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- Oil hits $100, Wall Street bulls trample American consumers
- It's a new year but the same old story. Oil's well that ends well, and the oil boys are at stratospheric prices for their crude to start this U.S. election season. Of course by now we all know the litany. Higher energy prices raises the price of...
- Tags: State, Wall, New Hampshire, Marketwatch, MTBE, Fuel Cells, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-01-02
- VMware rockets; Virtualization hits Wall Street
- Update 2: VMware shares closed at $51.Update 1: As of 11:15 am. EDT, VMware shares were trading at $51, well above the $29 offering price. MarketWatch is reporting that VMware has the best opening of 2007--assuming the current price holds of course.Shares of VMware topped out at $55.Original post:VMware's IPO...
- Tags: Virtualization, VMware Inc., IPO, Wall, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-08-14
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- 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
- Rumor Mill: Atom smashed? MacBooks, location, Time Machine (updated)
- It's Friday, which means that it's time to look at the latest raft of rumors about our favorite Cupertino company. Atom-powered mini-tablet This one was pretty hot. ZDNet.de reported that Intel Germany CEO Hannes Schwaderer confirmed that there is an iPhone that will be using Intel's...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Minitablet PC, Intel Corp., Notebooks, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Could the Olympics spoil Back to School sales?
- Supply chain blogs recently warned that the Chinese government may close down a number of manufacturing industries during the Olympic games this summer and other posters warn that shipping and production slowdowns could be felt around China. The site says games could disrupt the flow of technology hard-goods in the...
- Tags: China, Olympic Games, Supply Chain, Apple Inc., Sales, Manufacturing, Games, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Personal Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- 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
- Sprint bloodletting: a lesson in the consequences of hubris
- Involutary disconnection of loyal customers who asked too many questions, or roamed, too often. Lack of controls in place to prevent other relationship gasps. Failure to efficienly merge billing systems and retail operations after the acquisition of Nextel. Sticking with an out-of-touch CEO for too long....
- Tags: Sprint Communications, Financial Accounting, Finance, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-01-19
- Dell seen back to strong growth
- Dell seen back to strong growthVoodoo mathematics?I read a similar article on Marketwatch an hour ago saying almost the opposite: that Dell had poor growth in 2007 and HP had 30% growth. And it barely mentioned Acer as being a concern in the US market. The article cited Gartner statistics.Is...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., strong growth
- Discussion threads 2008-01-17
- 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
- Zimbra plays matchmaker for Comcast and Yahoo!
- Earlier this year, Comcast announced their planned launch of SmartZone Communications Center -- targeted for late 2007. Jay Fortner in Read/Write Web offers an excellent description of Smart Zone, components of which will result from Comcast's technology partnerships with Zimbra messaging and Plaxo contact management. SmartZone Home Page ...
- Tags: Comcast Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Zimbra, TiVo Inc., Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Internet, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Maurene Caplan Grey
- Blog posts 2007-09-25
- Congress: they're back, but do they have the energy?
- It is unclear, as always with pols, to know what they will do, if anything. But Congress is back in session. Marketwatch, which is watched closely by lobbyists and folks with lots of money, signals K Street to get ready to lobby. It lists an energy...
- Tags: U.S. Congress, Energy, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-09-04
- Not Constantinople. Again!
- I love it when cyber crime is linked however remotely to Istanbul. While there is absolutely no pattern here it is still fun to pile up all the incidents. I have written (my 24th post!) how I first learned of the criminal use of keystroke loggers to...
- Tags: Istanbul, Metaphor, Trojan Horse, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2007-08-22
- 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
- Windows Vista hits the 60-million-copies-sold milestone
- Windows Vista hits the 60-million-copies-sold milestoneApple's numbers?So would it be safe to say that Apple's installed base is no more than 60 Million in total? If so, wow, 1 billion compared to 60 Million.find if funny they thought they need to mention Apple at all...the 90% market share giant feels...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Desktops, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, PC, O-I, new-PC, Microsoft Windows, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-07-26
- News to know: Wither desktop OS; Mozilla naps on flaw; iPhone stats due; YouTube politics
- Notable headlines:David Berlind: By 2010, will Windows ‘Seven' or any desktop OS really matter? Mary Jo Foley: Drawing more Microsoft roadmaps. Ryan Stewart: The desktop OS will still matter, just not which one. Techmeme.Ryan Naraine: Mozilla caught napping on URL protocol handling flaw.Larry Dignan: Apple's third quarter: All eyes on...
- Tags: General, News to know
- Blog posts 2007-07-24
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