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Microsoft: Technology's Warren Buffett (at least when it comes to acquisition rumors)

Microsoft: Technology's Warren Buffett at least when it comes to acquisition rumorsyahoo vs msnThere is too much similarity in features but difference in technology to kill this deal. I don't think it would happen unless yahoo goes bankrupt. A google aquisition would make more sense.Buying Logitech it might make sense...

Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, Microsoft Corp., acquisition rumor, Warren Buffett, Buying, acquisition

Discussion threads 2008-01-10

Microsoft: Technology's Warren Buffett (at least when it comes to acquisition rumors)

Take an industry that's worried about future demand technology. Add in a bunch of geeks drunk in Las Vegas CES. And what do you get? More merger rumors than you can handle--and most of them include Microsoft buying a company. On Thursday, Microsoft is reportedly buying most...

Tags: Acquisition, Microsoft Corp., Warren Buffett, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-01-10

Warren Buffett likes RSS, too

Interesting news that Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has bought privately held Business Wire. There is more here than meets the eye, because Business Wire is poised to become much more than a distribution hub for press releases. Competitor PR Newswire, no doubt, will be on a similar march.As I recently...

Tags: Business Wire

Blog posts 2006-01-18

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Collision course for American-owned car makers

America's auto makers were very handy in protecting themselves against having tougher fuel efficiency standards. Just this past year as fuel prices spiralled ever upward the feds finally increased the fuel efficiency standards after thirty years of stasis. So now those auto makers in America and elsewhere are...

Tags: U.S., Car, Automobile Company, Detroit, U.S. Congress, General Motors Corp., Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-11-17

Remedying the trade imbalance with China

Remedying the trade imbalance with ChinaCopyright and patentYour discussion of the IP to be protected mentions copyright but not patents. For example:Knowledge products the stuff normally covered by copyright is the category of goods that relies so heavily on copyright. [End quote]Because software can be protected effectively only by...

Tags: Manufacturing, patent, trade imbalance, imbalance, Remedying, software, patent violation

Discussion threads 2008-11-13

Poll: Are smartphones worth it?

Poll: Are smartphones worth it?It's about ...... access to e-mail no matter where I am - I have a blackberry, the only things I use are Phone and E-mail (twice a year I may browse - but it's painfully slow) ... I don't sync or use any other...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Handhelds, smartphones worth, phone, GPS, e-mail

Discussion threads 2008-11-13

New Australian land warfare robots

Even if I'm not completely sure, I think this is the first time in the world that a Minister of Defense unveiled himself new robots. It happened yesterday in Australia when Warren Snowdon showed a new robot called SPIKER designed to counter improvised explosive devices IEDs. For your curiosity, SPIKER...

Tags: Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille, SPIKER, SPIKER System

Blog posts 2008-10-31

Live blogging PDC Keynote Day 2: Windows 7, Live Mesh and more

Yesterday was so much fun, our cabal of bloggers from across a variety of pubs and sites is  back again live blogging  the Professional Developers Conference PDC Day Two keynotes. The first keynote is going to be the coming out party for Windows 7, with demos of...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Blogging, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-10-28

Transcript: PDC08 Keynote – Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson

Todd Bishop, TechFlash; Ed Bott, ZDNet;  Kip Kniskern, Liveside; Rafael Rivera, Within Windows; Paul Thurrott, Windows Supersite; and Tom Warren, Neowin; and Long Zheng, Istartedsomething — and yours truly--did a group blog of the first PDC keynote. Here's the live blog transcript (speakers: Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava,...

Tags: Keynote, Ed Bott, Mary Jo Foley, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Service, App, Liveside, Neowin.net, Tom Riley, Signal God, Paul, MJ, Azure, Z, Red Dog, Download Link, Saruhan, Bluehoo, MOS, SSDS, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2008-10-27

Reading the Redmondian 'Live' tea leaves

Reading the Redmondian 'Live' tea leavesCloud computing and Coca-ColaMS wouldn't mind it if companies chose them to host their Exchange installations. Isn't Coke doing this with Microsoft? The students at my alma mater now have their accounts hosted by Google.Running Exchange from the cloud. Why MS is...

Tags: Operating systems, Redmondian, tea leave, Reading, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-20

Election Talking Points: A discussion place

Election Talking Points: A discussion placeSpoken like a true believer in ...a constitutional republic.RE: Election Talking Points: A discussion placereally this post is for an opinion location,It really becomes a bunch of BSGuess doe to reports about the debate it help McCain,everyone has to put two cents of nonsense,Ok...

Tags: Mortgages, Palin, Election Talking Points

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

What's really ailing Big Blue shares? Hint: IBM is part bank

Concerns about IBM's third quarter are popping up almost daily. The standard set of concerns revolves around technology spending and the willingness to pay IBM's army of consultants fees for big bang projects as well as a stronger dollar. But underneath the surface there's a bigger worry that isn't being...

Tags: Asset, Bank, Financial, Financing, IBM Corp., Finance Unit, Financing Unit, Global Financing, Commercial Financing, Participation Rate, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-02

How do I... Configure Windows Home Server for remote access?

Microsoft Windows Home Server brings many of the server-side applications available to enterprises and small businesses to the home. One of the more useful features of the WHS is the ability to securely connect to your home network remotely. Steven Warren shows you how to set up a remote connection...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Home Server, Steven Warren, Microsoft Windows, Remote Access, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware

Download resources 2008-09-30

Watch Out: Digital TV Transition Starts ... Now

You thought you or your Mom didn't have to worry about whether your household was prepared for the transition to digital TV broadcasting until February of next year. Wrong. If, for instance, that household is in Austin, Green Bay, Indianapolis and eight other markets where LIN TV...

Tags: Signal, Cable Company, Digital Television, Broadcaster, LIN TV, Cable, Network Technology, TVs, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-09-29

VMware wants to trump Windows and Linux servers with its Virtual Datacenter OS

VMware's new CEO Paul Maritz right used his first VMworld keynote on Tuesday to introduce the company's Virtual Datacenter Operating System (VDC-OS) to an audience of IT professionals and technology industry insiders at the VMworld 2008 conference at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. With the Virtual...

Tags: Linux, Data Center, Linux Server, Operating System, Microsoft Windows, VMware Inc., VDC-OS, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Servers, Management, Software, Hardware, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2008-09-16

How do I... Install VMware Workstation as a Service?

Under default conditions, VMware Workstation does not support the ability to run virtual machines as a service. As soon as you log off your computer, the running virtual machines are shut down or powered off. However, there is a way to install VMware Workstation as a service using files from...

Tags: vmware inc., vmware workstation, steven warren, desktop virtualization, workstations

Download resources 2008-08-07

Apple: Perception is Reality

Apple: Perception is RealityRE: Apple: Perception is RealityAbsolutely, Apple's response will do nothing to allay investors fears and in many cases will accelerate the rumour mill.Apple need to come out a flatly confirm or deny Steve's current health and produce, at the very least, a barebones succession plan to restore...

Tags: Warren Buffet, Apple Inc., Perception IS reality

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

Voting For A McCain

SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons So, poor John McCain. At the start of the year, he gets bounced around because he is "not well versed" in economics. In summer, he gets beat up again, because he says he is "illiterate" about technology (and the way he expresses...

Tags: Innovation, Network, John McCain, Obama, Taxes, Free Trade, Internet, Leadership, Financial Planning, Finance, Management, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-07-16

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

Meet Jerry Yang, pinata

Meet Jerry Yang, pinataYahoo customers are walking.http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/06/marketers-see-l.htmlEveryone thinking Yaoo/Google was such a great idea, think again.RE: Meet Jerry Yang, pinataShame, really, because Yang esssentially stood up for employees and customers.Gee, what a concept.If MS took over Yahoo, there would have been massive layoffs, and the Yahoo products, and the consumers...

Tags: INTERNET, Benefits, Investment, Yahoo! Inc., Yang, Meet Jerry Yang, Microsoft Corp., Jerry Yang

Discussion threads 2008-06-16