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VC Tim Draper: SOX ruined our business

During an OnHollywood panel on exit strategies for private companies, mega-venture capitalist Tim Draper said that Sarbannes-Oxley is making it more difficult for startups to go public. "SOX has made it so a company can't go public with $20 million in revenue. SOX costs $3 milion a year. Entrepreneurs who...

Tags: Tim Draper, Sarbanes-Oxley Act

Blog posts 2006-05-04

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What is the "product transition" Apple alluded to?

During Apple's Q3 2008 Earnings conference call with analysts, Apple's Peter Oppenheimer CFO and Tim Cooke COO both mentioned a "product transition" that Apple is preparing for that will cut profit margins to help shut out rivals. Both executives punted on several analyst questions for more "color"...

Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Product Transition, iTablet, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Apple hints at lower prices as iPod, notebook refresh on tap

Amid all the chatter about Apple's fiscal third quarter results, which were strong, most concerns about the future revolve around two words: Gross margins. The big takeaway for technology buyers: Those lower margins hint at cheaper iPods and notebooks in the not-to-distant future. Following Apple's typical strong...

Tags: Notebook, Apple iPod, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Peter Oppenheimer, September, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-22

AMD CEO Ruiz out; Can Meyer turn it around?

Updated: AMD CEO Hector Ruiz has stepped down and the chipmaker has named chief operating officer Dirk Meyer as its new leader. The news comes amid the latest financial miss for AMD--a second quarter loss that missed estimates by a wide margin. Meyer's job: Restore credibility. According...

Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Meyer, Product Momentum, Asset Management, Research & Development, Processors, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-17

The fastest way to learn open source

Tim O'Reilly has taken everything he and his company have learned training people in programming for two decades and condensed it into the format of this series. Even I can learn with it. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Open Source, Tim O'Reilly, Series, Programming, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-07-15

Cruel to be kind: FastWork.tv revista

I was aware that talking about FastTalk.tv would get a degree of attention. That's because I have close links to SAP. What I could never know is the extent to which it might influence change. Robert Scoble invited me to review the latest show to assess whether it is better...

Tags: Robert Scoble, SAP AG, Sales Strategy, Branding, Podcasts, Groupware, Sales Force Management, Sales, Marketing, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-14

Google has legacy system issues too

Google's growth has led to redundant systems and the need for a "Project Spaghetti" designed to unravel the potential rat's nest. That's one of the big items in a Wall Street Journal story on how Google is struggling to sell ads on YouTube. Most of the world...

Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Legacy System, YouTube Inc., Armstrong, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-09

Keeping the web open, by letting the EU deal with things

Privacy International have said that Google's new Street View tool could breach data protection laws if people's faces are shown, according to the BBC, whereas the creator of the web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has made it clear that the success of the web has been because it's open for...

Tags: Imagery, Google Inc., Web, European Commission, Europe, Street View, Channel Management, Marketing, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-07-09

SAP's TV budget: more waste

Regular readers will know that I'm pretty hard on enterprise vendors, especially when I believe they are wasting customers' money. Last month for instance I dinged Oracle for wasting money on English language advertising at Madrid Barajas airport. This morning SAP gets my attention. They are sponsoring...

Tags: SAP AG, TV, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-08

News to know: Open Office; Google; Security metrics; IT jobs

Notable headlines: Dana Blankenhorn: What could Open Office do with a business model? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: First look at Ubuntu 8.10 - Intrepid Ibex. Gallery right Paul Murphy: Internet abuse and Cloud Computing An IT productivity horror story ...

Tags: Job, Security, Google Inc., Power Management, Information Technology, Photograph, OpenOffice, Office Suites, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-07

Microsoft's search plan: It's about semantics and possibly for naught

Microsoft's search plan apparently revolves around semantics. The software giant picked up Powerset, a natural language search provider for an undisclosed sum. Will it be enough to close its yawning Google and even Yahoo search gap? Probably not, but Powerset could give Microsoft a little leapfrog ability...

Tags: Google Inc., Natural Language, Microsoft Corp., Powerset, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-01

Solar power, no money down, could prove profitable

You get a solar installation, you could get positive cash flow, and you pay no money down. Sounds like an offer you might read in some spam note from Bulgaria. But it's a legitimate offer from an legitimate cleantech company in California and Arizona. Solar...

Tags: Electricity, Solar Energy, California, Arizona, Solar City, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-30

The Steve Jobs Standard

The Steve Jobs StandardWell saidIn a world of greed, that last sentence was a breath of fresh air.Amen, Tom ntntThe unsung hero of AppleJohnathan Ive.An Apple product develops something like this:Jobs to Ive: Give me something sexy.Ive: Here you go.Jobs: Awesome.Gee - Maybe he should be a SaintNo doubt Steve...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Ive

Discussion threads 2008-06-30

The Steve Jobs Standard

Ever since the black turtlenecked one appeared at the Worldwide Developers Conference, there has been no shortage of discussion about the health of Steve Jobs, the worry that he is mortal and who might succeed him.There's the photo by photo rundown of the increasingly thin Jobs. There's the discussion...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Vertical Industries, Digital Music, Benefits, Healthcare, Digital Media, Enterprise Software, Software, Personal Technology, Human Resources, Consumer Electronics, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-06-30

Microsoft Hyper-V and Spin Marketing - Virtual Iron Chimes In

As I mentioned in the post, Microsoft Hyper-V and Spin Marketing, a number of companies contacted me in the hopes of presenting their view of Microsoft's Hyper-V announcement. This is the first of several posts on what they had to say. My friends at Virtual Iron; Tony...

Tags: Marketing, Hypervisor, Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, Virtual Iron, Microsoft Hyper-V, Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-06-30

The lighter side of Bill Gates

As you all probably know, considering the 2 year lead-up to today and the considerable press coverage, it's Bill Gates' last day at Microsoft. I'd like to take a slightly different spin on covering his career and life, by pointing out the stupid stuff, in the hope it will appeal...

Tags: Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 95, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Sales, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-06-27

Understanding SOA and Business Mashups: Automate. Coordinate. Collaborate. No coding required!

Featured Speaker: Tim Zonca, Master Masher and Director of Product Marketing at Serena Software Service Oriented Architecture SOA has been the talk of business process management, IT and enterprise architecture for the last decade, but the promise of SOA remains largely unfulfilled. Learn how Serena Business...

Tags: Serena Software Inc., Webinar, SOA, Mashup, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

Webcasts 2008-06-26

Bill Gates' legacy: A modern day Henry Ford

Bill Gates is arguably the individual who has had the biggest impact on the world of technology and his departure from Microsoft on 27 June will mark the end of an era. Bill Gates is arguably the individual who has had the biggest impact on the world of technology...

Tags: Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Professional Development, Career, Tim Ferguson silicon.com, Microsoft, Vista

News items 2008-06-25

ProxMox: The high-performance virtualization server for the rest of us

ProxMox: The high-performance virtualization server for the rest of usGood stuffI've been extremely impressed with Proxmox VE and the developers are readily accessible and responsive via their forum and mailing list.I was going to install plain base Debian just for Plesk on this crazy new dual-socket quad-core (8-way SMP) box...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Leadership, cloud computing, Performance management, Storage management, high-performance, virtualization, KVM virtualization, ProxMox VE

Discussion threads 2008-06-24

News to know: Vista reliability; Nokia-Symbian; Open source drivers; diversITy

 Notable headlines: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Improving Windows Vista's reliability Mary Jo Foley: Gates hints about Microsoft's cloud futures on his way out How many people does it take to fill Bill Gates' shoes? Dennis Howlett: Time to...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Android, Phone, Nokia Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Symbian Inc., Open Source, Broadband Internet, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-06-24