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Sun's acorn remains close to the tree

The anticipated, and some would say long overdue (yet perhaps too soon?), segue of Jonathan Schwartz into the CEO position at Sun Microsystems is timed to bump the stock price amid still lackluster financial results. Longtime CEO and co-founder Scott McNealy retains his chairmanship of the board, and successfully managed...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Jonathan Schwartz, Scott McNealy

Blog posts 2006-04-24

McNealy on Schwartz: I've been working pretty hard to get him into this role

During the conference call with the media, former Sun CEO and now Chairman Scott McNealy praised his replacement Jonathan Schwartz, saying that he had worked "pretty hard to get him into this role," spotting his talent and watching him through seven jobs at Sun in the last 10 years. "He...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Jonathan Schwartz, Scott McNealy

Blog posts 2006-04-24

McNealy yields CEO role to Schwartz at Sun

Scott McNealy stepped Sun CEO after 22 years at the helm, replaced by President and COO Jonathan Schwartz today, after the company announced its quarterly results. McNealy will remain as chairman. "Jonathan has risen to the top of the class, and he is ready," McNealy said during a conference call....

Tags: Scott McNealy

Blog posts 2006-04-24

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Chrome's JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlight

Experts speaking at Microsoft's TechEd conference in Australia warn that JavaScript will continue to get speedier, making it the biggest rival of Silverlight technology. The biggest rival for Microsoft's next-generation Silverlight web technology will be JavaScript, not Adobe's ubiquitous Flash, according to experts speaking at Microsoft's TechEd conference in...

Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, JavaScript, Chrome, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Suzanne Tindal ZDNet Australia, Silverlight, Microsoft, Adobe, Flash, Google

News items 2008-09-05

Chrome and why Gates was right to be paranoid

Chrome and why Gates was right to be paranoidGo on Google, kill them off once and for alllet's rid the world of these sloppy fat liars and have technology once again !!!!RE: Chrome and why Gates was right to be paranoidThe browser came about because IE 8 really scared the...

Tags: Web browsers, Chrome, Google Inc., Web browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Google Chrome: Steal this browser

Google Chrome: Steal this browserMemory Usage not commendableFirefox 3 uses lesser memory than Google Chrome. The base browser itself uses about 75MB and with 5 tabs opened, the total memory usage is around 200MB. Firefox with the same number of tabs is less than 100MB. Makes me wonder how efficient...

Tags: Web browsers, Google Chrome, Web browser, Google Inc., Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2008-09-02

Google's new Chrome browser based on WebKit (updated 3x)

One of the biggest tech news story coming out of the Labor Day holiday here in the U.S. is that Google is going to be releasing an open source operating system in the form of a Web browser. Google's new Web browser – Named "Chrome" – is...

Tags: Google Inc., Open Source, Web Browser, Web Browsers, Internet, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-09-02

Partnoy's Complaint

Partnoy's ComplaintI don't think Wall Street will take that bet....Wall Street bets on financial performance, not processor performance. A bet on pure processor performance, assuming we can agree on a measure for that, would ignore all kinds of financial issues with the companies involved.Why is performance significant?Are sales determined by...

Tags: Performance management, Financial accounting, financial, performance, Sun Microsystems Inc., Partnoy

Discussion threads 2008-08-30

Steve Jobs death has been greatly exaggerated

News outlet Bloomberg gave Apple fans and investors a huge scare late yesterday when it accidentally published an incomplete version of Steve Jobs obituary over its wire service. Although the service quickly retracted the release, it's an eerily-fascinating read complete with XXXX marks for the cause and...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Corporate Governance, Venture Capital, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Financing Startups, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-08-28

Comcast undecided on network management scheme

Despite the fact that it's testing a system to cut back bandwidth for heavy (P2P) users during peak traffic time, Comcast says it hasn't decided on any network management techniques as yet, IDG reports. The FCC issued an order this week requiring Comcast to stop network management that discriminates against...

Tags: Network, Comcast Corp., Network Management, FreePress, Networking, Network Administration, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-21

Echo chamber: Social media strategists are talking to themselves

Echo chamber: Social media strategists are talking to themselvesGood Article!Good article, Jonathan! Two thoughts...1.) Your comment about social media not making it to the table is troubling. The ad agency of the future (or now, if someone pulls this together) will simply embed social media along with traditional advertising and...

Tags: social media, advertisement

Discussion threads 2008-08-21

IKEA's mixed bag of IT investments

Last evening I read an interesting Gartner case study (registration wall warning.) It tells how IKEA Components, a company that is part of the iconic retailer of flat pack furniture used Lawson Software products to make significant across the board process savings and improvements. The business intelligence/process project makes great...

Tags: IKEA, Information Technology, IT Investment, David Meerman Scott, Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-08-21

Yahoo announces Icahn's board members

Yahoo appointed former Viacom CEO Frank J. Biondi, Jr. and John H. Chapple, former CEO of Nextel Partners, to its board of directors, filling the two new seats created when activist investor Carl Icahn agreed to drop his proxy fight for control of the board last month. Icahn is also...

Tags: Board, Yahoo! Inc., CEO, Chapple, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-08-14

SAP: Oracle price-gouges customers even more than we do

Doug Merritt, SAP's EVP and GM of Business User Global Sales, predictably came up with quote of the day on day one of the BusinessObjects influencer summit. During a 'fireside chat' in a near freezing air conditioned room with fellow Irregulars Mike Krigsman, Sandy Kemsley and Brian Sommer and myself,...

Tags: Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Pricing, Strategy, Sales, Marketing, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-08-12

The Science Fiction Bonk List

The Science Fiction Bonk ListAnd what relevancy does this have....This story has zero relevance to ZDNet as a whole or even quasi-appropriate. I understand this is a blog, however its crap like this that this "blogger" turns out - which is why he should be removed. He offers very little...

Tags: Blogging, Science Fiction Bonk List, blog

Discussion threads 2008-08-11

Revisiting iPhone's app kill switch

The saga around Apple's alleged App Store kill switch gets more curious by the minute. Remember Apple's ability to nuke software remotely on the iPhone? Well, the findings and the forensic code analysis from the source of the ruckus--Jonathan Zdziarski--are being called into question Techmeme. ...

Tags: apple iphone, apple inc., app, revisiting iphone, gruber, tools & techniques, management, larry dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-08

Social giving for charity begets social giving for community

Normally I don't write about specific events but I'm making an exception as this is almost a mini overview for how charity in social media can turn into a benefit for the social Web community. In May I launched a Social Media Charity Auction that raised about...

Tags: giveaway, social media, greg verdino, inbound marketing summit, jennifer leggio

Blog posts 2008-08-07

A look at risk-reward: Apple may nuke apps on your iPhone remotely

Apple apparently can disable App Store software remotely on your iPhone 3G. The iPhone calls home and poof the application is nuked. Needless to say that this has caused a bit of a blog ruckus Techmeme. MacRumors notes that Apple has come under fire for removing App...

Tags: apple iphone, apple inc., 3g, tools & techniques, cellular phones, consumer electronics, personal technology, management, larry dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-07

How do I... Set up multiple network interfaces in Windows XP?

The age of a single network interface with a single IP address assigned to it is a thing of the past in many situations. As more networks are rolled out and more computers are shipped with multiple connection methods, the need for a workstation to participate in more than one...

Tags: Network, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Network Interface, Scott Lowe, Networking

Download resources 2008-08-06

ID theft bust: Indictments are nice, more arrests much nicer

Praise be, big time. Almost. The U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorneys offices in Massachusetts and California announced today that they have indicted 11 individuals as part of an international ring of hackers (really, crackers) who purloined at least 40 million credit card and debit...

Tags: U.S., Network, Debit Card, U.S. Department Of Justice, Ukraine, Identity Theft, Hacking, Financial Services, Security, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-08-05