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Verizon, Google getting chummy on mobile search?

Verizon Communications and Google are reportedly close to a partnership that could bring the search giant's services to its wireless unit and perhaps TV and broadband services too. According to the Wall Street Journal, Verizon and Google are talking about a partnership. This partnership would bring Google's...

Tags: Google Inc., Mobile, Verizon Communications Inc., Mobile Search, Journal, Web Portal Deal, Business Structures, Search, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-22

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The next generation Windows and Office: an open letter to Microsoft

The next generation Windows and Office: an open letter to MicrosoftI wouldn't forward this letter...Where do I start?Well I'll start with saying that I hope that Microsoft takes the time to at least read your letter. It would be nice if they did. That's about as much as I'd agree...

Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-02-02

Should Dell buy Palm?

Dell is allegedly pondering a smartphone, but a better move may be to merely buy Palm now that it illustrated that its Pre and WebOS are the real deal. A Dell-Palm combination is floated by Bob Faulkner, a contributor to RealMoney.com. In an open letter to Michael...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Palm Inc., Smart Phones, Portals, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-15

Yahoo confirms Bartz in charge; Can she save Yahoo?

Yahoo has confirmed that Carol Bartz is its new CEO. Now the real fun begins: Turning around Yahoo amid a horrid economy and deciding whether to do a search deal with Microsoft. But first Bartz will need a No. 2 as Yahoo president Sue Decker will resign. ...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carol Bartz, BoomTown, Corporate Governance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-13

'SOA' dead as of January 1st, analyst says

'SOA' dead as of January 1st, analyst saysSOA marketingWell, to a lot of people, there is a good deal of skepticism about SOA. We've seen a lot of sales pitches, but most of those seem to be centered around selling a Consultant as opposed to any other product. SOA could...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, Companies, SOA

Discussion threads 2009-01-06

CRM 2009 - Companies to Watch For - Second Verse, Different Than the First

Industry Giants -the New Adults on the Block Most of these might not be surprising to you but they are to me. With maybe the exception of Sage...and NetSuite....and RightNow and.....ah well.  I guess they aren't really all that surprising.  But to some degree, IBM and Cisco are surprising. ...

Tags: Strategy, Application, NetSuite Inc., IBM Corp., CRM, Zach, Zoho, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2008-12-16

From portal to platform: Yahoo's push via the inbox

One of Yahoo's most valuable properties is its web mail service, which has more members and gets more traffic than mail services provided by Google, MSN and AOL. Yahoo Mail was once part of the portal, another offering along side things like photo services, stock portfolios, alerts and other services...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Portals, Web Technology, Investment, Open Source, Internet, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-08

Symplified Identity Cloud

Providing single sign-on to web, SaaS and portal apps is more critical than ever today. IT must manage identity and access to Web applications and demonstrate compliance. This once required expensive infrastructure software and took many quarters to deploy taking the company's focus off the core business to deal with...

Tags: Identity, Symplified, Portals, Web Technology, Software As A Service (SaaS), Internet, Emerging Technologies

White papers 2008-12-01

Scale Globaly: Integrate Locally

Providing single sign-on to web, SaaS and portal apps is more critical than ever today. IT must manage identity and access to Web applications and demonstrate compliance. This once required expensive infrastructure software and took many quarters to deploy taking the company's focus off the core business to deal with...

Tags: Symplified, Portals, Web Technology, Software As A Service (SaaS), Authentication/Encryption, Cloud Computing, Internet, Emerging Technologies, Security

White papers 2008-12-01

Yang out: Justice scrutiny paved the way

Some things are clear. If Jerry Yang had merely been doing a lousy job at running Yahoo, there would have been no "mutual" decision that he should step down as CEO. (NYT: "Jerry and the board have had an ongoing dialogue about succession timing, and we...

Tags: Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Corporate Law, Portals, Investment, Recruitment & Selection, Business Operations, Internet, Finance, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-11-18

Ballmer: We're not interested in Yahoo anymore

Ballmer: We're not interested in Yahoo anymoreBallmer is not pretendingThey're indeed not interested in Yahoo anymore. Die YahooYHOO.Yeah right !!! Ballmer isn't interested in Yahoothe same way he isn't interested in Webkit. talk about a load of CRAP !!!MS will fail at every Internet push.http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/07/hotmail_new_interface_complaints/Yahoo or not, MS is a...

Tags: Portals, INTERNET, Web technology, Investment, Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-11-07

Live: Jerry Yang at Web 2.0 Summit

Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang's name popped in a number of headlines today, sparked by a rumor that his job may be on the line following Google's announcement this morning that it was withdrawing from an ad deal with Yahoo. The company, of course, is denying the rumor. And then, of...

Tags: Web, Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Jerry, Web 2.0, Government, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-11-05

Transcript: PDC08 Keynote â€" 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 â€" 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

What's Chrome for? Ain't it obvious?

What's Chrome for? Ain't it obvious?Really?"I think we all know what the answer is, but we're afraid to say it — Google is taking an entry directly from the Microsoft playbook: Embrace and Extend."Really? By basing it on open source projects? ;-)Google is going after the platform, the same way...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, Web browsers, Desktops, Chrome, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-02

Why does Safari stink?

Why does Safari stink?Safari on iPhone is even worseSafari on a Mac should work at least as well as Firefox. but on the iPhone it crashes regularly or locks up the iPhone. And it appears Apple's licensing is designed to preclude any competition:"Apple's software requirements for the device are too...

Tags: Web browsers, Web site development, Channel management, Web technology, KHTML, Apple Safari, Safari stink, stink, Web, Web browser, Web site

Discussion threads 2008-08-28

ZTE C79

ZTE is a little known brand in the U.S., but the Chinese manufacturer is slowly but surely making its presence felt in the U.S. cell market. It kicked off its U.S. debut earlier this year with a couple of entry-level phones, such as the ZTE C88 for MetroPCS, and now...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Media players, ZTE C79, ZTE, phone, music player

Product reviews 2008-08-14

Again, why does Microsoft want Yahoo?

Again, why does Microsoft want Yahoo?Again, why does Microsoft want Yahoo?You should be asking why not? Both companies will gain a lot from this buy out. Yahoo has the services, Microsoft has the brand recognition. They can take the best of both worlds and have a dominant...

Tags: Team management, SEARCH, Branding, Microsoft want Yahoo, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft WANT, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-14

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

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

Online brand-jacking increasing

With the evolving sophistication of online scammers' understanding of social engineering and trust building online, the techniques they use to build authenticity into their scam propositions have started directly influencing a targeted brand's reputation online in the most negative way possible - the loss of a customer's trust into the...

Tags: Brand, Scammer, MarkMonitor, Phishing, Branding, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Marketing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-06-03