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- $2b RFP for tech surveillance of Mexico, Canada borders
- $2b RFP for tech surveillance of Mexico, Canada bordersCheaper and Effective SolutionWhy not build a moat along the border. The moat could be large enough to allow for installation of hydro power units. This could generate usable power. Laser detectors can be installed to detect anyone swimming across the...
- Tags: moat, RFP
- Discussion threads 2006-05-19
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- Facebook sues German 'clone'
- On Friday, Facebook filed suit in California court against studiVZ, a German social net with a look undeniably close to Facebook's. Facebook accuses studiVZ of copying its interface. "We believe that our success thus far has been directly related to the unique look and feel of both...
- Tags: Facebook, studiVZ, Social Networking, Strategy, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Netflix grabs more distribution via Microsoft's Xbox
- In the enemy of my enemy is a friend department, Netflix said Monday that it signed a distribution pact with Microsoft that will allow Xbox 360 customers to access streaming movies and TV episodes. The Netflix pact statement follows the company's set-top box effort--Netflix Player by Roku--that...
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, Game Players, Tv & Home Theater, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- More on RIM's moat: Launches BlackBerry Bold; App developer fund
- More on RIM's moat: Launches BlackBerry Bold; App developer fundPicsSome cool pics here:http://techwatch.reviewk.com/2008/05/the-blackberry-bold-ex-9000-finally-arrives/
- Tags: Handhelds, BlackBerry Bold, Research In Motion Ltd., RIM BlackBerry
- Discussion threads 2008-05-12
- More on RIM's moat: Launches BlackBerry Bold; App developer fund
- Business people can be hip too. That appears to be the message from Research in Motion and its motives behind its new BlackBerry Bold smartphone. There's definitely a hint of some iPhone envy here, but the device isn't a direct competitor. From the statement (Matthew Miller's take,...
- Tags: Developer, Research In Motion Ltd., Smart Phone, RIM BlackBerry, BlackBerry Bold, BlackBerry Partners Fund, Smart Phones, B2C, Handhelds, B2B, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- RIM's Balsillie: 'Not religious' about form factors; B2B the company's core
- The Research in Motion vs. Apple smartphone face-off makes for a good story, but the companies present an interesting business strategy question: Is it better to start in the enterprise and then go consumer or vice versa? In an interview with me at SAP Sapphire all resources...
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., SAP AG, Wireless, B2C, B2B, Smart Phones, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Can Netflix capture the set-top box?
- Netflix's ongoing progression toward digital delivery continues, this time with a set-top box deal with LG. The big question is whether Netflix can capture the set-top box--the Holy Grail and de facto home entertainment server these days. According to a bevy of reports see Techmeme, Netflix will...
- Tags: Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
- Give your PC the gift of security
- While it's sometimes fun and informative to go crunching the numbers of security vulnerabilities, I much prefer to spend my time making sure that my systems are as secure as possible, and that means making sure that as many possible stepping stones across my digital moat are removed and cracks...
- Tags: Application, PC, Patches, Linux, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2007-12-19
- If you're concerned about security, look beyond the browser
- My blogging colleague George Ou raised some interesting points in a post yesterday looking at security flaws in Firefox and Internet Explorer. Over the years I've come to the conclusion that counting bugs is a pointless exercise and that it's far better to limit the attack surface you present to...
- Tags: Security, Web Browser, George, Web Browsers, Internet, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2007-12-05
- Salesforce.com rolls out customer data sharing; eyes 1 million subscribers
- Salesforce.com on Wednesday will roll out business networking tools so customers can securely share information such as sales leads, product information and other communications. Think Facebook and LinkedIn meets corporate data sharing files. Salesforce.com all resources dubs the effort a "multi-tenant business network." With the announcement, to be...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., International Data Corp., Data Sharing, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-12-04
- Microsoft Office Live Workspace: A good hedge
- What would you do if you had a cash cow that's raking in dough yet could see competition looming from well funded rivals in the future? First, you build a moat to protect the cash cow. Then, you hedge your bets just in case the blogger echo chamber happens...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Docs, Microsoft Office Live, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-10-01
- Bob Muglia: Microsoft changing its approach to interoperability
- "What has changed is the way we think about how we work across the industry in terms of providing interoperable solutions. Our focus has shifted over the last few years." Those are the words of Bob Muglia, Microsoft's senior vice president of servers and tools.He was speaking at the Interop...
- Tags: General, IT Management, Microsoft, Open Source
- Blog posts 2007-05-23
- Google YouTube: Will Microsoft, Yahoo have last laugh?
- Robert Scoble headlines: "Google to Yahoo and Microsoft: The $1.65 billion was worth it," as an end game conclusion to Google's much ballyhooed Universal Search: Ahh, now you all understand what I meant when I said YouTube is a moat, not a revenue generator. By putting YouTube results into Google's main...
- Tags: Copyright, Content, Google, Google Ads, Microsoft, Search Advertising, Video, Yahoo
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
- RSA 2007 keynotes: Notable quotes
- The morning RSA keynotes were mostly warmed over common wisdom--layer approachs, risk management, intelligence sharing, managing user identities, governance, focusing on users, etc.--about information security, with the exception of the cryptographer panel, which had some good moments. I pulled out some quotes from the presentations to give a flavor of...
- Tags: General, IT Management, Security, RSA Security Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-02-06
- Verizon: New fiber rollout isn't cheap
- Verizon will spend $17.5 billion to $17.9 billion on capital expenditures in 2007--most of allocated to a fiber to the premises FTTP rollout--and take an 11 cents a...
- Tags: General, Hardware Infrastructure, Wired & Wireless, Telecommunications, Broadband, Verizon Communications Inc., Verizons FiOS, Fios
- Blog posts 2007-01-29
- Why Microsoft's Zune can't dent Apple's iPod
- Microsofts Zune music player has little or no chance of denting Apples iPod juggernaut and contrary to all the digital ink spilled on product comparisons and reviews most of the reasons are strategic. Apple has built up quite a moat around its iPod business.Bottom line: Even if Microsofts Zune is...
- Tags: General, Personal Technology, Mobile, Entertainment, Microsoft Zune
- Blog posts 2006-11-14
- Wall Street to Google: congratulations
- Google CEO Eric Schmidt received several “congratulations on the great quarter” from Wall Street analysts today during the company’s Second Quarter 2006 Earnings Conference Call.Schmidt began the call declaring Google to be “very, very” happy with its strong quarter in a seasonally weak time.Schmidt proclaimed it to be a “good...
- Tags: click fraud, Google Inc., Morningstar Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-07-20
- Merger mania: Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Google ?
- Reuters has a speculative story, based on a JPMorgan Chase report, that major tectonic plate shifting will occur among the major Internet presences. Growth is slowing, competition is getting more fierce, and bulking up and making strategic alliances at the expense of competitors is viewed as a way to defend...
- Tags: eBay Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-05-24
- Security is like love
- Symantec threw its hat in the identity ring yesterday, when CEO John Thompson told the audience at their annual Vision conference that identity management was a "critical part of the stack" and an "area of great interest to the company." All of this follows Thompson's earlier comments about Symantec not...
- Tags: metaphor, security
- Blog posts 2006-05-09
- Ingres CTO says Oracle will fail in bid to control open source
- More fuel to the fire over attempts to control open source by Oracle (and others?). I had an interesting chat with Jim Finn, the comms head of Ingres--currently the hottest open source database enterprise software company. Mr Finn was recently head of IBM's North Americas communications group, and about...
- Tags: Oracle Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-03-01
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