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- Remember IBM at $10.50 per Share? Oracle as a penny stock? Tales of Hope from the Great High Tech Depression of ‘89
- Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak …..October. Paraphrasing Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven seems somehow appropriate to this moment, when it seems that everything we've all worked and dreamed about is going up in smoke. And yet, having seen a version of this movie...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Recession, Stock, IBM Corp., Tech Stock, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- America's airways ready for NextGen
- It's time – long past time – to upgrade the U.S. air traffic control system. The current system, designed during World War II, contributes mightily to flight delays, customer dissatisfaction and a massive energy wastefulness. But a GPS satellite-based system, on the drawing board for more than a decade, has...
- Tags: FAA, Air Traffic Control, Greenhouse Gas, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Is OpenOffice good enough?
- Yes. OK, obviously there's more to this story than my tongue-in-cheek answer. This came up after one of our supercool, power user secretaries (who is an Office 2003/2007 wiz) ran a training session for the other secretaries in the district. The other secretaries are largely...
- Tags: Secretary, Training, OpenOffice, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- News to know: Apple's $800 laptop; MS and Mac Patch Days; Vista Home for business
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixed MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: 11 bulletins, 4 critical Ed Bott: Look who's buying...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, H-1B, Notebooks, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Grober
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Facebook: Revenue plan by 2011; Growth is key for now.
- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he's more focused on growing the social networking site than he is in finding a way to monetize it - at least for now. In a Q&A interview with German blog Netzökonom, Zuckerberg has basically given himself and the company three years to come up...
- Tags: Revenue, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Social Networking, Operational Accounting, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Economy-pinched semiconductor industry: How to ride the storm
- The credit crisis and overall economic downturn is starting to hit the semiconductor industry, which saw 5.5 percent sales growth in August. Research firm iSuppli has cut its 2008 sales growth forecast for the semiconductor industry from 4 percent to 3.5 percent and potentially even more if economic conditions continue...
- Tags: iSuppli Corp., Semiconductor Industry, Lidlow, Semiconductors, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- The five products Apple must make
- What ought to be Apple's next leap of faith? Here are a few ideas for where Apple should go next. What are your ideas? Apple made its latest big move into new territories last year with the launch of the now ubiquitous iPhone, expanding beyond the desktop and...
- Tags: Touch Screen, Apple iPhone, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Keyboards, Games, Monitors & Displays, Desktops, Hardware, Peripherals, Personal Technology, Components, Apple, iPhone, video games, tablet, Jo Best, Silicon.com
- News items 2008-10-09
- Is Microsoft's fatal flaw the computer?
- I was browsing on webmagazine Salon when I came across an interesting review written by Scott Rosenberg of the book "Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know" by Randall Stross. (The title of the article is, "Google's Vulcan death grip." Boy am I a sucker.) ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Flaw, Microsoft Corp., Computer, Productivity, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Start-up looks to extend battery life
- Intel-backed ZPower's silver-zinc battery is set to make its debut with a large laptop manufacturer next year, promising batteries that are 95 percent recyclable and 40 percent longer life. Intel-backed start-up ZPower may be the first to introduce an alternative to the ubiquitous lithium-ion laptop...
- Tags: Battery, Intel-backed ZPower, Mercury, Battery Life, Engineering, Matthew Broersma ZDNet.co.uk, batteries, laptops, ZPower, silver-zinc battery
- News items 2008-10-09
- IBM: Beats earnings target but...
- IBM said that it will beat Wall Street's earnings estimates for the third quarter, but there were enough nuggets disclosed to raise a few eyebrows. First, the headlines. IBM statement said it would report earnings of $2.05 a share, a good 3 cents better than estimates. Revenue,...
- Tags: Revenue, Earnings, IBM Corp., Thomas Weisel, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Have we all become a bunch of anxious, depressed, sleep-deprived irritable stress-heads?
- Let's face it, the last month or so has been a challenge for just about anyone's tolerance of stress and has made even the most "stable" of us question our own emotional and mental health. But I've discovered that IT workers in particular, or anyone who...
- Tags: Sleep, Job, Beverage, Health Care, Computer, Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Food & Beverage, Productivity, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Manufacturing, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- IBM reports early. Profits up 20 percent, full year estimates reaffirmed.
- IBM, surprising Wall Street today with an early release of its quarterly earnings, reported a 20 percent in net income and EPS of $2.05. The company also reaffirmed its forecast of at least $8.75 for the year, a 22 percent increase from a year ago. Samuel J. Palmisano, IBM chairman,...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Global handset market to grow 3% in 2009
- 2009 global handset growth will reach 3%, due to market weaknesses in Europe and North America,m UBS claims. SHARETHIS.addEntry( { title: "Global handset market to grow 3% in 2009", url: "http://www.itfacts.biz/global-handset-market-to-grow-3-in-2009/11617" } , { popup: true } ); by AM
- Tags: Handset, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, AM
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Teaching telecommuting
- I had to commute this morning. I left the commuting behind about 5 years ago and dread the drive from middle-of-nowhere Massachusetts to Boston. We have a lot more horses than traffic jams out my way, so I've definitely lost my tolerance for traffic. The local troopers...
- Tags: Boston, Tool, Telecommuting, Productivity, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- RIM's Storm: Why it matters
- Research in Motion launched its Storm touch handheld and it is critical to the company's long-term plans. RIM, along with Vodafone and Verizon Wireless, launched the Storm on Wednesday (Techmeme, statement, Crave review, gallery). The phone, a rival to the iPhone 3G, signals a product barrage for...
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Keyboards, 3G, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Peripherals, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Components, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Open source in a time of recession
- Open source in a time of recessionWhen the water hole shrinks,the kangaroo mice flourish.HistoryYes, the end of the dot-com bubble killed a number of illusions. The most prominent lesson was, Don't give away your main product. So at that time pure Linux and other open source plays disappeared.What was...
- Tags: Rewriting History, recession, open source, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Apple dominates the teen vote, but...
- Teenagers just love their Apple gear as the iPhone and iPod widen their lead among this fickle set. According to a Piper Jaffray report Apple is dominating teenagers' buying patterns. The high level details of a survey of 769 teens: 22...
- Tags: Teen, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Digital Music, Digital Media, 401(k), Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Human Resources, Benefits, Retirement Plans, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Cisco SONA
- Cisco caught my attention by asking me if I wanted to see the results of a study indicating how organizations are seeing Web 2.0 and/or Service Oriented Architecture SOA application adoption. Having executed dozens of studies of this nature while I was at IDC, I was interested in the results,...
- Tags: Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- News to know: Clickjacking redux; SAP pricing; BlackBerry Storm; Windows 7
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Webcam hijack demo highlights clickjacking threat Dancho Danchev: Atrivo/Intercage's disconnection briefly disrupts spam levels Adobe posts workaround for clickjacking flaw, NoScript releases ClearClick ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, SAP AG, Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Pricing Strategy, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Microsoft Windows, Semantic Web, Linux, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Internet
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
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