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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
- CES 2009: The world's highest ultra-high definition LED TV [day 3]
- Samsung certainly doesn't need any more coverage than I've already given it, but the company clearly aimed to blow out all the superlatives it could at this year's CES. I took a spin through the Samsung booth and happened upon their LED TVs, which are stunning in person in both...
- Tags: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Light-emitting Diode, Pricing Strategy, LNXXB8000, Engineering, Pricing, Marketing, Andrew Nusca
- 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
- News to know: Palm Pre, Windows 7, CES
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Matthew Miller: Welcome Palm Web OS, now what happens with Palm OS 5 applications? Sam Diaz: Palm's Pre and OS: Home-run announcements at CES Matthew Miller:...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Palm Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Microsoft Windows, Phishing, Operating Systems, Web Site Development, Software, Security, Spam And Phishing, Internet, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 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
- Firefox 3.1 beta 3 code freeze slated for Jan 13 -- maybe
- The code freeze for the third beta of Firefox 3.1 is scheduled for next Tuesday but could slip if Javascript bugs are not resolved soon. During the team's weekly meeting, developer Rob Sayre flagged the Javascript engine blockers as a potential risk to the planned code freeze...
- Tags: Developer, Team, Mozilla Firefox, Beta, Mozilla Corp., Beta 3, Web Browsers, Team Management, Internet, Management, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2009-01-08
- Microsoft study debunks phishing profitability
- Do phishers actually make money, or is phishing an unprofitable business, scammers lose time and resources into? Taking the economic approach of generalizing how much money phishers make, a recently released study by Microsoft researchers Cormac Herley and Dinei Florencio (A Profitless Endeavor: Phishing as Tragedy of the Commons), states...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-01-08
- CES 2009: Liveblogging Palm's press conference [day 3]
- Scroll down for newest info -- wireless is spotty! PALM IS ALIVE AND WELL Here's the whole press conference, from start to finish: 1:36PM EST: I'm sitting in the second row of Palm's very crowded press conference in a large ballroom...
- Tags: Card, Facebook, Phone, Palm Inc., Ed Colligan, Sheryl Sandberg, Keyboards, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Peripherals, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-01-08
- Former Microsoft search leader resurfaces at eBay
- Christopher Payne, Microsoft's former search chief, has sold his Seattle-based startup Positronic to eBay. Positronic was involved in machine-learning and data-mining. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Leader, Microsoft Corp., eBay Inc., Microsoft Payne, Data Mining, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-01-08
- Making the case for 1:1
- This has been a nasty winter here in New England and across the country. As of right now, we're going to be in school until June 29th and, given that we have a couple more months of winter (OK, this is Massachusetts, so a few more months of winter),...
- Tags: Network, Teacher, Tool, Kid, Social Networking, Productivity, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-01-08
- iWork sort of shipping; requires 10.5.6
- I stopped into the Apple Store on Stockton Street in San Francisco in search of a copy of iWork '09, which Phil Schiller announced was available now. To my dismay the helpful store representative told me that they "should" have it by the end of the week and that online...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Apple iWork, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-01-08
- Microsoft: Windows 7 means business
- A top Microsoft Windows exec spoke to ZDNet UK about the new operating system's potential appeal for enterprise users. Windows 7 is going into public beta, Microsoft head Steve Ballmer announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas late on Wednesday. ...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Operating System, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Software, Microsoft Corp. Windows 7, John Curran, operating systems, David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk
- News items 2009-01-08
- News to know: CES; Windows 7; Satyam
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ed Bott: Six Vista annoyances fixed in Windows 7 CES Coverage: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft at CES: Zune Mobile, no; Win 7 Beta 1,...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Satyam, Camcorder, Mary Jo Foley, Organic Light-emitting Diode, HDTV, Microsoft Windows, Blu-ray, Netbook, Keyboards, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Hardware, Peripherals, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
- Blog posts 2009-01-08
- Verizon makes a big mistake, picks Microsoft
- Verizon makes a big mistake, picks MicrosoftSo do you...You make another mistake to write this article.And then......you make yet another mistake to post a comment which adds nothing to the discussion.I do think that Verizon dropped the ball here, but I'm sure it's just because Microsoft made a sweet deal....
- Tags: Branding, Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Corp., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-01-07
- CES 2009: Summing up Ballmer's first keynote [day 2]
- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer just wrapped up his first CES keynote, and I left feeling...vaguely satisfied. Not excited, or bored, but mildly hopeful. Clad in a burgundy v-neck sweater, a sprightly Ballmer kicked his speech off with gusto, proclaiming, "I'm ready to go and I'm here," and...
- Tags: Phone, Partnership, Microsoft Windows 7, PC, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Windows, Business Structures, Telecom & Utilities, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Finance, Hardware, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-01-07
- Verizon makes a big mistake, picks Microsoft
- Google, Yahoo and Microsoft were competing for a mobile search deal that would give the winner some good exposure through the Verizon network. Unfortunately for Verizon, they didn't choose Google -- something that would have given users a level of comfort, and a better user experience out of the...
- Tags: Google Inc., Mobile, Verizon Communications Inc., Mobile Search, Microsoft Corp., Advertising & Promotion, Search, Marketing, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2009-01-07
- Report: Microsoft in stealth Yahoo takeover?
- Techcrunch, quoting anonymous sources, is reporting that a group of Silicon Valley executives and investment bankers are proposing a takeover of Yahoo - with the help of financing from Microsoft. The proposal calls for a premium of about 20 percent over Yahoo's current share price, which closed...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Marketing Research, Marketing, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-01-07
- CES 2009: Don't count out those Millennials or Online Media, Cell Phone on the rise as entertainment device, says Deloitte
- The idiot box is still king, but don't count out online advertising. (Source: Deloitte LLP) At this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Deloitte LLP revealed the results of its 3rd State of the Media Democracy Survey, which are likely to be...
- Tags: Social Networking, Deloitte LLP, Advertisement, Phone, Japan, Cell Phone, Online Media, TV, Survey, Entertainment, Millennials, Entertainment Device, Idiot Box, Early-adopter Millennials, Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-01-07
- Verizon picks MSFT search, gets ready for Kindle killers
- Verizon picks MSFT search, gets ready for Kindle killersKindlein other words Verison is gonna make a cheap device charge an arm and leg to use it to get information and that is gonna kill the kindle?Yet another reason not to use the NOTworkAs if the mediocre NOTwork quality was enough....
- Tags: MSFT, MS-search, NOTwork, Verizon Communications Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-01-07
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