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- No surprise: Firefox 3.1 beta 3 planned for early January
- It's no big surprise that the Mozilla team decided for sure to release a third beta of Firefox 3.1 before moving to release candidate mode. That was all but voted on at last week's meeting I thought but Mozilla "corporate" PR folks informed me that no decision...
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- Firefox 3.1 beta 2 delayed, beta 3 now scheduled*
- The Mozilla team had decided to delay beta 2 and release a beta 3 in order to resolve bugs and garner more feedback before the early 2009 ship. An "uncooperative tree" and 15 remaining bugs has delayed the release of beta 2, though developers are confident that...
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- Nortel's rerun: Another purge, another restructuring
- Nortel on Monday purged its executive ranks--Chief Marketing Officer Lauren Flaherty, Chief Technology Officer John Roese, Global Services President Dietmar Wendt and Executive Vice President Global Sales Bill Nelson are all leaving Jan. 1--and announced yet another restructuring amid a weak earnings. Continuity and Nortel are two...
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- Windows 7 to arrive by 2009 holiday season
- Expect to see Windows 7 right around this time next year. CNET reports that during a technical session at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in Los Angeles, Microsoft director Jim Howe gave a presentation that seemed to confirm that Windows 7 will be on PCs by next...
- Blog posts 2008-11-07
- Epson Artisan 800
- The Epson Artisan 800 printer is a multifunctional printer that can also copy, scan, and fax documents. The $299 device is faster than other inkjet printers, and we like the large LCD screen and the built-in CD drive, but it's severely marred by buggy software and flimsy components. We spent...
- Product reviews 2008-11-06
- Cisco's Chambers breaks out economic downturn playbook; Eyes cost cuts as demand dries up
- Updated: Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers said Wednesday that the company has its economic downturn playbook out and aims to cut $1 billion in costs this fiscal year as demand among customers slows. Chambers said Cisco expects its fiscal second quarter sales to fall 5 percent to 10 percent. ...
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- Software as a service: It should be the best of times, but it isn't
- It's a big week for the software as a service industry: Salesforce.com is establishing itself as a leading cloud computing provider, NetSuite is planning to take on SAP head on and Success Factors is upping its outlook. But underneath the surface there are more than a few questions marks lurking....
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- Private browsing added to Firefox 3.1 beta code
- Private browsing was added to the Firefox 3.1 pre-release code today, just hours before the scheduled code freeze on beta 2. Private browsing is referred to as the "Don't Leave A Trace" feature because it allows users to hide online activities and one's surfing history. Getting...
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
- Dell plots more cost cuts
- Dell is planning on additional cost cutting measures including forced time off. According to the Austin American-Statesman, CEO Michael Dell sent a memo outlining more cost cuts. The paper reports: Dell said the company will consider a range of options to reduce its costs, including a...
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
- SAP: Claus Heinrich resigns from executive board
- In an email sent to all SAP employees today, Claus Heinrich announced that he intends to resign from the company on 31st May, 2009 the same date when co-CEO Henning Kagermann intends to leave the company. Heinrich's reasons for leaving are not entirely clear though he says...
- Blog posts 2008-10-31
- I like Windows Mobile and am not ashamed to admit it
- I like Windows Mobile and am not ashamed to admit itWeb Sites/Upgrades/EnhancementsThere are also a number of sites that you can link and sync your data with. www.plaxo.com is one of them and upgrading to the new TouchFlo 2D is easily done. You can visit http://www.ppcgeeks.com or http://www.xda-developers.com/index.php...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-30
- News to know: Windows 7, Azure, SAP, Google book scans, RIM
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ed Bott: A first look at Windows 7's pre-beta PDC release Mary-Jo Foley: Windows 7: What's coming for business users Larry Dignan: Windows 7: Will it...
- Blog posts 2008-10-29
- SAP scraps year end guidance: why I'm not worried. Yet.
- When I first heard about SAP's expected Q3 results I was as shocked as anyone. Earlier today, the company's executives added color on the results and explained what it is doing to steady the ship and ride out the storm. The fact it has yanked the year end forecast has...
- Blog posts 2008-10-28
- Windows 7: Will it completely freeze Vista deployments?
- Windows 7: Will it completely freeze Vista deployments?Give it a restThere are zero risks to waiting. Nobody upgrades OSes. You get them when you lease/buy new hardware.At worst, companies might have to keep their XP computers an extra year and for certain users buy them a bit more RAM to...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-28
- Windows 7: Will it completely freeze Vista deployments?
- If Windows 7 is Vista done better, will go beta in early 2009 and built on a foundation that's working today why wouldn't you wait for it? The case for skipping Vista and going to Windows 7 is looking better by the minute. Ed Bott has the...
- Blog posts 2008-10-28
- Tech financing: Are defaults becoming a worry?
- The financiers of technology projects are seeing defaults rise and that ups the ante for customers looking for credit and the vendors extending loans. The Wall Street Journal connects the dots. In September, 0.86 percent of equipment loans--that includes office gear--were written off. That's...
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- Sharp Aquos LC-52D65U
- In November, Energy Star will update its certification for televisions with a new standard, version 3.0, that for the first time takes into account actual power used when the TV is turned on. We've tested numerous HDTVs this year that comply with the new standard, and the Sharp LC-52D65U is...
- Product reviews 2008-10-24
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-10-24
- Office 2007 SP2 due in early 2009
- Office 2007 SP2 due in early 2009Windows team shouldn't talk of upcoming realease features too soon"All customers — not just a small, select few beta testers — want and need to know what kinds of features and fixes are on the Microsoft product roadmaps."Just to have competitorslike Apple implement...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-23
- State of the enterprise tech economy
- Almost a month has passed since technology demand fell off dramatically; the stock markets tanked and worry about the credit crisis moved from Wall Street to Main Street to your company. Despite this perfect storm it's hard to generalize the enterprise technology economy. Simply put, it's not all gloom and...
- Blog posts 2008-10-20
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