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What if Steve Jobs ran GM?

What if Steve Jobs ran GM?Talk is cheapLet's watch the computer industry go into a prolonged slump and see what is in his spine.I'm saying this because some are serious about that.RE: What if Steve Jobs ran GM?We'd have one model that cost twice as much as a similar car...

Tags: Telsa, General Motors Corp., What-if Steve Job, car

Discussion threads 2008-12-10

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Apple WWDC dates released; Will Steve Jobs be there?

Apple has released its dates for its annual worldwide developer's conference, slated for June 8-12 in San Francisco. Of course, the blogosphere is already buzzing about the conference as the forum to introduce a new iPhone and new Mac operating system, called Snow Leopard. ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Steve Jobs, WWDC, Apple Inc., Blogging, Workforce Management, Operating Systems, Internet, Human Resources, Software, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-03-26

Apple beats for Q1; iPod sales strong

updated: Apple, which has grabbed headlines recently over the health of CEO Steve Jobs and its withdrawl from the annual Macworld conference, today reported a first quarter profit of $1.61 billion, or $1.78 per share, on revenue of $10.17 billion, beating Wall Street's estimates of $1.39 per share on sales...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple iPod, Analyst, Apple Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Desktops, Digital Music, Digital Media, Sales, Hardware, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-01-21

Breaking: Steve Jobs stepping down; stock halted

Breaking: Steve Jobs stepping down; stock haltedWhat a confusing and irrelevant post!How is stock halted?The reference article reads as follows:Apple AAPL CEO Steve Jobs will take a medical leave of absence until the end of June. Apple COO Tim Cook will take over for Steve Jobs until then. Apple shares...

Tags: Investment, reference article, Apple Share, Hormone Imbalance, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., stock

Discussion threads 2009-01-14

Dell shuffles management deck; Focuses on global units

Dell ended 2008 with a management shakeup. The company said Wednesday that it has realigned its business to focus on four global groups: Large enterprise, public, small and medium sized business and consumer, which is already set up as a global unit. Here's a...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Mark Jarvis, Smb/Sme, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Manufacturing, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-31

News to know: Jerry Yang, MLB.com, Mark Cuban, USB 3.0

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: Jerry Yang to step down as CEO, back to Chief Yahoo Larry Dignan:  With Yang out as Yahoo CEO, Steve Ballmer licks chops ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Jerry Yang, MLB, Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Information Technology, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, Mark Cuban, Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, USB, CEO, One Laptop Per Child Project, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-11-18

IE6 for Windows Mobile - Better, but not brilliant

IE6 for Windows Mobile - Better, but not brilliantKeep after themIt's incomprehensible that a 40 billion dollar company can't create an iPhone-type browser for windows mobile.Either the platform sucks or the programmers are inept.Steve Ballmer, are you listening?what a load of crap!quit your job please, for the good of the...

Tags: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Mobile, mobile, Opera 9.5, Opera Software ASA

Discussion threads 2008-11-13

Tech's economy careens into the great unknown

Trying to figure out where the information technology economy is going? Your guess is as good as mine. Or Steve Ballmer's. Or Steve Job's. Or Paul Otellini's. Or EMC's Joe Tucci's. Or Jeff Bezos'. The one trend that's emerging from a bevy of financial reports is that companies have no...

Tags: Financial, Recession, Information Technology, Economy, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Finance, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-24

News to know: Gates' new company, Apple, Android, Microsoft

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary-Jo Foley: Bill Gates founds a new tech company John Morris: Apple: Mac sales still strong, some "interesting ideas" for netbooks Sam Diaz: Steve...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Dana Blankenhorn, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Blu-Ray, Web 2.0, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Software As A Service (SaaS), Smart Cards, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Internet, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Emerging Technologies, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-23

News to know: Ballmer on Windows 7; T-Mobile G1; Google's 3Q

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ballmer: It's ok to wait until Windows 7; Yahoo still 'makes sense'; Google Apps 'primitive' Microsoft wants you to move: To IE 8, Vista... Ballmer: 'Windows...

Tags: Google Inc., T-Mobile G1, Microsoft Windows 7, Steve Ballmer, T-Mobile, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Outsourcing, Open Source, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-10-17

ManageFusion 2008

I'm sitting in the media workroom preparing for today's sessions at Symantec's ManageFusion 2008. The event is being held at the JW Marriott resort and conference center in the land of the Mouse, that is Orlando, FL. I'll be adding things to this post throughout the day as interesting things...

Tags: Software, Application, Symantec Corp., Software Virtualization Solution Professional, Steve Morton, Security, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-10-15

News to know: Cloud wars; Apple; Google; China is watching you

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Amazon launches pre-emptive strike against Microsoft’s planned cloud platform. Techmeme A new mystery: What's Microsoft got up its Office Live sleeve? Zack Whittaker:...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., IPO, Robots, Linux, E-mail, Digital Media, Financial Services, Emerging Technologies, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2008-10-02

Microphone support comes to the new iPod touch and classic

The biggest announced new features in the new iPod touch (2nd generation) are that it now includes a built-in speaker and hardware volume controls â€" serious omissions from the first model are now addressed. What wasn't mentioned in Steve Jobs' presentation yesterday was that that the iPod touch now also...

Tags: Apple iPod, Microphone, Apple Inc., Apple iPod Touch, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-09-10

Debut of Hyper-V, departure of Gates usher in new era for Microsoft

Debut of Hyper-V, departure of Gates usher in new era for MicrosoftNot even Bill gates is happy with MicrosoftStrange that you should incessantly spin them as compelling..... or are you being adequately compensated (free money, not software)?Bill Gates Sends Angry Email to Microsoft http://www.lockergnome.com/digged/2008/06/25/bill-gates-sends-angry-email-to-microsoft/Wednesday, June 25th,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, E-mail, Virtualization, cloud computing, Microsoft Corp., Hyper-V

Discussion threads 2008-06-27

How many people does it take to fill Bill Gates' shoes?

How many people does it take to fill Bill Gates' shoes?What's that about a camel?It will be interesting to see what kind of "horse" they come up with; I suspect that there will be ample confirmation of "apre Bill, le deluge." That, or Brooks was right all along.RE: How...

Tags: Bill Gates, Torre, Charles Torre

Discussion threads 2008-06-23

The CIO ledger: Pondering iPhone plusses and minuses

Apple launched a blitzkrieg of iPhone moves: You got a 3G iPhone, a cloud computing and storage service and enterprise support. But there are also a few productivity killers in there that would make an IT exec step back. What do you do? To...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Games, 3G, Web 2.0, Personal Technology, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-10

As SOA hype turns five, IBM turns to Smart SOA Social Network to bind communities of users

The global WebSphere ecology has trooped to Las Vegas this week for the IBM Impact 2008 conference, with a kick-off rally of sorts in the MGM Grand arena this morning. I saw Fleetwood Mac here at a Comdex, must have been 12 years ago. IBM has sure...

Tags: SOA, IBM Corp., WebSphere Ecology, PT, Smart SOA Social Network, Lotus Connections, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-04-07

News to know: Linux galore; Black Hat Europe; Vista reliability; Google and censorship

Notable headlines: Paula Rooney: Microsoft partners with open source Jaspersoft, Sourcesense Ubuntu's Shuttleworth: Linux server, client will be big in the cloud and mobile sectors Red Hat CEO: We haven't done a good enough job as an industry leader, or project leader ...

Tags: Black Hat, Google Inc., Mobile, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Semantic Web, Linux, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-26

Apple plugs Airport Extreme Base Station firmware flaw

Apple plugs Airport Extreme Base Station firmware flawWhen do you guys get to use your Apple stuff?It seems to me that you have to spend all of your time patching it. Doesn't Apple test stuff before they stick the big price tag on it? :(RE: Apple plugs Airport Extreme Base...

Tags: Workstations, Airport Extreme Base Station firmware flaw, firmware flaw, Apple Inc., AirPort Extreme Base Station, firmware

Discussion threads 2008-03-20

Blame Zuckerberg (and Twitter) for poor SXSWi keynote; Parents joining Facebook; Paramount movies go viral

A Facebook special of The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week… Blame Zuckerberg and Twitter for poor SXSWi keynote. By all accounts see Techmeme, Sarah Lacy's on-stage interview with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg...

Tags: Facebook, Idea, Twitter, Washington Post Co., Sales Strategy, Social Networking, Sales Force Management, Sales, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2008-03-10