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- Visicalc co-founder offers a modest proposal
- Visicalc co-founder offers a modest proposalcommon mistakesSo, you're saying that the simple fact that a service is offered, regulation is justified? Because I sell beef to McDonalds, I should be required by law to sell to Burger King for the same price? There is no such thing as a guaranteed...
- Tags: INTERNET, Regulations, Taxes, Telecom & Utilities, Free trade, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, regulation, guaranteed market, modest proposal, Nevermind, VisiCalc
- Discussion threads 2006-05-30
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- Sun release claims Sun Ray shipments nearly double
- Sun just issued a press release claiming that its shipments of Sun Ray "thin client" systems nearly doubled. The most exciting part of the announcement was that the document was sent not as a text message, not as an HTML formatted document, but as a Sun Staroffice document. Since I...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, Sun Ray Unit Shipment, Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Thin Clients, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- News to know: IDF; Windows 7 wishes; IE 8; Salesforce.com
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Salesforce acquires InStranet; Will take it SaaS and better target call centers Ed Bott: My Windows 7 wish list ...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Jason O'Grady, Apple Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Intel Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Corporate Communications, Security, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Marketing
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Salesforce acquires InStranet; Will take it SaaS and better target call centers
- Salesforce.com said Wednesday that it will acquire InStranet, which provides knowledge management software for call centers, and integrate its technology with its existing CRM customer service and support offering. Simply put, Salesforce.com is acquiring traditional enterprise software for $31.5 million and turning it into a service in an effort to...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., InStranet Inc., Software-as-a-service, Falcione, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- eBooks volume 3: What is the right price for a device that holds 100s of books?
- Over the past couple weeks, I've been conducting polls about ebooks as I think about doing some publishing. The overwhelming response to the polls has been that there is not a sufficiently broad selection of books available in e-formats, regardless of what format, whether for Amazon's Kindle, the Sony Reader...
- Tags: E-books, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Pleasant 'Dream' for HTC, Google: FCC approves
- The FCC has approved HTC's 'Dream' phone, which will now be the first Android-based handset to hit the market, InfoWeek reports. It will support T-Mobile's 3G network. (Let's see if it handles 3G better than Apple and AT&T.) Looks like it will have a "jog ball" (trackball?),...
- Tags: FCC, Google Inc., High Tech Computer Corp., Bluetooth, Federal Government, 3G, Wi-Fi, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Government, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Another way to ditch your gadgets the green way and earn some money in the process
- For about a year now, a Web site that started life as Second Rotation has been buying back electronic gadgets including cell phones, MP3 players, digital cameras, laptops, GPS devices, gaming consoles, camcorders, satellite radios and portable hard drives. No matter how old. During that time, the...
- Tags: Site, Gazelle, TechForward, GPS, Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Satellite Radio, Smart Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- SEC introduces IDEA
- Earlier today, Christopher Cox, SEC chairman introduced IDEA - Interactive Data and Electronic Applications, an XBRL framework for surfacing information used by investors. In prepared remarks, Cox said: "It will be faster, cheaper, better [than EDGAR.] Better data analysis will have a positive impact on the market as a whole....
- Tags: SEC, Investor, Analysis, IDEA, Cox, Financial Accounting, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Mobile handset sales down in 2Q: Market share race has three horses
- NPD Group on Tuesday announced its second quarter handset sales tally and 28 million units were shipped to consumers, down 13 percent from a year ago. According to NPD, second quarter handset revenue was $2.4 billion, down 2 percent from a year ago. What's...
- Tags: NPD Group Inc., Mobile, Handset, Sales, Cellular Phones, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Is the enterprise ready for cloud computing?
- Guest post: This is a post by Barry X Lynn, CEO of 3Tera, in response to a discussion about whether cloud computing is industrial strength. Lynn can be found on the 3Tera blog. There have been multiple white papers and articles written on the topic -...
- Tags: Application, Data Center, Enterprise, Data Centers, Storage, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- 62.7% of US employees choose PPO plan for their medical insurance
- Consumer Driven Health Plans, or CDHPs, increased by 43% from 2007, and now comprise nearly 13% of all plans offered by employers. The%age of employees enrolled in these plans nearly doubled, from six% in 2007 to 11.2% 2008. While preferred provider organizations PPOs continue to dominate the market, representing 54%...
- Tags: Employee, Insurance, Plan, HMO, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, AM
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Zoho's future in Google's hands?
- Earlier today, Zoho sent over an intriguing email with a whole bunch of numbers and spreadsheet demonstrating why Google in particular is not likely to be a threat to the company. It makes interesting reading. The argument goes something like this: Google's revenue and profit per...
- Tags: Software, Revenue, Google Inc., Zoho, Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Analysts: vendors are mellowing their SOA pitches
- Signs that SOA is evolving from a seller's to buyer's market by Joe McKendrick
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Delivering the Olympics: Akamai and Limelight respond
- Akamai disputes Limelight Networks' take on its infrastructure and my recent post, Limelight Networks: Why the Olympics didn't 'Melt' the Internet. Limelight, however, says its implementation facts are accurate and that it absolutely stands behind its words.Keep in mind that the two companies compete fiercely and have different takes on...
- Tags: Olympic Games, Network, Server, Akamai Technologies Inc., Content, Limelight Networks, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Data Centers, Networking, Internet, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Is the "killer app" argument dead?
- The other day I was talking with a bunch of other tech heads about the ongoing Windows vs. Mac vs. Linux market share war and why, from a stats point of view, that Mac and Linux were still trailing far behind Windows. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Adobe PhotoShop, Apple Macintosh, Killer Application, Web Browser, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Microsoft Office, Software, Office Suites, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Awaiting decision on new trial in Thomas case
- Apparently, it is RIAA day here at the govtech blog. The Wall Street Journal reported Friday on the upcoming decision in the Thomas case. Jammie Thomas, of course, was hit with $220,000 is statutory fines for copyright infringement. The verdict was based on a "making available" theory (see this article...
- Tags: Theory, RIAA, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- IBM: The mainframe is back
- The company claims the mainframe is finding its way into emerging markets and holding strong globally, despite a shortage of related skills among IT workers The mainframe is finding its way into emerging markets and is still holding strong globally, according to an IBM executive. ...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Servers, Hardware, Vivian Yeo ZDNet Asia, mainframes, IBM, datacenters, emerging markets
- News items 2008-08-18
- Before Intel's big show, AMD launches an attack
- With Intel's annual conference set to start this week, AMD launched a pre-emptive strike in a press conference on Friday. AMD executives said the processor innovations you'll hear about next week are imitations of technology they introduced as much as five years ago, and Intel's Larrabee graphics...
- Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, Intel Corp., Attack, Imitation, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Building the ecosystem: Citrix and Platform Computing
- David Roussain of Citrix and Peter Dyer of Platform Computing brought me up to speed on how the two companies are working together to provide a highly managable, agile computing environment based upon virtual machines supported by Citrix XenServer and Platform Computing's VM Orchestrator 4.0. ...
- Tags: Environment, Citrix Systems Inc., Platform Computing Inc., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Limelight by the numbers: Akamai's thorn?
- Limelight Networks may have won a medal for its role behind the scenes to keep NBCOlympics.com humming, but the company is still dwarfed by its largest rival Akamai. The big question: Does Limelight have enough headroom to gain meaningful share from Akamai? Jason Perlow detailed how content...
- Tags: Patent, Akamai Technologies Inc., Limelight Networks, Jason, Company, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
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