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- The pundits predict
- The pundits predictEnderly is a GuruLinux will still soon die in the enterprise and SCO will yet prevail. Everyone in falling into their respective traps.TripleIIIs this Paul being ironic?The ability to write simply about technology coupled with relentless self promotion seems to yield both credibility and a horrifically bad...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, pundit, SCO Group Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-01-21
- Why blogging matters to your business and your IT
- Why blogging matters to your business and your ITBlogs and Knowledge ManagementNice story, thanks for that.Sums up a few important points.Dave Winer may be a bad charachter sometimes, but I think we all learnt about weblogs,rss and podstuff from his work.I remember experimenting with Manila before acquiring the content management...
- Tags: Content management, Strategy, information technology, corporate blogging, content management system, blog, blogging, pundit
- Discussion threads 2005-01-18
- The Mac at 20: What's in store for the future?
- The Mac at 20: What's in store for the future?Pundit predicts death of Mac: film at 11How many decades now have people been on a Macintosh deathwatch? However what also has to be noted is where that some of the earlier pundits have shuffled off this mortal coil, there is...
- Tags: Desktops, Pundit, American Business, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., computer
- Discussion threads 2004-01-07
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- Dan Geer leaves Verdasys for In-Q-Tel
- Dan Geer, a risk-management pioneer who is often described as "the dean of the security deep-thinkers' set," has left Verdasys to join In-Q-Tel as chief information security officer. Geer left will remain on the masthead at Verdasys as Chief Scientist Emeritus. At In-Q-Tel, he will report directly...
- Tags: Information Security, Verdasys Inc., In-Q-Tel, Kerberos, Venture Capital, Security, Finance, Financing Startups, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Microsoft vs. Google: Are all monopolies created equal?
- Are Microsoft and Google really locked into a zero-sum game, where every gain in Google's search business translates into an automatic kick-in-the-pants for Microsoft? That seems to be the premise, to a degree, of a couple of new items -- one on the Financial Times and...
- Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Monopoly, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- ReactOS no threat to Windows
- ReactOS no threat to WindowsBugs[i]Which brings up a final point. Bugs. Is React going to copy Windows’ bugs?[/i]They have to, for compatibility reasons. If they don't they're dead in the water.Of course if they do, they're shark bait. They can't get away with the same bugs Microsoft does,...
- Tags: Linux, Operating systems, UNIX, Microsoft Windows NT, ReactOS, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-05-13
- Traditional software licensing: Why you pay more and a look at your options
- Traditional software licensing: Why you pay more and a look at your optionsYes, 20 years ago, software licensing was long term viable. That was then,this is now. For businesses NOW, going forward, software licensing is not long term viable. What they are saying is that what worked in the past,...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, software, software editor, compagny
- Discussion threads 2008-04-11
- Blodget: MicroHoo 'is gonna be a disaster'
- "It's gonna be a disaster." That's how Silicon Alley Insider founder and Web pundit Henry Blodget characterized the outcome of the Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo, if and when it goes through. (Blodget seems to believe it's more a "when" than an "if," as CEO "Steve Ballmer is...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Kniskern, Portals, Mergers & Acquisitions, Instant Messaging, Internet, Microsoft Windows, Branding, Investment, Finance, Online Communications, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- Why Macworld will blow CES out of the water - again
- Why Macworld will blow CES out of the water - againI think you mean Comdex, not Networld + InteropI believe Comdex is the event technology show to which you refer, not Networld+Interop. Interop (as it's known once again--having dropped the "networld" part of its name in 2005) is still alive...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple Inc., Macworld, Consumer Electronics Show, Interop
- Discussion threads 2008-01-11
- What would an Apple-Adobe merger mean to Microsoft?
- We interrupt our ongoing series of Microsoft reorg posts to speculate on one heck of a speculative post by pundit Robert Cringely. Cringely thinks an Apple-Adobe merger makes sense on a variety of fronts. If it ever did come to pass, it would make for interesting ...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Merger, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cringely, SmartFlow, Media Center PCs, Mergers & Acquisitions, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Productivity, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Investment, Finance, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Consumer Electronics, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-01-11
- What's on Microsoft's agenda for 2008?
- It's the end of the year, which means it's pundit prognostication time again. Here are my 10 predictions about what I think we'll see in Microsoft land in 2008. (I could have done a lot more than 10, given I'm finishing up a book on Microsoft's future,...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Prediction, Team Management, Web Browsers, Management, Internet, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-12-18
- As Microsoft knows, there's more than one way to disrupt a market
- As Microsoft knows, there's more than one way to disrupt a marketNot really...The only dilemma at this point is which bank to store the billions in. ;-)The fact that MS can get $500 for Office....will not change until the Internet becomes at least as reliable as the plain old...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-12-17
- As Microsoft knows, there's more than one way to disrupt a market
- Financial-analyst-turned-Web-pundit Henry Blodget posted an explainer this weekend on what "disruption" really means and why Google and other Web-based office suites are on ther verge of disrupting Microsoft in a major way. From Blodget's post, entitled "Microsoft in Denial: Google Threat is Classic Disruption": "Disruptive technologies...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Web, Software-as-a-service, Microsoft Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Channel Management, Microsoft Office, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-12-17
- Facebook outmaneuvers Google; Bebo launches FB-compatible platform
- When Google announced "OpenSocial", a set of three common APIs designed to create an alternative developer platform to that offered by Facebook, I described it as a 'combine and conquer strategy'. [OpenSocial] embraces the "small pieces, loosely joined" philosophy of the web, and in doing so, should help to...
- Tags: Bebo, Google Inc., Facebook, Google OpenSocial, Channel Management, Social Networking, Marketing, Online Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2007-12-13
- Three trend analysis techniques
- There are three types of trend analysis that I have used in the past to predict the future: geographic, temporal, and intuitive. I describe these three in the introduction to my Seven Trends in Networking and Security pitch. (coming to your neighborhood soon!) They caught the ear of a...
- Tags: Technique, Gartner Inc., Analysis, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2007-11-19
- Is the PC losing relevance?
- Is the PC losing relevance?"90% of people's needs"...... may be 1,350% of any single individual's needs. People use PC's for many things, and can use them for more based on the availability of software to do the work for them.Some people will for purposes of argument assert that they...
- Tags: Desktops, Smartphone, PC
- Discussion threads 2007-11-16
- Should students be allowed to tape and post videos of their teachers?
-  An article I came across in Education Week points to a disturbing trend- kids who take camera-enabled cellphones to class, sneakingly record some "footage" of their teachers, edit this "content," and then post it on YouTube, MySpace or similar sites. Some ironies here. In...
- Tags: Video, Teacher, Honowar, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-11-13
- Facebookers: Choose your words more carefully
- Facebookers: Choose your words more carefullyWhat planet are these pundits from?Facebook shouldn't have ads? That's like trying to say a profit is evil in today's economy. Without accepting a few hundred million investment from Microsoft and every other sideline venture Facebook is involved in, they would be bankrupt, washed out...
- Tags: Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, advertisement
- Discussion threads 2007-11-08
- Google's OpenSocial: Strategy, money and the art of war, err APIs
- Google rolled out its OpenSocial initiative--along with nearly every big social networking player not named Facebook--and the response was fairly overwhelming. Developers and techies tend to do that, but Google's OpenSocial effort goes well beyond a bunch of APIs. Let's not forget the business strategy. For the...
- Tags: Monetization, Strategy, Developer, Google Inc., Facebook, Network, Google OpenSocial, API, Business Question, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-11-02
- What popularity of Ron Paul and Chris Hitchens videos tells me about the Internet-and maybe you as well
- Google Blogscoped's Philipp Lenssen reports that recently, the most viewed video in the Candidates @Google site was that of Ron Paul, the libertarian-leaning Republican. Quick check: As of this posting, Rep. Paul has 293, 801 views, followed by Sen. John McCain with 19,170....
- Tags: Internet User, Video, Google Blogscoped, Corporate Communications, Government, Internet, Vertical Industries, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-10-13
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