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The uncouth vocal utterance of the people

The uncouth vocal utterance of the peopleWhoaMan, you should see me blushing right now. I never thought I'd be such the focus of anything.Like you, I have my agreements and disagreements with those you mentioned and others, but in most cases I enjoy reading and responding to them when I...

Tags: Laura Penny

Discussion threads 2005-07-29

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Remember IBM at $10.50 per Share? Oracle as a penny stock? Tales of Hope from the Great High Tech Depression of ‘89

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak …..October. Paraphrasing Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven seems somehow appropriate to this moment, when it seems that everything we've all worked and dreamed about is going up in smoke. And yet, having seen a version of this movie...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Recession, Stock, IBM Corp., Tech Stock, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Look who's buying Vista Home Basic (hint: it's not home users)

Who's buying new PCs with Windows Vista Home Basic? Judging by the name, you'd assume those OS editions would be loaded on underpowered machines for starving students and penny-pinching families. But you'd be wrong. Based on my observations of the PC market over the past year or two, I think...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Small-business Buyer, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Tempest or Nuclear Winter

A Hurricane Ike for Tech Start-Ups VentureWire Alert free subscription required today reported that venture capitalists are advising their portfolio firms to prepare for a potential nuclear winter. One venture capitalist featured in today's newsletter was quoted as telling firms "to slow down their burn rate, and...

Tags: Firm, Venture Capital, Product Development, Investment, Product Marketing, Workforce Management, Finance, Financing Startups, Research & Development, Business Operations, Marketing, Human Resources, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-10-09

$236m judgment against spammer couple

$236m judgment against spammer coupleSadly, it's pointlessSadly, in reality such a judgment is pointless.Let them pay it in jail time$236m is a fair bill to run up. I say let them paying it back in jail time.Let's even be generous and say 1 day in jail will reduce the bill...

Tags: Spam, Email Ads, e-mail, spammer, advertisement

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Forrester fuels the SAP maintenance price hike debate

The last few days I've been exchanging email with R 'Ray' Wang, VP and principal analyst at Forrester about the kerfuffle over SAP's unilateral decision to apply a price hike to its maintenance and support fees. Ray specializes in the enterprise market and has special experience of SAP going back...

Tags: Customer, SAP AG, Forrester Research Inc., Ray, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Investment, Business Structures, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Asset smart? AMD moves manufacturing off its balance sheet; Bolsters capital

Asset smart? AMD moves manufacturing off its balance sheet; Bolsters capitalRE: Asset smart? AMD moves manufacturing off its balance sheet; Bolsters caI think it's quite smart personally.foolishJust another CEO desperate to save his bonus. Once you carve up the company, quality goes downhill. The chips will suffer. AMD will be...

Tags: Balance sheets, Asset management, Semiconductors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Asset Smart, manufacturing, balance sheet, chip, asset

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

Hollywood to kids: Pay up for preschool movies

Hollywood to kids: Pay up for preschool moviesThe States next?So when it does come to the States?Talk about trying to get blood from a turnip...This is nuts. Simply nuts. They bought your dvd..that should be the end of it. License per year to show it? They...

Tags: Corporate communications, Consumer electronics, TVs, Advertising & Promotion, Fair Use, day care center, Pay Up, DVD, video, movie

Discussion threads 2008-10-06

Salesforce.com: Worries emerge

Salesforce.com on Friday was downgraded from a buy to a sell by UBS analyst Heather Bellini because software as a service companies are likely to face the same headwinds as larger applications vendors. Meanwhile, Salesforce.com is targeting larger enterprises and that means it faces a slower buying cycle. ...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-03

It's still good to be green, whether it's accidental or not

One of the IT services companies that closely partners with IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems, released an interesting survey earlier this week that confirms what I've believed for some time: IT managers don't really care about being green in the environmental sense as much as they care about saving money....

Tags: IT Manager, Survey, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Marketing Research, Servers, Hardware, Storage, Marketing, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-09-28

RIM's second quarter falls short; Forecast light; Margins to fall

Updated: Research in Motion's second quarter results fell short of estimates and the third quarter outlook was weaker than expected too. RIM said Thursday statement that it reported net income of $495.5 million, or 86 cents a share, compared to $287.7 million, 50 cents a share, a...

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Margin, Financial Accounting, Operational Accounting, Smart Phones, Finance, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-25

Apple as the incumbent against open source G1

Apple as the incumbent against open source G1My 2 cents worthHere's a [url=http://www.dtschmitz.com/dts/2008/09/nokia-and-googles-android-threat.html]penny[/url].And [url=http://www.dtschmitz.com/dts/2008/09/nokia-n95n96-still-the-best-smartphone-of-all.html]another[/url].Thanks Dana.--DietrichApple has a larger market capand deeper pockets than google. So what was your point again?Oh, that's right. It's google so it is the second coming.the fear is strong in you!keep the faith, it's all you...

Tags: Apple Inc., open source

Discussion threads 2008-09-25

Oracle CRM: spot the disconnect

Despite all the glowing reports about Oracle SocialCRM among my fellow bloggers here and elsewhere, I had an uncomfortable feeling. Something didn't quite jibe with me. Step back about three months when I attended an internal Oracle EMEA marketing meeting. I saw Sales Prospector and listened to the pitch but...

Tags: Oracle Corp., CRM, Sales Prospector, Current Evidence, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-09-25

Americans Hate Flying - Consultants Must Really Loathe It

Can't We Have a More Civilized Flying World? c Several media outlets picked up on a study released by the Travel Industry Association last week that indicated that 41 million Americans are forgoing air travel due to the hassles involved in doing so today....

Tags: Security, Southwest Airlines Co., Beverage, Entertainment, Carrier, Food & Beverage, Advertising & Promotion, Manufacturing, Marketing, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-09-23

You cannot beat open source

You cannot beat open sourceBig Money MattI call Matt Asay "Big Money Matt" because he works for an open source company and makes a good income from it. He's just here for giggles.Next course at the Harvard Music School...How to Stamp Out Amateur Music. Learn the threat that community...

Tags: open source

Discussion threads 2008-09-23

All signs point to state senator's son as Palin 'hacker'

All signs point to state senator's son as Palin 'hacker'Cracker is the term people are looking for.Though script kiddie would be more applicable.RE: All signs point to state senator's son as Palin 'hacker'I saw this information on www.michellemalkin.com and a few other blogs. Nothing in the main stream left wing...

Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, Palin, hacker, knowledge, Cracker

Discussion threads 2008-09-19

Bring on the fake John Hodgman!

Bring on the fake John Hodgman!New innovative Windows Mobile 7 is requiredHello Mary Jo,I think that the only way for Microsoft to return that gain momentum for winning new users for Windows 7 is one-up Apple's working together with Google iPhone platform by developing a *new* innovative Windows Mobile 7...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Windows Mobile 7, John Hodgman, fake John Hodgman, Microsoft Corp., advertisement

Discussion threads 2008-09-18

Microsoft joins the 'everyone but Apple' digital-media coalition

Microsoft joins the 'everyone but Apple' digital-media coalitionAn elaborate consumer control systemAny consumer who willingly signs on to this is either naive, or a complete idiot. Do not allow companies to monitor your activities, and ultimately control you, then insult you by saying that you are in control. This is...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Yes DRM, digital media, Microsoft Corp., digital-rights management, DECE, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-15

(The $2,000 build-it-yourself gaming/video editing/photo editing PC)

(The $2,000 build-it-yourself gaming/video editing/photo editing PC)$2000 build-it-yourself PCGreat article would do it if I didn't already have a pretty good PC. How about a build-it-yourself gaming laptop?RE: (The $2,000 build-it-yourself gaming/video editing/photo editing PC)I have a similar system with only 4Gb of cheaper ram , 2 Tb...

Tags: Corporate communications, Games, Desktops, PC, video, game

Discussion threads 2008-09-12

The music scene: legal vs. illegal

Music is a huge part of our lives, not just students, but it does have a major effect on how we interact, integrate and collaborate. Music can be seen as a work enhancer, a relationship matcher, a commonality between groups or connections - most just see it as something to...

Tags: Digital-rights Management, Music, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Security, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-11