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- Can savior-elect resurrect General Motors?
- This General Motors saga has it all: pathos and bathos, tragedy and comeuppance, hubris and ignorance, innocence and foolhardiness. Oh, and it could be the trigger to an even nastier American economy than the one we already expect for next year. Even back in January some GM execs...
- Tags: General Motors Corp., Litigation, Business Operations, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-22
- Why Apple and Google need to get into the Netbook business
- This crappy photo-edit of a fairly standard netbook design illustrates the power of Apple branding. ZDNet Editor in Chief Larry Dignan recently picked up a Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Ubuntu Netbook and pinged me for tech support questions regarding his new toy --...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Apple iPod, Operating System, Apple Inc., Wireless, Android, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-11-22
- Taleo's November to forget
- An HR Soap Opera This month hasn't been a good one for Taleo. Here's the timeline of events and an analysis of the lawsuits that are originating from recent events. On 11/3/2008, the company announced its Q3 earnings and they didn't delight Wall...
- Tags: Revenue, Taleo Corp., Stock, Revenue Recognition, Investment, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- SAG follows the path blazed by the UAW
- The Screen Actors Guild SAG is starting a fight over union rules as they apply to Internet-only productions. If they win, they are likely to shift even more content creation opportunities away from major studios in a futile attempt to hinder evolution in a market changed dramatically by technology....
- Tags: Union, UAW, Media, Internet, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- ... But Digital TV Transition Can Get Action
- The Bush Administration and Congress seem ready to bag it on the economic policy front. Witness the stock market reaction to its inaction this week on the auto industry and financial institutions' continued stresses. But they can take time to fix the hard-stop to analog TV...
- Tags: Stock, Digital Television, Stock Market, Investment, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Finance, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Salesforce.com: Recession resistant or just late to the pain?
- On the surface, Salesforce.com's third quarter was impressive. The company hit or exceeded its targets and noted that its "value proposition" was resonating among enterprise software buyers. But worries abound under the surface. Salesforce.com reported income of $10.1 million, or 8 cents per share, on revenue of...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Recession, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Nokia Reliability Labs puts the heat on Nokia devices
- If you have ever seen one of almost 100 mobile devices I have owned you will know that I take extremely good card of all of them and they rarely even have a scratch on them. I have actually never had a mobile device break on me. I would like...
- Tags: Nokia Corp., Corporate Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- A guide to cutting IT costs
- Reduction of spending in the IT department is more art than science. Metri consultant Paul Michaels offers some advice on how to get it right. For the past few months everyone was hoping the IT industry might be saved the worst of the credit crunch fallout, on the...
- Tags: CIO, Benchmarking, Information Technology, IT Cost, Paul Michaels, Conundrum, Strategy, Management, IT management, costs, cutbacks, staffing, Paul Michaels silicon.com
- News items 2008-11-21
- From Chapter Three: The Windows Culture
- The history of Windows, from 3.11 to Vista, is one of ad hoc adaptation to market conditions and expectational change among customers. To a large extent it's been about playing catch up to Unix and the Mac - with fascinating devolutions along the way. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: TCP/IP, Application, Client-server, Stored Procedure, Network, PC, Microsoft MS-DOS, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Desktops, Databases, Networking, Software, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Video Is Not The Future of the Internet. It's the Present.
- Auto companies may be going out of business. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is shrinking dramatically, by the day. Consumer confidence is at a post-war low. But Internet traffic is unabated. Notably, it's led by consumers. And video. "We are living in unprecedented times,''...
- Tags: P2P, Traffic, Video, Consumer Traffic, Corporate Communications, Internet, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Subscription music services: Are we there yet?
- Microsoft on Thursday announced a new music subscription model for its Zune music player and the big question in the back of the room is this: Will subscription music services ever become dominant? Sure, there are a few folks that subscribe to their music. And Microsoft has...
- Tags: Microsoft Zune, Music, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- CIO Sessions: Mozilla CTO: Brendan Eich
- Brendan Eich, CTO of Mozilla, talks to CNET News' Dan Farber about why the company now commands 20 percent of the browser market and what they're doing to grow. He also discusses the company's mobile browser strategy, making Firefox faster than the competition, and taking chances with the company's core...
- Tags: CTO, Web Browser, Mozilla Corp., Web Browsers, Strategy, Internet, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Please, give me a few billion, pretty please
- The chances are dimming for any loans to the automakers this year. There's a stall, a back-up, a traffic jam in Congress according to the blogosphere. The Detroit Big Three were in Washington today with their over-sized begging bowls out. They got some support, some raspberries. ...
- Tags: White House, Loan, Banking, Financial Services, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Free cell phones
- The holiday shopping season is upon us and with people's concerns about the economy spending will most likely be down and buyers will be looking for deals for gifts. In this first holiday shopping guide, I'll collect and present you with informaton for the best free cellphones on the market...
- Tags: Phone, Holiday, Cell Phone, Cellular Phones, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Matthew Miller, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Radio, MicroSD, microSD Card, Sprint Communications, Camera, LG CU515, Bluetooth, Telecom & Utilities
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- What's blowin' in the wind? Alternative energy in China
- A new study of the Chinese wind energy market finds the country's growth will likely continue despite the global economic spasms. EER's report finds China will be #1 in generating electricity from wind by 2011. As much as the once communist state now embraces a brand of capitalism,...
- Tags: China, Alternative Energy, Wind Energy, EER, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Top 10 camcorders
- This year's hottest product category is arguably digital video, and there are a ton of options available on the market. So which camcorder should you choose? To aid you in your search for the best gadget for your visual adventures, here's my list...
- Tags: Camcorder, Video, Canon Inc., Canon HG10, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Top 5 Netbooks
- The biggest surprise of 2008 was the arrival of netbooks. Asus was the first in the pool with its Eee PC, and after some initial hesitation, the big guys were forced to jump in as well. Acer, Dell, HP and Lenovo are all among a long...
- Tags: ASUS, Hard Drive, Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, Battery, Memory, Acer Inc., Intel Atom, Intel Corp., Dell Inspiron, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- IT spending in Bulgaria reached $944 mln in 2007
- IT spending in Bulgaria exceeded $944 mln in 2007, with YTY growth of 32.3%. Measured in local currency, the market expanded 20.5% YTY, according to IDC. The largest vertical market in terms of IT spending in Bulgaria in 2007 was the communications sector, which invested almost $210 mln in IT, representing...
- Tags: Bulgaria, IT-spending, NB
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
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