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- What the credit crunch means for IT
- The credit crunch has dominated the front pages in 2008, and claimed a number of high-profile scalps, such as that of the 158-year-old Lehman Brothers bank. As job losses mount, and with HP announcing it will lay off tens of thousands of workers following its purchase of EDS, here's...
- Tags: Financial, Information Technology, Outsourcing Company, Industry, Supplier, EquaTerra, Outsourcing, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management, Nick Heath silicon.com, economy, IT management, HP, layoffs, hardware, software
- News items 2008-09-17
- China's cyber-militia behind U.S. blackouts?
- Chinese hackers may have been behind power blackouts in Florida and the Northeast, according to a report in the National Journal. The report, penned by Shane Harris for the National Journal, lays out a lengthy case that China has deployed hackers working unofficially and officially for the...
- Tags: U.S., China, Blackout, Hacker, Intelligence Official, Takeaway, Government, Hacking, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- EU: User privacy rights trump intellectual property
- Good and bad news for European net users. The European Union's high court said that under EU law ISPs don't have to provider user data to record labels and movie studios looking to track down illegal downloaders, the AP reports. It seems that privacy rights in the...
- Tags: Privacy, Intellectual Property Right, European Union, Intellectual Property, Government, Research & Development, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-01-29
- Apple walks on water and WiMax Mobile
- In the days and hours before the Macworld Expo, it seems that anything is possible from Apple. Competitors are already angry and scared enough by what the company can do and likely will do. But it must be infuriating to many in the industry when Apple is given credit for...
- Tags: Mobile, Apple Inc., USB, WiMAX, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Desktops, Hardware, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-01-11
- Big cell would love to quash free wireless broadband upstart
- M2Z Networks would like to acquire 20MHz of free spectrum in the from the FCC in order to offer free wireless broadband to 95 percent of U.S. residents within ten years.The FCC isn't too keen on the idea. Fifteen months on now, and tick tock. Now, M2Z is threatening...
- Tags: FCC, Broadband, Cell, Wireless Broadband, Wireless, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-08-15
- Two "Fraudulent" Netflix Patents fuel antitrust class action lawsuit
- Two "Fraudulent" Netflix Patents fuel antitrust class action lawsuitWhat was that again?Hey, wake me up when you go-go and let me know when you know-know!Hmm..I am no lawyer, but reading those patents they seem very obvios. By the wording any company renting anything online (including any B&M store renting commercial...
- Tags: SECURITY, antitrust class action lawsuit, RJR, Patent Pirates, intellectual property, NetFlix Inc., antitrust
- Discussion threads 2007-05-18
- Click Fraud Audits: What is IAB's dog in the fight?
- Mild mannered, advertising industry sage Randall Rothenberg didn’t wait long to pick a fight in his new role as President, Interactive Advertising Bureau IAB, and he picked a big one.The IAB is “the trade association for interactive marketing in the United States.” It represents over 300 interactive companies and its...
- Tags: Yahoo, Google, Click Fraud
- Blog posts 2007-04-24
- Ding dong, the witch is dead
- Ding dong, the witch is deadEliminate the RIAA periodThe RIAA if the cause of all those DRM/DMCA and other totally illegal laws. Outlaw DRM, shutdown the criminal gang that is the RIAA (and fine all the members for been part of a criminal gang, especialy Sony who is no longuer...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Peer to peer (P2P), Digital music, RIAA, music
- Discussion threads 2007-04-03
- Google wants Presidential candidates and their money
- Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 special series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”Google already winner in Clinton presidential bid I said in January, but the high stakes Google political games have only just begun.Google financed its own headliner keynote at the Politics Online Conference held in Washington...
- Tags: Google Inc., Platinum
- Blog posts 2007-03-26
- The NAB battles the XM / Sirius merger
- Engadget caught this ad funded by the National Association of Broadcasters NAB which lampooned the proposed merger of XM and Sirius. Unfortunately, this got them into hot water with MasterCard, whose well-known "Priceless" campaign was the source of the NABs knock-off, so that particular campaign was pulled. It did bring...
- Tags: Digital music, Mergers & Acquisitions, Network technology, satellite, satellite radio, radio, Sirius, XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc., merger
- Blog posts 2007-03-20
- Tech Policy Summit: Silicon Valley missing in action
- Earlier this week I attended the Tech Policy Summit in San Jose at the Dolce Hayes Mansion, a southern tip of Silicon Valley. Speakers included top government officials, such as Jon Dudas, director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; Greg Garcia, the Department of Homeland Securitys cybersecurity czar; Congressman...
- Tags: Broadband, General, Government, Green Tech, Legal, Telecommunications, Web Technology, Wired & Wireless
- Blog posts 2007-02-28
- RIAA cracks down on downloading at 25 colleges
- The music industry and its trade association, the Recording Industry Association of America RIAA, is amping up its crackdown on music piracy on campus computer networks, reports the Associated Press. The RIAA is targeting the 25 universities that have received the most copyright complaints. Students who are caught illegally...
- Tags: Education Technology, Higher Ed, Piracy
- Blog posts 2007-02-21
- Linux Foundation to be more like Apache
- Jim Zemlin, executive director of The Linux Foundation, says his vision for the group is to make it like Apache, or Mozilla, or Eclipse. The CEA is right out.And anyone can use the penguin. Zemlin comes to this work from the software industry, having worked at Covalent and then the...
- Tags: General, Implementations, Linux, Legal, Linux Desktop OS, Linux Server OS, education, management, business models, Jim Zemlin, Linux Foundation
- Blog posts 2007-01-22
- Google Finance targets free real-time data
- Just days before the new year, in “Google 2007: More Googlers blogging?” and “Google blog to open for comments in 2007” I projected a change in Google blogging strategy. There indeed appears to be a change in announcement tactics at Google’s main official blog. In “Google search for super models”...
- Tags: Business Models, Google, Marketing, Google Software Applications, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-01-12
- MA says it will consider Open XML when ISO approves it
- Now that ECMA has approved Microsofts Open XML format, Massachusetts will take a look at it but will move forward with standardizing on the OpenDocument Format starting Jan. 1, Bethann Pepoli, the states acting director of the division, said, according to Information Week. The state wont adopt Microsofts standard...
- Tags: ECMA, Standards, State &, Local Govt, Government technology
- Blog posts 2006-12-08
- Breaking: Randall Rothenberg to lead IAB
- The leading trade association for the interactive advertising industry, the IAB, will be led by Randall Rothenberg in the New Year.As of Janaury 8, 2007, Randall Rothenberg will become president and CEO of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, a position currently held by Greg Stuart.I spoke at length with Stuart in...
- Tags: Interactive Advertising Bureau, Advertising
- Blog posts 2006-12-05
- The Economics of Microsoft's kill switch
- The Economics of Microsoft's kill switchPiracy numbers don't add upGreat article here on the Australian Government investigating these statistics and finding them to be totally bogus:http://tinyurl.com/svhx4The draft of the institute's intellectual property crime report, sighted by The Australian shows that copyright owners "failed to explain" how they reached financial loss...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Linux, piracy
- Discussion threads 2006-11-20
- The Microsoft Voices (for Innovation) are speaking to me
- It’s surprising how little ink, virtual or otherwise, the “Voices for Innovation” VFI – a Microsoft-supported group of partners and consumers who are “interested in promoting a positive technology agenda” – has received. I was reminded again of the existence of the VFI this week, while listening to a...
- Tags: VFI, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-11-16
- Manageability InteropFest for ATCA Building Blocks
- The Communications Platforms Trade Association CPTA was launched to drive a mainstream market for interoperable communications platforms by solving interoperability issues that are not currently addressed by the existing specifications in the communications platforms industry. This white paper discusses how the CP-TA community plans to address interoperability issues in the...
- Tags: Interoperability, White Paper, CP-TA
- White papers 2006-11-01
- Fed IT spending to increase, modestly
- According to an industry trade association, the federal government's spending on information technology is only going to moderately increase over the next five years, reports The Washington Post. The Government Electronics and Information Technology Association, an association of government contractors including defense companies, information technology services providers...
- Tags: Homeland security, Federal Reserve Board, information technology
- Blog posts 2006-10-30
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