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From the looks of things, rumors that EMC was considering a sale of its 84% stake in server virtualization market leader VMware were wrong. If the companies' leaders are to be believed--and there's no reason to doubt them at this point--they see the fates of their companies as being inextricably ...
Google has announced that it will enter the world of behavioral advertising. Although the company is trying to frame the move as "making ads more interesting," chances are that the driving factor is trying to shore up revenue at an uncertain time. The big question is, even with assurances of the ability to opt out, whether this will only add fuel to the fire of criticism that has been following the company.
Cisco, Microsoft, Avaya and Nortel are familiar names, but John Combs would like to make sure people keep Shoretel in mind as well, even if he has to throw a few sharp elbows to get a seat at the table. Combs is the chairman and CEO of Shortel, which makes IP-based unified communications (UC) sys...
Hewlett-Packard's latest 10-Q, for the first fiscal 2009 quarter that ended January 31, 2009, shows the continued march of the company away from product sales and toward services. Net revenue was flat for the period, with the quarter in 2008 showing $28.5 billion and, in 2009, $28.8 billion. The big difference is in the revenue split between products and services â€" and a big drop in some other numbers
There's been another round of churning in news about Apple. First, Valleywag reports a layoff of 50 salespeople from the enterprise group. Then Apple denied the rumors. Yesterday, Tom Krazit at CNET said that additional sources had confirmed the layoffs, despite Apple's public statement to the contrary. The immediate reaction has been speculation on whether Apple might be lying and what, if anything, this could mean about its business. I think the real question is whether Apple is performing one of its periodic strategic adjustments that in this case will essentially write off interest in corporate sales and continue its move toward becoming a virtually pure-play consumer electronics company.
Femtocells, a technology little-known outside the wireless world, promise better indoor cellular service and a new way for wireless carriers to reduce costs and increase revenues without having to resort to price wars. Femtocells are devices connected to broadband Internet connections that allow ...
Apple and Psystar get closer to discovery; TMI countersues Audiovox for alleged patent infringement; Psion countersues Intel over netbook trademark; Software Tree latest to sue Red Hat over JBoss; RIM recording employee phone calls to protect IP
IBM got a leg up on Microsoft this week at the CeBIT show in Hanover, Germany, when it performed a "groundbreaking technology demonstration," moving a live SAP application from one cloud-based server to another. This would hardly be considered groundbreaking in the context of an on-premise data c...
Microsoft's Windows 7 will introduce far fewer features (beefed up security and improved mobility behind the firewall just about sums it up) than one might expect from a new operating system. The new OS also ditches the concept of "Ultimate Extras," a poorly-executed effort to up-sell users to th...
Many have apparently given up on the near-term future of PC sales. Not so Jon Peddie head of Jon Peddie Research. Having been looking at graphics, multimedia, and technology entertainment for a good 30 years, and working with others who also have decades of experience in various markets, they're well plugged in. What the firm has been hearing of late suggests that even vendors are hopeful for the higher ends of the PC markets, and so it issued a report on the subject. We called to get some details
Competition is far from over in the chip sector, as illustrated by the recent flurry of moves by semiconductor manufacturers. Intel's decision to outsource some chip manufacturing to Chinese foundry TSMC may seem curious given the current economic downturn, but TSMC fabs are set up to produce chi...
A combination of new federal dollars flowing into the economy and the financial straits in which states find themselves is driving the market for governance, risk and compliance (GRC) software. The heady days (for GRC vendors) of Sarbanes-Oxley are pretty much over, because most public companies ...
According to a regulatory filing, Google's top executives received million dollar bonuses for helping the company see at least some earnings growth in the financial black hole known as 2008. But let's not forget that holiday bonuses went out the window at the company not three months ago. From one point of view, at least, the savings more than paid for the executive perk.
Google's motto may be "Don't do evil," but a recent attempt to defund a non-profit critic, suggests that "See no evil" and "Hear no evil" might be appropriate as well. Add other actions that have raised the eyebrows of critics, and experts think that the company is tarnishing its brand.
On the heels of Informatica's acquisition of Applimation, I asked Adam Wilson, Informatica's vice president of product management and marketing, what he's learned about the art of integrating technology from newly acquired companies. Informatica describes itself as a vendor of "enterprise data in...
