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- Microsoft's $300 million makeover
- Remember that $300 million consumer ad campaign that Microsoft awarded earlier this year? New specifics are emerging on how the ad agency that won the deal -- Crispin Porter + Bogusky -- is starting its task of rebranding Microsoft as a cool company. Crispin Porter counts Burger...
- Tags: microsoft corp., specifics, advertising & promotion, microsoft windows vista (longhorn), strategy, marketing, operating systems, microsoft windows, software, management, mary jo foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
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- Vizio VP322
- Mostly on the strength of aggressive pricing, Vizio in the last several years has taken the flat-panel HDTV market--both LCD and plasma--by storm, rocketing past better-known brands and becoming one of the best-selling names in the country. The company has also introduced some unique products, among them the VP322, which...
- Tags: monitors & displays, tvs, color temperature, vizio vp322, vizio, plasma, lcd, vp422, hdtv
- Product reviews 2008-08-05
- New-ish NEC monitor monitors energy consumption
- If your company has reason to update any of your monitors in the near future, NEC Display Solutions has introduced a new model that provides not just its "Eco Mode" option, which lets you adjust your display for energy consumption metrics, but also an on-screen carbon counter that shows what...
- Tags: monitor, nec corp., monitors & displays, hardware, components, heather clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- HP, Intel, Yahoo join NSF, schools for global cloud research
- Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and Yahoo will join universities and the National Science Foundation to launch a "global collaboration" into researching and experimenting with cloud computing, the companies announced Tuesday. The group will build a computing network comprised of six data centers on three continents in order to create a large-scale...
- Tags: national science foundation, hewlett-packard co., yahoo! inc., intel corp., cloud computing, processors, semiconductors, hardware, components, richard koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- More tech details emerge on Microsoft's 'Midori'
- SD Times has seen some new Microsoft documentation that provides more specifics on Midori, the Singularity-microkernel-based operating system that is being developed by a team under Eric Rudder, the one-time heir-apparent to Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: sd card, operating system, microsoft corp., midori, sd times, memory, flash memory, operating systems, semiconductors, hardware, components, software, mary jo foley
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
- IBM pads software lineup; Buys ILOG for $340 million
- IBM said Monday that it will acquire ILOG in a deal valued at $340 million. The Paris-based ILOG makes business rules management software. Big Blue said it will combine ILOG's software with its business process management software and service oriented architecture technology statement. The $340 million price...
- Tags: ilog, ibm corp., service-oriented architecture (soa), operational planning, business process automation, tools & techniques, enterprise software, strategy, web services, software, business operations, it operations, management, larry dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- What paper trail?
- I've been carting around my latest sheaf of press releases about the green-ness of electronic document technology for weeks now. Yes, as I've blogged before, I am still one of those people who can't help printing out certain emails in order to act on them. Yes, it's bad, I know....
- Tags: xerox corp., paper trail, survey, printers, data centers, marketing research, hardware, peripherals, storage, data management, marketing, heather clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- More big money for work on wind. Yes, that's $1 billion.
- Finavera Renewables which has both wind and wave energy projects around the world has negotiated a deal with an unnamed corporate investor who plans to put up $1 bilion for wind power projects that will create up to 300 megawatts of capacity in British Columbia. The money...
- Tags: alternative energy, agreement, mw, heather clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Microsoft to ratchet IE8 security another notch in Beta 2
- Microsoft to ratchet IE8 security another notch in Beta 2Microsoft Press ReleaseOnly the other week Ed ran a story about how shoddy some people are running stories based on software companies press releases/marketing documents. Oh and that companies selling security software try and scare the market about the need for...
- Tags: web browsers, ie8 security, beta, microsoft corp., beta 2, notch, security, web
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- News to know: Firefox 3; Patch Tuesday; SocialCalc
- Notable headlines: Paula Rooney: All systems are go for Firefox 3 launch; RC3 needed for Mac OSX only Nate McFeters: What's wrong with an exploit being sexy? Ryan Naraine: Critical IE, Bluetooth, DirectX flaws highlight MS Patch...
- Tags: apple iphone, mozilla firefox 3.0, cio, mozilla firefox, 3g, apple mac os x, desktop virtualization, web browsers, cellular phones, consumer electronics, personal technology, operating systems, software, apple mac os, internet, david grober
- Blog posts 2008-06-11
- Snow Leopard specifics revealed
- Snow Leopard specifics revealedWill it finally be a real 64 bit OS?or, like Leopard, is it just a 32 bit kernel with a 64 bit compatibility layer?[i]Snow Leopard introduces QuickTime X, a streamlined, next-generation platform that advances modern media and Internet standards.[/i]Is this a complete rewrite or is it just...
- Tags: network technology, 64-bit, apple inc., kernel, 32-bit
- Discussion threads 2008-06-10
- Snow Leopard specifics revealed
- Apple has released more information on "Mac OS X Snow Leopard" which was majorly glossed-over during yesterday's Stevenote at WWDC. The new OS now has product pages for both server and client which claim that it will "dramatically reduces the footprint of Mac OS X, making it even...
- Tags: jason d. o'grady, multi-core, apple mac os x, apple macintosh, apple mac os, apple inc., operating systems, software
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- Google App Engine pricing a disappointment
- Google App Engine pricing a disappointmentCPU pricing comparison is misleadingEC2 charges by the instance-hour. That is, it costs 10c per hour that each of your EC2 instances is up ($72/month for one instance), regardless of how much load is being put on each instance.If Google is charging by the "CPU...
- Tags: pricing, google inc., google app engine, google app engine pricing, storage, pricing strategy, amazon.com inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-29
- Open Source in 2013
- <satire> <source> Thank you. (Picture from Fox, America's only network. My picture at the top of this blog is expected to look much like this one in 2013, if I shave and get the combover right.) The hectic but repetitive routine of business and journalism often seems...
- Tags: job, america, world entertainment shortage, recruitment & selection, open source, human resources, workforce management, dana blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- OK, Dell. Maybe your tech's greener, but what about green services?
- Great timing on Dell's part. Wait until arch-rival or at least one of them Hewlett-Packard is busy chatting up the press about a minor (ha!) services acquisition, and then WAY up the ante when it comes to an energy-efficiency proclamation. Here's the thing: While other vendors, including...
- Tags: dell computer corp., hewlett-packard co., electronic data systems corp., data centers, mergers & acquisitions, corporate law, storage, hardware, data management, investment, finance, business operations, heather clancy
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Interview: IBM Cognos chief Rob Ashe
- Interview: IBM Cognos chief Rob AsheIBM is completely missing the SaaS BI trendI wasn't surprised by Rob's comment that "BI doesn’t lend itself to SaaS" (though I suspect that the folks from Cognos' Celequest acquisition were caught a bit off guard.) But, I strongly disagree. The notion that...
- Tags: sales strategy, software as a service (saas), sales force management, tools & techniques, saas bi, sales, software-as-a-service, cognos inc., ibm corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-09
- Microsoft shares more IE8 security details
- When Microsoft officials released a first test build of Internet Explorer IE 8 back in March, they said they were intentionally refraining from talking specifics about new security features and functionality that would be part of the next browser release. In the past few weeks, however, Microsoft...
- Tags: security, activex control, microsoft internet explorer, microsoft corp., beta 2, web browsers, activex/com/com+/dcom, internet, software development, software/web development, mary jo foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Sugar on Windows looking inevitable
- Now that Walter Bender has resigned from OLPC, Technology Review featured an article on the group's new president, Charles Kane. The article makes it very clear that OLPC, under the direction of Kane and Nicholas Negroponte, will definitely be seeking to deploy Windows on XOs and future products from...
- Tags: one laptop per child project, nicholas negroponte, bender, microsoft windows, operating systems, software, christopher dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-04
- Microsoft internal memo details Windows 7-Windows Live ties
- In January, I mentioned an internal Microsoft memo I had seen which provided details of how Microsoft plans to more tightly integrate its Windows 7 operating system with Windows Live services. Today, I'm providing the text of that memo in full, as part of the launch of my book Microsoft...
- Tags: microsoft windows 7, microsoft windows live, microsoft corp., microsoft windows, operating systems, software, mary jo foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- How would Microsoft Live Mesh mesh with Yahoo's Y! OS?
- While it's still premature to be trying to map how Microsoft and Yahoo assets will align if and when Microsoft ends up taking over Yahoo, the Web-services development arena is likely to be one area where the two vendors' offerings look increasingly unlikely to mesh. At the...
- Tags: operating system, yahoo! inc., microsoft corp., balogh, search monkey, web 2.0, microsoft windows, asset management, operating systems, internet, software, operational planning, business operations, mary jo foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
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