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- The month ahead: Can Windows 7 close the Vista flop chapter?
- Win7 cannot completely close the Vista flop chapter. Win7 is still WAY too bloated and inflexible, a take it all or leave it approach. Compare that with Linux where you can use it from a tiny embedded system all the way up to a large server with multiple cores and...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, UNIX, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Win7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Linux, operating system
- Discussion threads 2009-09-30
- Andreessen: Facebook could do $1 billion in revenue if it wanted to
- Andreessen: Facebook could do $1 billion in revenue if it wanted toNot buying itThis is the same guy who helped SCO craft their legal strategy against IBM and Linux. Netscape and the SCO litigation. Not exactly a record of accomplishment I'd get behind. But he could help...
- Tags: Operational accounting, OPEN SOURCE, Facebook, revenue
- Discussion threads 2009-07-06
- How Apple singlehandedly killed the Flip Mino
- How Apple singlehandedly killed the Flip MinoCisco bought Flip and is still better than the iphoneThe iPhone video is horrible.Flip has a direct to youtube software built in for video sharing. Also, it's better for kids to have than a $200 iphone. 15~30 seconds of video against HD quality...
- Tags: Smart phones, iPhone Video, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., phone, Flip Mino
- Discussion threads 2009-07-06
- Hands-on with the Motorola Rival messaging phone
- Motorola has announced its Rival mobile messaging phone, which packs a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard, touchscreen elements and visual voicemail. The Moto folks were kind enough to let me play with the new device, which I believe is a nice solution for someone who wants a smartphone but doesn't want...
- Tags: Touch Screen, Mobile Messaging, Messaging, Motorola Inc., Keyboards, Instant Messaging, Monitors & Displays, Smart Phones, Mobile Applications, Wireless And Mobility, Hardware, Peripherals, Internet, Online Communications, Components, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, product photos, Motorola, Rival, smartphone, phone, mobile, Andrew Nusca
- Image galleries 2009-06-10
- Motorola Rival messaging phone offers QWERTY, touch, visual voicemail
- Motorola introduced the new Motorola Rival messaging phone today for Verizon Wireless, offering a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard, "touch key" interface and visual voicemail. The candybar phone, which is available today in a silver-and-red or purple-and-black finish, is intended for the multimedia-minded who...
- Tags: Phone, Voicemail, Messaging, Motorola Inc., Keyboards, E-mail, Smart Phones, Instant Messaging, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Hardware, Peripherals, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
- IBM win: University will invest in $12.4M green data center
- Get this, someone is actually making a capital investment in a new data center! And, a green one at that. We hear today that Syracuse University and New York State plan to use IBM to build a whopping 6,000-square-foot green data center that will use roughly 50...
- Tags: Data Center, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-05-29
- Ethanol, our trash and our economy
- This story has everything: suspense, victory, tragedy and a cliff-hanger. We still can't be sure how it's going to turn out. It all turns on Blue Fire, a California company aiming to build commercial-scale ethanol production plants, turning trash into sugars which can be fermented thence into ethanol....
- Tags: Southern California, Biofuel, Trash, Landfill, Plant, Blue Fire, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-04-14
- 2Wire MediaPoint Digital Media Player w/ Blockbuster OnDemand
- Blockbuster Video has had a rough transition to the 21st century, thanks in large part to Netflix. That flat-fee, subscription-based DVD-by-mail concern became the first major challenge to Blockbuster's once lucrative brick and mortar storefronts--a business model that was based largely on profits derived from late fees. Then, just as...
- Tags: TVs, Corporate communications, TV & Home Theater, Media players, Wi-Fi, on-demand, media player, 2Wire, Blockbuster Inc., NetFlix Inc.
- Product reviews 2009-01-28
- iPod Touch: No Panacea
- iPod Touch: No PanaceaWiFi or MobileWas at McDonalds and paid $3 to access their wifi with my iTouch. Lo and behold, the membership site I went to considered the connection a 'mobile' connection and wanted me to pony up an addl $5/mo for 'mobile' access. Other sites don't care..I'm on...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, Digital music, Wireless and Mobility, Wi-Fi, Apple iPod Touch, panacea, Apple iPod, iTouch
- Discussion threads 2009-01-28
- More reasons for Apple to hate Macworld Expo
- More reasons for Apple to hate Macworld ExpoYeah but...There IS method to IDG's madness for scheduling MacWorld when they do. The holiday season's over. People are done with the distractions. Apple therefore gets their FULL, undivided attention. So when Jobs steps up to the podium and does his dog and...
- Tags: reality Distortion Field, Apple Inc., Macworld
- Discussion threads 2008-12-24
- Sun reseller contacts
- Sun reseller contactsSun and C=There are some very eerie parallels between Sun marketing and Commodore's in the 80's. The Commodore Amiga was a superior computer by far in the late 80's. US Ham radio operators were the first major group to adopt it, as it fit their needs perfectly. They...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Marketing research, UNIX, Operating systems, Sun Microsystems Inc., marketing
- Discussion threads 2008-11-24
- Dell: How bad is it?
- Dell: How bad is it?They're advertising is shot, tooThe holiday radio ads targeted at businesses are abysmal. Carolers singing about getting "trendy desktops?" Apparently they ditched the real ad agency and hired a bunch of people off the street who just watched the latest iteration of High School...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, NOW IT, Dell Computer Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-11-19
- The perks of free agency with Verizon Wireless
- The perks of free agency with Verizon WirelessI might agree they will take a quarterly hitbut nothing more. Year over year, AT&T has a higher churn rate then Verizon, with Sprint by far the highest.I do not see Verizon being overly concerned here, though the pre-order might have more to...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, perk, Verizon Wireless, agency, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-11-14
- Review: Why Android is for me and the G1 isn't
- For me, when it comes to cell phones, it's a marriage of convenience. I value the basic function of a cell phone to connect me to the rest of the world from almost anywhere, but beyond that, I couldn't care less about the "features." Despite my power...
- Tags: T-Mobile G1, Phone, T-Mobile, Cell Phone, E-mail, HTC-made G1, Telecom & Utilities, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- There is no pony plan for health care
- My pony plan is that we stop believing in pony plans, that we start acting like adults, and that we acknowledge the limits. All of us need to find a fair way to say, at some point, no. It's in God's hands. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Health Care, Health Care Inflation, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Mac OS 10.6 to be Intel only?
- Mac OS 10.6 to be Intel only?64-bit is the future64-bit is the future anyway so no problem with releasing a 64-bit only OS. It might seem painful but it's good given that it's just going to pave a way for people to switch from 32-bit to 64-bit as if the...
- Tags: Desktops, Network technology, Operating systems, 64-bit, Apple Macintosh, Mac OS 10.6, Intel Only, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, Intel Corp., hardware
- Discussion threads 2008-06-04
- How much do you need to know about Windows 7 today?
- My colleague Mary Jo Foley has her ear to the ground in Redmond, and when it comes to Windows 7 she's hearing ... nothing. Under new Windows boss Steven Sinofsky, she notes, the information lockdown is nearly airtight, and some customers are starting to complain: I’m hearing increasing dissatisfaction...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Sinofsky, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- 10 reasons for IT failure
- 10 reasons for IT failureThe number one reason...I still say the number one reason for failure is the mind set that in some magical way IT project management is different than other diciplines. (Engineering projects as an example.)One of the short comings I see in most curriculum for computer...
- Tags: Strategy, Project management, information technology, IT Failure
- Discussion threads 2008-05-02
- Microsoft moves deeper into the software services arena
- After a year or two of sticking a toe in the managed-services waters, Microsoft has decided to take the full software-as-a-service plunge -- at least for some of its enterprise apps. Contrary to rumors circulating around the blogosphere over the weekend, the company is not rolling out...
- Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Service, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-02
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