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Many people, including my colleague Michael Hickins, have been writing about the importance of Google's Wave to the company and to businesses. But I'd disagree. It's not the product itself, which is being hit with decidedly mixed reviews during the beta test, that is important so much as the concept that the software represents.
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff's new book tells all about the company's birth and strategy.
For doom and gloom, see Sony's quarterly results. Outside of PlayStation 3 unit sales (fueled by new cheaper model) and financial services, this is a company that currently excels in shrinking revenue and expanding losses.
The year was 2009; the month, October. News came of the end of the last specialized consumer electronics device. The GPS, which had seemed destined to continue its existence, passed on at the announcement of the Google Maps navigation feature on Android 2.0. OK, a bit exaggerated, but not by much. T...
Juniper introduced a new chipset, router and network management platform in the hopes of overcoming Cisco's dominance in the IP-based switching market.
AT&T sues Samsung, LG Display, and AU Optronics for alleged price fixing in LCD panels; a judge dismissed Power.com's suit against Facebook; Google tries navigating EU copyright rules; ChoicePoint hit with $275,000 fine for data breach; and FCC moves ahead on net neturality, but with less unanimity than might initially be thought.
Netflix will make its video streaming service available to Sony PlayStation 3 owners next month. Given its existing Internet distribution deals for a variety of other devices, this latest arrangement should help the company lower operating costs and overall churn rates in coming quarters.
Every now and then I read an article so fundamentally smart that I want to hold people's heads down to get them to see it. One today is by Martin Peers of the Wall Street Journal, in which he observes how a good portion of Amazon's financial success depends on putting off paying its bills. And while he is right that eventually vendors won't put up with it, the company is still largely in retail, which is dependent on that delay between money in and money out. That's why Amazon has been working so hard to break out of the category, and why it must -- because time is running out.
I often think that the preoccupation with corporate earnings can even outshine their revenue issues. However, you can never do better than the amount of money you can bring in, and for SAP, the signs are not promising, particularly as its weakest area, software sales, is the one that makes all the o...
The FCC may facilitate a spectrum swap between TV broadcasters and wireless infrastructure vendors as a way of alleviating a looming scarcity of broadband wireless spectrum.
Windows 7 is sticking customers upgrading from Vista in an "endless boot loop" that is paralyzing their computers.
Google's new release of the Android operating system includes navigation features with which Verizon Wireless can further bludgeon AT&T.
I've written extensively about Apple's major hardware problems that seem to show up more often than the fanboys would care to admit. Now we've gone from iPhones and iPods overheating to apparent big issues with hard drives on the MacBook Pro.
If you've been reading this blog over the last few days, you'll have noticed our following signs on the panel and graphic chip front suggesting that PC vendors have a glut of inventory which could well mean sales (and earnings) disappointments come the fourth quarter. Now an iSuppli report indirectly suggests that the same slowing pattern may happen among cell phones.
NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson rang the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange Tuesday, but might have wanted to hammer Gartner analyst Jeff Woods instead, for giving an incoherent presentation.
