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- Will one company control the cloud?
- At the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, tech executives question whether a few global companies will control all of cloud computing with a single set of standards, or if trust and the desire for data portability will mean many small clouds. Speakers include Barry Lynn of 3tera and Vance...
- Tags: Cloud, Quality, Business Operations, Office 2.0, mozy, 3tera, monopoly, cloud computing
- Videos 2008-09-08
- I am I, GoogQuixote, the lord of free wireless
- Google has now launched a campaign called FreeTheAirwaves aimed at making the "white space" between auctioned channels unlicensed. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Monopoly, Spectrum, Government, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Does open source mandate change in copyright law?
- In their paper Money Ruins Everything, Australian law professor Dan Hunter and economist John Quiggin right argue that open source and Internet creativity mandate changes in copyright law, which now favor industries whose costs have disappeared. "If copyright industries were, as once was the case, the only path for content...
- Tags: Open Source, Industry, Copyright Law, Monopoly, Strategy, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- Microsoft vs. Google: Are all monopolies created equal?
- Are Microsoft and Google really locked into a zero-sum game, where every gain in Google's search business translates into an automatic kick-in-the-pants for Microsoft? That seems to be the premise, to a degree, of a couple of new items -- one on the Financial Times and...
- Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Monopoly, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Time to make a competitive Internet a priority
- The biggest accomplishment of open source in this decade has been to restore competition to the software market. High barriers to entry were allowing Microsoft and Oracle to expand their monopolies before open source helped companies both new and old make them work for it. ...
- Tags: Microsoft Access, Open Source, Competition, Monopoly, Service, Mexico, Internet, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-15
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- The five products Apple must make
- The five products Apple must makeDon't quit your day jobGame console: No. The market isn't big enough.Tablet: No. the market isn't big enough. Unless Apple can make a notebook computer that can also be a tablet. Without a price increase.iPhone Nano: No. The touch screen interface requires a product with...
- Tags: Tablets, Operating systems, Notebooks, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS X, hardware
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- London Stock Exchange website reports incorrect prices
- London Stock Exchange website reports incorrect pricesMicrosoft Technology at its finestSince Both NASDAQ and the London Stock Exchange were MS case studies about how great Windows is, guess Windows really is the POS we all thought it is.Funny how they never had these errors on previous systems and now with...
- Tags: Investment, Operating systems, Web site, Microsoft Corp., London Stock Exchange Plc., stock, London Stock Exchange website, incorrect price, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- Poker sites fight to get domain names back from Kentucky
- This is a novel legal strategy. And so far it's working. Last month, in an effort to preserve the state's monopoly on legal gambling, Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear sued to have 141 online gambling sites' domains transferred to the state's control. According to the Washington Post, a big...
- Tags: Kentucky, Domain Name, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- 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
- Can two AMDs be better than one?
- Can two AMDs be better than one?They should never have bought ATIATI was content with competing with NVIDIA, and if market conditions had let them fail at it, so be it. What we're seeing now is the failure of 2 companies, not just one.ExpensiveThe cash infusion may have been...
- Tags: Research & Development, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- Slimming down the bloated iTunes 8 installer
- Slimming down the bloated iTunes 8 installerPerformance?Let alone the installer size, does anyone else out there have kind of mediocre performance with iTunes in Windows Vista? I've had a number of times where it just seems to come up black, or respond slowly, or syncing just slows my PC to...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple iTunes, installer
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Microsoft launches software for cheap Portuguese laptop
- Microsoft launches software for cheap Portuguese laptopMicrosoft launches software for cheap Portuguese laptopThis is a great plan brought to you by Microsoft. This laptop will run the Microsoft Windows XP operating system allowing these school children to be compatible with the rest of the world. They can share...
- Tags: Notebooks, software, laptop computer, cheap Portuguese laptop, Portuguese laptop, Microsoft Launches, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Apple wins royalty rate showdown
- Apple wins royalty rate showdownhigher Rate?the Real price for a song should about 25 cents (this will make it more competive agains "free") but guess the RIAA's members just want more money no matter what. that is why the RIAA must be shutdown as it is the most anti-consumer criminal...
- Tags: Apple wins royalty rate showdown, RIAA, royalty rate showdown, piracy, Apple Wins, music, showdown, MPAA, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Perens new crusade is patent law
- Perens new crusade is patent lawBull, there is no lack of innovation.True, open source is not free to take others ideas but that is how it should be. Face it, open source is nothing but knock off copies of propriatary. Sorry but thats just how it is.As to...
- Tags: Leadership, OPEN SOURCE, Software intellectual property, New software product, new crusade, Perens, crusade, patent law, patent, innovation
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Apple strikes back against Psystar, asks for counterclaim to be dismissed
- Apple strikes back against Psystar, asks for counterclaim to be dismissedEver wonder?Why Apple computers are so expensive and of such lower quality? because Apple is the whorst computer monopoly ever (like MS, but time 1000). Apple will do all it can including well known illegal activities to prevent competition and...
- Tags: Software price, Apple Inc., MAC
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- Apple aims to dismiss Psystar countersuit
- Apple asked a U.S. District Court judge to dismiss Psystar's counterclaims against the company. As background, Apple launched a suit against Psystar alleging that the Mac clone maker harmed its brand. Psystar all resources fired back arguing that Apple was abusing monopoly power and launched its own...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Antitrust, Apple Inc., Computer, Psystar, Productivity, Corporate Law, Desktops, Security, Business Operations, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Eee PC's 7" version: A hot toy this year
- Toys R Us released a list of what it sees as the hottest toys this holiday season and the usual suspects were there: Hannah Montana, Legos, Star Wars figures and the Wii. And then there's the 7-inch Asus Eee PC. I heard a few folks refer to...
- Tags: Toy, Toys R Us Inc., Nintendo Wii, Eee PC, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Apple to music industry - It's our way, or iTunes gets the bullet!
- Apple to music industry - It's our way, or iTunes gets the bullet!RE: Apple to music industry - It's our way, or iTunes gets the bullet!One can only home apple shuts iTunes downMusic Industry to AppleLOL!disagree strongly"one appeal of the iPod is how easy it is to buy music for...
- Tags: Digital media, Digital music, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, music industry, music
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- Thanks, but no thanks, SAS
- Thanks, but no thanks, SASSome good R linkshttp://www.johnmwillis.com/r/are-you-using-r/openIntelTry openIntel, a free data model offered by OSEd ( http://osed.com ). IT is free and it includes documentation explaining it, the tables and the relations. It was designed by Maurice Frank, the original creator of the IBM Insight at...
- Tags: SAS Institute, data model
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- Will Apple join the Netbook fight?
- Will Apple join the Netbook fight?Maybe - in some fashionHistorically, Apple doesn't compete head on with something like this. They tend to leapfrog to something different and better. The Iphone is a good example. People were expecting just a phone that would compete with all of the...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Notebooks, Apple Inc., netbook, Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2008-09-25
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