCs

One of the major impediments to the growth of the home theater PC HTPC market has been the lack of digital cable TV support. Yes, Clear QAM tuners can handle unencrypted digital channels, but only now that cable companies have started getting behind the CableCard standard can consumers use their...

Tags: Home Theater, PC, CableCard, Cable, Computer, Home Entertainment, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-01-01

The biggest threat to open source in 2009

The biggest threat to open source in 2009Automatic updates.Most Open Source projects do, in fact, have an automatic update mechanism. It is rolled in to the OS itself.Ok -- lets audit some text ..... shall we..Firefox update call, from Securitymike’s blogSecurity and updates, which are often the same thing.Originally there...

Tags: Patches, open source, software, Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2009-01-01

Charlottesville Tomorrow 1.0 (Mobile)

Launched in 2005, Charlottesville Tomorrow's mission is to inform and engage the public by providing clear, non-partisan information and research on land use, transportation, and community design issues with the confidence an informed public will make decisions that will protect and build upon the distinctive character of the Charlottesville-Albemarle area.Utilizing...

Tags: Mobile, Apple iTunes, Digital Music, Digital Media, Transportation, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-01-01

2009

Here are a few more projections of what could happen in greentech world during 2009. First some predictions about what could be up in the world of infrastructure. (I know that's a useful word but I sure hate it...how about big stuff, instead?) These are...

Tags: China, Public Sector, Financial, Infrastructure, Financial Accounting, Finance, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-12-31

Predictions for 2009

Predictions for 2009Rock on!Which CPU took longer to reach the market, Rock or Viking? Viking never actually made it to market, and in the meantime the slow@ss SPARC2's were overrun by the speedy first 100Mhz processor (HP735). Those 3 (5?) long years for Sun defined how inept it is at...

Tags: Linux, Strategy, UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, information technology, General Motors Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., Obama, Ford Motor Co.

Discussion threads 2008-12-31