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AMD CIO: Key to success is fusion of business acumen and tech innovation

AMD CIO: Key to success is fusion of business acumen and tech innovationWhat a load!"Nvidia says the CPU doesn?t matter. Intel says the GPU doesn?t matter. It?s the melding of these two technologies that will give us efficiencies in the future."With cheap and effective embedded graphics, Intel pulled the rug...

Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., tech innovation, Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-02-27

Patent ruling: Good or bad for tech innovation?

Patent ruling: Good or bad for tech innovation?We've been dealing with this test for 2 yearsThis new legal test is nothing new, but it won't kill software or business method patents. It merely moves to boundary a little bit inwards... but the U.S. Patent Office has been applying this...

Tags: patent, tech innovation

Discussion threads 2008-10-30

Does Microsoft really need to diversify into consumer products?

Watching Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates go through the paces during his last Microsoft CEO Summit keynote on May 14, I couldn't help but ponder again why Microsoft thinks it needs to be both a business and a consumer software vendor. From May 13 to 15, Microsoft officials...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Tech Innovation, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-05-14

The Netherlands focuses on tech innovation

The Netherlands focuses on tech innovationAmbassador Clifford Sobel speaks with ZDNet's Dan Farber at the High Tech Connections symposium in Silicon Valley. Formerly the chairman of Internet telephony company Net2Phone, Sobel said the Netherlands is focusing investment capital and resources on three areas: embedded systems, nanotechnology and broadband.

Tags: TELECOMMUNICATIONS, tech innovation

Videos 2004-01-15

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Apple's "force fed ads" patent more likely related to content, not hardware

Perhaps neitherHopefully you are right and they'll use this process to allow customers to earn free content. Unfortunatley I see this as being a way for Apple to increase its warchest by forcing its followers to view ads. Perhaps it'll be a blend - view enough ads to put $10...

Tags: hardware, O'Grady, advertisement, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

'The Purpose of a Business is to Create a Customer' - Peter Drucker Centenary

Drucker and E2.0Oliver -- Thank you for the kind words and for pointing out the HBR Drucker Centenary issue. My "Enterprise 2.0 Schism" post was fun to write - with tongue firmly in cheek - as you note. But it also expresses some serious beliefs.For me the key Drucker quote...

Tags: Leadership, Drucker, E2.0, Enterprise 2.0

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

Microsoft Patents Sudo - So Sudo me!

i do think that it time for some rule and regulation .and some major MS legal bashing . anti-trust Adrian this is shameless self promotionYou would not even have this if a reader had not given it to you. Means nothing but what youre getting out of it, HITS....

Tags: Idiocy, patent, Microsoft Corp., Adrian

Discussion threads 2009-11-12

It's a girl! (or Ed Tech, 6 years hence)

Mama don't let your babies grow up to use Windows.Make 'em use Macitosh, Linux and such.RE: It's a girl! (or Ed Tech, 6 years hence)Awww she is cute! Congratulations Chris!bring her to real sportsCongratulations Chris. Now please trash that Wiifit and make her do real sports. Babies can start with...

Tags: Linux, PRODUCTIVITY, Leadership, Strategy, Penelope

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

The Enterprise 2.0 Value Propositions Agenda

Time is Money: Where's the Beef? The now biannual US 'Enterprise 2.0' conference is a wrap, but disappointingly there is still little business understanding of what the term means or what the value propositions and benefits are. The general 2.0 suffix is well understood by technology...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, E2.0, Susan Scrupski, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-05

New York AG files antitrust charges against Intel; alleges bribery, coercion

Normally I'd say this is just another NY AG trying to run for higher officebut this seems to have legs. I hope Intel didn't do it - but if they did, they need to be repremanded.Great to see some justice against InhellI can hardly wait to see the M$...

Tags: Video cards, Corporate law, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., antitrust, graphics

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Google defines its focus in Apps in 2010

Chrostopher: the need for detailed formatting as we know it is going away.Actually, the detailed formatting is moving to making it look like you want on computer screens, NOT on paper, which is quite different.All of those baroque features for printing on 8.5x11 paper are looking more stupid every day.Interesting...

Tags: OpenOffice, Document management, Microsoft Office, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Making Apple's Magic Mouse and Wireless Keyboard work in Windows

System 7? You mean Windows 7Has anyone tried the update on Win 7? Let us know!Why in gods nameWhy in gods name would i want apples mouse and keyboard,what i have makes it look like tech from the 30,s Oh i see this is an article from an appletard,makes sence...

Tags: Mice, Keyboards, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, wireless, Apple Inc., mouse, keyboard, wireless keyboard

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

My Top Scary Technology Trends

The Most Terrifying:Google.Kills good companies by handing out "freebies". VERY scary.Machines replacing humansI thought they were tools to enhance our experience on earth.The worst is when customer is an AI telephone. "I'm sorry, could you repeat your last phrase. I did not understand". I thought the buttons were bad enough.RE:...

Tags: cloud computing, Storage management, Google Inc., hardware, virtualization

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

What's the key to Apple's success?

One word: QUALITYA concept absent from WindowslandTDSo sad to see how Apple destroyed the word "innovation"Apple has never, ever, done anything innovative. By applying the term to blatant rebadging of 5 year old technology, you devalue the meaning of the word and insult those who actually [b]do[/b] innovate. For shame.Oh,...

Tags: Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

Google's Schmidt: Washington politics "not very interesting"

Google CEO Eric Schmidt, in Washington this week as a member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, popped into The Washington Post to chat with reporters and editors about a number of topics, including an FCC vote on net neutrality. Google's name has...

Tags: Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Washington, Net Neutrality, Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-23

The maintenance renewal landscape

A small and therefore statistically dubious quarterly CIO survey undertaken by Kash Rangan's team at Bank of America Merrill Lynch published earlier this month makes revealing reading. On the general spending front, it should be no surprise that the survey believes CIO's are under spending relative...

Tags: Revenue, SAP AG, Maintenance Fee, Maintenance Revenue, Data Centers, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Team Management, Operational Accounting, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-23

News to know: Windows 7, Net Neutrality, Nokia-Apple; Kindle

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. Windows 7 Coverage Andrew Nusca: Liveblog: Microsoft CEO Ballmer kicks off Windows 7 availability Adrian Kingsley-Hughes:...

Tags: Nokia Corp., Andrew Nusca, Apple Inc., Net Neutrality, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-10-23

Demand this from software vendors

I was getting a briefing last week from a software executive. We got to a point in the conversation where the discussion was focusing on existing products. I moved the conversation to a different space, though. If you're getting a pitch from a vendor, you should move the conversation, too!...

Tags: Software, Vendor, Customer, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Tools & Techniques, Sales, Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-10-20

B&N's Nook e-reader: Weirdly unrevolutionary

In addition to this posting, please visit this clarifications posting to get the whole picture. It would be nice to say, as Matt Miller has, that the e-book and e-reader market was revolutionized today. It simply got more interesting. A careful reading of the $259 Nook's...

Tags: E-reader, Device, E-book, Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Inc., Wireless, B&N, Nook, Cover-flow, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2009-10-20

With Apple, there's a fine line between paying a premium and being a sucker

Interesting view...I am not an Apple user, and I do think most of Apple's products are too expensive for me, but I didn't think $70 was that outlandish. Don't top end mice from Logitech or MS run around $50-100?Anyway, I guess I'd have to try it before saying it was...

Tags: Mice, mouse, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-20