Nokia Failing To Connect With U.S. Culture

Nokia leads the world in handset sales but can't make a dent in the U.S. because it simply can't connect here the way it has around the world.

• Sep 3, 2009

EMC 'Stitching' Its Stack With Kazeon

EMC, once a boring old storage company, has visions of Microsoft scalps dancing in its head. Its ambitions have been obvious ever since it acquired Documentum to compete with Microsoft's SharePoint, but the acquisition of Kazeon announced yesterday could be the yarn that finally holds it all togethe...

• Sep 2, 2009

Tech Law: SAP Loses, Man to Pay in iPod Scam, Psystar Sues Apple, More

SAP to pay $138.6 million for patent infringement; SCO gets reprieve, judge orders jury trial to decide whether SCO or Novell owns UNIX copyright; Michigan man ordered to pay Apple $650K for iPod scheme; Psystar sues Apple to sell Snow Leopard; and Switzerland tells Google to take down Street Views

• Sep 2, 2009

Does It Matter Who Wins the Browser Wars?

There was a time when browser wars grabbed the attention of everyone following the tech sector, with the struggle between Netscape and Microsoft. These days, the struggle goes on but with a much larger field. My colleague Michael Hickins sees Chrome as aggressively advancing, showing that Google understands the needs to be on all desktops. However, I'd have to disagree on two counts. First, Chome still has a miniscule portion of market share. Second, given the emerging structure of computing, does it really matter any more?

• Sep 2, 2009

August Tech Job Cuts Way Down from July

In a welcome reversal from July, planned job cuts in the tech sector dropped precipitously -- so much so that you might develop a touch of vertigo. It was a better than 88 percent drop from the previous month, far outpacing the overall economy in which planned job cuts were 21 percent lower in August than July, according to figures from Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Here's a summary of the year so far:

• Sep 2, 2009

Google Wave Starting To Crest

Google is releasing Wave, its new collaboration tool, to a limited number of businesses and schools, as it builds towards the release of product that could give enterprise customers a real reason to abandon Microsoft productivity applications.

• Sep 1, 2009

Google's Chrome-Grown Win

Google's Chrome browser is gaining market share and quickly emerging as one of its most important assets in the battle to control the Web browsing experience.

• Sep 1, 2009

eBay to Sell Most of Skype Stake -- How Unsurprising

Here's an old truism in business: the big majority of mergers and acquisitions never deliver the value they promised. That's not anecdotal, but the finding of one study after another, usually indicating that upwards of three-quarters of M&A activity doesn't deliver to shareholders. So the fact that eBay has announced that it's selling Skype to an investor group for $2.75 billion isn't a surprise, other than as an admission that the deal had never been a good idea.

• Sep 1, 2009

Apple Dances Around Overheating Problems, So Who's Surprised?

Apple is claiming that reports of overheating and exploding iPhones is all a matter of outside pressure. In other words, Apple says it's all the fault of users. But carefully crafted language, denial, and then further silence may not be enough to keep the lid on a problem that has been developing for years.

• Sep 1, 2009

Apple Wants More Chinese Carriers, Signs of Global Strategy Shift

There's been news that Apple is looking to get out of its exclusive arrangements with AT&T in the U.S. And it seems that this move indicates a global strategic shift. According to a Dow Jones story, the company's deal with China Unicom, which I mentioned last week, isn't an exclusive one. The change indicates Apple's tacit admission of two major changes in its business environment.

• Sep 1, 2009

SEC Investigating Apple Share Trading?

Apple may have surpassed Google for the near-a-new-regulatory-investigation-every-moment award. According to a HuffPo piece written by Dan Dorfman, the Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating four separate periods of trading in Apple shares.

• Aug 31, 2009

Sony Will Include Google Browser on Vaios

For the last year, Google's browser market share has been languishing at the roughly under 2 percent it had within the first week of launching a year ago. That's not good news for Google given that it wants people to adopt its announced-but-still-a-gleam-in-the-developers'-eyes operating system that will make Chrome the front end to Linux and focus on netbooks. So it's interesting that the Financial Times learned that the company has made a deal with Sony to distribute Chrome on Vaio PCs.

• Aug 31, 2009

Microsoft Injunction Appeal Heats Up

As the date for Microsoft's appeal of the i4i patent infringement win and the court-ordered permanent injunction against selling infringing copies of Word, the briefs are flying and things are becoming clearer. One of those is that, should Microsoft lose, a lot of companies, indeed, might also be vulnerable to charges of infringement.

• Aug 31, 2009

Apple's Fickleness Reflects On Us

Apple is likely to pull the rug out from under AT&T's exclusive iPhone arrangement, marking yet another decline in the company's increasingly unethical and narcissistic corporate culture.

• Aug 31, 2009

Android, Not Apple, Is The Big China Deal

Apple's deal to provide China Unicom with iPhone handsets is the headline, but Google's Android deal with HTC may prove bigger in the long run.

• Aug 28, 2009

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