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Microsoft on Vista: 'The time of worry is over.'
Microsoft on Vista: 'The time of worry is over.'PR or R&DThey can crow all they want, but for many Vista is a lame duck. It's fine for home use, and even great for digital photo enthusiasts, but the reality is businesses and power users are in a bind if they...
Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, O/S, Microsoft Corp.
Discussion threads 2008-07-08
Sorry Simon, but you're still screwing up
Sorry Simon, but you're still screwing upSorry Dana, but you scewed upHi Dana,I totally agree that more transparency would be a good thing for Sun and its products and projects, and more openness would be the next big step. Beyond that I don't agree with much that you wrote here.>...
Tags: Team management, Databases, Sun Microsystems Inc., open source, Simon, non-development community, open source project, team, MySQL
Discussion threads 2008-06-24
Apple: iTunes hits 5 billion songs sold mark
Apple: iTunes hits 5 billion songs sold markI notice Apple has been VERY quiet about AppleTVApple is known for highlighting every success, no matter how small. I find it interesting that no one at Apple is talking about how many millions of AppleTVs have been sold. Makes me think that,...
Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Digital music, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, DRM-free, Apple TV, AppleTV, Amazon.com Inc., digital-rights management
Discussion threads 2008-06-19
Gamestop: We stopped selling Zunes
Gamestop: We stopped selling ZunesAds?I laugh whenever I hear people bring out the old canard "Apple products only sell so much better because they advertise so much. Our product is just as good, but we need to advertise more/better". This flies in the face of several years of customer satisfaction...
Tags: Public relations, Marketing research, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Zune, marketing, advertisement
Discussion threads 2008-05-23
Yahoo to Icahn: You misunderstand
Yahoo's board has responded to activist investor Carl Icahn: "Your letter reflects a significant misunderstanding of the facts about the Microsoft proposal." That letter--delivered by Icahn earlier Thursday Techmeme--has one theme: Yahoo's board botched the Microsoft deal and hasn't served shareholder interest. In its...
Tags: Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Stockholder, Proposal, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
Blog posts 2008-05-15
SOA Software acquires respository and governance vendor LogicLibrary
SOA Software, a provider of governance solutions for services-oriented architecture SOA, has acquired LogicLibrary, a leading SOA repository and governance vendor. The acquisition of the Pittsburgh, Pa.-based LogicLibrary by Los Angeles-based SOA Software creates a more comprehensive SOA governance and automation solution, said the companies. The goal...
Tags: Dana Gardner
Blog posts 2008-05-12
Hey, Toto, maybe we should be in Kansas? In Maryland wind turbines get banned!
Energy companies and entire countries seem to blow hot and cold on wind energy. Three years ago the German government's energy ministry said wind was too expensive. Better to simply conserve energy. Yet figures show Germany continues to expand its use of wind for generating electricity. ...
Tags: Maryland, Turbine, European Union, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
Blog posts 2008-04-13
There's more than one way to make Microsoft software 'serviceable'
Microsoft's Software+Services (S+S) strategy comes in many guises. At its Convergence 2008 conference in Orlando this week for its business-applications customers and partners, Microsoft highlighted yet another one of its S+S forms: Third-party service extensions to its on-premise software. Microsoft's business applications include four different ERP suites,...
Tags: Microsoft Corp., Service Extension, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Microsoft Office, Software, Office Suites, Mary Jo Foley
Blog posts 2008-03-12
Dark Clouds and Silver Linings
Cloud computing is getting hot, as in hot promises, hot press releases, and some hot contentions about who's platform is going to win the latest battleground in on-demand/SaaS. The answer my friend, is largely blowing in the wind. But not for long…. To be sure, there's a...
Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Cape Clear Software, On-demand, Vision, Workday, Microsoft Corp., Cloud, Sales Force Management, Strategy, Sales, Management, Joshua Greenbaum
Blog posts 2008-02-15
Comcast: BitTorrent blocking is a good thing
Russell Shaw has some excerpts from Comcast's comments to the FCC over bandwidth "shaping." As you peruse them you can see there's little there but a full-throated defense of the practice. The carefully limited measures that Comcast takes to manage traffic on its broadband network —...
Tags: BitTorrent, Network, Comcast Corp., Network Management, Russell Shaw, Internet, Networking, Richard Koman
Blog posts 2008-02-13
Comcast fesses to FCC: yeah we have right to, and we do, mess with some P2P packets
In a filing with the FCC yesterday, Comcast admits it messes with certain "P2P protocols." Plain English: When Comcast subscribers are exchanging large files- Comcast sees these as poential factors in slowing down its network, and reserves the right to employ digital chicanery to interrrupt these sessions....
Tags: FCC, Network, Comcast Corp., P2P, Network Management, Networking, Russell Shaw
Blog posts 2008-02-13
New Eclipse-based tools from Genuitec offer developers more choices in migrating to IBM WebSphere 6.1
Read a full transcript. Sponsor: Genuitec. The arrival of the IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.1 presents Eclipse-oriented developers with some big decisions. The newest version of this popular runtime will depend largely on Rational Application Developer RAD for tooling. While this recent runtime environment...
Tags: Developer, IBM WebSphere, Environment, Web Service, Eclipse, Tool, IBM Corp., Genuitec, MyEclipse Blue Edition, Eclipse Obviously, Productivity, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner
Blog posts 2008-02-08
What would News Corp. do with LinkedIn?
Last week, Mike Butcher of TechCrunch UK reported that News Corp. was in talks to buy the professional networking site LinkedIn. As well as claiming a "well-placed" source, Butcher speculates that an acquisition on News Corp.'s part, makes a lot of sense, as social networks are replacing newspaper classified ads...
Tags: Advertisement, Aspect, Network, LinkedIn, News Corp., Networking, Steve O\'Hear
Blog posts 2007-11-28
Three different approaches to browser applications on the desktop
Three different approaches to browser applications on the desktopRyan are you sure about this?"Microsoft’s strategy is a unique one. The idea of browser applications on the desktop doesn’t really exist right now. I’ve heard whispers of a Silverlight desktop runtime that would provide that functionality but for right now, Windows...
Tags: Desktops, Web browsers, desktop, browser application, Web browser
Discussion threads 2007-10-22
"Quarterlife" exclusive to MySpaceTV
MySpace has bagged itself some more professionally-produced online video content, to "air" exclusively on the social networking site. "Quarterlife", a production developed by Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, creators of the TV shows "My So-Called Life" and "Thirtysomething", will debut on MySpaceTV on November 11. ...
Tags: Social Networking, Video, MySpace, Quarterlife, Social Networking Site, Steve O\'Hear
Blog posts 2007-09-13
For Our Next Trick, We Will Boil the Ocean
Dell recently announced its intent to acquire ASAP, a provider of IT management tools and license management services. According to the official press release, Dell has darned high hopes for the acquisition:From the press release:The acquisition of ASAP furthers Dell's long-term initiative to radically simplify IT for customers by removing...
Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Information Technology, License Management, Michael Krigsman
Blog posts 2007-08-06
IE 7 and Firefox 2 on a par in Europe
Xiti, which monitors share of browser across 32 European countries, reports that IE7 and Firefox 2 have, on average, reached parity in terms of site visit share. This compares with a clear advantage to IE7 in the early part of March. There are significant disparities between nation states with 17...
Tags: Enterprise applications
Blog posts 2007-07-24
Intel quarter hints at AMD trainwreck
Following Intel's decent--but not good enough to make Wall Street happy--second quarter it seems to be a good bet that AMD's financial results will be a debacle.We'll know Thursday when AMD reports its second quarter earnings, but Intel is willing to suffer self-inflicted wounds on the chip pricing front. And...
Tags: Intel, Hardware Infrastructure, General, AMD
Blog posts 2007-07-18
Ballmer: Caught between a software rock and a services hard place
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is not one to make concessions. He has laughed about Linux's prospects. He has pooh-poohed the iPhone. He has called Google bloated.But on July 10, during his keynote address at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver, Ballmer came the closest I've ever heard him to admitting...
Tags: Xbox Live, Windows Server 2008/ Windows Server Longhorn, Windows Live, Vista, Office Live, CRM Live, Corporate strategy, Channel
Blog posts 2007-07-10
Sun demurs from adopting GPL v3 for OpenSolaris, keeps CDDL only
I wonder what that was all about. I mean the last dozen months of Sun Microsystems seemingly interested in and participating in the definitions of GPL v3, only to come out now that GPL v3 is defined to say they will stick to CDDL for OpenSolaris and for now GPL...
Tags: Windows, Sun Microsystems, Software Infrastructure, Red Hat, Patents, Open Source, Microsoft, Linux, Intellectual Property, IBM, GPL, Enterprise Java, Apache
Blog posts 2007-06-30