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- Google spent about $780 million dollars today
- Two acquisitions were announced today -- together totaling around $800 million dollars. This comes about a month and a half after Eric Schmidt told us that acquisitions are back on. Both acquisitions are significant -- but one cost a lot more than the other. ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Acquisition, Phone, AdMob, Gizmo5, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2009-11-09
- Dell Inspiron i1545-4374PBU
- Editors' note: This review is part of our holiday 2009 retail desktop and laptop review roundup, covering specific fixed configurations of popular systems that can be found in retail stores. There's something to be said for simplicity. The Dell Inspiron i1545-4374PBU might not look like much and its limited supply...
- Tags: Notebooks, Keyboards, Dell Inspiron, Dell Computer Corp., Intel Corp.
- Product reviews 2009-11-07
- Toshiba Satellite T135-S1309
- Sometimes, it takes a good retail excursion to find a deal that isn't otherwise possible. Case in point: the Toshiba T135. While we have already reviewed two different versions of Toshiba's Windows 7 entry to the thin-and-light laptop landscape, we were pleasantly surprised by this retail-only configuration. This is not...
- Tags: Notebooks, Microsoft Windows 7, Processors, Toshiba Corp., Toshiba Satellite
- Product reviews 2009-11-06
- U.S. unemployment rate highest in 26 years, at 10.2%
- Misinterpreted numbers..."In October, the number of unemployed persons increased by 558,000 to 15.7 million."That's not 190,000. The 190,000 is non-farm payroll decrease, which doesn't include farm workers or self-employed persons who have hung it up.Maybe we need a NEW "New Deal?"Remember the 3 R's of Franklin Roosevelt's "New Deal?"...
- Tags: Operational accounting, Personal finance, FDR, Common-sense, unemployment rate, New Deal, Obama, Reagan
- Discussion threads 2009-11-06
- Gateway NV5207u
- The Gateway NV5207u is what happens when a slow processor happens to an otherwise respectable budget-priced laptop. It's a good-looking notebook with a large screen, a decent port assortment, and a couple of extra features to sweeten the deal. But its AMD processor is a poor performer despite being dual...
- Tags: Processors, Gateway Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., processor
- Product reviews 2009-11-05
- Ballmer: So far, Windows 7 sales are "fantastic"
- RE: Ballmer: So far, Windows 7 sales are One report has at 4% market share the weekend of launch so im sure its past that already.Has Windows 7 marketshare eclipsed total OS X marketshare yet?Just wondering. :)MSFT: 1/2000 = $56. Today, $28.40Win 7 may not be the catastrophe the last...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Businesses, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, stock split, Win7, recession, Steve Ballmer, sales, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- Revisiting the Motorola Droid on Verizon [Q&A]
- Why the hate for drag and drop?Almost every review I have read faults the Droid because you can't auto-sync music:"(You can dump your music on a microSD card and pop it in, but it?s a copy-paste files affair, not a ?load my music? integrated experience.)"The Droid ships with a 16...
- Tags: Smart phones, Motorola Droid, Droid, Apple iPhone, Revisiting, music, Verizon Communications Inc., Motorola Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- Not tolerating the intolerant
- My thoughts"Most reject volunteerism in search of making money, satisfying career ambitions, relaxing or spending time with friends and family."Some volunteerism is fine, and I'm glad to help out when I can - but I don't think it can or should sustain an economy or nation. And yes, I think...
- Tags: tolerance, volunteerism, apathy
- Discussion threads 2009-11-04
- New York AG files antitrust charges against Intel; alleges bribery, coercion
- Normally I'd say this is just another NY AG trying to run for higher officebut this seems to have legs. I hope Intel didn't do it - but if they did, they need to be repremanded.Great to see some justice against InhellI can hardly wait to see the M$...
- Tags: Video cards, Corporate law, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., antitrust, graphics
- Discussion threads 2009-11-04
- Are the Microsoft layoffs over now?
- I hope soI hate seeing "SoandSo killing X amount of jobs" in the news =/Ballmer should be the first to get laid offHis reklessness to ignore the FOSS and cling to the proprietary model drove M$ into the ground.Q1 revenues of $13Bn generating $3.5Bn in net profit ...... would tend...
- Tags: Operational accounting, Financial services, accounting, Creative accounting, Microsoft Corp., layoff
- Discussion threads 2009-11-04
- Oracle giving EU a hard time over Sun buy
- Oh my, must not up set the crazy EU.Pfttt....A small question why EU can stop or affect a deal inside usa ..... or is the deal is global ....Also we EU dont fork MYSQL into something purely EU ... and tell Oracle to go to hell. If the...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Oracle Corp., MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-04
- Xobni expands to include enterprise but where are Web, Mobile and even Mac versions
- Search tools more than important!!!Good that mostly everbody knows that in business life nothing works without e-mail and even that important is a reliable and fast search tool for Outlook! One of those is Lookeen It has so many features which lighten your work that is amazing. It works with...
- Tags: Groupware, Microsoft Office, Mail.app, Entourage, Web, Xobni, Microsoft Outlook, Apple Macintosh, mobile
- Discussion threads 2009-11-04
- Oracle giving EU a hard time over Sun buy
- Oracle is taking a hard line in dealing with EU objections to its planned acquisition of Sun, according to a Financial Times report on Tuesday. Oracle is taking a hard line in dealing with EU objections to its planned acquisition of Sun, according to a Financial Times report on...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., European Union, Corporate Law, Regulations, Open Source, Databases, Business Operations, Government, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Oracle, Sun, EU, merger, Stephen Shankland CNET News
- News items 2009-11-04
- Smartplanet: Apple can grab more share by slashing Mac prices
- RE: Smartplanet: Apple can grab more share by slashing Mac pricesIf they wanted marketshare at a lower entry price they could have pulled that off years ago with cloner acquisitions and more mfg on their own part with rigid standards and practices to ensure quality and lower production costs. ...
- Tags: Desktops, Notebooks, Mac proponent, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, Audi AG, Mac Share
- Discussion threads 2009-11-04
- Deck the halls with LED
- Sounds OKSounds like a reasonable idea although the cost of LED lights is quite high ($30?).lehnerus2000$30 for LED lights?We buy sets here for $15... and considering that the power consumption is so much lower that they quite literally pay for themselves in the savings on my electric bill, they're worth...
- Tags: Engineering, light-emitting diode
- Discussion threads 2009-11-03
- Is Microsoft a dinosaur to Google's mammal?
- Random comments...How odd the mixed metaphors sound... "built from the ground up to work in the cloud"...The dinosaurs were around for tens of millions of years, and we mammals can barely say the same. The crown of creation can be wrested from the head of the wearer by something unforeseen--like...
- Tags: Desktops, OPEN SOURCE, Ideation, Google Inc., desktop, dinosaur, Linux, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-02
- Figuring the value of software
- Phil Wainewright's discussion about the cost of running highly scalable SaaS applications like SuccessFactors comes at the right time. He says: Speaking in the opening keynote of SIIA OnDemand in San Jose this morning, SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard let slip a statistic that set several...
- Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, SuccessFactors Inc., SAP AG, Phil Wainewright, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-11-02
- Mozilla goes back to the beta with Firefox 3.6
- Oh bother. Does this mean Firefox 3.5 is buggy and insecure?Having used Firefox since 0.6 I find 3.5 to be one of the less stable versions. I hope that they get the bugs out for 3.6.3 things this version must have or it may fall too far behind1. SELinux/AppArmor...
- Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, Web browser, Mozilla Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Firefox 3.6, beta, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-11-02
- Making Apple's Magic Mouse and Wireless Keyboard work in Windows
- System 7? You mean Windows 7Has anyone tried the update on Win 7? Let us know!Why in gods nameWhy in gods name would i want apples mouse and keyboard,what i have makes it look like tech from the 30,s Oh i see this is an article from an appletard,makes sence...
- Tags: Mice, Keyboards, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, wireless, Apple Inc., mouse, keyboard, wireless keyboard
- Discussion threads 2009-11-02
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