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MarketWatch.com Deploys SQL Server 2005 to Enhance Scalability, Availability

MarketWatch.com, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dow Jones & Company, helps more than five million unique visitors a month stay abreast of market conditions with its business and investing news, personal finance information, and analytical tools. The company was using Microsoft SQL Server 2000 database, which had served it well, but...

Tags: MarketWatch.com, Microsoft SQL Server, Scalability, Personal Finance, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

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Sprint lures two from Verizon; new 'unlimited' plan seals deal

Gone to Sprint!As a 21 year VZW customer and my wife as a 16 year VZW customer, our bills with data on our phones and 400 minutes for me and unlimited and text for hers, our bills were $270/month combined (mine with a 6% discount on a business plan). ...

Tags: GPS, Handhelds, Cellular phones, Verizon Communications Inc., VZW, Sprint Communications

Discussion threads 2009-09-14

New software enables communication for students with severe disabilities

New software enables communication for students with severe disabilitiesWow!To me, that is the natural progression of software/technology, to be able to include everyone in a full, rich life experience and share it with others. I often wondered how children with severe speech issues are able to express the natural...

Tags: Operational accounting, HEALTHCARE, Peachtree Software, revenue, Accenture Ltd., Sun Microsystems Inc., New Software

Discussion threads 2009-06-09

No Device Will Save The New York Times. Only The Times Can.

A large-screen Kindle won't save The New York Times. Neither will a mid-sized iPad from Apple. In fact, no electronic "platform" will save a print publication of any type. Just because a news publication first existed on a large sheet of paper does not mean that some...

Tags: Web, New York Times Co., Times, Channel Management, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Finance, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-05-05

Five unanswered questions after Microsoft's Q3 earnings call

Five unanswered questions after Microsoft's Q3 earnings callReally?The EC doesn't have Microsoft hating judges. It has Microsoft being found in violation of the EC rules/regulations repeatedly. Ergo, the judges have to bring the hammer down.Or would you rather that they didn't do anything when companies did "bad things?" Or is...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Corp., earnings call

Discussion threads 2009-04-23

Web 2.0 Expo: the end of the online search driven era?

I attended last week's Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco with a sense of trepidation. A year ago this event was jam packed and had a celebratory, in some cases cocky atmosphere - I was worried this time the expo would be a washout as a...

Tags: Web, Tim O'Reilly, Internet Search, Conference, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-04-05

Top stocks and finance sites in the US

Rank Web site Domain February 2008 February 2009 Growth, YTY 1 Yahoo! Finance finance.yahoo.com 23.63% 22.21% -6% 2 MSN Money moneycentral.msn.com 8.14% 7.32% -10% 3 CNN Money money.cnn.com 2.35% 7.16% 205% 4 Scottrade www.scottrade.com 2.52% 5.48% 118% 5 TD AMERITRADE...

Tags: Stock, Personal Finance, Financial Accounting, Finance, NB

Blog posts 2009-03-26

It's 1:02 P.M.: Does Your Online News Service Know Which Way The Market Is Moving?

The great competitive advantage of online news is that it is supposedly always up-to-the-minute. At least that's the theory. But the stock market's gyrations mean this: Watch the number, not the news. Here's how the market looked to editors of various prime business news services online at...

Tags: Stock, Investment, Finance, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-10-17

More on the iPhone 3G woes (updated)

More on the iPhone 3G woes updatedRE: More on the iPhone 3G woes updatedfail.the issue isn't 3G failing with the iphone, it's with a chipset inside the phone itself failing. other phones don't have the issue because the don't have that chipset.and what in tarnation does your subject line mean...

Tags: Cellular phones, WIRELESS, Apple iPhone 3G, Apple iPhone, 3G

Discussion threads 2008-08-14

iPhone 3G issues blamed on Infineon chips

iPhone 3G issues blamed on Infineon chipsWhooot!Go Apple!... Deny till you fix it... then you never had a problem right? Sounds good to me.It's user error.Buying the first gen of any product (the first of the 3G iphones) means you take greater risk. One question nobody seems to ask,...

Tags: Cellular phones, chip, Is it MS, Apple iPhone 3G, Nomura, Apple iPhone, Infineon Technologies AG, 3G, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-08-13

Ok, I admit it. I love NBCOlympics.com! Now go make it work on Linux!

Ok, I admit it. I love NBCOlympics.com! Now go make it work on Linux!RE: Ok, I admit it. I love NBCOlympics.com! Now go make it work on Linux![url=http://www.dtschmitz.com/dts/2008/08/nbcolympicscom-linux-users-sol.html]Hate it.[/url]Sticks in the kraw of Open Source folksas they can't stand working with anything MS related.What OS were you using?I was watching...

Tags: Corporate communications, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Web browsers, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, NBCOlympics.com, Linux!, video, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-08-11

Two small countries thinking big, and green

Two small countries thinking big, and green....Rock on! And the US continues to fall behind... ironic, no? ]:)Arizona is doing the same asinine thingThey are building a THREE SQUARE MILE solar power plant using more steel than the golden gate bridge!It will power 70,000 homes.Toshiba makes a nuclear power plant...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, small country, Cyprus

Discussion threads 2008-06-08

EU+slaps+Microsoft+with+%241.3+billion+fine

EU+slaps+Microsoft+with+%241.3+billion+fineWell ... back to work thenI note that not even Microsoft disputes the principle or the amount of the fine. Since Microsoft is now making the requested interoperability information available for a flat fee plus 0.4% of the revenues (if any !) this ought to close this particular case so...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer

Discussion threads 2008-02-27

Microsoft to release .Net as Shared Source

Microsoft to release .Net as Shared SourceMore detail for those that want to know.http://weblogs.asp.net:80/scottgu/archive/2007/10/03/releasing-the-source-code-for-the-net-framework-libraries.aspxIt's not openShred source isn't open source, so this really just caters to a very defined audience. Fine for them, but this isn't anyhting important for those interested in non-proprietary software. I wonder if M$ will ever...

Tags: .NET, Application servers, Middleware, Vertical Computer, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft .NET, VCSY

Discussion threads 2007-10-03

Internet Explorer 8.0: The silence is deafening

Internet Explorer 8.0: The silence is deafeningLet the sound of crickets ring! NTNTIE7... LOLMicrosoft should just buy Opera and be done with it. Also, why CSS 2.1 and no 3? Heck how about an up-to-date JavaScript engine?IE7...The Silence Is DeafeningIn my place it doesn't exist..long live Firefox.Holding On to IE6I...

Tags: Web browsers, SVG, MSFT stock, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 8.0, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, silence, Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2007-09-28

Ubuntu Chief: Microsoft Invests Big $ On OpenXML Standards Effort

Ubuntu Chief: Microsoft Invests Big $ On OpenXML Standards EffortMessage has been deleted.Message has been deleted.Message has been deleted.Message has been deleted.That idiot's a billionaire....... whereas you... well...'nuff said.Wasting his time with a few million peopleThe idiot hardly wasted his time. He wrote a brief blog post, and a bunch...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Quality, Ubuntu, odf, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format

Discussion threads 2007-08-14

Sun/Google and Adobe now gunning for Microsoft Office

Sun/Google and Adobe now gunning for Microsoft OfficeOpenOffice.org MacThis sheds some light on why suddenly Sun has fired up much more active development of OpenOffice for Mac in spite of what is being done and the huge lead the NeoOffice project has.Lip stick doesn't change the fact its a pig.Sorry,...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenOffice, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Office, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-08-14

Fox Interactive turns annual profit; MySpace revenue to top $800 million in fiscal 2008

News Corp. said its Fox Interactive unit, which largely consists of MySpace, turned a profit of $10 million on revenue of $550 million for the fiscal year ending June 30.Overall, News Corp. reported fourth quarter earnings from continuing operations of $890 million on revenue of $7.36 billion. News Corp....

Tags: Revenue, News Corp., MySpace, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-08-08

Patchy antivirus coverage for 64-bit Vista

Patchy antivirus coverage for 64-bit VistaI disagree that if Windows 7 is only 64 bit that ....... it will be a total nightmare. Part of the reason Vista x64 has problems is because it was released in 64 and 32 bit doubling the qual;ification effort of everyone involved. ...

Tags: Network technology, Operating systems, accountability gap, antivirus, 64-bit, operating system, 32-bit, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2007-08-03

News to know: Virtual worlds; Green data centers; Black Hat; IT failures

Notable headlines:Dan Farber: The future of virtual worlds.The third Web wave--two degrees of separation. Denise Howell: AlwaysOn Stanford Summit: lawyers for Google, IBM, and Apple ponder the patent system.Complexity and the greening of the datacenter.Harry Fuller: Green: tech and VC money converge.Michael Krigsman: Wisconsin’s Apologist for IT Failure. Transparent Failure.David...

Tags: News to know, General

Blog posts 2007-08-02