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- Mozilla's financials: 2007 strong; Portfolio takes 2008 lumps
- Mozilla's 2007 annual report reveals a foundation that's well funded--primarily by a Google search deal--and can weather a downturn. Nevertheless, 2008 is going to be a different story as Mozilla's portfolio has taken some big hits. In 2007, Mozilla had revenue of $75 million, up 12 percent...
- Tags: Mozilla Corp., Taxes, Financial Management, Mutual Funds, Investment, Free Trade, Retirement Plans, Operational Accounting, Financial Planning, Finance, Human Resources, Benefits, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Dell: How bad is it?
- Dell's fiscal third quarter isn't expected to be pretty. The only real question is where Dell's quarter falls on the ugly scale. The company's first shot at an outlook for the quarter unraveled just a few weeks later amid weak PC demand. And when Dell reports earnings...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Sales Strategy, Desktops, Sales, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- iPhone vs. Android development: Day 2
- Welcome to day 2 of a 5-day course on iPhone programming presented by Joe Conway from Big Nerd Ranch. During the course I'll be blogging about the differences between Android and iPhone development. [Read: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5] ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, User Interface, Localizable.strings, Android Eclipse Plug-in, UINavigationController, UITabBarController, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Forrester, SaaS and market uptake in IT management
- Competition in the Changing IT Management Space Yesterday I discussed CA's move into SaaS-based IT Management. Today, a Forrester Research shared with me a new report their firm also released yesterday (How Big Is SaaS In IT Management Software? by Peter O'Neill) on the predicted...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Solution, IT Administration, Information Technology, Forrester Research Inc., Markets, Software As A Service (SaaS), Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- SAP Trimming Head Count, "Can't Rule Out" Layoffs
- Since the world's economic crisis began in September, SAP AG has adopted a "we do not hire, we do not replace" employment policy. The early results are in. And when you exclude acquisitions (see Business Objects, January 2008), there is one area of the world where...
- Tags: Layoff, SAP AG, Mergers & Acquisitions, Workforce Management, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Human Resources, Business Operations, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Will Microsoft apply 'Vista-Capable' lessons to Win 7 netbooks?
- As the e-mail trail in the "Vista-capable" class-action suit continues to unfold, I can't help but wonder whether Microsoft will apply some of the lessons it hopefully learned about working with OEMs to Windows 7 -- especially in the netbook space. The original suit, filed in March...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, OEM, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Passcode, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Gartner: 85 percent of companies using open source
- The analyst house warns that, although take-up of open-source software is widespread, most companies do not have formal procurement or governance policies in place for such software. Eighty-five percent of companies are already using open-source software, with most of the remaining 15 percent expecting to do so...
- Tags: Software, Open Source, Open-source Software, Gartner Inc., OSS, David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk, open source, governance, Gartner
- News items 2008-11-17
- Tech workforce pinched by economy, feeling like 2003
- That economic doom-and-gloom has finally hit the tech sector and it looks like job cuts in the electronics, telecom and computer industries could be flirting with numbers they haven't seen in years. According to Challenger, Gray and Christmas, a global outplacement firm that tracks daily job cut...
- Tags: Job, Technology Sector, Industry, Job Cut, Workforce, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Nokia: Global mobile phone market will fall in 2009
- Nokia said today that the world's mobile phone market would fall in Q4 2008 and 2009 as the slowing economy eases consumer demand around the world.1.24 billion phones would be sold worldwide this year, down from a previous estimate of 1.26 billion, with handset market volumes and the overall telecommunications...
- Tags: Phone, Nokia Corp., Mobile, Cell Phone, Telecom & Utilities, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- AMD's Extreme Makeover: What the new roadmaps reveal
- Lost in all of the inaccurate commotion yesterday about AMD entering the netbook market were much broader changes in the company's product plans as it struggles to regain profitability and keep up with a deep-pocketed Intel. In the past year, AMD has announced plans to spin-off manufacturing, abandoned efforts to...
- Tags: Platform, Plan, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Chip, DDR3, Notebooks, Desktops, Processors, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Computers make the case for globalization
- The United States has long been sliding towards trade skepticism, a process that has merely been exaggerated by the recent troubles in financial markets. Low-cost computers and its associated market size makes one of the best cases for globalization, however. Most of us wouldn't have jobs if computers...
- Tags: Computer, Globalization, Productivity, Strategy, Management, John Carroll, Job, Laptop Computer
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Sun cuts 5,000 to 6,000 jobs
- Sun said Friday that it will lay off 15 percent to 18 percent of its workforce--or 5,000 to 6,000 people--as it restructures amid weak demand, a series of poor quarters and a business model that rallies around open source software. Add it up and Sun is looking...
- Tags: Job, Sun Microsystems Inc., Operational Accounting, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- From Chapter Three: The Windows Culture
- The pivotal machine in the emergence of the Wintel culture was probably the IBM PC/AT. It sold in sufficiently large quantities to IBM customers to create its own software markets, and was sufficiently poorly engineered and over priced to ensure that its buyers didn't perceive it as a threat to...
- Tags: Culture, IBM Corp., Mainframes, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy, PC, Board, Graphics, BASIC, PC/AT, Corporate Governance, Desktops, Tools & Techniques, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- AMD to enter (high-end) netbook market; Maintains fourth quarter outlook for now
- Updated: AMD on Thursday addressed the two big elephants in the auditorium during its analyst day: The netbook market and the fourth quarter outlook. AMD announced plans to enter the netbook market selectively. And CFO Bob Rivet said AMD isn't cutting its fourth quarter outlook following Intel's sales warning, but...
- Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Chip, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- Qualcomm's Kayak "PC alternative" pictured
- Here's a picture of Kayak, the "PC alternative" for emerging markets that Qualcomm announced yesterday. It looks pretty much the way the company described it: sort of a cross between the Apple Mac Mini--bring your own monitor, keyboard and mouse--and the OLPC's XO laptop with its...
- Tags: PC, Qualcomm Inc., Kayak, Chipsets, Semiconductors, Desktops, Wireless, Hardware, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- AMD: Does the resurrection start with 'Shanghai'?
- AMD on Thursday launched its Shanghai processor family--the successor to the much maligned Barcelona. The goal: Close the gap on server chips with Intel. The challenge: Convincing customers, shareholders and others in the peanut gallery that a turnaround at AMD is underway. Later today, AMD will try...
- Tags: Shanghai, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Meyer, Asset Management, Manufacturing, Balance Sheets, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, Finance, Hardware, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- Qualcomm floats 'PC alternative' 3G device
- Qualcomm on Wednesday entered the Internet device market with a "PC alternative" designed to give netbooks some competition in emerging markets. The device, dubbed Kayak, is designed to use 3G wireless connectivity and be completely free of landlines and other accessories to connect to the Internet. ...
- Tags: PC, Qualcomm Inc., Qualcomm Kayak, 3G, Chipsets, Mice, Semiconductors, Wireless, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Components, Peripherals, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- Getting the most value out of Collaborative Technologies
- I'll be speaking at a breakfast briefing in London UK on the 20th November on the subject of ‘How to get the most value out of collaborative technologies‘ for Fujitsu Services, whose Graeme Mackay, Business Manager of Corporate Information Systems, will also talk about Fujitsu's experiences...
- Tags: Information Technology, Business Unit, Tool, Productivity, Strategy, Collaboration, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
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