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Forget software as service. Today's crop of small biz software blows the doors of consumer-grade offerings from Apple and Google with a kind of openness that the big guys only talk about.
By bidding on 3PAR, HP has turned Dell's would-be acquisition of the storage company into a bidding war. The question is who needs to snap up the company more.
By allowing a manager with responsibility for the app store, Apple has created a conflict of interest and left regular app developers at a strategic disadvantage.
When Demand Media commissions articles, they can be really silly. But if the company is going to be serious about profitability, it will have to reconsider a content model that can scrape bottom.
Places and Foursquare don't do the same thing -- in fact, no one is quite sure how people are using them.
Verizon, AT&T, and other telecom and cable representatives are holding secret meetings to discuss broadband policy. Chances are, no good for anyone else will come of this.
Playboy (PLA) enters the popular mobile pornography market with its new Apple (APPL) iPad app, but with no nudity. Now digital users will have to read it just for the articles.
RIM bought QNX and cquired not only an operating system, but an extensive network of big corporations who create commercial and consumer devices that could connect with RIM devices.
On the surface, HP and Dell both reported growth in revenue and earnings. But the two are completely dependent on corporate spending that will probably be short-lived.
HP's earnings were in line with the pre-announcement meant to soften Mark Hurd's resignation. Details show it floating on replacement purchases, not the diversification it needs for the future.
Verizon's whinging about mobile video traffic and net neutrality suddenly makes sense given plans for its own video-on-demand service -- and the possibility that Verizon could kneecap its rivals.
Intel will buy security software vendor McAfee. The plan: To put security onto hardware so it runs fast and gives Intel a big competitive advantage.
Microsoft is making a big push into mobile gaming, and Apple should take notice -- Microsoft could make iPhone gaming dominance a thing of the past in short order.
Facebook's new location based feature is a total ripoff of services like Foursquare and Gowalla. But those smaller geo-location players showed up at launch anyway to pay their respects.
Wired magazine declared in its latest cover story that the Web is dead. But the story relies on misleading data and ignores the realities of human behavior.
