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- Quantifying Microsoft's biggest purchase ever
- Quantifying Microsoft's biggest purchase everWe Need More Information But This Does Confirm A LotFirst the theory that Microsoft isn't a software company but rather a law firm is supported by this purchase. Law Firms over the years have run and owned public relations and marketing firms for some time. They...
- Tags: Sun Solaris, Advertising & Promotion, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Soros, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-18
- Soros doubles stake in Microsoft
- Soros doubles stake in MicrosoftSoros doubles stake in MicrosoftThis is a sign that Microsoft will continue to be strong in the IT industry for years to come. I was laughing when the fanboys said this was the end of Microsoft and its doomsday has come. LOL! Between...
- Tags: Investment, Microsoft Office, eBay Inc., Microsoft Corp., Soros, stock
- Discussion threads 2007-05-16
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- Bill O'Reilly's web site hacked, attackers release personal details of users
- Bill O'Reilly's web site hacked, attackers release personal details of userssmalkl little people who hack and use the same escuseTypical idiot cop :)Wow...Way to stereotype. Lemme guess - you're ex-military, with a crew cut, nasty cigar and a stick up your arse? Does that sound fair? What? That doesn't describe...
- Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Channel management, SECURITY, Bill O'Reilly, attacker, Web site, Web
- Discussion threads 2008-09-24
- Effect on Yahoo will be debilitating
- In part one of this comment (Febuary 2/08 ) I said: Some mergers are defensive, some are driven by competitive opportunity, and others largely by management egos and investment bankers hooking for commissions. This seems to be one of the latter: Yahoo was over valued relative to its...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Heads, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Governance, Free Trade, Financial Accounting, Sales Force Management, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sales, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-05-04
- Is IT abuse a threat to democracy?
- Here's a bit from a Washington Post report dated Dec 22/07 and headlined "FBI Prepares Vast Database Of Biometrics": CLARKSBURG, W. Va. -- The FBI is embarking on a $1 billion effort to build the world's largest computer database of peoples' physical characteristics, a project that would...
- Tags: Database, Information Technology, FBI, Ballot, Catalist, Federal Government, Government, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- About+that+Yahoo+deal
- About+that+Yahoo+dealI agreeMS is trying to corner a market that can't be cornered too easy to defect. It's fine with me if they weaken themselves enough that the antitrust authorities no longer need to bother with them, but I'd be sorry if they took Yahoo down with them. I'd...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., About+that+Yahoo+deal, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-02
- About that Yahoo deal
- I've had perhaps a dozen emails over the last several days asking what I think of Microsoft's offer to buy out Yahoo's shareholders. So here's what I think - first on motivation and prospects. Some mergers are defensive, some are driven by...
- Tags: Google Inc., MSN, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Portals, Mergers & Acquisitions, Search, Web Technology, Data Centers, Strategy, Internet, Investment, Finance, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-02-02
- Thoughts on Web 2.0, etc.
- Thoughts on Web 2.0, etc.what are you babbling about?Your incoherent article is the worst PR M$ put forward in a long time.Stick to the hard facts: it's about OSS versus proprietary software!Pitty the "community"?John,Must you always go on with your "Daddy knows best" routine?I find it laughable how you always...
- Tags: Government, Web, leadership, Web 2.0
- Discussion threads 2007-08-15
- Thoughts on Web 2.0, etc.
- Web 2.0, among other things, would include a more advanced client side development model than the current HTML / CSS / Javascript approach. Traditional web programming technologies, though powerful, were not designed for the kinds of applications we build today, and hence, can be complicated to create.The problem with new...
- Tags: U.S., Web, Web 2.0, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Technology, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2007-08-15
- MoveOn.org accuses MySpace of "selective online censorship"
- MoveOn.org accuses MySpace of "selective online censorship"Which is why myspace currently sux .There's not much one can do there anymore . Sort of like the way AOL use to be . Enclosed !So What?How much money did MoveOn invest to get MySpace to be a profitable entity? Zero, that's how...
- Tags: MySpace, MoveOn.org
- Discussion threads 2007-05-18
- Democrats datamining!
- Democrats datamining!the real difference between Reps and Dems.. as far as voter data resources anyway.. is that the Reps have generally been able to afford to by into several different technologies that were not directly competing with each other. deeper pockets is half the story, but theres also the willingness...
- Tags: Marketing research, Databases, Reps, data mining
- Discussion threads 2006-03-10
- Democrats datamining!
- Harold Ickes, an advisor to Sen. Hillary Clinton, is building a for-profit consulting firm focused on taking away the Republican advantage in data mining, the Washington Post reports. Ickes' new company, Data Warehouse, is causing consternation in Democratic circles, under the belief that creating voter databases should be the...
- Tags: DNC, Harold Ickes
- Blog posts 2006-03-08
- The latest in spring FUD from Wasabi
- Where you stand depends on where you sit. Remember this before you accept anything at face value. Check out the speaker. Are they secretly taking money from a Bell company, or a right-wing gazillionaire, or George Soros? And if they are speaking for themselves, what is their self-interest?With this firmly...
- Tags: Wasabi Systems, GPL, Sarbanes-Oxley Act
- Blog posts 2006-03-07
- Bloggers plead for freedom from election laws
- Bloggers plead for freedom from election lawsthis n that"The FEC is under a court order to extend campaign finance rules to the Internet, and the Democratic commissioners voted not to appeal"How did the republicans commisioners vote? Just askin...Political motives in regard to bloggingI have neither clairvoyance nor proof to advance...
- Tags: Blogging, blog, finance
- Discussion threads 2005-06-28
- New House bill protects political bloggers
- New House bill protects political bloggersSomeone please tell me why this protection even needs to be considered.What part of, "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech " do these people not understand?http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.billofrights.htmlThe bill has not been passed and the FEC may yet still write their own...
- Tags: Blogging, Internet, blogger, Constitution
- Discussion threads 2005-04-13
- Online politicking receives temporary reprieve
- Online politicking receives temporary reprieveCampaign finance laws are unconstitutionalThe First Amendmant to the Contitution"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to...
- Tags: Regulations, Campaign-Finance Laws, First Amendmant, Online Politicking
- Discussion threads 2005-03-23
- Bloggers will be watched
- Bloggers will be watchedAnd whatWill these morons do about Websites NOT based in the US? The Internet is WORLDWIDE, not always subject to US laws and regulations.Frigging' idiots...Just Stating the ObviousJust stating the obvious:The Newspaper Exemption is bogus and must be repealed. If a politician must pay newspapers...
- Tags: journalism, broadcaster
- Discussion threads 2005-03-03
- Bush campaign official indicted
- Bush campaign official indictedWhat a surpriseIt makes sense that it was a Republican responsible for a DDoS attack against a Democratic candidate. I mean, only a fool would have thought that a Democratic candidate would have sabotaged another Democratic candidate's campaign. A Republican had the most to gain so this...
- Tags: SECURITY, Democratic Candidate
- Discussion threads 2004-12-01
- Lawmaker: Beware of cyber-Pearl Harbor
- Lawmaker: Beware of cyber-Pearl HarborBut I thought all we had to do was change the nameTerm 'cyber-terrorism' damaging security investment, says ex-White House advisor Richard Clarkehttp://www.vnunet.com/news/1159204Basically what Clark says is that all we need to do is change the terminology and then IT managers will be infused with mass quantities...
- Tags: Homeland security, Cyberthreats, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, Osama bin Laden
- Discussion threads 2004-11-05
- Moveon.org subscribers exposed
- Moveon.org subscribers exposedthis must be why my phone is being tapped nowlolHmmm ..."This is extremely disturbing," said one subscriber, when contacted through e-mail. The subscriber asked that his or her name not be used. "I'm not sure if I should be worried or not, but I am," the person said.Why...
- Tags: Spam, leopard, MoveOn.org, MoveOn, Michael Moore
- Discussion threads 2004-08-21
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