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- HP vs. Dell: Showdown at the Windows 7 upgrade corral
- Well, the great thing is all the competition. I like to see Acer squeezing them both from below, and of course competing with each other. Of course also great to see all the pressure on MS to innovate and lower prices.Google Chrome_OS will be hard to beatWell, with Google_Chrome_OS it...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Hewlett-Packard Co., Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Corp., Windows 8, Microsoft Windows, XPS, Microsoft Windows 7
- Discussion threads 2009-11-24
- Gartner: Windows 7 is 'all but inevitable'
- Completely Disagree with Gartner's Recommendations...I would be skipping Vista at this point, and aborting all Vista deployment plans. Why? Simple...Any IT staff that is deploying Vista en mass to their enterprises bought it with Volume Licensing, which means they probably bought it with Software Assurance... better to use those support...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), gartner, Microsoft Windows Vista, Win 7, Microsoft Windows 7, Gartner Inc., Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-10-13
- Time for Palm to give up the iTunes sync nonsense!
- Apple is leveraging the monopolyYou got your guys crossed1If M$ would do anything similar there would be a revolt.We need to be consistent and call out the bad guy: Apple.palm is wrongpalm could simply use the xml file of the itunes library apple has been providing for years for interoperability...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, palm, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Palm Inc., bad guy, software
- Discussion threads 2009-10-07
- Gateway ZX6810-01
- Congratulations to Gateway's One ZX6801-01 for sending in the first official Windows 7-based PC to CNET Labs. We've already reviewed Windows 7, so we'll spend most of our energy here talking about Gateway's new PC. We like the One ZX6810-01 well enough. When it goes on sale for $1,399 at...
- Tags: Gateway Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows
- Product reviews 2009-10-07
- HTC Touch2 (unlocked)
- Photo gallery:HTC Touch2On September 1, Microsoft announced that the first batch of smartphones running its updated mobile operating system, Windows Mobile 6.5, would start shipping on October 6. The next day, Taiwanese handset manufacturer HTC wasted no time in announcing one of its first Windows Mobile 6.5 offerings, the HTC...
- Tags: Smart phones, Microsoft Windows, Handhelds, Cellular phones, Mobile operating systems, Keyboards, Operating systems, HTC Touch2, High Tech Computer Corp., smart phone
- Product reviews 2009-10-06
- Apple ends iPhone exclusive distribution deal in the UK ... US next?
- The announcement will have more fanfare than the one in the UKErm...not in the UK it will not.Can't see it's such a big dealIn Australia, iPhone was available on a number of carriers simultaneously at its first launch. That was August last year, so I wouldn't hold my breath waiting...
- Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., carrier, CDMA, Verizon Communications Inc., GSM, AT&T Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-28
- Feds launch Apps.gov; Cloud computing players salivate
- Any bets on how long it takes someone to hack in and screw it up? nt...Why don't I feel good about this???Hmmm... Could it be that some government a55-clown could store sensitive data in the cloud... And that there are tons of other countries with extremely skilled hackers that would...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Virtualization, Apps.gov, agency, cloud computing
- Discussion threads 2009-09-15
- Is desktop virtualization the next focal point?
- What about the hardwarewhat is the interface for the virtual desktop? Would you buy a low power pc or would a thin client type of device do? Both will workYou can run virtual desktops on just about any hardware depending on your needs. A call center might go with thin...
- Tags: Virtualization, Desktops, desktop, desktop virtualization, We?re, virtual desktop
- Discussion threads 2009-09-09
- Asus to launch Eee e-book reader in 2009; MSI mulling move over
- Asustek plans to launch an e-book reader under its popular Eee brand by the end of 2009 at the earliest, according to company president Jerry Shen. In a brief DigiTimes report, Micro-Star International -- known as MSI to the rest of us --...
- Tags: ASUS, Content Delivery, E-book Reader, Netbook, MSI, E-books, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Personal Technology, Hardware, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-08-27
- IBM goes deeply predictive, announces acquisition of SPSS
- IBM dropped a big bombshell at the start of any already action-packed day for the analyst community. At this moment, I’m sitting, along with several dozen of my peers from Forrester and other firms, at the IBM Smart Analytics System launch event in Hawthorne NY. I’ll blog on IBM’s other...
- Tags: Acquisition, Analytics, SPSS Inc., IBM Corp., PA/DM, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Planning, Corporate Law, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, James Kobielus
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
- To the Moon: The Integrators
- The historic Apollo 11 mission in July of 1969 culminated in the first manned moon landing. While many of the proud Americans who were involved in that project are no longer with us 40 years later, the technologies they built still live on, will be further refined, and will return...
- Tags: Spacecraft, NASA, Mission, Computer, IBM Corp., UNIVAC, Productivity, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- Battling for the Mother Of All Monopolies...
- Battling for the Mother Of All Monopolies...RE: Battling for the Mother Of All Monopolies...This battle and the comments are reminiscent of the discussions when PCs first started showing up. IBM was dominant in a way that everyone agreed Microsoft did not have a chance. Corporation all agreed that...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-07-08
- With the Chrome OS, Google's software stack is revealed; Shrapnel everywhere
- Google is planning to launch lightweight operating system dubbed the Chrome OS that'll target netbooks and Web apps. With the move---clearly targeted at Microsoft---Google's software stack has come into sharp focus in just the last 24 hours. It should be noted, however, that Google's stack is still being formed. ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Google Chrome, Netbook, Chrome OS, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Linux, Operating Systems, Hardware, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-08
- Oracle's Fusion middleware master plan starts coming together
- Oracle on Wednesday launched its Fusion 11g middleware family and the effort is aimed at linking the technological underpinnings of all of the company's acquired applications, owning the market, creating one fundamental software stack for the enterprise, laying the foundation for a cloud strategy as well as a few other...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Chances, Miko Matsumura, Middleware, Programming Languages, Java, Enterprise Software, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-01
- SaaS Support Helps ISV Target New Markets and Launch Service-Based Products in Weeks
- Determined to enter the Software-as-a-Service SaaS market with its mobile business solutions, Independent Software Vendor ISV Mobile Tracing Services engaged the help of Microsoft Gold Certified Partner YouSAAS. As part of the Microsoft Software + Services Incubation Center Program, YouSAAS gave Mobile Tracing Services the guidance necessary to redefine its...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Mobile, ISV, Microsoft Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Advertising & Promotion, Emerging Technologies, Marketing
- Case studies 2009-07-01
- What really happened with SAP Business ByDesign?
- Many of us who have been following the SAP Business ByDesign saga have used a combination of first hand accounts, intuition, inference and plain guess work to figure out what's been going on with the product. Or is it service? As far as I can gather, those commenting in detail...
- Tags: Team, SAP NetWeaver, SAP AG, BYD, Engineers, Team Management, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Management, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-06-22
- News to know: Palm CEO; Barry Diller; iPhone upgrade; Iomega; MS Money
- 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: Palm injects Apple DNA: Colligan out as CEO; Rubinstein in Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Barry Diller: The Internet 'Absolutely'...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Iomega Corp., Palm Inc., Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- E-reader devices: The fun is just starting
- The interest in e-readers, or e-books as they are called now, has reached a fever pitch. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos fields nothing but Kindle questions at the company's  shareholder meeting. Prime View picks up E Ink, the company that supplies the screen to Amazon's Kindle, for $215 million. And companies...
- Tags: Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Sarah Rotman Epps, E-books, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-06-02
- AMD Istanbul: Field Upgrade Only If Your Hands are Nimble
- The newly-launched AMD Opteron 24xx and 84xx server CPUs have six processor cores. Unlike Intel's Nehalem, which requires entirely new and unproven mainboards, systems, chipsets and sockets, the "Istanbul" is based on existing, mature AMD chipsets and uses the existing 1207-pin Socket F, allowing current Quad-Core...
- Tags: Istanbul, Quad-core, Server, AMD Opteron, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., CPU, Chip, Nehalem, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-06-01
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