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- Juniper eyes midmarket, aims for Cisco
- Going by a slew of announcements the company unveiled this week, Juniper Networks appears to have set its eyes on new markets. Going by a slew of announcements the company unveiled this week, Juniper Networks appears to have set its eyes on new markets, in particular, segments currently dominated...
- Tags: Juniper Networks Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Juniper, Cisco, networking, Victoria Ho ZDNet Asia
- News items 2009-10-28
- Skype's New Revenue Model
- Skype just announced a new kind of advertising-based service. The service is aimed at giving Skype a portion of the $31billion yellow page market. With Skype's business funded click-to-call, Skype users will find it easier and free to call local businesses . A call that is...
- Tags: Revenue, Skype Technologies S.A., Search, Operational Accounting, Finance, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2009-10-06
- PwC: rotten to the core or just plain stupid?
- I hope that my good friend Vinnie Mirchandani doesn't take offense to the title of this post. PwC is his alma mater in a past life. However, events at Satyam in India, which have not received the attention they deserve in the US, have taken a decidedly weird or comic...
- Tags: PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Satyam, Francine McKenna, Financial Accounting, Outsourcing, Finance, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- Microsoft and Yahoo reportedly talking again
- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Yahoo's Carol Bartz are reportedly talking about search and advertising partnerships between their respective companies, according to Kara Swisher at BoomTown. Swisher reports: According to a variety of sources, the talks between the pair and also other execs at both companies...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Business Structures, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-10
- Outsourcing Risk Reduction: How to Avoid Disasters and Ensure Solid Working Relationships
- With the right outsourcing arrangement, one can convert fixed IT costs to variable, gain access to scarce resources and increase service availability. But one needs to manage outsourcing risks. Of late more and more businesses understand the benefits of working with outsourcing companies. Although having a business relationship with an...
- Tags: ExecutiveBrief, Outsourcing, Managed Hosting, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Adobe lands MLB.com deal
- updated: Adobe has reportedly landed a Flash deal with MLB.com upending Microsoft's Silverlight. Andy Plesser at Beet.tv reports: Adobe has landed a two-year agreement with Major League Baseball to stream its 2,500-plus spring training, regular season and post-season games live to MLB.com's 1.5 million subscribers. Games...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., MLB, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Games, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- The time is now for a Microsoft-Yahoo search deal
- The patience over Microsoft and Yahoo's never-ending deal dance is wearing thin among the chattering class--bloggers, analysts and folks sick of following this dysfunctional courtship--and the consensus is right. The time to do a Microsoft-Yahoo deal is now and it's time to put aside the bad boardroom blood and hook...
- Tags: Yahoo Search, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Squali, Aggarwal, Data Centers, Outsourcing, Search, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- Software as a service: It should be the best of times, but it isn't
- It's a big week for the software as a service industry: Salesforce.com is establishing itself as a leading cloud computing provider, NetSuite is planning to take on SAP head on and Success Factors is upping its outlook. But underneath the surface there are more than a few questions marks lurking....
- Tags: Software, Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, SuccessFactors Inc., NetSuite Inc., Software As A Service (SaaS), Sales Force Management, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- Motorola ZN5
- Photo gallery:Motorola ZN5Ever since the ZN5 was announced in June and then cleared the FCC the next month, we've been waiting with bated breath to get our hands on the fancy camera phone. Monday, November 3, it finally lands at T-Mobile. Designed in partnership with Kodak (yes, that Kodak),...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Motorola Inc., Camera option, text size, display, Motorola ZN5, phone, keypad, camera
- Product reviews 2008-11-03
- Microsoft as the gate keeper of video analytics
- Microsoft as the gate keeper of video analyticsNBC Olympics and TVTonic[b]Wavexpress to Provide Internet Video Download Service for NBC's Coverage of the Beijing Olympic Games[/b]Free Service to Allow Media Center Users the Ability to Download Content During NBC's Coverage of the Beijing Olympics, August 8-24, 2008http://www.tvtonic.com/news/?p=133NEW YORK - June 23,...
- Tags: analytics, Microsoft Corp., NBC Olympic, NBC Universal Inc., video, Wavexpress, wtf
- Discussion threads 2008-07-14
- Microsoft and Yahoo stop talking, and Google wins
- Today Microsoft and Yahoo officially stopped talking -- the day, I'm sure, Yahoo investors were dreading. The hope that Microsoft and Yahoo might still work out a deal fizzled, and as result, Yahoo shares plummeted 10% before trading ended today. today announced that discussions with Microsoft...
- Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- Where does Google Health go from here?
- Google Health is going after all the industry's stakeholders and will let the open source process deliver applications, based on personal health records, which may or may not be free. Google and some of its Google Health partners called ZDNet soon after participating in a Webcast for...
- Tags: Google Inc., Health Care, Personal Health Record, Google Health, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- Yahoo reportedly closer to Google search deal
- As Yahoo awaits Microsoft's decision on whether to launch a proxy war, the company is moving closer to a search deal with Google. Yahoo and Microsoft, which are negotiating through the Wall Street Journal, are trying to outflank each other. Microsoft is talking about walking away and...
- Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google Search, Search, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- Mac Clones and Psystar
- Back in August of 2006 I outlined a business plan for a guy in California who wanted to go after the PPC market Apple was then abandoning. There were three keys to my plan: a manufacturing and sales partnership with a major defence contractor; a commitment from Freescale...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Hardware, Data General, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-04-19
- What if News Corp., MSN and Yahoo were a separate company?
- For the first time since Microsoft announced its intentions to buy Yahoo, I see one way the coupling might make a tiny bit of sense. As of late yesterday (April 9), Yahoo is now rumored to be contemplating a merger with AOL (talk about the ultimate anti-Microsoft...
- Tags: MSN, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., News Corp., Business Structures, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Entrepreneurship, Financial Accounting, Finance, Investment, Business Operations, Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- Microsoft in "spam" partnership with five social networks
- I'm not sure whether to call this data portability or just making it easier for social networking services to spam a user's contacts. But either way, Microsoft have announced partnerships with LinkedIn, Tagged, Hi5, Bebo and Facebook, to enable Windows Live Messenger users to looks for contacts on either of...
- Tags: Partnership, Network, Microsoft Windows Live, Spam, Microsoft Corp., Data Portability, Social Networking, Microsoft Windows, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Steve O'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- Brainshare: Novell is better than its marketing
- I've been in Salt Lake City at Novell's Brainshare. As in years past, Novell presented an enthusiastic rendition of its messages, interesting demonstrations and even labs allowing folks to actually use the newest editions of the company's products. It's an event worth attending if you're interested in Novell's technology. ...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Marketing Research, Strategy, Open Source, Marketing, Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-03-19
- Google makes its infrastructure move; Buys chunk of Trans-Pacific undersea cable
- Google on Tuesday announced that it is part of a consortium of six companies building a high-bandwidth undersea cable connecting the U.S. and Japan. In a statement, Google said cable will cost about $300 million and give Google access to capacity of 7.68 terabits per second Tbps....
- Tags: Google Inc., Fiber, Cable, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- HP lands $675 million outsourcing pact with Unilever
- Hewlett-Packard said Wednesday that it has inked a seven-year outsourcing pact with Unilever valued at $675 million. Under the pact statement, HP will manage Unilever's technology infrastructure in the Americas, Asia, Africa, Turkey and the Middle East. HP will also manage Unilever partners such as SAP, Microsoft...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Unilever PLC, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
- Rumor mill: AMD and IBM could get cozy
- Are AMD and IBM forging a partnership of some sort? According to analysts and rather thin reports, which may all be quoting each other for all we know, AMD and IBM are apparently getting cozy. The possible options and my take: A merger between...
- Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., IBM Corp., Business Structures, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-24
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