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- Wall Street: MSFT should buy Yahoo, consider RIM
- A Wall Street investor has suggested that the stars may be aligned just right for Microsoft to make another run at Yahoo, this time for $22 per share. Investment fund Mithras Capital, which owns more than 1.9 million shares, or 0.14 percent, of Yahoo, said Microsoft has a window of...
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Financial Accounting, Search, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Finance, Marketing, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Apple set to release $800 notebook
- Apple set to release $800 notebookNot the first time sub $1000Apple had a $999 notebook at one time. Actually, I think the iBook had that price tag at one time. My only hopes is that this $800 Notebook doesn't come with the specs of a Asus Eee 701.RE:...
- Tags: Notebooks, MacMini, Apple-set, notebook, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- Apple notebooks to be fabricated from a solid "brick" of aluminum
- The term "brick" was mentioned in a 9-to-5 Mac rumor piece on 10 September 2008 when their source said that the MacBook update is "all about the Brick." 9-to-5 Mac now claims that the "brick" isn't a specific Apple product but rather a manufacturing process that uses lasers and jets...
- Tags: Brick, Apple Inc., BW, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Is Apple out of ideas?
- In an interesting BusinessWeek story, Arik Hesseldahl asks: "Where does Apple go from here?" For a company who has made a reputation of surprising consumers and resetting the bar, it's a good question. Of course, this question is asked on the heels of a...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- New report places Semantic Web 'On the Cusp' of something big
- Today sees the publication of a new report by Boston-based David Provost. On the cusp: a global review of the Semantic Web industry PDF features David's analysis of the space, informed by detailed conversations with representatives from many of its leading companies, and the picture he paints is an optimistic...
- Tags: David Provost, Semantic Web, Podcasts, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- CIOs not taking a shine to Chrome
- Most members of a silicon.com CIO jury say they're not even testing Google's Chrome--choosing to stay with Microsoft's Internet Explorer. In silicon.com's latest exclusive CIO Jury poll, the respondents revealed they were still steering clear of the application, with 10 out of 12 saying their IT teams are not...
- Tags: CIO, Information Technology, Director Of Information Technology, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Google Chrome, Web Browsers, Strategy, Internet, Management, Chrome, Google, browser, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Firefox, CIO Jury, Julian Goldsmith, silicon.com
- News items 2008-09-30
- Semantic Technology's place in the enterprise; key, but low-key ?
- Last week saw over 200 researchers, advocates, implementors and practitioners of Semantic Technology descend upon the delightful Austrian capital for the second European Semantic Technology Conference ESTC. Smaller than the more established Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose and nestling uncomfortably close both spatially and temporally to...
- Tags: European Commission, Verizon Communications Inc., Technology, Conference, Semantic Web, Strategy, Internet, Management, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Ballmer's quest to compete with Google
- Ballmer's quest to compete with GoogleUgh.Thought I was getting an article, not a video. Didn't watch.To the point: Ballmer says to succeed at competing with GOOG, M$ has to "change the experience and economics of search". Translated: since GOOG has done exceptionally well at the search...
- Tags: Young Frankenstein, Steve Ballmer, GOOG, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-26
- Page accuses broadcasters of 'rigging' poor white-space tests
- Speaking on Capitol Hill yesterday, Google cofounder Larry Page accused broadcasters – if not the FCC – of "rigging" tests that found white-space devices interfere with TV broadcasts, the Washington Post reports. "The test was rigged deliberately," Page said during his...
- Tags: Larry Page, Broadcaster, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Federal Government, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- T-Mobile announces iPhone killer: G1 with Google
- In one of the worst-kept secrets in the industry, T-Mobile announced the G1 at a press conference today in New York. Made by HTC and powered by Linux and Android, the G1 is poised to give the Apple iPhone a serious run for its money. ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Phone, T-Mobile, G1, Pre-orders, Telecom & Utilities, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-09-23
- Is Comcast plan suspect or 'reasonable'?
- Network neutrality advocates are taking contrasting views towards Comcast's new network management plan. The new plan de-prioritizes heavy users in 15-minute chunks. If your upload traffic is more than 70% of maximum bandwidth or your download traffic is more than 80% of max, you'll be de-prioritized. Free...
- Tags: Network, Comcast Corp., Network Neutrality Advocate, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-23
- Warning: failure-driven IT layoffs ahead
- Even under normal circumstances, IT failures impose a substantial drain on corporate resources. During this period of economic trouble and scarce resources, however, many organizations will show less tolerance for failure, making layoffs likely. CIO blogger, Peter Birley, describes the downturn equation from...
- Tags: Project, Layoff, Information Technology, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
- Virtualization: The race is on to corner the market
- As the technology goes mainstream, competitors such as Microsoft are eager to dislodge VMware from the top of the virtualization tree. Most of the servers installed next year will be virtualized from the outset, experts have said. But, as the technology goes mainstream, will moves by Microsoft...
- Tags: Hypervisor, Server, Xen, VMware Inc., Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Peter Judge ZDNet.co.uk, virtualization, VMware, Microsoft, Hyper-V
- News items 2008-09-19
- Has the iPhone delayed the Blackberry Bold's US debut?
- Even though RIM's Blackberry Bold is currently available in 13 countries, the U.S. ain't one of them, and that could be because the iPhone 3G is hogging AT&T's 3G network, according to a story in yesterday's Toronto Globe and Mail. "Both devices use the same next generation (3G) network...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Network, 3G Network, AT&T Corp., Apple iPhone 3G, RIM BlackBerry, BlackBerry Bold, 3G, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Wireless, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- Leaked Homeland Security doc warns of data threats
- A memo from the US Department of Homeland Security has recommended that corporate and government leaders do not travel with mobile equipment carrying sensitive information. A document emphasizing mobile-data security threats has appeared online after being leaked from the US Department of Homeland Security. The...
- Tags: Document, Mobile, Homeland Security, Spokesperson, Tom Espiner ZDNet.co.uk, security, travel
- News items 2008-09-16
- Live Webcast: Take Control: Optimize Spending and Cost Control
- From everyday business expenses related to sales and service to training and collaboration, business depends on spending and investment to improve the bottom line. Unfortunately, many companies are currently struggling to control their expenses as well as effectively tracking costs and managing policies and compliance. The good news is, despite...
- Tags: Webcast, Cost Control, Financial Services
- Webcasts 2008-09-16
- European Semantic Technology revisited
- I mentioned the European Semantic Technology Conference ESTC in my previous post, just before going off on holiday. Since then, I've been asked to moderate a panel at the event. The topic is clearly directly relevant to readers of this blog, hence the plug. The conference organisers...
- Tags: Web, Technology, Conference, Talis, Channel Management, Strategy, Semantic Web, Marketing, Management, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-09-15
- Shuttleworth: Open-source desktops need a facelift
- Canonical, the leading backer of the Ubuntu version of Linux, is hiring a team to help make open-source software on the desktop more appealing and easier to use. Canonical, the leading backer of the Ubuntu version of Linux, is hiring a team to help make open-source software on the...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth, KDE, GTK, Linux, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Peter Judge ZDNet.co.uk, Canonical, open source, Gnome
- News items 2008-09-12
- The Collider and the Grid: Distributed computing made LHC possible
- So the LHC is turned on! And it works great. And we're still alive. I'm not gonna beat that horse today. See Ars for snark But a good IT angle here. LHC is really only possible because of the growth of grid computing....
- Tags: Data, Distributed Computing, Grid, LHC, Cloud Computing, Network Technology, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-10
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