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TechCrunch Research: Big deal or not?

TechCrunch Research: Big deal or not?This is absurd on so many levelsTech Crunch's reputation is to NOT do research, but to file stories based on rumor. Do they really think people are going to pay money for a known defective product? Or maybe they're creating a payment channel for blackmail....

Tags: Big Deal, TechCrunch, Tech Crunch

Discussion threads 2009-06-30

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Tracking efficiency

Array Technologies has been in the solar tracking business for a couple decades. And using GPS systems for solar tracking is nothing new. GPS itself is now an ancient tech dating back to 1993. Hell, it's older than even the public-access Internet. GPS itself is a...

Tags: Panel, Array, GPS, Handhelds, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-26

News to know: iPhone; Win 7 upgrade answers; Psystar; SOA; Google

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: Finally, some answers to Windows 7 upgrade questions Dion Hinchcliffe: Are the iPhone and social networks making...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., SOA, Microsoft Corp., Psystar, Photograph, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-26

News to know: Win7, Google Wave, Palm WebOS, Apple Tablet, Google Docs

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft's message to IT pros: Meet us half way with Windows 7 Larry Dignan: ...

Tags: Tom Foremski, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Google Docs, Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Tablets, Sales Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sales, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-30

What does staid T. Rowe Price see in Twitter?

Twitter is reportedly close to raising $100 million in funding at a valuation approaching $1 billion. According to the Wall Street Journal Twitter may get the new funding from as many as seven investors. Tech Crunch reported that Twitter was going to be valued at $1 billion....

Tags: Twitter Inc., T. Rowe Price Group Inc., Mutual Funds, Retirement Plans, Investment, IPO, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Benefits, Finance, Financial Services, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-24

It's flu season: connect and optimize your workers

More than technology to truly enable remote workingThis blog brings up a big point when discussing telecommuting: the technology must be able to handle the bandwidth when it becomes the norm. But that is solved by applying some well known technologies. It is a technical shift in where the bandwidth...

Tags: Development tools, worker

Discussion threads 2009-09-22

News to know: Google; IBM; Microsoft's edge; Palm SDK; Twitter

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Google: Nice quarter, but... Larry Dignan: IBM delivers strong second quarter, ups 2009 earnings outlook ...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Data Center, Palm Inc., SDK, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Palm Pre, Storage, Desktops, Hardware, Data Management

Blog posts 2009-07-17

CIT unraveling could be headache for Dell, Avaya, resellers

The U.S. government has drawn a line in the sand---it won't bail out debt-ridden CIT, a financial services firm that loans money to small and midsized business in part to buy and lease technology equipment. Unlike other financial company implosions CIT's potential demise could have a direct impact on technology...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Financing, Leasing, Avaya Inc., CIT, Capital Structures, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-16

News to know: Best hardware; Malware; Netbooks; Social CRM

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Paul Greenberg: Time to Put A Stake in The Ground on Social CRM Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Hardware 2.0 'Very Best Kit...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Malware, Apple Inc., Matthew Miller, Photograph, Netbook, CRM, Microsoft Windows 7, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Smart Phones, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-06

Forrester expects IT spending trough in third quarter; U.S. tech spending to fall 5 percent in 2009

Forrester Research has revised its 2009 technology spending projections with expectations that U.S. IT spending will fall 5.1 percent in 2009 with global outlays to drop 11 percent. Forrester's revision is a cut from the 3.1 percent decline expected in its March report. Forrester analyst Andrew Bartels...

Tags: Gross Domestic Product, Business Investment, Information Technology, IT-spending, Forrester Research Inc., Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-30

Dell tops new corporate sustainability index

Hewlett-Packard has got to be steamed. Dell has one-upped it on a new Corporate Sustainability Index that is being researched and rated by the Global Business Sustainability Service division of Technology Business Research. Ouch. Dell earned an overall score of 317.9 on the index, compared with the...

Tags: Sustainability, Renewable Energy, Dell Computer Corp., Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-05-21

News to know: HP, Vista SP2; Pre; Oracle licensing

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: HP's second quarter on target; Big units take revenue lumps; Headcount cuts ahead Mary Jo Foley: Where is Vista SP2? ...

Tags: Software, Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Performance, Service Pack 2, Palm Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Server, Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Blog posts 2009-05-20

Forrester's U.S. IT spending forecast cut: Will 2010 show a rebound?

Forrester Research is now projecting 2009 IT spending to fall 3.1 percent, compared to the 1.6 percent decline the research firm had projected.  Forrester Research---along with Gartner---is the latest to cut its projections for 2009 following bleak fourth and first quarters see full report. In many respects,...

Tags: Information Technology, Forrester Research Inc., Strategy, Operational Planning, Operational Accounting, Management, Business Operations, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-01

Washington Post kills stand-alone business section

updated: The Washington Post said today that it will eliminate the stand-alone section devoted to business news, wrapping the news into the paper's A section instead, and will dramatically reduce the amount of stock data it publishes. The change takes effect March 30. The memo to employees has been posted...

Tags: Stock, Section, Washington Post Co., Post, Investment, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-03-13

Denial as a political position

Denial as a political positionI'm a little older than youI remember the global cooling scare in the 1970s. The culprit then was PM10 (Particulate Matter 10 microns), pollutants too small to precipitate out of the atmosphere.PM10 was going to create a sunlight blocking cloud and plunge the world into a...

Tags: PM10, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-03-09

California becomes official dry state

No, they haven't banned wine and beer. But they're close to shutting down water taps in the Golden State, now turned a dusty tan. Today's California's governor officially declared a statewide emergency due to a three-year drought. He has asked urban water districts for conservation measures and...

Tags: California, Recycling, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-02-27

IT jobs outlook for 2009: The good and the bad

IT jobs outlook for 2009: The good and the badGood and Bad SimultaneouslyCISCO is on the list of cash rich companies that are laying off ... They're also on the list of companies that are hiring tech. Recycling positions to lower the compensation package? Apple is on...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Workforce management, Strategy, IT jobs outlook, IT job, information technology, layoff, job

Discussion threads 2009-01-27

Windows PC users face dwindling retail options

Windows PC users face dwindling retail optionsPeople will just move on to Best Buy, Sears,Wal-Mart, ect.It may hurt Apple a bit, too.This is where a companies REP starts to meansomething. All those surveys of "customer satisfaction" and "customer loyalty" might mean a whole lot more if you simply don't...

Tags: Keyboards, Desktops, Windows PC users face, users face, PC, tire, Windows PC, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2009-01-21

Make the US Small Business Administration Super Venture Capitalists!

We are heading into the eye of a financial storm that has been threatening for months, and inconceivably large amounts of bailout money is being bandied around by the powers that be in the USA, with similar actions taking place in other countries around the world....

Tags: U.S., Venture Capital, Administration, Small Business, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-12-18

Dell data dump: More energy ammo for the procurement checklist

Two Dell-related green tech proclamations this week: First, the company has done one of those fun green math exercises and is calculating that its customers have saved an estimated $3 billion in energy costs and 29 million tons in carbon dioxide emissions by using OptiPlex desktop systems since 2005. Whether...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Dell Optiplex, Procurement, Desktops, Hardware, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-11-19