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Google Pack provisions for the masses

What is Google Pack besides free Windows software, with some promotional offers, that you could get from many places on the Web? A software distribution mechanism hooked into Google's infrastructure. Smart move. Google does software provisioning for the masses...for starters--OpenOffice may come soon to the Pack. Larry Page introduces the...

Tags: Google Inc., PACK, Web site:Google Pack

Blog posts 2006-01-06

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A question about web server volume failures

It's a shocking confession - I mean, I know how to use google - but I haven't found anything that really describes the nature and order of failures when a web server collapses under heavy load. by Paul Murphy

Tags: Web Server, Web, Sun Microsystems Inc., Server, Test, Web Servers, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Marketing, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Live Webcast: The 2008 Email Security Benchmarking Report

Email is a critical tool for business communications, but its use is threatened by the growing volume and sophistication of external attacks. Today's best-in-class organizations are realizing significant benefits compared to other organizations, particularly through the use of Software as a Service SaaS security applications. Join this...

Tags: Google Inc., Webcast, E-mail Security, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Online Communications, Security

Webcasts 2008-10-07

MozyPro for Mac goes public beta

Online backup storage provider Mozy on Tuesday will roll out a public beta for MozyPro for the Mac, a new service for businesses using Apple's Mac platform. MozyPro for the Mac resembles Mozy's business lineup for Windows. It allows online backup for the Mac like its MozyHome...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Public Beta, Backup, MozyPro, Mozy, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-06

The color that shall not be named. AMD's Vertal downplays green credentials, plays up efficiency arguments

I realize Advanced Micro Devices has some news in the offing this week that likely will supersede the urgency of this blog's content, but I wanted to recount some high points from a conversation I had about two weeks ago with Larry Vertal, the company's senior strategist when it comes...

Tags: Energy Efficiency, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Larry Vertal, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Yahoo: Shares dip to 5-year low; AOL deal this month?

Things just keep getting worse for Yahoo. The company's stock reached a five-year low today, closing at $15.31 - or less than half of the $31 per share that Microsoft had offered to pay for Yahoo in February. On top of that, the...

Tags: Google Inc., America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Business Structures, Financial Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Student Technology Day: Steve Ballmer Q&A

There was quite a lot to transcribe out, and many questions asked. Some questions put to Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, include: Will we always need programmers? What's Microsoft's input in Facebook and social networking? Does Microsoft have any changes in mind for their...

Tags: India, Pyramid, Laughter, Network, Microsoft Office, Steve Ballmer, Product, Microsoft Corp., Programmer, Question, Microsoft Windows, Social Networking, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-06

iPhone hits another security speedbump

Apple's ongoing struggles with poor security-related design choices have extended to the iPhone.  According to security researcher Aviv Raff, everyone's favorite mobile device is vulnerable to two separate security weaknesses that expose millions of users to phishing and spamming attacks. [...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Image, Spamming, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Startups listen up: you've got a pricing problem

Just about every new product coming to market is being offered as a service rather than packaged software. But pricing remains something of a mystery. A while back, I started a spreadsheet that plots price points for different saas accounting offerings. At the time I concluded that no-one has figured...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Small And Medium Enterprise, Web Application, Pricing Strategy, Phil Wainewright, Pricing, Smb/Sme, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-06

The Secrets of CEOs

I just finished reading an advance US manuscript of 'The Secrets of CEOs - 150 Global Chief Executives lift the lid on business, life and leadership' by Steve Tappin, who is a managing partner in the global CEO & board practice of Heidrick & Struggles, and Andrew Cave, a leading...

Tags: CEO, Collaboration, Groupware, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-10-06

iPhone sales: 10 million yet?

When it comes to product inventory, there's a clear distinction between what's been manufactured and what's been sold. And sales figures also need to take into consideration other factors, such as returns, exchanges and retail inventory. That's why I'm raising an eyebrow at headlines today that suggest Apple has sold...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Smart Phones, Sales, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-06

iPhone 2.2 features trickle out

iPhone 2.2 firmware beta 1 seeded to developers on 25 September 2008 contains some hints at more new features coming to the mobile OS, despite a changelog that lists only "compatibility testing." Ability to disable iPhone's auto-correction see screen shot Support for Japanese emoji icons ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Firmware, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-10-06

46% of social networking users visited mobile social networks

According to ABI Research, 46% of those who use social networks have also visited a social network through a mobile phone. Of these, nearly 70% have visited MySpace and another 67% had visited Facebook. No other social networking site reached 15% adoption mobile adoption. SHARETHIS.addEntry( { title: "46%...

Tags: Mobile, Network, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, AM

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Eight ways to track your portfolio on the iPhone

In case you haven't been paying attention, U.S. financial markets are in a tailspin (Dow and AAPL both down 4 6+% today). Securities continue on their relentless roller coaster ride that could make veteran stock brokers lose their lunch. If you'd like to stay more in touch...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Stock, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Analysis, Google Finance, Investment, Digital Music, Digital Media, Finance, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Blackberry Storm, 'Application Center' info leaked

Wow, a whole lot of Blackberry-related news surfaced this weekend. First, the user's guide to the highly-anticipated Blackberry Storm was leaked by the ever-intrepid BoyGeniusReport, who posted exclusive images on their website. Second, and more importantly, news of the Blackberry Application Center has emerged....

Tags: Application, Research In Motion Ltd., RIM BlackBerry, Carrier, App Center, Handhelds, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Apple manufactures 10M iPhones

About a month ago creative individuals determined that Apple has sold 8 million iPhones based on collected International Mobile Equipment Identity IMEI numbers. A joint project of AFB and Investor Village's AAPL Sanity board have been collecting iPhone IMEI numbers and recording them on a big Google speadsheet. Based on...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, 3G, Sales, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Welcome to the Data Cloud ?

'The Cloud' is increasingly prevalent in tech conversation these days. Stalwarts of the space such as Amazon and Salesforce go from strength to strength, whilst titans of an earlier model such as Larry Ellison and even Steve Ballmer now seek to appropriate the meme. New blogs like CloudAve play a...

Tags: Web, Data, UKOLN, Channel Management, Internet, Semantic Web, Cloud Computing, Marketing, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Why The Big Fuss Over Microblogs?

I microblog.Why? The truth is, I learn by doing and by speaking with others who do. So I dabble with Twitter, Plurk, Pownce, Spoink, Rakawa, Tumblr, Utterli, Yammer, FriendFeed, 12seconds, and probably a few others that I signed up for and forgot to use. I have found a nice collection...

Tags: Mobile, Fuss, Tool, Productivity, Web 2.0, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Marketing, Gil Yehuda

Blog posts 2008-10-06

eBay doubles down on payments as it buys Bill Me Later; Lays off 1,000

EBay on Monday revamped its corporate portfolio laying off 1,000 workers, or 10 percent of its workforce, and buying online payment company Bill Me Later as well as a Denmark classifieds company. The layoffs were largely expected, but the Bill Me Later purchase for $820 million in...

Tags: Payment, Amazon.com Inc., eBay Inc., Bill, E-business/E-Commerce, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Internet, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Yahoo: What happens if Google deal doesn't go through?

Yahoo's search advertising deal with Google, which is expected to increase the company's ability to monetize its Web pages, has been delayed to give the Department of Justice more time to evaluate it. This Google-Yahoo partnership has raised hackles from Microsoft as well as others, but the larger question is...

Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-06