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- Analyst: E-tailers may get coal in their stockings
- A Bear Stearns analyst argues that e-tailers will be under pressure as consumers slow spending. Bear Stearns analyst Robert Peck said in a research note Friday that e-commerce warning signals abound. "The season is clearly being impacted by the general consumer pullback, with concerns on oil, housing,...
- Tags: Growth, Online Retail Company, Retail Company, Robert Peck, Amazon.com Inc., E-business/E-Commerce, Retail, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-12-14
- Should Yahoo outsource search to Google?
- As Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang cooks up the company's strategic plan one piece of speculation increasingly pops up as an option: Yahoo outsourcing search to Google. Strategically, it's tough to picture Yahoo all recent posts following through on this idea. Financially, it may work. What ultimately happens remains to...
- Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Outsource, Robert Peck, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-09-04
- Yahoo pays first installment on its 100 day plan
- Yahoo reorganized its sales team as president Sue Decker shook up the ranks, shuffled managers and said farewell to Greg Coleman as head of global sales. The big picture: This move is really just a down payment on what will be CEO Jerry Yang's new strategy due in...
- Tags: Social Networking, Jerry Yang, Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Robert Peck, PaidContent, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-08-30
- How will Yahoo address social networking?
- The due date for Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang's strategic plan isn't here yet, but that hasn't stopped the handicapping. Bear Stearns analyst Robert Peck has a 22 page report addresses Yahoo's options. His conclusions: Yahoo will have to address its social networking strategy since Comscore reckons that social sites (think...
- Tags: Yahoo, Web Technology, Social networking, MySpace, General, Facebook
- Blog posts 2007-08-01
- Will Google's new algorithm coin more money?
- Bear Stearns analyst Robert Peck says Googles new AdWords algorithm that changes quality scores could boost the companys first quarter revenue. Why? The biggest change with the quality scores, a topic covered for a while by Donna Bogatin, is that lower...
- Tags: Web Technology, Google, General
- Blog posts 2007-02-16
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- Dishing It Out
- There may soon be just one satellite radio company. Now, the stars seem to be aligning for there to be just one satellite TV company, as well. First, in radio. The FCC is close to making a decision that will let Sirius Satellite Radio Inc acquire arch-rival...
- Tags: AT&T Corp., DirecTV, Satellite, Satellite Television, Liberty Media Corp., John Malone, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Satellite TV, Network Technology, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- The Andrew Carnegie of our second gilded age
- The Andrew Carnegie of our second gilded ageLump of Coal or Coke to build the next empireAlthough from the past, I do recall in my mind the perception of comparing Gates to Carnegie. I never realized the connection all this time, esp. given what you report (i.e. backgrounds, culture, beliefs,...
- Tags: Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Robert Woodruff, Carnegie, Coke
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- Yo-yo'ing on Millennials
- Larry Dignan's post earlier in the week asking whether Millennials will re-invent IT struck a chord with a few of my Irregular friends. First up, Larry's conclusion: I remember this generational stereotyping with the Generation X crowd. Job market stunk. Generation X was different–they were pissed. They were wearing...
- Tags: Information Technology, Generation, Millennials, Hindsight, Ross Mayfield, Susan Scrupski, Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- Code execution vulnerability found in Firefox 3.0
- Code execution vulnerability found in Firefox 3.0Same Situation. Different Day. ;)ntOr put your FF3 in a sandboxI show how to make your Firefox browser session safe and secure.Read [url=http://www.dtschmitz.com/dts/2008/05/is-it-safe.html]Is It Safe?[/url]Thanks and Be Safe.Dietrich T. Schmitz[i]Linux IT Consultant[/i]RE: Code execution vulnerability found in Firefox 3.0please read this post:http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2008/06/18/zero-day-vulnerability/Here's the...
- Tags: Web browsers, SECURITY, Mozilla Firefox, vulnerability, Code execution vulnerability, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Code Execution
- Discussion threads 2008-06-18
- A life destroyed: State employee acquitted of child porn charges
- Michael Fiola's life was destroyed by spammers who turned his computer into a child porn kiosk. The investigator for the Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents investigator fired for having kiddie porn on his PC. But, the Boston Globe reports, a computer forensic analysis revealed the machine was running out-of-date virus...
- Tags: Child Pornography, Computer, Michael Fiola, Mike Fiola, Productivity, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- Analytics in rich Internet applications and measuring success
- Via InsideRIA I found a blog post by Robert Hoekman Jr talking about some of the common myths of analytics today. It's a pretty good look at what people really want to accomplish when it comes to "success" on the web. If you're a news site then page views is...
- Tags: Advertisement, Analytics, Rich Internet Application, Site, Financial Planning, Finance, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- Kyte and Qik engaged in neck-and-neck streaming video race
- Robert Scoble created quite the social media stir last weekend with his TechCrunch guest article on why he thinks Kyte will win the cell phone video race over Qik and Flixwagon. But is there really a race? While it's true that the users ultimately dictate the market...
- Tags: Advertisement, Phone, Streaming Video, Cell Phone, Video, Qik, Kyte, Corporate Communications, Cellular Phones, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- Google's Brin plots space jaunt; Is this a problem?
- Google's Brin plots space jaunt; Is this a problem?Other IT space tourists......include Microsoft Word creator Charles Simonyi and Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth.To infinity and beyondWhy not? Risk taking is hard-wired into many of the folks that are creating wealth in this industry. And the track record for space flight so...
- Tags: Insurance, Investment, Financial Planning, Risk-taking, Brin, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-11
- HTC Touch Dual (Unlocked)
- When it comes to touch-screen phones, there are those who dig them and those who want to bury them. And when we say touch-screen phones, we mean the models that largely lack physical buttons, more specifically tactile dialpads and keyboards a la Apple iPhone, LG Prada, and Samsung Instinct. The...
- Tags: Keyboards, Smart phones, Handhelds, Microsoft Windows, Cellular phones, Operating systems, High Tech Computer Corp., HTC Touch, HTC Touch Dual, Touch DUAL
- Product reviews 2008-06-09
- Microsoft apologizes to Open Source Initiative for policy violation
- Microsoft apologizes to Open Source Initiative for policy violationwho do they think they are fooling?apologizing for nothing does not absolve M$ of the other grave crimes they commited in the last 20 years.The point of CodePlex is???I have a fellow developer thats completely oblivious to anything non-MS. We would discuss...
- Tags: Open Source Initiative, open source, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-06
- GWT fireside chat
- I'm still wading through all the notes I took at the Google I/O 2008 conference last week. If you want to see pictures, check out my flickr photoset (183 photos). While I was there, I went to two sessions called "fireside chats". Although there was no fire...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Web Toolkit, Google Web Toolkit 1.5, JS, Q., Q. Google Web Toolkit 1.5, Q. Model, Programming Languages, RPC, Development Tools, Java, Scripting Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Networking, Web Development, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- Quirky Plurk: another microblogging time sink
- The other evening I started to receive unsolicited aka spam requests to hook up with people on Plurk. Spam might be too strong a word since the requests were coming from people with whom I'm already connected through other services. I've had my...
- Tags: Web Browser, Twitter, Plurk, Web Browsers, Cyberthreats, Spam, Internet, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- How healthy is Barack Obama?
- We had a lot of fun debating John McCain's health the other day, so it's fair to have the same debate regarding his likely Democratic opponent. Barack Obama is in excellent health, his doctor says. Dr. David L. Scheiner, his primary care doctor, sent out a one-page...
- Tags: Aide, Doctor, John McCain, Barack Obama, Obama, Vertical Industries, Food & Beverage, Benefits, Healthcare, Corporate Governance, Enterprise Software, Software, Manufacturing, Human Resources, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- Why Apple must fix Safari 'carpet bombing' flaw immediately
- Apple makes a big deal -- and lots of funny commercials -- around the security profile of its products. On the Safari download site, the boast is that users get "worry-free Web browsing on any computer" because, in Cupertino's words, "Apple engineers designed Safari to be secure from day one."...
- Tags: Apple Safari, Vulnerability, Apple Inc., Flaw, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Security, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Is Microsoft's open systems promise reliable?
- Is Microsoft's open systems promise reliable?Threat assessmentYour point on the ever-shifting sands of Microsoft intentions simply underscores one of the basic rules of threat assessments: "assess enemy capabilities, not enemy intentions."In the present instance, that means that the only things that others should count on from Microsoft are the enforceable...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, SECURITY, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-29
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