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- Pondering Apple in a post-Jobs world
- Pondering Apple in a post-Jobs worldPost Jobs Apple..'Apple' the brand should survive Jobs or any other visionary - as long as they Innovate and think ahead of their times. That's what you expect out of the brand Apple.RE: Pondering Apple in a post-Jobs worldIts a question i ponder often, as...
- Tags: Apple Inc., post-Jobs, Steve Jobs, post-Jobs world, Pondering
- Discussion threads 2008-06-18
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- Gauging the ThinkPad: Before (IBM) and after (Lenovo)
- Has Lenovo lost whatever mojo the ThinkPad had? That simple question raised a lot of discussion at TechRepublic and it's worth pondering. The problem: Gauging Lenovo's performance depends on a lot of anecdotes with few concrete answers. As background, John Sheesley asked a simple question: Has Lenovo...
- Tags: Consumer Reports, IBM ThinkPad, Lenovo Group Ltd., IBM Corp., Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Cloud computing as a term: More meaningless by the minute
- The term cloud computing may have outrun its usefulness--it's beginning to conjure up images of "Web 2.0" and "paradigm shift." For the record, cloud computing refers to an all-encompassing hosting of applications, services and even hardware. You'll just put your stuff up there in some cloud and...
- Tags: Cloud Computing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-09
- Google makes waves and may have solved the data center conundrum
- Google is pondering a floating data center that could be powered and cooled by the ocean. These offshore data centers could sit 3 to 7 miles offshore and reside in about 50 to 70 meters of water. The search giant filed for a patent in February. The...
- Tags: Google Inc., Data Center, Computing Unit, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- Dell and Salesforce.com: So cozy they could merge (someday)
- Dell and Salesforce.com have quite a partnership going on. Dell is developing its internal and some of its external application on Salesforce.com's force.com platform. Salesforce.com is moving its data centers to Dell hardware. And the two are teaming up on marketing pitches. Meanwhile, the relationship appears to be much more...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- News to know: Apple sued; IDF; Adobe hijack; Microsoft-Novell
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: Apple faces suit over iPhone. Is it still worth the switch? Techmeme IDF wrap: Christopher Dawson: New touch screen Classmates unveiled today...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Novell Inc., Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Business Structures, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Yahoo: TV widgets and pondering a Disney takeover
- Yahoo: TV widgets and pondering a Disney takeoverHow much would Disney offer?The big question would be, how much would Disney pay for Yahoo!?My guess is that it would be substantially less than $33/share.On another note... the headline of this article made me think that Yahoo! was thinking of buying Disney......
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Disney Corp., Yahoo! Inc., TV Widget, TV
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- Yahoo: TV widgets and pondering a Disney takeover
- If Yahoo's battle with Google has taught us anything it's that the company isn't run by engineers. Sure, Yahoo is tech savvy. Sure it has an open platform. And sure it'll do things like plan a Widget Channel with Intel and tout it at a developers conference. But Yahoo is...
- Tags: Disney Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Widget Channel, Minyanville, Harrison, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Windows Fiji: a world class failure
- Before I get blasted by the uber-nerds, I'll tell you now. I've been playing with Windows 7 (6519) for a while, and Fiji, the new Windows Media Center TV Pack supposedly for Windows 7 for Windows Vista (ta, MJ) for a good few days. ...
- Tags: microsoft windows 7, microsoft windows vista, microsoft corp., tv, microsoft windows vista sp1, microsoft windows, microsoft windows vista (longhorn), operating systems, tvs, software, personal technology, home entertainment, zack whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-08-09
- Will Twitter tip in the UK first?
- Will Twitter tip in the UK first?Can Twitter Stay Afloat??I think the outages has affected Twitter's performance in tghe U.S. Twitter would have got a tremendous hit in the U.S but for the outages but even at that the figures are pretty impressive considering all the hiccups twitter is facing....
- Tags: Manufacturing, Twitter
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- Twitter going commercial?
- Twitter going commercial?Can Twitter Stay Afloat??I think this is a very positive initiative by Twitter and may be one that will possibly end its dilemma. With popular sites like Youtube still struggling to monetize their popularity, i beleive this will help put twitter on some sound business footing and give...
- Tags: Twitter
- Discussion threads 2008-07-16
- Again, why does Microsoft want Yahoo?
- But after pondering this past weekend's latest back-and-forth in the never-ending MicroHoo saga, I kept coming back to the original question about this whole transaction. Why does Microsoft really want Yahoo? by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Ballmer & Co., Search, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- Virtual world tipping point: Is there an enterprise use?
- Google has entered the virtual world game with a project called Lively and Second Life and IBM have pulled off a few interoperability experiments. Add it up and we may be seeing a little tipping point for virtual worlds. There may be even a few corporate uses in the future....
- Tags: Google Inc., Virtual World, Avatar, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Content management software vendors eye social networking
- Content management software vendors are pondering social networking features and are expected to collaborate or acquire so-called white label networks to make their enterprise apps more social. That's one of the takeaways from Jeremiah Owyang, an analyst at Forrester. Owyang's working theory is that...
- Tags: Network, Content Management System, Social Networking, Content Management, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- The Steve Jobs Standard
- Ever since the black turtlenecked one appeared at the Worldwide Developers Conference, there has been no shortage of discussion about the health of Steve Jobs, the worry that he is mortal and who might succeed him.There's the photo by photo rundown of the increasingly thin Jobs. There's the discussion...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Vertical Industries, Digital Music, Benefits, Healthcare, Digital Media, Enterprise Software, Software, Personal Technology, Human Resources, Consumer Electronics, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Dell's product lust: Are we there yet?
- Dell CEO Michael Dell mentioned the product lust mantra last year and has come back to it repeatedly in conference calls and analyst meetings. Dell's message: The company needs to improve design and inspire a few 'gotta have that' moments from technology buyers. How is Dell doing?...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- News to know: Firefox 3.0 flaw; Windows 7; IT failures; HP
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Code execution vulnerability found in Firefox 3.0 Dancho Danchev: A security company wants you to DDoS its servers Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Alabama's Broadband Tide Mary Jo Foley: Will Google deliver its own dynamic language runtime?...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows 7, Information Technology, Microsoft Windows, Flaw, Web Browsers, Data Centers, Internet, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- Pondering Apple in a post-Jobs world
- Before all of you start sending nastygrams my way about how tasteless and premature this blog post is, let me just say upfront I agonized about whether or not it should even be written in the first place, and my industry colleagues I consulted about it told me that the...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Strategy, Corporate Governance, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- 10 top Vista tweaks, part 2
- 10 top Vista tweaks, part 2There's a registry fixIt's an architectural problem, unfortunately. XP sees the new restore points, but can't read them and assumes they're damaged.There's a workaround here:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926185I prefer to run XP in a VM on a Vista machine rather than dual boot.RE: 10 top Vista tweaks, part...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Home Premium
- Discussion threads 2008-06-17
- Cloud computing meets capitalism: We all become a business of one
- Folks spend a lot of time talking about cloud computing. It's a move back to the mainframe. Cloud computing democratizes IT infrastructure. The cloud will be the reason Amazon and Google will be the dominant players on the Internet. You have heard a lot of it before. But the real...
- Tags: Google Inc., YouTube Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Lindsay, Cloud Computing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
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