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- Report: RIM has Wall Street smiling
- Is Research in Motion, the maker of the Blackberry, giving Wall Street that "warm and fuzzy feeling?" That's the word that comes from a blog post on Barron's Tech Trader Daily today. The post notes that at a recent analyst's day, the company offered no updates on...
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Analyst, RIM BlackBerry, Blogger Eric Savitz, Savitz, Handhelds, Investment, Hardware, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
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- Judge's idea to outlaw links won't save newspapers
- I continue to be blown away by what I read about how newspapers can be saved. The latest comes from U.S. Appeals Court Judge Richard Posner who, in a blog post last week, suggested that one way to save newspapers from their demise would be "to bar linking to...
- Tags: Newspaper, Consent, Blogging, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Personal Finance, Internet, Human Resources, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- Is Carol Bartz a graduate of the Jobs-Ellison School of Management?
- Everyone loves a bad-ass, right? The no-nonsense savior of the day who doesn't mince words or tip-toe around feelings but instead just comes in, says what needs to be said and does what needs to be done to get the job done. (I envision Mr. Wolf from Pulp Fiction herebut...
- Tags: Succession Planning, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Carol Bartz, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-06-22
- Seagate: Demand is swell, but we're playing catch-up on notebook drives
- Seagate delivered some good news with its fiscal fourth quarter earnings: Storage demand is just swell. The bad news: Seagate is lagging with its product line--especially for notebook drives--and that's killing margins and hurting profits in the current quarter. For the quarter ended June 27, Seagate reported...
- Tags: Notebook Market, Seagate Technology LLC, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- News to know: Apple patches; D6 coverage; Yahoo; Google I/O
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Leopard mega-patch plugs 41 security holes Jason O'Grady: Apple releases Mac OS 10.5.3 software update Apple: About the Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update Google: Mac OS X 10.5.3: sync Google Contacts Psystar offering new...
- Tags: Google Inc., Apple Macintosh, Yahoo! Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, I/O, Patch Management, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Amazon preps pay-per-view movie service
- Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says that the company will launch a pay-per-view movie service shortly. According to reports out of D6--Barron's Eric Savitz has the most complete account along with Silicon Alley Insider--Bezos said he's serious about music and video downloads. He should be considering the distribution...
- Tags: Movie, Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Inc., Web Site Development, Web Technology, Digital Video, Internet, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Microsoft-Yahoo-Google: The vicious antitrust circle
- Within minutes of Yahoo announcing it was going to do an AdSense for Search deal with Google, Microsoft began firing the antitrust warning shots. It took about 15 minutes after I saw the Yahoo press release before I got an e-mail from the Microsoft camp reminding me...
- Tags: Google Inc., Antitrust, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Barron, Corporate Law, Security, Business Operations, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- AOL revenue continues to slide; Who are these 9.3 million AOL access subscribers?
- AOL's revenue and operating income continued to slide as the parent Time Warner focuses on advertising. For the fourth quarter, AOL reported operating income of $274 million on revenue of $1.25 billion. That's down from operating income of $910 million on revenue of $1.84 billion. AOL's results...
- Tags: Revenue, Time Warner Inc., Advertisement, America Online Inc., IP Democracy, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-06
- Duopoly watch: SAP and Microsoft chatter (again)
- SAP and Microsoft are rumored to be an item again, according to Reuters. Let's hear it for European traders looking to get a little volume moving. This report, citing market talk, is as flimsy as they come. But hey Microsoft and SAP were talking way back when but anything...
- Tags: SAP AG, Duopoly, Microsoft Corp., Pricing, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Databases, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-12-03
- Will Sarbox change ding IT vendors?
- The Securities and Exchange Commission tweaked its Sarbanes-Oxley requirements and that could be bad news for the technology companies, consultants and accountants on the Sarbox gravy train. The SEC said Wednesday that it was making changes to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, known in some quarters as the accountant and consultant employment...
- Tags: General, IT Management, Software Infrastructure
- Blog posts 2007-05-24
- SarbOx Changes - Good for Corporates, Bad for IT
- Eric Savitz in a Barron's Online blog reports that on Wednesday the SEC approved new guidance on how to implement Section 404 of the Sarbanes Oxley Act. Section 404 is the portion of SarbOx that required CEOs to sign off on the documentation and effectiveness on internal controls and processes...
- Tags: Business Models, Enterprise Software
- Blog posts 2007-05-24
- Media literacy in a media saturated world
- The question of what becomes of journalism in the age of mass media, in which anyone with an Internet connection can be their own publisher and reach a potential audience of billions with a single click was the subject of a conversation at a cybersalon hosted by Sylvia Paull near...
- Tags: Blogging, General, Web Technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-22
- Frog Design router/AP is cool: but Vonage has bigger amphibians to fry
- Vonage was at CES, happy-talking its new baby service bundle as opposed to the powerful triple and quadruple play stuffwith EarthLinks muni Wi-Fi. And oh yes, seen at their booth the Frog Design router/access point combo- one designed by Vonage and FD rather than simply sent down the pipe by...
- Tags: General, Vonage, CES 2007, Frog Design, Vonage Holdings Corp.
- Blog posts 2007-01-11
- SAP's enterprise software sales disappoint
- SAPs fourth quarter and annual sales growth is falling short of expectations, lopping 10 percent off the companys shares. The company said its product revenue growth would be about 13%, at the low end of SAPs previous outlook. Software revenue growth will be...
- Tags: General, Software Infrastructure, SAP, SAP AG
- Blog posts 2007-01-11
- Bill Gates kicks of the "D" conference
- Updated 11:50 PM PST: Bill Gates held court at the D all things Digital conference at the Four Seasons in Carlsbad, Calif., touching on the usual topics (Vista, Office, Google, Xbox) during a Q&A with hosts Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. In the middle of the Q&A, the discussion was...
- Tags: Bill Gates, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-05-30
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