Oracle Following Salesforce.com's Services Lead
Oracle is following in Salesforce.com's footsteps by trying to use knowledge-based applications to strengthen its call center management software offering.
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Amazon Q2 Revenue Up, Income Down
With its Q2 earning announcement, Amazon has shown its ability to bring in the dollars even in the face of a tough economy. What it's having a difficult time doing is keeping the cash once it's in.
Google Voice Can't Win For Losing in Regulation
There's an irony in what Google Voice has been through recently. One moment, it's being "unfairly treated" by Apple and AT&T, being crowned with the role of victim. However, that has lasted about as long as a graphic on the company's search home page. Now some are grumbling how Google is ignorin...
R.I.P., Patent Rules Changes, Hello Patent Reform Bill Push
The patent rules changes, proposed under the previous director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, have been officially put down by the same agency under its new head. But that's far from the end of attempts to change the way the patent process currently works.
How Google's Ecosystem Changes Everything
Google is creating an online ecosystem that will supplant the desktop and the hegemony of Microsoft.
Tech Law: EU Condition on Panasonic-Sanyo Deal, Apple Settles with Eminem, More
EU says OK to Panasonic buying Sanyo so long as they sell a European battery plant; voters try to stop Diebold from selling its voting machine division; Apple and Eminem's publisher settle; Psystar defense attorney for Apple copyright suit walks away from the case; and Venezuela looking to bar violent video games and toys.
EMC and Riding the Decentralization Wave
I was reading about EMC subsidiary Iomega announcing an NAS appliance for home and SMB users, when I had a sudden realization about an industry trend. For years, companies from Cisco and EMC to SAP have tried moving toward selling to SMB companies. I used to think that it was the simple reaction to...
Android Trumps Nokia's 'Not Available For Download'
Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney thinks Android will overtake iPhone but not Nokia in worldwide smartphone sales, but he's only half right. Android will zoom past both by 2012 thanks to superior distribution and the sleepiness and unearned cockiness of Nokia.
Google DRAM Study Offers Promises, Problems to Industry
The DRAM industry has depended on major technical advances to increase capacity and lower manufacturing costs in long-term strategies to make money when they can and grit their teeth in the down cycles when the red ink flows like the Nile when it floods, spilling over to mark all around. Now a multi...
Dell Android Phone Adds Push on Apple to Diversify iPhone Sales
The rumors are flying that Dell will be bringing an Android-based smartphone to the U.S. as early as next year. And given that it's working with AT&T, Apple is left still working only with one carrier while Google-based devices surround the market.
Amazon Feels Pressure on Kindle
After keeping its e-book readers U.S bound, if you'll pardon the pun, Amazon is now going to sell the Kindle internationally and is also dropping the price to $259. But coming after a price drop just three months ago, the moves suggest that the company is feeling pressure from a growing number of co...
Google for Apple: Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt
My colleague Michael Hickins yesterday noted some of the peculiarities of a partnership between Google and Verizon beyond my question of whether Verizon will ultimately help move Android into a position competitive with the iPhone. In looking at his analysis, I realized that Apple's reactions of late to Google indicate that the former is scared that its existence is threatened. And it is -- just as thoroughly, if not more so, than that of Microsoft.
SAP, HP Forging Closer Ties
Struggling enterprise software giant SAP is drawing closer to HP as it attempts to stave off the inevitable decline of its traditional business. The companies are going to announce an extension of their existing partnership in the fast-growing business analytics application space next week during SA...
HP OpenView Wikipedia Page Defaced [Updated]
HP's OpenView Wikipedia entry was defaced.
Google, Verizon Make Strange Bedfellows
Verizon Wireless said it will introduce two smartphones this year running Google's Android operating system, a remarkable development between two companies with a history of deep mutual antagonism.
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