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Monday, May 19th, 2008
Perceptive Pixel is one of our 2008 top 10 technology startups. The video below shows this remarkable company's technology in action, but you can also read about it here.
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Scott McNealy, who was the longtime CEO of Sun Microsystems and still is company chairman, has been absent from the company's JavaOne conference in San Francisco this week.
A longtime fixture at the event even after stepping down as CEO in 2006, McNealy instead is in Washington, DC on business ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Every week, it seems, some device maker or cellular carrier is announcing its iPhone killer. The latest is the HTC Touch, whose main claim to fame is that it has beat Apple's iPhone to the 3G market (3G being the set of faster cellular networks than what the current iPhone ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Most analyst firms were excited about Windows Vista in 2006, when it was on the verge of being released. But for several firms, that enthusiasm withered as it became clear that Vista is a flawed OS that few users actually want.
Gartner has been among the most consistent doubters of Vista, ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
This week, Parallels announced that it has sold 1 million copies of Parallels Desktop, a utility that lets Intel-based Macs run Windows alongside Mac OS X. Although EMC's VMware unit now offers a similar product, it was Parallels that pioneered this application.
And this application has played a significant role ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
You have to wonder what's going on a Microsoft when it comes to the issue of keeping XP available past the planned June 30 cutoff date.
The company clearly knows that Vista was hardly its best moment, an ungainly OS forced out the door after years of delay so Microsoft would ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
It's all very noble. MIT researcher and pundit Nicholas Negroponte challenges the PC industry to develop and sell a $100 PC for poor countries so their populations can be computer-literate and thus more able to compete in a global economy. He then puts his money where his mouth is and ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
At a press briefing Tuesday, Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner put some meat on the bones of Microsoft's "software plus services" strategy to deliver cloud computing capabilities to customers. Turner reviewed Microsoft's current on-demand offerings -- mainly Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, plus hosted versions of Exchange and SharePoint -- ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
In the last week, there's been a lot of noise around cloud computing, thanks to Microsoft's announcement today of its Dynamics CRM Online service launching and the joint Google-Salesforce.com announcement last week that paired Google Apps with Salesforce.com's CRM tools.
[For analysis of Microsoft's Tuesday news concerning Dynamics CRM, at which ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
The FCC this week approved a plan to create a nationwide emergency alert system that will deliver text messages to cell phone users should an emergency, disaster, or attack occur. The Warning Alert and Response Network Act (WARN Act) of 2006 gave the FCC the task ofcoming up with new ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Despite Yahoo's ostensibly deft maneuverings this week, analysts suggest that being swallowed by Microsoft is the most likely fate for Yahoo.
Just yesterday, Yahoo said it is testing Google search ads, a deal some interpreted as the latest move on Yahoo’s part to avoid a hostile takeover by Microsoft.
Now, ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
The cloud was everywhere, except in the Las Vegas skies, at the Gartner ITXpo conference this week. The cloud computing sessions were full and plentiful, yet the mood was hardly energetic.
Several Gartner speakers exhorted the mainly-IT audience to accept the cloud as an unstoppable force, and not ignore it or ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
The situation is not that dire just yet, but signs are beginning to emerge that Silicon Valley is not immune to the difficulties affecting the U.S. economy. And whereas Valley VC's once tended to primarily act locally, they're now eyeing global markets.
"During the first three months of the year, ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Refuting conventional wisdom, a European study cited in this NY Times article claims that "Internet infrastructure of the United States is one of the world’s best and getting better."
The study, done on behalf of the World Economic Forum, looked at variables such as market factors, the political and regulatory environment, ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Open source has grabbed a big part of the server and app dev market. Apple has redefined the mobile device market and rendered Windows Mobile devices beyond passé. Firefox has blunted Internet Explorer's dominance, reversing the ActiveX hegemony for interactive Web apps, and removing one more barrier for widespread Macintosh ...
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