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Magazine questions Gartner Group objectivity

Information Week has an article about the different people involved at a high level in the Gartner Group, the world's leading supplier of analysis to the industry. Clients of Gartner spend around $100,000 on biztech research, the article says, and notes that Silver Lake Partners, a large equity investment firm,...

Tags: Silver Lake, Gartner Inc.

Blog posts 2003-11-06

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Skype deal averts shutdown, allows sale

Skype's founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis are to regain some of their control over the company as part of a deal that will let Skype carry on using its core peer-to-peer technology. Skype's founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis are to regain some of their control over the...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Peer To Peer (P2P), Operational Accounting, Telecommunications, Internet, Finance, Skype, eBay, David Meyer ZDNet UK

News items 2009-11-06

Report: Skype founders sue eBay; could complicate Skype sale

eBay's $2 billion sale of Skype to a group of investors could be complicated by a lawsuit filed by a company owned by Skype's founders. According to a Wall Street Journal report, a company named Joltid, which is owned by Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, filed suit in...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Joltid, Financial Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-16

Cisco loses chief development officer and heir apparent Giancarlo

Charles Giancarlo, Cisco's chief development officer and characterized as CEO John Chambers's heir apparent, joined Silver Lake, the Silicon Valley private equity firm. Chambers was not happy to lose Giancarlo, who said that he wasn't keen on waiting another three to five years for the current CEO...

Tags: John Chambers, Cisco Systems Inc., Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-12-20

Water Dragonfly Screensaver 2.1 (Windows)

This relaxing screensaver will show the slow waves of a lake, only disturbed by the quick flight of a dragonfly. The white magnificent water lilies are lazily rocking on the quiet water. It is placid and there are no thoughts. Suddenly the silver Dragonfly has come from somewhere and the...

Tags: Lake, WEBaby, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-11-28

Another UK Health Project Dies

Another UK Health Project Diestoo bad for atosAtos Origins's fortunes is turning from bad to worse caused by the spiralling effect of poor 2006 performance and a stalled 2007 recovery plan that has focused on organic growth, operational efficiency and global service. This has even led to the replacement...

Tags: UK Health Project, Atos Origin

Discussion threads 2007-09-17

Avaya agrees to private equity buyout: here's what comes next

IP telecommunications systems provider Avaya says this morning that it has agreed to a buyout offer of $8.2 billion in cash, or $17.50 a share, from private equity firms TPG Capital and Silver Lake.No surprise there. Nortel had kicked the tires and Cisco took a whiff but I felt...

Tags: News

Blog posts 2007-06-05

Avaya dancing with Nortel, Cisco, Silver Lake?

Last week at Interop I chatted with Avaya CEO Louis D'Ambrosio after his keynote. He talked about how a "true inflection point" had been reach that will have "business impact and societal advantage beyond immediate implementations." He may have been secretly also referring to Avaya, or parts of the company,...

Tags: General, Telecommunications

Blog posts 2007-05-29

Avaya said to be buyout candidate: will Asterisk benefit?

 Avaya, one of the leading players in IP Telephony hardware, solutions and consulting- may be positioning itself for a sale.The New York Times reports that Basking Ridge, N.J.-based Avaya is drawing interest from competitors Cisco Systems and Nortel Networks- in addition to private equity firm Silver Lake Partners.Fuel for this...

Tags: Asterisk, News

Blog posts 2007-05-28

Palm: Going, going, gone?

Unstrung is reporting that Palm is looking to sell itself by March 22 to either Nokia, Motorola or a private bidder. This end game isnt all that surprising given that Palm doesnt have the resources to compete with a larger player....

Tags: Cellular phones, Palm Inc.

Blog posts 2007-03-20

Canon to recall copiers that can catch fire

Canon to recall copiers that can catch fireThe tech world is ablazeFirst the Sony battery problems, and now this.Talk about setting the market on fire...NTNT1998????[b]The latest reported incident was earlier this year in Japan but there were three incidents overseas in 1998, Canon said.[/b]1998? And they're just now addressing this?...

Tags: Copiers, tech world, Faxphones, Canon Inc., photocopier, CPSC

Discussion threads 2006-09-12

Speed Racer 1.2 (Windows)

Speed Racer is a completely free, simple but great fun top-down racing game for one to three players, which doesn't take itself too seriously. It features fifteen unique tracks, each of which is fully visible on screen so multi-player races involve no split screen or scrolling. Settings range from deserts...

Tags: Screen, Bongosoft, Microsoft Windows, Games, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2005-11-02

Do you really want to hear the latest in the SCO-IBM case?

I don't.I long ago lost interest in SCO's claim it "owns" Unix and can force everyone to "license" Linux for its benefit.Yet the case goes on. At this point I believe SCO is basically a law firm, specifically the law firm of Boies, Schiller and Flexner LLP of New York....

Tags: SCO Group Inc.

Blog posts 2005-11-01

Space XP Theme 27 - With Screensaver! - Sony Ericsson p900 or p910 1.3 (Mobile)

Space XP Theme 27 With Screensaver - Sony Ericsson p900 or p910 - By Intelligent Future, A Fully Auto-Installing Theme based on a windows xp silver look. With A Space Wallpaper, Includes a rippling lake effect screensaver! More Skins and Themes Coming Soon

Tags: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Screensaver, Mobile, IntelligentFuture, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software

Software downloads 2005-03-13

Space XP Theme 15 - With Screensaver! - Sony Ericsson p900 or p910 1.3 (Mobile)

Space XP Theme 15 With Screensaver - Sony Ericsson p900 or p910 - By Intelligent Future, A Fully Auto-Installing Theme based on a windows xp silver look. With A Space Wallpaper, Includes a rippling lake effect screensaver! More Skins and Themes Coming Soon

Tags: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Screensaver, Mobile, IntelligentFuture, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software

Software downloads 2005-03-13

Artistic XP Theme 20 - With Screensaver! - Sony Ericsson p900 or p910 1.3 (Mobile)

Artistic XP Theme 20 With Screensaver - Sony Ericsson p900 or p910 - By Intelligent Future, A Fully Auto-Installing Theme based on a windows xp silver look. With A Artistic Wallpaper, Includes a rippling lake effect screensaver! More Skins and Themes Coming Soon

Tags: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Screensaver, Mobile, IntelligentFuture, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software

Software downloads 2005-01-31

Dissing Gartner

NetsEdge Research Group NRG, which provides marketing and strategy research reports and consulting services in Internet infrastructure-related areas has some advice Gartner, which is a large and successful competitor to the diminutive NRG. Writing in their Internet Acceleration newsletter, NRG principals John Katsaros and Peter Christy  have been taunting Gartner or giving the $900 million company...

Tags: Gartner Inc.

Blog posts 2004-11-30

Ballmer: MSBlast hits home

Ballmer: MSBlast hits homeMicrosoft CEO Steve Ballmer tells a packed house at Silicon Valley's Churchill Club how "terrible" he felt at hearing the news of MSBlast. In conversation with Roger McNamee, Co-founder and Managing Director of Silver Lake Partners and Integral Capital Partners, Ballmer talks openly about emerging markets, Linux...

Tags: Viruses and worms, SECURITY, MSBlast worm, Ballmer

Videos 2003-09-16