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There's something nasty lurking beyond the horizon - notes on life in Silicon Valley

There's something nasty lurking beyond the horizon - notes on life in Silicon ValleyLurking? Yeah, like a hurricane "lurks".Anyone thinking IT is in anyway immune from what is coming is kidding themselves.What so many don't seem to grasp is......that we have most of the technology we "need", and aren't...

Tags: Public relations, Valley

Discussion threads 2008-10-23

Who is the open source candidate?

A blog called Vanduska made the argument yesterday that Barack Obama is the candidate for open source. (To the right, the candidate and his mother circa 1964.) Vanduska recalls Obama's Google interview, where the gentleman from Illinois supported all the open source buzzwords -- network neutrality, Internet freedom,...

Tags: Valley, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-02-08

Changing the user expectation by freeing applications from the browser

Disclosure: Last week I announced that I’m working for Adobe. While I haven’t officially started, consider me an Adobe employee for all intents and purposes. I have the disclosure statement at the bottom of the page, but I’ll probably run this for a while just to make sure there isn’t...

Tags: Silverlight, Flash, Apollo, Ajax

Blog posts 2007-05-21

LinkSViewer.com: follow the money around Silicon Valley

The New York Times recently argued that, when it comes to creating innovative technology, geography matters -- and that Silicon Valley is still the place to be for anybody with start-up ambitions.Give birth to an information-technology idea in Silicon Valley and the chances of success seem vastly higher than when...

Tags: Facebook, Friendster, LinkedIn, Social Networks

Blog posts 2007-02-16

Full moon in the Valley? SalesForce and TypePad both down.

Full moon in the Valley? SalesForce and TypePad both down.Scheduled MaintenanceDavid -Both services were running scheduled maintenance.Salesforce was upgrading the rest of their servers to the Winter '07 release.Typepad info here: http://status.typepad.com-- MarkSalesforceWatch.comScheduled maintenance?Both sites were "up" enough for a request to their home page to respond with something....

Tags: Sales force management, TypePad, Salesforce.com Inc., Scheduled Maintenance, Full Moon, Valley

Discussion threads 2007-01-13

In Search of the Valley

In Search of the ValleyMaybe he left something out?Jobs and Wozniak did some amazing, inspiring things. I have a particular affinity for Wozniak. I've listened to the story of the technological lessons he learned that ultimately led to the creation of the first Apple computer. It's amazing.However, when it comes...

Tags: Desktops, Xerox PARC, Apple Macintosh, Valley

Discussion threads 2007-01-04

In Search of the Valley

Worth watching: During the holiday I had the pleasure of watching "In Search of the Valley," a film written, directed and edited by fellow ZDNet blogger Steve OHear. The polished film, shot in September 2004, documents the month long journey of Steve and friends to explore the soul of Silicon...

Tags: Valley, Hewlett-Packard, Apple, General

Blog posts 2007-01-03

Utopia awaits moment of truth

Utopia awaits moment of truthGovernments should not be mixed with business.Sorry but it is not the role of governments to be in business. Especially when theyre are competitive alternatives being offered.I would also question how smart it is to be burying more fiber/wire in the ground when true high...

Tags: WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Network technology, investment, Customer Choice, valley, wireless, fiber, IEEE 802.16, cable, SHARED BANDWIDTH, UTOPIA

Discussion threads 2004-04-13

Additional Resources

News to know: Windows 7; Google Dashboard; Driving while texting; Steve Jobs; Droid

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: Ballmer: So far, Windows 7 sales are "fantastic" Dana Blankenhorn: What the Google Privacy Dashboard can...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Google Inc., Web, Dana Blankenhorn, Verizon Communications Inc., Mary Jo Foley, Dashboard, Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Channel Management, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing

Blog posts 2009-11-06

Steve Jobs: Silicon Valley's Babe Ruth (and Fortune's CEO of the decade)

What no comment by NonZ? I hope he/she is not ill or something:PPagan jimThe P.T.Barnum of the Tech Industry......when is he going to cut the Chinamen that work for him in on the big cash flow?NZ will show up at some pointUnless he is on vacation.Or getting over the...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Media players, Steve Jobs, Babe Ruth

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Steve Jobs: Silicon Valley's Babe Ruth (and Fortune's CEO of the decade)

Love or hate Apple but you have to give Steve Jobs his due -- he has an amazing track record of success, and he's not done yet... by Tom Foremski

Tags: Steve Jobs, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-11-05

GOOG Chief: Silicon Valley's secret is its weather

Valid points, though.You mention good schools and employees, but there are GREAT schools in the north east. There are a lot of companies and a large population from which to pull employees, too. When you compare the weather in San Francisco to the weather in the north east, the choice...

Tags: Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

GOOG Chief: Silicon Valley's secret is its weather

Yes, the secret to Silicon Valley is its remarkable weather. The universities, the venture capital, the innovation are all secondary... by Tom Foremski

Tags: Silicon Valley, Google Inc., Weather, Secret, Venture Capital, Leadership, Investment, Strategy, Finance, Financing Startups, Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-11-05

Splunk 4.0.5 (Mac)

Splunk is a Silicon Valley company inventing large-scale, high-speed indexing and search technology for IT infrastructures. The company's freely downloadable software indexes and makes it possible to search and navigate data from any application, server or network device in real time. Logs, configurations, messages, traps and alerts, scripts and metrics....

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Compliance, Splunk, Business Services, Networking

Software downloads 2009-10-26

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

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

Jigsaw Pieces Can Be More Agile Than Platforms

Box.net, the little company that likes to tweak Goliath Microsoft's nose with digs at Sharepoint - the billboard above is near Microsoft's silicon valley digs -  announced an alignment with Salesforce.com CRM earlier today. Nothing earth shattering here at first glance: it makes perfect sense for...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Microsoft SharePoint, Compliance, Box, Content Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Software As A Service (SaaS), Enterprise Software, Software, Emerging Technologies, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-22

Immelt seeks to unite healthcare with Silicon Valley mainstream

A lot was written about GE chairman Jeff Immelt's appearance yesterday at the Web 2.0 Summit, but one key point can't be emphasized enough. Jeff Immelt was at the Web 2.0 Summit. He wasn't at a health care show. He was pitching tech people. ...

Tags: General Electric Co., Health Care, Immelt, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Web 2.0, Human Resources, Internet, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-10-22

News to know: Apple; Alex; Microhoo; Droid; FCC

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: Another strong quarter for Apple; credit strong iPhone, Mac sales Jason D. O'Grady: Apple announces most profitable...

Tags: FCC, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Advertisement, Information Technology, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, E-books, Federal Government, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Government, Web Services, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Gartner: 'Worst year ever' for IT spending

At the Gartner Symposium/ITExpo 2009 in Orlando, Fla., Peter Sondergaard, a senior vice president of research at Gartner, says 2009 was the worst spending cycle ever. He adds that Silicon Valley will no longer be in charge of the rebound and emerging regions will drive IT spending and how it's...

Tags: Gartner Inc., IT-spending, Gartner

Videos 2009-10-19