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- No e-commerce worries here? Amazon doubles earnings
- Updated: Amazon's second quarter earnings doubled from a year ago as sales jumped 41 percent and executives said that the e-tailer may be benefiting from a slowing economy courtesy of its free shipping deals. On Wednesday, the company reported net income of $158 million, or 37 cents a share,...
- Tags: Jeff Bezos, Quarter, Amazon.com Inc., Earnings, E-business, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Operational Accounting, Sales, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Microsoft gives a new Xbox 360 experience
- Despite having what is regarded as one of the best user interfaces of all the major consoles, Microsoft is reinventing the Xbox 360's look. Despite ostensibly having what is regarded as one of the best user interfaces of all the major consoles, Microsoft is reinventing the Xbox 360's look....
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., Microsoft Xbox Live, Video, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Xbox, LiveParty, Spotlight Channel, Xbox Experience, Games, Game Players, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Marketing, Xbox 360, Microsoft, user-generated, video games, Xbox Live, Sarju Shah, Gamespot
- News items 2008-07-23
- News to know: Yahoo; VMware; Apple; DNS vulnerability
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Vulnerability disclosure gone awry: Understanding the DNS debacle RIM ships fix for BlackBerry code execution bug Dancho Danchev: Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers 75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, DNS, Yahoo! Inc., Vulnerability, Dana Blankenhorn, Health Care, Apple Inc., VMware Inc., App Store, Banking, Vertical Industries, Domain Names, Benefits, Healthcare, Security, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Human Resources
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers
- From Russia with political love? It appears so according to a deeper analysis of the command and control servers used by the attackers. During the weekend, Georgia President's web site was under a distributed denial of service attack which managed to take it offline for a couple of hours. The...
- Tags: Web, Russia, Server, Web Site, Hacker, Distributed Denial Of Service, Georgia, Attack, Russian, Shadowserver, C&C, C&C Server, Web Site Development, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Needed: iPhone radio toggle application
- Needed: iPhone radio toggle applicationThis is what "smartphone" is all about.Back when Palm OS was king, part of its success was the 3rd party developers no need to make up the term cottage industry. The Palm OS provided a good platform for 3rd party development, so that pretty much anyone...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Operating systems, Handhelds, Cellular phones, Needed, Apple iPhone, radio, Palm OS, Apple Inc., Palm Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- Twitter anti-spam efforts go overboard
- Twitter anti-spam efforts go overboardLarge services such as this can not...are too big to manage. Managing this type of technology with technology will time after time result in mismanagement. Just like Gmail and other that are spamming the Internet.Networks require real human intervention to manage properly. Anything less is...
- Tags: Spam, Twitter, anti-spam, anti-spam effort
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- At Netroots, relations warming with Obama
- At Netroots, relations warming with Obama"Democracy cannot exist without strong differences"I disagree. Seems to me that democracy works in a consensus environment just fine. What it does require, though, is toleration for differences in opinion and the ability of citizens to say what they think without fear of...
- Tags: Obama, Netroots Nation, Netroots
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- At Netroots, relations warming with Obama
- The netroots are still pissed over Sen. Barack Obama's vote for the FISA capitulation compromise legislation, but relations are warming up again. At the Netroots Nation conference in Austin, bloggers were lining up to do their part for an Obama victory, the Washington Post reports. Said...
- Tags: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Netroot, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- RichardSolo Smart Backup Battery charges your iPhone on the go with standard mini USB
- Now that I upgraded my original iPhone to the 2.0 software, I am using it more and more with my hosted Exchange account keeping me in sync. Just like folks who are using the iPhone 3G more since it is faster and there are lots of third party applications available,...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, mini-USB, Battery, Backup, Richard Solo Smart Backup Battery, Smart Backup Battery, miniUSB, Lithium-ion Polymer Battery, Engineering, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- First hints of Microsoft's "fight back" ads appear
- First hints of Microsoft's "fight back" ads appearPerception IS reality.The damage is done. Apple is #3 in US home computer sales today. Perception [b]is[/b] reality and unfortunately for microsoft they've got battered, much of it being well deserved. This is the proverbial finger to plug a dyke breach.RE: First hints...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., advertisement
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- Wireless lessons from Europe
- Wireless lessons from EuropeHmmm, that's got me thinking..."If both phones are equipped with GPS with a single button on the phone labeled, say, "send location," one or both persons could push the button and pop their precise location to the other party."I'm just about to get my first phone with...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Programming languages, phone, wireless
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- Unintended Consequences and the Future of Maintenance Revenue: SAP Jettisons TomorrowNow
- When Shai Agassi called me in early 2005, he asked me a loaded question: How would I respond if SAP decided to take the fight to Oracle by providing third party maintenance for Oracle's recently acquired PeopleSoft customers? I told him it would be an incredibly aggressive move, but that...
- Tags: Revenue, Maintenance, Oracle Corp., Customer, SAP AG, TomorrowNow, Software As A Service (SaaS), Public Relations, Tools & Techniques, Mergers & Acquisitions, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- SAP to shut down TomorrowNow; Oracle gets its sacrifice
- SAP's purchase of TomorrowNow in 2005 sounded like a great idea: Undercut Oracle on support and squeeze your biggest rival. And then came Oracle's lawsuit. SAP said Monday that it will wind down the operations of TomorrowNow, which provided third party support for Oracle applications. In a...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., SAP AG, TomorrowNow, Pricing, Marketing Research, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- If sameness is a recipe for losing, how do you win?
- If sameness is a recipe for losing, how do you win?OT but relevant: The heavy tread of IT.Quoting from the stern warnings about SharePoint from another Comment:“As many shops are discovering, SharePoint is also a development platform that people both inside and outside of IT use to create intranets,...
- Tags: Collaboration, Groupware, Strategy, Enterprise software, Microsoft SharePoint, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- Yahoo, Icahn settle proxy fight: Icahn on board
- Yahoo, Icahn settle proxy fight: Icahn on boardIcahnThe cancer of the communications industry. He's almost so big the body can't reject his attacks and soon the it will die along with it's customers, not to mention all the jobs lost. Maybe he will sell it's soul to another country before...
- Tags: Corporate governance, board, Icahn, Yahoo! Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- Amazon's S3 outage: Is the cloud too complicated?
- Amazon's S3 outage: Is the cloud too complicated?It's a matter of infrastructure - and transparencyLarry,Your analysis is partially correct, but there is a second factor. Some cloud providers have taken a "you're better off not knowing" approach to the infrastructure their systems are based on. What server is your VM...
- Tags: Manufacturing, cloud computing, Down Time, outage, S3 Inc., Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- Facebook unveils redesign
- Facebook on Monday said that it will roll out a redesigned version of the social networking site "over the coming days." The company said the design should make it easier to share information and deliver a cleaner experience via navigation tabs and other features. Among the tweaks...
- Tags: Facebook, Party App, Social Networking, Construction, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- News to know: Amazon S3 outage; iPhone 3G; SOA debugging; Microsoft
- Notable headlines: Michael Krigsman: Amazon S3: 'Elevated error rates'. Techmeme GigaOm: S3 Outage Highlights Fragility of Web Services Dana Blankenhorn: Do open source applications take security seriously? Dancho Danchev: Spam coming from free email providers increasing ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, S3 Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., SOA, Amazon.com Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, Microsoft Corp., Outage, 3G, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Sales Strategy, Open Source, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- The iPhone meets Journalism
- The iPhone meets JournalismSometimes you have a keen sense for the obvious...But I did get a chuckle from the Obama dig.RE: AgreedSometimes the total contempt these people have for archaic concepts like truth and honesty gets under my skin.Phone it in MurphOther people's words and a few paras.I don't expect...
- Tags: Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2008-07-19
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