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Six Apart sells LiveJournal for c. $30 million

Speculation has been rife over at TechCrunch but sources close to events as they say have confirmed that Six Apart has sold LiveJournal for around $30 million to Russia's SUP. Insiders are said to be happy with their return on a $5 million investment to a market...

Tags: Partnership, Speculation, Six Apart Ltd., LiveJournal, Business Structures, Investment, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-12-03

Google phone won't pry open wireless business models

The speculation has begun about today's big Google Phone announcement. Larry Dignan says this will ding the business models of current wireless carriers. How exactly? What is being described is a Linux-based phone that may have WiFi and is tied to...

Tags: Google Inc., Phone, Speculation, AT&T Corp., Sprint Communications, Wireless, Telecom & Utilities, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-11-05

Oracle roils enterprise vendor landscape with its move to acquire BEA

Someone had to pull the trigger, and few companies could better leverage and extend the value of BEA than now-public suitor Oracle. On Friday Oracle announced a bid of $17 per share in cash for BEA, a 25 percent premium over BEA's closing stock price on Thursday, or $6.7 billion,...

Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Speculation, Loser, Business Structures, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Accounting, Open Source, Finance, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Investment, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2007-10-12

SAP's A1S: love, not pricing, is key

SAP's announcement of A1S, it's software as a service SaaS product for small business, will take place tomorrow in New York City. Speculation is running high whether this product will succeed or fail, and the impact A1S will have on SAP as a whole. On the stock...

Tags: Speculation, SAP AG, Pricing Strategy, A1S, Pricing, Marketing Research, Marketing, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-09-18

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News to know: 'Spam king' dead; Microsoft's cloud; Dell;

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide CBS Denver Video: 'Spam King' Inmate Dies Along With Wife, Daughter Mary Jo Foley: Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC,...

Tags: Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Speculation over possible Skype backdoor

Speculation over possible Skype backdoorIf true, not good...not good at all.... :(Is privacy no longer possible?

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A.

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

Speculation over possible Skype backdoor

There's growing speculation coming out of Europe that there's a backdoor in Skype that allows remote eavesdropping of telephone conversations. A report in the reputable Heise Online says the issue was discussed at a meeting with ISPs last month where high-ranking officials at the Austrian interior...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Telecom & Utilities, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-24

|)ruid and HD Moore release part 2 of DNS exploit

|)ruid and HD Moore release part 2 of DNS exploitSo, Linux's BIND the first to be exploited...So, Linux's BIND the first to be exploited...Nice work!CoolNate, nice post and analysis!Wasn't the replacing the ns.victim.com cache entry part of the Halvar Flake speculation? I thought first part of the exploit was to...

Tags: Domain names, NETWORKING, Operating systems, Alecco, DNS, ruid, exploit, HD Moore, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

If you don't like AAPL's "Steve's health is a private matter" statement, then sell

If you don't like AAPL's "Steve's health is a private matter" statement, then sellorder of successionI think people would be less worried if Apple were more open about their order of succession. I think Steve has put the company in the right direction so, if something happened to him, they'd...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Apple Inc., private matter, health care

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

Vulnerability disclosure gone awry: Understanding the DNS debacle

On July 7, the day before the release of the patch for the now infamous DNS design flaw, hacker Dan Kaminsky with the help of Black Hat conference organizers invited reporters to a press conference to "discuss the massive multivendor patch being released this Tuesday." "A synchronized...

Tags: Black Hat, DNS, Conference, Dan Kaminsky, Thomas Ptacek, Domain Names, Patches, Security, Networking, Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-22

Please tell me an actual Apple netbook is on the way

I've said it several times before: I want a netbook. An Asus Eee would be great, the HP MiniNote is a bit pricey but looks very slick, Dell's proposed netbook is still vaporware but worthy of excitement, and I'm still waiting for US OEMs to pick up on the...

Tags: Apple Inc., Productivity, Notebooks, Apple Mac OS X, Keyboards, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Peripherals, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Apple Q3 2008 earnings: revenue up 38ï20Mac shipments up 41ò0(updated)

Apple Q3 2008 earnings: revenue up 38ï20Mac shipments up 41ò0updatedWhat hardware/software configurations are used at Apple?Has Apple switched to Vista yet?Not surprisingThis is a matter of adjustment after the value is inflated by speculation and the stock is so obviously over-valued. With the maturation of the mp3 market, there...

Tags: Investment, Desktops, Apple Inc., Apple Q3 2008, Apple Q3, stock

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

Has Halvar figured out super-secret DNS vulnerability?

[ UPDATE:  Kaminsky has all but confirmed that, yes, the cat is out of the bag ] It looks very much like the nitty gritty of Dan Kaminsky's super-secret -- and heavily hyped -- DNS cache poisoning vulnerability has been figured out by reverse engineering guru Halvar...

Tags: DNS, Vulnerability, Server, Referral, Mallory, Domain Names, Networking, Security, Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Levi Strauss: SAP rollout 'substantially' hurt quarter

Levi Strauss: SAP rollout 'substantially' hurt quarterWhoa Nellie.....Through the magic of Google alerts I discovered something I said five (count 'em 5) years ago was used to bolster the notion that an ERP implementation SAP specifically was the cause of Levi-Strauss' revenue problems in Q2 2008.I really would have loved...

Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Sarbanes-Oxley, Cultural Change, SAP AG, Levi Strauss, ERP

Discussion threads 2008-07-19

Dreams come true: network guy holds city hostage

Dreams come true: network guy holds city hostageMY HEROIt's about time that somebody had the JEWELS to do this, but it is not worth the jail time.I know an Island where they take people like him and make them cry or put him in with other folk to do some...

Tags: NETWORKING, Construction, Abbie, network guy, network

Discussion threads 2008-07-17

Poll: Would a MicroAOL be better than a MicroHoo?

Poll: Would a MicroAOL be better than a MicroHoo?Microsoft tried to buy AOL...... and Steve Case turned down Bill Gates. He wanted to buy Time Warner and own a movie studio instead. (Anachronism alert.)But in this case Microsoft buying AOL makes more sense. Time Warner can throw...

Tags: America Online Inc., MicroAOL, Microsoft Corp., Microhoo

Discussion threads 2008-07-16

Google's iPhone app is really good

Google's iPhone app is really goodOMG! How many iPhone stories can ZDNet pump out in 36 hours???C'mon ZDNet this is ridiculous...how many more iPhone / Apple stories are you going to bombard us with??????Then stop reading them!What's so difficult about that concept? There seem to be a lot of things...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Google Inc., Microsoft strategy, Apple iPhone, Donnieboy, Google iPhone app, people like, Google iPhone

Discussion threads 2008-07-12

iPhone 3G dissected in NZ

iPhone 3G dissected in NZApple showing EXACT same anti-competitive behavior MS was charged with[url=http://www.geekzone.co.nz/paulspain/5371] Apple is a predatory monopolist [/url][i]The hope is that in coming weeks some of HTCs more popular handsets such as the HTC Touch Diamond will be launched here too. There is some speculation however that Apple...

Tags: Sales strategy, Cellular phones, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, High Tech Computer Corp., 3G

Discussion threads 2008-07-10

First impressions of the Nokia E71, a QWERTY device for the business user

First impressions of the Nokia E71, a QWERTY device for the business userJaw-dropping entertainmentI still can't beleive how sad some people are that they video themselves getting a phone out of the box... seriously.Details...Great intro, Matt. I'm pretty excited for this to be released.There are a few things that I...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Corporate communications, phone, Nokia E71, QWERTY, Nokia Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-10

NVIDIA stock ... Good buy or goodbye?

NVIDIA stock ... Good buy or goodbye?They said that of Applethose many years ago. Thankfully, I held onto my stock which is doing quite well.I have a feeling that Nvidia will recover over time as well.I will remain loyal to nVidia.Of course, I only use desktops but I've found their...

Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, NVidia Corp., stock

Discussion threads 2008-07-09