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Microsoft: Silverlight 1.0 breaks with Firefox 3: Microsoft: Silverlight 1.0 breaks with Firefox 3It seems odd that if it's a Firefox...problem that it would be fixed by a Silverlight update.M$ is trying to break firefoxsame old story: M$ releases an update that screws third parties.MS bad code, MS fix exists but not released?!According to the bug report,...; Tags: Web browsers, Nigel, Reading, Obviously Microsoft, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Silverlight 1.0; Discussion threads 2008-06-17
Is Eric Schmidt still the grownup Google needs?: Is Eric Schmidt still the grownup Google needs?Impact of Partnership is with StarOffice and Projity knocking OfficeThe most useful outcome of this partnership will clearly be less directly financial gain and more on influence. Microsoft's strength due to the monopoly with Office is undeniable. I have been using two beta's...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Nigel, StarOffice 8, Eric Schmidt, blog search, Google Inc., Projity, StarOffice, open source, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2005-10-05

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AMD on road to recovery, says research firm: Technology Business Research says Opteron and Puma are boosting AMD's chip business, but the company could be hurt by the economic downturn. While AMD's processor business is showing strength, the company is still in a worse position than Intel to face a dip in demand for the rest of...; Tags: Recovery, Technology Business Research, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, AMD, Opteron, processors, servers, PCs, Victoria Ho, ZDNet Asia; News items 2008-07-21
Rumor Mill: All things WWDC: Rumor Mill: All things WWDCI haven't heard......anything else. You fleshed out a lot of details on all the rumors us iPhone rumor followers know back and front. As always, my favorite Apple Core post of the week. Keep up the good work (and maybe this should be a daily thing...; Tags: Operating systems, Snow Leopard, Core Animation, Rumor Mill, Cougar, WWDC; Discussion threads 2008-06-06
Rumor Mill: All things WWDC: Hey there, it's Jake (Jason's evil twin). It's Friday so that means I get to write my crazy rumor column today. It's also the last business day of the week before WWDC, so you can probably guess what today's installment is going to be about. So, there's...; Tags: Application, Apple Inc., WWDC, Upside, Apple Mac OS, Digital Video, Digital Media, Apple Mac OS X, E-mail, Digital Music, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Online Communications, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-06-06

Is SAP's weakness its real strength?: Conversations with Doug Merritt, a member of SAP's executive council and the person driving Business Objects as a platform for intelligence are always entertaining. Merritt represents the unconventional, disruptive element within SAP that was in evidence during Shai Agassi's tenure. For me, Merritt charaterizes the public face of fracture I...; Tags: SAP AG, Merritt, Phil, Corporate Governance, Strategy, Leadership, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Human Resources, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-05-22
Ask questions of Tim Berners-Lee, Nova Spivack and others: On 11 June, Rennsaelaer Polytechnic Institute RPI is hosting a debate to explore the views of luminaries in the evolving Semantic Web. Somewhat unusually, the questions that panellists face will be influenced by "the collective wisdom of Web users from around the world." Anyone can ask a...; Tags: Tim Berners-Lee, Podcast Subject, Podcasts, Internet, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-20
MacBook Err: MacBook Errcaption"This one goes to 11. 12. 13. 14..."Suggestion for a new function key....F-off :-)RE: MacBook ErrAs much as I like reading this blog, I sometimes think that some entries would be better not being written. Beside the second key would obviously lower down the volume (unlike what...; Tags: Keyboards, Notebooks, F11, Nigel Tufnel, Spinal Tap, keyboard, Apple MacBook, St. Hubbins, Derek Smalls, heavy metal band, World-famous, metal band; Discussion threads 2008-05-20
Commercialising the Semantic Web: Following an earlier post on this blog, last month I found myself moderating a panel in the final session of one of the tracks at this year's World Wide Web Conference in Beijing. As I commented via Twitter at the end of the session, "Great...; Tags: Garlik, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Microsoft-Yahoo-Google: The vicious antitrust circle: Within minutes of Yahoo announcing it was going to do an AdSense for Search deal with Google, Microsoft began firing the antitrust warning shots. It took about 15 minutes after I saw the Yahoo press release before I got an e-mail from the Microsoft camp reminding me...; Tags: Google Inc., Antitrust, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Barron, Corporate Law, Security, Business Operations, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-04-09
Social networking, IBM, Microsoft etc: the Twitterverse debates: Charles Cooper's article noting the rise of Twitter as part of the media fabric is a cue for surfacing a long conversation I had yesterday with some of my 800 Twitter followers. The pretext was my post about the end of software and the number of thanks folk posted on...; Tags: Social Networking, Consultant, Network, Information Technology, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, IBM Corp., E-mail, Knowledge Management, Groupware, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Software, Data Management, Management, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-03-21
Healthcare clamors for iPhone treatments: Healthcare clamors for iPhone treatmentsnot for me.My doctor shows up with an iphone, and I get a new doctor.nothing new! similar devices have been around for 5 years!Its amazing how a shiny animated new interface can help a concept sell something old...Yet another piece of poorly researched "so called...; Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Handhelds, Apple iPhone, iPhone treatment, health care; Discussion threads 2008-03-17
Sir Tim Berners-Lee: Semantic Web is open for business: Sir Tim Berners-Lee: Semantic Web is open for businessInventor of the WWW?Tim "...inventor of the World Wide Web..."Not really, in simple terms all Tim did was come up with the DNS system, the rest already existed and there were already other schemes in place which may well have been better...; Tags: Engineering, JUST LIKE, Tim Berners-Lee, Semantic Web, Ontological, G Wells, Tim, inventor, natural language processing, algorithm; Discussion threads 2008-02-27
What+about+the+trust+issues+in+the+Microsoft%2FYahoo+bid%3F: What+about+the+trust+issues+in+the+Microsoft%2FYahoo+bid%3FSuarez, Morris, Wood, Walsh, Yourdon, James... never heard of any of them!Luis Suarez, Tom Morris, Al Wood, Paul Walsh, Ed Yourdon, Nigel James... I've never heard of any of these people before. Am I the only one?!Gotta love the "social web", where anyone with a blog or a facebook...; Tags: Tom, Al Wood, Tom Morris, Luis Suarez; Discussion threads 2008-02-01
What about the trust issues in the Microsoft/Yahoo bid?: Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Yahoo! raises many questions. High in the list will be discovering Microsoft plans for the merged development organizations. On the press call, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO was careful to point out the extent to which Microsoft 'respects' Yahoo!'s development efforts. The fact is that Yahoo! is...; Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Del.icio.us, Yahoo! Inc., Fact, Flickr, Microsoft Corp., Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-02-01
Hubdub weds prediction markets to news: It's difficult to come up with a new twist on delivering news on the Web. Sites such as Digg, Techmeme, Google News, DayLife, the blogosphere and traditional media outlets cover the bases. At Demo 08, Hubdub is introducing a fresh take on news that leverages the wisdom...; Tags: News, Hubdub, Fantasy League, Tablets, Channel Management, Notebooks, Blogging, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Marketing, Internet, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2008-01-28
In core wars, AMD carves out some open field: In core wars, AMD carves out some open fieldSounds like a clean up move....One, this is something that Intel can't do with their Core Pairing chips. Also, this is something that cleans up inventory of chips that only have three working cores instead of four. My guess is...; Tags: Processors, Semiconductors, Network technology, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., processor, quad-core, chip, Intel Corp.; Discussion threads 2007-09-18
Should net neutrality come to UK?: The president of the British Computer Society called on the UK to join the movement for Net neutrality, ZDNet UK reports. Professor Nigel Shadbolt said, "We might feel that we're happy with the degree of market force and flexibility in the U.K., but...what is clear is that...; Tags: U.K., Net Neutrality, ZDNet Government; Blog posts 2007-09-17
Open letter to e-mail vendors: Your spam fix doesn't work. Time for a complete redo?: The makers of anti-spam solutions (be they stand-alone or ones that are built-in to existing e-mail solutions) would have you believe that their solutions are worthy of battling spam and merit your attention if ridding your inbox or inboxes of spam is important to you. They're full of it. The...; Tags: Inbox, Solution, Sender, E-mail, JamSpam, David Berlind; Blog posts 2007-09-17
Do we really hate Apple and the iPhone?: Two A Day says ZDNet just hates the iPhone--before it's even out. And in a nice display of doing homework the author cites more than 50 negative articles about iPhone in a week.What Two A Day calls negative, I'd call perspective. The iPhone is getting attention because it's merely the...; Tags: iPhone, General, Apple; Blog posts 2007-06-20