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Note to Mike Arrington: Thick skin is your only defense

Methinks Mike Arrington protests too much. He gets his information like a VC, offering whuffie and sometimes cash investments to sources, which means that he gets some scoops because people talk to him for a variety of reasons, not just the factMike, get some reporters who are charged specifically with...

Tags: portfolio company, Mike Arrington

Blog posts 2006-11-01

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Highest-paid US public company executives

Associated Press published a list of highest-paid public company executives out of S&P 500 index. Larry Ellison, Oracle Corp. ORCL, $84.6 mln John Thain, Merrill Lynch & Co. MERPO, $83.1 mln Leslie Moonves, CBS Corp. CBS, $67.6 mln Richard Adkerson, Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc., $65.3 mln Bob Simpson,...

Tags: Company Executive, CBS Corp., GPS, Financial Accounting, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Finance, Hardware, AM

Blog posts 2008-08-21

Google gains share again, should Microsoft give up?

Google has been gaining market share consistently since they day they opened up shop, and it doesn't appear it will be slowing down any time soon -- in July they were up to 62%. Yahoo and Microsoft have been trying their hardest, spending hundreds of millions of dollars each...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Operating Systems, Software, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-08-21

Zoho Share(point?)

If there's one thing I really like it is what I term 'self evident' applications. These are apps that have a clear purpose and which are blindingly simple to use. Zoho Share falls squarely in that category. The company prefers to think of...

Tags: People Area, Bookmarks, RSS, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Internet, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-08-21

Words from the Woz

Steve Wozniak is many things: electronics enthusiast, author of iWoz, former fifth-grade teacher, plane-crash survivor, ex-reality-TV-boyfriend of D-list comedian Kathy Griffin, and, oh yeah, co-founder of a company called Apple. You might have heard of it. Today, he put on the hat of former engineer as he...

Tags: Microsoft Word, Electronics, Apple Inc., Computer, Intel Developer Forum, Productivity, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-08-21

When will cleantech be profitable? How about Q2, 2008!

The world's first solar power billionaire is on a role. Not in Silicon Valley or Spain or even solar-blessed Arizona. In China. The global gold medal winner in solar profits: Shi Zhengrong, head of Suntech Power. They make photovoltaics sold the world over. Free...

Tags: China, Spain, Stock, Photovoltaics, Clean Technology, Suntech Power, Zhengrong, Manufacturing, Investment, Finance, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-08-21

Apple puts on back-to-school full court press

Apple has always been a big player in the education market and this year it appears to be grabbing more share by selling Macs with iPod discounts among other moves. Let's connect a few dots: AppleInsider reports that RBC analyst Mike Abramsky is projecting...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Digital Music, Digital Media, Desktops, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-21

Top five issues your IT staff wants to address but is afraid to tell you

If you’re an IT manager or CIO, you may want to gather the troops before you begin the Web 2.0 modernization process as even the best laid plans can go awry says Nexaweb Technologies Jeremy Chone. Commentary--The proliferation of enterprise Web 2.0 has created new...

Tags: Web, Information Technology, Web 2.0, Strategy, Internet, Management, CIO, IT management, code, Jeremy Chone, Nexaweb Technologies

News items 2008-08-21

Nokia and Sun confirm S40, J2ME vulnerabilities

According to published reports, Nokia and Sun have both confirmed the existence of serious security problems in the Series 40 and Java 2 Platform Micro Edition (J2ME), giving instant credibility to the claims by Polish hacker Adam Gowdiak. Gowdiak left, one of the four LSD researchers who discovered...

Tags: Nokia Corp., J2ME, Sun Microsystems Inc., Vulnerability, Java, Security, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-08-21

More security holes appear in Microsoft Office

In addition to this long list of missing Microsoft patches, there are at least three serious unpatched vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Office productivity suite. On August 12, the same day Microsoft released a slew of Office patches, TippingPoint's DV Labs published a bare-bones advisory warning about a...

Tags: User Interaction, Vulnerability, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Security, Office Suites, Software, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-08-21

IKEA's mixed bag of IT investments

Last evening I read an interesting Gartner case study (registration wall warning.) It tells how IKEA Components, a company that is part of the iconic retailer of flat pack furniture used Lawson Software products to make significant across the board process savings and improvements. The business intelligence/process project makes great...

Tags: IKEA, Information Technology, IT Investment, David Meerman Scott, Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-08-21

SAP All-in-One implementations in less than 3 months?

At the risk of sounding like an infomercial for SAP or turning Irregular Enterprise into 'SAPWatch,' I recently learned about a consulting shop that guarantees implementing SAP All-in-One in three months at a fixed price. I was skeptical given that the on-demand Business ByDesign implementations I'm hearing about are taking...

Tags: SAP AG, Training, Workforce Management, Change Management, Training And Certification, Human Resources, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-08-21

Dell bets on Salesforce.com's platform as a service

Amid a quarter that Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff called "spectacular," but spooked analysts worried about future growth was an interesting nugget: Dell has jumped on the platform as a service bandwagon. On Salesforce.com's second quarter conference call (earnings recap, InStranet acquisition) Benioff revealed that Dell signed a...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Marc Benioff, Billing, PaaS, Summer Sales Cycle, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-21

Apple confirms iPhone 2.0.2 addresses 3G bugs

Although Apple has never given us a proper changelog with its software updates, an Apple spokesperson has provided a tiny but important detail on the iPhone firmware 2.0.2 released earlier this week. According to an Associated Press article, the update "improved communication with 3G networks," said Apple spokesperson Jennifer Bowcock....

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Software Update, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-08-21

Is the Salesforce.com juggernaut faltering?

  Scanning through Larry Dignan's write up of Salesforce.com's Q2 results I couldn't help but observe the company is signaling a sharp slowdown in sales growth compared with fiscal 2007-8. I wasn't the only one to notice. According to Associated Press, investors were far from impressed by...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-08-21

Apple faces suit over iPhone. Is it still worth the switch?

I walked into an AT&T Wireless store earlier today, eyed the iPhone and picked up some brochures on pricing plans. I've been thinking that the problems with the new iPhone can't last forever - and yet, here's another black eye for Apple and the iPhone. An Alabama woman has filed...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Pricing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-08-20

The Waltham Pact: Where are the tangibles?

  This week, Microsoft renewed their union with Novell, to the tune of an additional 100 million dollars in commitment to buy more SUSE Linux support certificates that it can sell to its customers. Dang, Ballmer, for that kind of cash, you can get your vows renewed...

Tags: Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp., Linux, Open Source, OpenOffice, UNIX, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Office Suites, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-08-20

Intel unveils new software for parallel computing

At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, company General Manager Renee James announces a new suite of parallel coding tools designed to work with Microsoft Visual Studio. The tools will support Microsoft's concurrent runtime environment, which is expected to become a central component of Microsoft's next-generation computing model. The...

Tags: Software, Microsoft Corp., Computing, Tool, Intel Corp., Productivity, Intel, Microsoft

Videos 2008-08-20

BigFix makes government's power management mandate more palatable

For those of you readers who work within federal government agencies and have been faced with meeting mandated conservation policies, software vendor BigFix has negotiated a deal with the General Services Administration to offer its software at an annual license of $3 per computer for the first year of new...

Tags: Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-08-20

Open source and innovation as maintenance models

Following my piece on a proposed model for enterprise applications maintenance, two fresh posts, one from Matt Aslett at 451.com and another from Leigh Cauldwell offer alternative ideas around how the present conundrum might be solved. Matt offers the open source position arguing that:  This would appear to be...

Tags: Innovation, Leigh Cauldwell, Matt, Savio Rodrigues, Open Source, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-08-20