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- Wither Silicon Valley? IT will be driven by emerging markets
- Gartner is projecting that the "worse year ever" for IT spending---down 6.9 percent in 2009---will be followed up with dead-cat spending bounce in 2010 of a meager 3.3 percent. Does this dead-cat IT spending bounce mean traditional tech power centers---notably Silicon Valley---are no longer in the driver's seat? ...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Information Technology, Gartner Inc., Emerging Market, IT-spending, Application Roster, Marketing Research, Financial Services, Strategy, Marketing, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- What do Bill Gates and other billionaires see as the world's #1 problem?
- Population growth is NOT a problemSpend a few days reading at http://globaleconomydoesmatter.blogspot.com/ and you will be convinced that DECLINING populations are the problem that we should be concerned about.RE: What do Bill Gates and other billionaires see as the world's #1 problem?Not often that I agree with you, but you...
- Tags: capitalism, Bill Gates
- Discussion threads 2009-09-29
- Dell, HP even in second quarter U.S. PC shipment race; Apple market share slips as Acer surges
- Dell, HP even in second quarter U.S. PC shipment race; Apple market share slips as Acer surgesWill be fun to see how Mac blogs spin these numbersThe Mac blogs always find a way to spin mediocre number gains into a statistically epic triumph. It will be fun to see how...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Apple Inc., Acer Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Discussion threads 2009-07-15
- Andreessen Horowitz VC fund launches: Will invest $50,000 to $50 million in IT startups
- Marc Andreessen and Ben Hororwitz have launched $300 million venture capital fund looking to invest in early stage startups. Andreessen has been best known for hatching Netscape, but has had a series of hits. Opsware, started with Horowitz, was sold to HP. And now Andreessen is chairman...
- Tags: Marc Andreessen, Information Technology, Founder, CEO, Andreessen Horowitz, Venture Capital, Investment, Strategy, Finance, Financing Startups, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-06
- Facebook snares $200 million investment from Russian investor
- updated: Facebook said Tuesday that it has raised $200 million from Digital Sky Technologies DST, a Russian investment group. The deal gives values Facebook at $10 billion. In a statement, Facebook noted the following: Digital Sky gets preferred stock for a 1.96 percent stake...
- Tags: Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Investor, Investment, IPO, Finance, Financial Services, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-26
- Long live the Sneakernet: Computing's most resilient network
- When Amazon Web Services' latest---and arguably most valuable---service is a system that allows you to ship terabytes of data to the cloud via snail mail you just have to chuckle. Yes folks, for all the fancy talk of cloud computing, terabytes---not to mention petabytes---of data and technological advancement the Sneakernet...
- Tags: Bandwidth, Network, Terabyte, Amazon.com Inc., Computing, Sneakernet, Gigabyte Data Set, Networking, Storage, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-22
- The coming wireline business implosion (and how you'll wind up paying for it)
- The coming wireline business implosion (and how you'll wind up paying for it)King Canute Must DieI am persuaded by the ideas generally found in OPLAN discussions:1. The 5 major industrial revolutions in the last 200 years have all followed the same pattern: the previous incumbents have been swept away having...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, wireline business implosion, business implosion, Verizon Communications Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-05-18
- Dell Adamo
- Dell initially teased the existence of its upscale 13-inch Adamo laptop at CES 2009, and formally announced details and ordering availability two months later. We previously had a chance to get our hands on a preproduction version of the system, and have now been able to test the finished product....
- Tags: Processors, Notebooks, Dell Adamo, Intel Core 2 Duo, Dell Computer Corp., Intel Corp.
- Product reviews 2009-04-10
- More on Sun vs. IBM
- More on Sun vs. IBMRip Sun's head off and suck it's guts out!If this goes ahead It will be interesting to see what IBM retains. Adding SPARC to its x86/64 & POWER line up is not really viable. I was sorry when HP axed Alpha for sucky Itanic. Thanks Carly!...
- Tags: Linux, UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, OPEN SOURCE, Sales force management, IBM Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris
- Discussion threads 2009-03-26
- From Chapter Three: The Windows Culture
- From Chapter Three: The Windows CultureYour definition of a video game console ...... must be any device on which games can be played. Cell phiones are thus the most popular consoles.For the term to mean anything, this defintion from Microsoft search is better:Definition of: video game console A specialized...
- Tags: Games, Game players, Microsoft Windows, console, game, game console, video game
- Discussion threads 2008-11-07
- Income Calculator Pro 2008 2.4.05 (Windows)
- Income Calculator Pro is a tool that assists users calculate their possible monthly income in 5 level affiliate marketing model. This income calculator is intended for illustrative and educational purposes only and in no way guarantees any specific network growth pattern or income earnings. Very easy to use and user...
- Tags: Income, Microsoft Windows, Productive Web Pages, Income Calculator Pro, Operational Accounting, Finance
- Software downloads 2008-10-17
- News to know: Apple's $800 laptop; MS and Mac Patch Days; Vista Home for business
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixed MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: 11 bulletins, 4 critical Ed Bott: Look who’s buying...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, H-1B, Notebooks, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Grober
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Linux laptops see 4x returns compared to Windows
- Linux laptops see 4x returns compared to WindowsProve itProve its fud,the article is from a vendor that sells linux laptops that did there own study. Thats would make what you said pure liesYou're the Mike Cox for linux.I also suspect that you don't even know linux that well.Message has been...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, laptop computer, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Linux laptop
- Discussion threads 2008-10-06
- Is the "killer app" argument dead?
- Is the "killer app" argument dead?Great blog.It is about the browser nowadays. The age of convoluted proprietary lock-ins is going going but not quite gone .....An awful lot of devs are now building web based sharing tools, and any IE only dev, if it still goes on, is by the...
- Tags: Web browsers, PRODUCTIVITY, knowledge economy, killer application, Web browser, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Microsoft's search ambitions are its Vietnam
- Microsoft's search ambitions are its VietnamMicrosoft's search ambitions are its VietnamThe simple answer is no. Microsoft has Google envy? Since when? Google has been in constant decline for a couple of years now. Microsoft on the other hand has been growing. Their interest in search is...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Live Mesh, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., software
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- My OS is the best OS because ...
- My OS is the best OS because ...I stick with Dos 6.6rotflThat's because linux users are too busyrecompiling their kernels. Ha!this looks like another flamebait article to me.OK, OK....Ubuntu 8.04 is the best OS. Because it's easy, secure, stable, easy on the resources and free.Tip: for the time being, I...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Linux User, Ubuntu 8.04, operating system, Linux, Microsoft Windows 98, Gentoo
- Discussion threads 2008-05-06
- Modeling urban road networks
- According to New Scientist, two physicists from France and the U.S. have developed a simple mathematical model which shows how urban road networks evolve. Their model shows that urban street patterns and leaf pattern formation follow similar rules. The researchers validated their theoretical model by analyzing real road networks in...
- Tags: Network, Modeling, Road Network, Transportation, Research & Development, Networking, Business Operations, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-04-26
- SOA and compute clouds point to rethinking data entirely: roles and permissions, not rows and tables
- There's nothing like a conversation to bring out insights and new ideas. Tony Baer and I were chatting on this very pearl of productivity last week, that an open roundtable analyst call always allowed us to move the needle forward in terms of thought leadership in ways that solo writing...
- Tags: Permission, Data, SOA, Cloud, Cloud Business, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Sales Strategy, Channel Management, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Software, Sales, Marketing, Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- WOA may soon eclipse SOA as most impactful business transformation agent
- In a recent blog post I questioned whether services oriented architecture SOA was driving substantive transformation inside of enterprise IT. My conclusion is that something is not quite right in SOA-ville. The uptake of general-purpose service enablement is by no means a hockey stick trend line. The...
- Tags: Web, Agent, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- Palm's good news: The Centro is a hit. That's the bad news too
- Palm had a simple message during its third quarter earnings conference call: The Centro is selling. It's a hit. Normally, that would be great news. But when you're biggest product is a $99 smartphone you have a few profit margin issues. After the closing bell Thursday, Palm...
- Tags: Palm Inc., Centro, Smart Phones, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-21
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