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- Look who’s buying Vista Home Basic (hint: it’s not home users)
- Who’s buying new PCs with Windows Vista Home Basic? Judging by the name, you’d assume those OS editions would be loaded on underpowered machines for starving students and penny-pinching families. But you’d be wrong. Based on my observations of the PC market over the past year or two, I think...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Small-business Buyer, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
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- "Windows 7 is the same as Ubuntu"
- "Windows 7 is the same as Ubuntu"Well, I agree, but, the flame war will not end, and MS will not go down without a fight. It has been obvious for quite some time, that the only thing that windows has going for it is familiarity (both the brand and the...
- Tags: Operating systems, Media players, Microsoft Windows, Ubuntu, operating system, Microsoft Windows 7
- Discussion threads 2009-07-03
- Saas? We're too busy making ERP work
- It's sometimes good to be reminded that while the industry hype is around saas/cloud/on-demand that there is still another world out there where customers are wrestling with more traditional approaches to computing. The other evening I had a conversation with Erick Kimberling, CEO of Panorama Consulting. Panorama...
- Tags: ERP, Panorama Consulting, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- China demands new PCs carry spyware
- China demands new PCs carry spywareI don't think that anyone thinks that China's government has changed its position on freedom of speech.RE: China demands new PCs carry spywareWait for something like this to come our way in the US. Except under the guise of protection against software piracy.RE: China demands...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, COMPANIES, spyware, government
- Discussion threads 2009-06-08
- Why are plasma HDTVs still the minority view?
- Why are plasma HDTVs still the minority view?Size and Power ConsumptionI think the main issues with plasmas is that they are hard to find below 50" and I would be that most TVs sold today fit into the
- Tags: Monitors & displays, TVs, TV & Home Theater, LCD technology, HDTV, LCD, plasma, TV, minority view
- Discussion threads 2009-05-13
- SOA market growing 17% a year; to reach $10 billion by 2015
- Wintergreen Research via Report Buyer has just released a six-year forecast of the SOA infrastructure industry, calculating that the market will grow to from the current $3.3 billion to $10.3 billion by 2015. (At 17% a year growth.) You may recall that Research & Markets issued a...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-04-23
- Oracle buys Sun; Now owns Java; Becomes a hardware player;
- Oracle buys Sun; Now owns Java; Becomes a hardware player;Bye, MySQL nt.RE: Oracle buys Sun; Now owns Java; Becomes a hardware player;Its altogether different area and will not be very easy for Oracle to go thorugh entire integration process. I hope Oracle keeps its focus in what it does...
- Tags: Programming languages, OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Now Let, Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., hardware, Oracle-buys-Sun, hardware player, Java, MySQL, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-04-20
- Microsoft scores another hit against Apple
- Microsoft scores another hit against Applesmall edit required...[i]The underlying message in both of these commercials is that Macs are for people with more sense than money and value style over function...[/i]shouldn't that be...[i]The underlying message in both of these commercials is that Macs are for people with more [b]money than...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., advertisement
- Discussion threads 2009-04-06
- Sun following the IBM deal collapse: Customer confusion en route
- Sun Microsystems won't be acquired by IBM after all. Now the explaining---mostly to customers and shareholders---really begins. Sun will tell its customers that the IBM deal was just a slight detour and that the company's plan to be a pivotal hardware, cloud computing and software provider remains...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-06
- Mac mini reviews: Much better, still not good enough
- Mac mini reviews: Much better, still not good enoughThanks for the info on the competing productsThe Mac Mini was about the only Apple product that actually interested me. Now that you've shown me how superior the alternatives are, I guess there isn't a single Apple product that could be considered...
- Tags: Desktops, Game players, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, Apple Intel Mac Mini, Much Better, Microsoft Xbox
- Discussion threads 2009-03-13
- Polk Audio SurroundBar 360 DVD Theater
- We first saw the Polk Audio SurroundBar 360 DVD Theater at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2008, where we chose it as just one of three home audio finalists for Best of CES. While it ultimately didn't take the crown, we were still looking forward to the final product:...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Network technology, Polk, DVD console, DVD, TV, speaker, console
- Product reviews 2009-03-09
- Apple refreshes desktop lineup: Is the Mac mini irrelevant?
- Apple on Tuesday outlined a refresh of its iMac, Mac Pro and Mac mini lineups and the headliners are the Intel Nehalem-based Mac Pro and the iMac 24-inch update. However, perusing the updates you have to wonder if the Mac mini is irrelevant. First, the highlights, which...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Intel Mac Mini, Apple Inc., Desktops, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-03
- When will we learn?
- When will we learn?Chicken or the Egg Close or the FailureI believe most mid-market ERP projects are doomed before the INK dries on the contract. Think about what drives most SMB buying decisions, "PRICE". Why? Becuase most ERP applications are considered comparable to these uneducated buyers. Any...
- Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Enterprise software, Getting It Right, ERP, software
- Discussion threads 2009-01-29
- Would you buy a 13-inch MacBook Pro?
- Would you buy a 13-inch MacBook Pro?It would depend on the specifications and price.The new laptops are very nice and I almost picked one up over the weekend.??? I could get a 15.4 inch widescreen laptop for that price. ntntAbsolutely!I love the size of my 13" MacBook - it handles...
- Tags: Notebooks, Apple MacBook, laptop computer, Apple MacBook Pro
- Discussion threads 2008-10-28
- Two cents on the latest and greatest from Cupertino
- Two cents on the latest and greatest from CupertinoPlanned long before downturnYou don't cook up new machines overnight. It takes time, a lot of time. These things were in the works long before the economic problems surfaced.If they had been introduced a few months earlier, there would have...
- Tags: Notebooks, Branding, Intel Chip, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook
- Discussion threads 2008-10-16
- Do you have what it takes to be a 'Windows guru'?
- Do you have what it takes to be a 'Windows guru'?@voyager529Since Mike Cox already works for MS, it would a simple transfer!This sounds like the perfect job for Mike Cox!...and Loverock Davidson. If Microsoft hires those two, then their $300 Million just might make a dent in public mindshare!! =)JoeySo.....What...
- Tags: Public relations, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Windows guru, Apple Macintosh, Best Buy Co. Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-08
- Toshiba XD-E500
- When Toshiba finally pulled the plug on HD DVD, nobody was quite sure what the next step for the company was going to be. Would it go back to making DVD players, or would it forget the tensions of the format war and release a Blu-ray player? Well, instead of...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, Overall IT, Toshiba XD-E500, XDE, DVD, Toshiba Corp.
- Product reviews 2008-09-02
- Jobs acknowledges MobileMe failure
- Jobs acknowledges MobileMe failureMobilMe... maybe notBack in 2005, I gave up all of my other sources of email, etc. in favor of .Mac. Without warning or notification, they switched to this "less than" lovely system. It wasn't broke, so why fix it... especially in the way that they did. It's...
- Tags: E-mail, cloud computing, job, MobileMe, MobileMe failure, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- 2008 Hyundai Santa Fe Limited
- Photo gallery:2008 Hyundai Santa Fe LimitedThe 2008 Hyundai Santa Fe is the second model we've seen from Hyundai with a navigation system, reinforcing the fact that the company is seriously upping its tech game. But unlike the 2009 Sonata, the tech in the Santa Fe is more of an add-on,...
- Tags: Santa Fe, navigation system, Hyundai
- Product reviews 2008-08-01
- Community solar: "Why don't they get it in Washington?"
- The man from the bank stood in front of the small gathering and talked about solar energy and why his bank helped put together a community solar project in my new hometown: Ashland, Oregon. Bank of the Cascades, Executive Vice President, Bill Haden, said he explained the...
- Tags: Bank, Panel, Washington, Oregon, Fossil Fuel, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
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