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- Bill Gates, charity and ending poverty
- Bill Gates announced his "retirement" plans live on Microsoft's corpnet an hour before I headed for LAX to make a week-long trip to Mexico. It wasn't your typical trip, as it started in Mexico City and veered into Vera Cruz state by way of Orizaba (the site...
- Tags: poverty, Bill Gates, Jeffrey Sachs
- Blog posts 2006-06-27
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- How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability
- The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001, and Daniel J. Bernstein DJB, author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying basic math principles to raise awareness on what's to turn into the "sky is falling" critical Internet vulnerability in 2008, in...
- Tags: DNS, Vulnerability, Anomaly, Attack, OpenDNS, MaraDNS, NSS, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Microhoo mudslinging: Icahn says Yahoo distorts facts of offer; Microsoft agrees
- The Microhoo saga gets messier by the minute and will probably get worse as we near the Aug. 1 shareholder meeting where Carl Icahn tries to boot Yahoo's board and CEO Jerry Yang. We're back to dueling letters again and the saga is very messy Techmeme. On...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Search, Yahoo! Press Release, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- Research Shows iPhone Penetration to Grow by 164 Percent
- Is the iPhone going to rule enterprise mobility? Consider this: a recent Goldman Sachs survey of its IT executives showed that 17 percent expect to support the iPhone 3G in the next year. That's a "very strong number especially at this early stage," says Goldman telecom analyst Jason...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Research In Motion Ltd., Mobile, Goldman Sachs & Co., Armstrong, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Thinking -- Or Feeling -- Like A Computer
- So an unknown billionaire named Jeffrey E. Epstein has spent millions trying to develop a thinking and feeling computer. But winds up in jail instead. This sounds eerily like a wish to build a HAL 9000 computer that was the central character of Arthur C. Clarke's science...
- Tags: Thinking Machines, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Computer, Astronaut, Productivity, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- The Steve Jobs Standard
- The Steve Jobs StandardWell saidIn a world of greed, that last sentence was a breath of fresh air.Amen, Tom ntntThe unsung hero of AppleJohnathan Ive.An Apple product develops something like this:Jobs to Ive: Give me something sexy.Ive: Here you go.Jobs: Awesome.Gee - Maybe he should be a SaintNo doubt Steve...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Ive
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
- Sue Decker's super powers
- Yahoo's not-so-secret reorganization got its official nod today, with three new divisions created to centralize operations and report to Sue Decker. Yahoo's not-so-secret reorganization got its official nod today, with three new divisions created to centralize operations and report to Sue Decker. ...
- Tags: Reuters, Yahoo, reorganization, management, Sue Decker
- News items 2008-06-27
- High-tech trifecta dabbles in solar technology
- What is it with high-tech giants and solar energy research and development? Apparently, as it turns out, many of the same manufacturing and design ideas that people have been applying to computer systems and microprocessor technology matter in the world of solar. Intel is the third huge...
- Tags: Solar Energy, Transistor, Photovoltaics, Microprocessor, Technology, IBM Corp., Manufacturing, Semiconductors, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- eBay: New belle of Microsoft's merger ball?
- Microsoft has $44 billion or so burning a hole in its pocket, but there's one little hitch: There are few companies that the software giant could buy to get scale quickly. Enter eBay. Enter speculation. Enter eBay as the acquisition target. Sure, eBay has opened up its...
- Tags: Merger, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., eBay Inc., Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Keyboards, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Hardware, Peripherals, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- Do Congressmen's charges of Chinese hacking hold water?
- InfoWorld notes that the congressmen who claimed China hacked their computers probably have scant evidence of the charges. "It's so very hard to conclude that something came from someplace if all you're going from is an IP address," said Marcus Sachs, director of the SANS Internet Storm...
- Tags: Hacking, Evidence, Charge, Computer, Productivity, Internet, Keyboards, Security, Hardware, Peripherals, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-06-13
- Yahoo: Does Jerry have to go?
- Yahoo got its wish. Microsoft is no longer a possibility as a purchaser. The company improves short-term results by partnering on search with Google. Carl Icahn may give up on his proxy war. And the company lives to fight another day--or at least until Aug. 1 when shareholders unleash their...
- Tags: Google Inc., Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Construction, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-13
- Why Internet companies are attractive takeover targets: They can't manage
- Are Internet companies so inefficient and clueless about management that have to be acquired? Lost in the commentary about Bernstein's "U.S. Internet -- The End of the Beginning" report, which concluded that Amazon and Google would be the dominant Internet duopoly, are the reasons why today's leading...
- Tags: Internet Company, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- Cloud computing meets capitalism: We all become a business of one
- Folks spend a lot of time talking about cloud computing. It's a move back to the mainframe. Cloud computing democratizes IT infrastructure. The cloud will be the reason Amazon and Google will be the dominant players on the Internet. You have heard a lot of it before. But the real...
- Tags: Google Inc., YouTube Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Lindsay, Cloud Computing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- Crude oil: OPEC cartel? Speculation? Unlimited demand?
- Crude oil: OPEC cartel? Speculation? Unlimited demand?Why is Crude Oil Price so High?Why is the Dollar so low?RE: Crude oil: OPEC cartel? Speculation? Unlimited demand?It's pretty easy. OPEC is made up mostly not all mind you, of countries that are not to fond of the US....
- Tags: Auto Industry, OPEC, Crude Oil, cartel
- Discussion threads 2008-06-06
- The duopoly theory at work: Will Amazon and Google dominate the Internet?
- Will Amazon and Google be the two giants of the Internet? Sanford Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay seems to think so. In a research report previewed to Reuters, "U.S. Internet: The End of the Beginning," Lindsay concludes that Google and Amazon will be the top dogs on the...
- Tags: Google Inc., Theory, Amazon.com Inc., Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- Hosted software development: an emerging market [includes podcast]
- Hosted software development: an emerging market [includes podcast]Emerging market?If we're talking about version control, bug tracking, compile farms, etc then how is this an emerging market? Companies have been doing this for years.As for leasing out computer time...this has been done for decades. It just went out...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Marketing research, Financial services, Podcasts, Development tools, Force.com, emerging market, tool, Hosted, Hosted software development, software development, podcast
- Discussion threads 2008-05-12
- Hosted software development: an emerging market [includes podcast]
- Note: Click the player above to hear my podcast interview on hosted development with Jeffrey Walker and Jeff Leyser from Atlassian Software. Hosted software as a service SaaS development solutions have become an important option for mainstream programmers. These products range from straightforward offsite storage, such as...
- Tags: Software, Podcast, Environment, Emerging Market, Workflow, Tool, Development Environment, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Software Development, Development Tools, Management, Software/Web Development, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-05-11
- Blockbuster can start due diligence on Circuit City
- Circuit City said Friday that it is exploring strategic alternatives and will allow Blockbuster and investor Carl Icahn to "conduct additional due diligence." Last month, Blockbuster announced a rather perplexing plan to acquire Circuit City in an attempt to take two struggling retailers and make one strong...
- Tags: Circuit City Stores Inc., Blockbuster Inc., Diligence, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- Why social software won't dethrone the incumbents
- It's not often I find myself fundamentally disagreeing with Sam Lawrence. He's a smart guy with a great marketing head. But on this post he's over-reaching in my opinion. His basic argument says this: The big IT vendors aren't taking social software seriously. They can't. Not even if they...
- Tags: Software, Oracle Corp., Value Chain, Vendor, SAP AG, IBM Corp., Sam, Austin Ventures, Dan, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- Ksplice automates hot patching Linux kernel with no reboot needed
- Ksplice is an interesting open source project out of MIT that automates the process of applying security patches to the Linux kernel without rebooting, and it's getting notice by the Linux Foundation. Top kernel developer and Linux Foundation fellow Ted Ts'o said the Ksplice software is...
- Tags: Linux Kernel, Ksplice, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
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