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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...
Policy papers rarely break new ground, but they often help policy-makers justify their actions. The technology trade group IEEE just published one of those, 'Ten Ideas for Policymakers to Drive Digital Progress," that reads very much like a wish list the Obama Administration might have drawn up. ...
It was only last month that I had the Q&A with Jim Handy about the memory industry shake-up. The shocks are still continuing, as Spansion filed for bankruptcy. This follows the resignation of the CEO in the wake of the company trying to restructure its balance sheet and Spansion Japan having already filed for bankruptcy. So what happens now?
Democratic lawmakers say there's gold in them thar hills. Or in them thar mountains of electronic waste from PCs, cell phones and other pieces of obsolete IT hardware. Paradoxically, it might be the hardware manufacturers themselves--Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba, Apple and Nokia, to name a few--who migh...
Flash memory vendor Spanion files for bankruptcy; the U.S. Supreme Court turns down an FTC request to reinstate an antitrust suit against Rambus and overturns an antitrust ruling against AT&T over DSL pricing; the EU won't allow Intel to defend itself in oral arguments in antitrust charges because the company missed the deadlines; Intel tries to get Psion's netbook trademark overturned, Microsoft sues TomTom for patent infringement and puts a chill down the back of Linux vendors; and plaintiff lawyers try to reinstitute the class action status of the Vista Capable suit.
Salesforce.com is more than simply the market leader for software-as-a-service (SaaS). While others (notably NetSuite) came to market sooner, Salesforce.com was the first company to successfully sell the idea of hosting software in its own data centers and delivering it as a service via the Internet...
CNET got a hold of the Yahoo reorganization memo that CEO Carol Bartz issued yesterday. But by focusing on organizational issues, is she overlooking some of the even more fundamental issues that the company must face?
CoreBrand, which has been measuring corporate brand and financial performance for years, pulled together for us the top ten technology brands. Whether measured as perception of brand strength or as the contribution that brand makes to market cap, you may find some of the results surprising.
Steve Ballmer just can't quit bashing Yahoo co-founder and ex-CEO Jerry Yang. During Microsoft's annual mid-year analyst meeting held this morning, the Microsoft CEO quipped, "I don't want to be known as the Jerry Yang of this episode." The episode in question is Microsoft throwing good money aft...
Cisco, EMC and Dell have done such a good job of filling data centers with their servers and storage devices that in order to keep growing in new markets, they've either got to disrupt their own installed bases or expand into adjacent ones. For the time being at least, these dinosaurs have chosen th...
EMC is used to having the enterprise storage space by the throat, but knows it has a lot of work to do before becoming a household name among consumers, to whom it would like to begin selling a range of storage devices and services. That may explain why it seems to be trying to intimidate the compet...
Autodesk has mostly been in the news as the former employer of Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz. But the company has had other news: financial problems attributed to the current economic malaise. Last month, the company lowered its fourth quarter forecast and announced that it would cut ten percent of its workforce. And now word is that the company is subletting at least 80,000 square feet at two of its San Rafael, Calif. properties:
Dennis Crouch, an associate professor at the University of Missouri School of Law and one of the most popular bloggers on patent law, has done another of his interesting analyses. This time the subject is the practical life span of patents â€" and the bottom line is that it is shorter than what the law allows.
Intel sues Nvidia over whether the latter can sell chipsets for new Intel CPUs; a California law banning the sale or rental of violent video games to minors has been struck down; the Vista Capable lawsuit is no longer a class action; one search engine sues Google for antitrust; Google wins privacy suit; and two software vendors that sell fart applications for the iPhone are now in a dispute.
According to a report from ThinkEquity Parterns, Apple is snapping up such quantities of RAM chips, in preparation for the next generation iPhone, that there will be a shortage. But not all analysts agree, and there are some things about the story that sound -- well, difficult to believe.
