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- Novell: Quietly developing some momentum
- Novell: Quietly developing some momentumNovell is on life support[i]He added that Microsoft is buying up to $100 million in SUSE certificates in $25 million chunks.[/i]Novell will be arround as long as M$ provides the cash.The best bet is on companies that stand on their own feet and built everything from...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-29
- Microsoft, eat your own dog food
- Microsoft, eat your own dog foodReally?"Using hidden aspects of Windows to advantage Microsoft's own applications has been disallowed and behavioral remedies including disclosure demanded."I can't find these in the DOJ settlement, please help: http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f9400/9495.htmWe can of course look to the EU which did demand documentation of a small subset of...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- Apple puts on back-to-school full court press
- Apple has always been a big player in the education market and this year it appears to be grabbing more share by selling Macs with iPod discounts among other moves. Let's connect a few dots: AppleInsider reports that RBC analyst Mike Abramsky is projecting...
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Might Office be where Microsoft gets socked with Chinese antitrust charges?
- Might Office be where Microsoft gets socked with Chinese antitrust charges?So now removing your own product is anti-competitive???[i]limiting consumer choice by restricting the availability of Windows XP on new PCs[/i]What? Seriously... what? Was Chevrolet being anti-competitive when they stopped making the Camaro?Besides, if you believe all the anti-Vista FUD, I...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Wireless, wireless everywhere
- Wireless, wireless everywhereMy problem with wirelessis, as you say, those $39.99 routers. I've yet to have one that has lasted more than a year. And the expensive ones are, well... expensive.I also find it amazing how many people use either no security or WEP. I'd say they constitute at least...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
- (Photos: Hydrogen Road Tour gets into gear)
- (Photos: Hydrogen Road Tour gets into gear)Where's the Hydrogen?I'll tell you how to get enough hydrogen to run the world for millenia. There are certain, very large areas of the world, typically volcanic, which have a massive heat gradient. One such is Kamchatka, on the Eastern border of Siberia. Here...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- Top Russian Internet advertisers: Ford, MTS, Megafon, GM, Vympelkom
- Mindshare Interaction published a list of top advertisers in Internet sector in Russia Federation, compiling the data for the first half of 2008. Ford Motor Co led the way with $4.6 mln spending, followed by Russian mobile operators MTS and Megafon, then by US automaker General Motors, another mobile operator...
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- SAP: Oracle price-gouges customers even more than we do
- Doug Merritt, SAP's EVP and GM of Business User Global Sales, predictably came up with quote of the day on day one of the BusinessObjects influencer summit. During a 'fireside chat' in a near freezing air conditioned room with fellow Irregulars Mike Krigsman, Sandy Kemsley and Brian Sommer and myself,...
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- When the going gets tough, will the tough go to Web 2.0?
- A few months back, in a post over at the FastForward Enterprise 2.0 site, I pondered if new, on-demand technologies would change the dynamics of economic downturns. The post garnered some interesting reactions, and it's still extremely timely, so I thought I'd share it with readers here as well: ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- 2008 GMC Yukon Hybrid
- Photo gallery:2008 GMC Yukon HybridThe 2008 GMC Yukon Hybrid is either the first guilt-free full-size SUV or an example of unrestrained excess. The Yukon is big, with three rows of seating and a cliff-like front-end. And it uses one of the bigger engines available in the Yukon line, a 6-liter...
- Product reviews 2008-08-08
- The social media corporate identity crisis
- The recent "hijacking" of the ExxonMobil brand for Twitter use made a whoosh as the news traveled around the socialsphere. It also brought into view a lot of questions around brand validity and responsibility in terms of social networking. Joel Postman, principal of Socialized, authored this guest piece on the...
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Social media and 'green': two fashion trends to avoid
- I love the ideas behind social media and the move towards all things green but if you want evidence our industry is fashion driven then look no further than John Furrier's 'so what?' thumbs down to Delicious2. Even so, sooner or later, technology has to deliver and it is a...
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- Why there's no Mac tablet this quarter
- The Mac blogosphere wants a tablet Mac for this quarter's "product transition." Here's why they won't get it. Good news: the Internet isn't making us stupid Apple's CFO mentioned a product transition driving gross margins down. Most commentators don't seem know what gross margin means, and...
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- Microsoft brings Live Search to cars
- Microsoft brings Live Search to carsMicro SearchWowee!They may improve search rankings afterall.Microsoft has Ford Sync, GM has OnStar, Lexus has a Satellite hookup, Nissan has had a talking car for years.And now if Balmer can learn to speak Chinese. Japanese, Tiwanese, and do the math he may sell a few...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-30
- GM-Free (zip)
- GM-Free lets you create amazing artwork, you dont have to have great design or computer skills. Anyone from kids to silver-surfers can master Grid Magic in minutes. GM-Free is a fully featured version of the award-winning Grid Magic graphics design software that's free for personal use. Download and it and...
- Software downloads 2008-07-30
- Dell Studio Hybrid, new Inspirons reviewed
- Dell Studio Hybrid, new Inspirons reviewedIs Dell cool yet?Am I correct in assuming these are the results of Dells latest marketing strategy to compete with Applehttp://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=858RE: Dell Studio Revives 70's GM Car InteriorDesigning a computer to be hidden, Dell today unveiled the "Studio"..."We got a great deal from Wall-mart on...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-29
- (Photos: Pushing cars from pump to plug)
- (Photos: Pushing cars from pump to plug)How Ironical....I consider it the greates irony that this conference was held in California... The same California that won't let another electrical generation plant to be built and can't keep all it's existing A/Cs running... Just where to they think they are going to...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- Apple's coming notebook transition
- Apple is readying a major product transition. We know because they told us so. In the quarterly financial crime call chief financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer referred several times to a "...future product transition which I can't discuss today". That was interesting for two reasons. First, the...
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Yahoo, Icahn settle proxy fight: Icahn on board
- Yahoo, Icahn settle proxy fight: Icahn on boardIcahnThe cancer of the communications industry. He's almost so big the body can't reject his attacks and soon the it will die along with it's customers, not to mention all the jobs lost. Maybe he will sell it's soul to another country before...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- PC shipments solid in second quarter; Apple No. 3 in U.S.
- PC shipments solid in second quarter; Apple No. 3 in U.S.WellWell, that shows that Apple is still not significant worldwide,which is not surprising !MisleadingAlthough Apple slightly edged out Acer in US sales, it comes nowhere close to Acer in international sales. So to claim that Apple topped Acer in shipments...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-17
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