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Erik Sherman is a freelance writer, editor, and photographer. His work has appeared in such publications as the New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Fortune, Inc, Newsweek Japan, the Financial Times, Chief Executive, Advertising Age, and CIO Insight. Before going into journalism, he was head of product marketing at a publicly-held...- more about Erik Sherman »
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- Research articles 2006-06-05
- Tech Companies Whine About State Mandates
- There's been talk for years of state governments pushing for taxes on Internet product sales by out-of-state companies. And now you can add pressure for electronics companies to pay for recycling when their products reach end-of-life. But what the industry is about to learn is that it's actually been largely...
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- Apple's iPhone Activation Problems … Again [UPDATED]
- When Apple first released the iPhone, neither that company nor AT&T was prepared for the business onslaught, so you could forgive the gross miscalculation that left people frustrated when they bought a unit and then couldn't start using it. Then, a year later, Apple came out with a new version...
- Blog posts 2009-06-22
- Google Adds Enterprise Contact Features to Apps [UPDATE]
- In a telephone conversation today discussing Google's strategy for Google Apps, director of products Matt Glotzbach mentioned a new set of enterprise specific enhancements for contact management in Google Apps. This is significant because contact management, at least according to the users I've spoken with, has been considered a big...
- Blog posts 2009-07-01
- Microsoft Xbox Strategy: Everything Old Is New Again
- Microsoft is making a big play at E3, the gaming trade show, about its strategy for the Xbox. I'm sure it was a polished explanation. Why not? It's a strategy the company has been discussing for at least six years. The question is if the "new" push -- whether on...
- Blog posts 2009-06-02
- Google Stepping Up Public Policy PR
- Google has been a high profile target in the public eye. It has faced growing antitrust issues, and there has even been evidence that some growing perceptions of Google could damage the company's brand. The practical evidence of the pressure is showing in the form of an advertised position for...
- Blog posts 2009-05-20
- Novell Considering Being Acquired [UPDATED]
- According to J.P Morgan analyst John DiFucci, Novell is considering selling off either parts of the company or the entire business to create more value for shareholders. by Erik Sherman
- Blog posts 2009-06-19
- Fluther to Maholo: Stop Copying Us
- There's a lot of interest in getting questions answered on the Internet. And now there's a flare-up between two of the companies in this space. Fluther has accused Maholo of wholesale theft of the company's content, but the whole thing is shaping up as a cross between a business rivalry...
- Blog posts 2009-06-02
- What's Really Going On in Oracle, Sun Deal?
- Some investors have been complaining, and filing suit, over the proposed Oracle acquisition of Sun, claiming that the latter is going too cheaply. Now, as the SEC filings are appearing, Sun's position is something like the person of easy virtue, who started saying "Oh, I'd never," and then ended up...
- Blog posts 2009-05-15
- Tech Law: Microsoft Loses, Laptop Vendors Sue NVidia, Google Trademark Suit, More
- Uniloc gets $388 patent infringement judgment against Microsoft; laptop vendors suing NVidia; Texas trademark owners suit targets Google, AOL, MySpace, others; L'Oréal loses French trademark suit against Google; RealNetworks countersues Hollywood; and Shazam customers including Apple, Amazon, and Verizon face patent infringement suit by Tune Hunter. by Erik Sherman
- Blog posts 2009-05-18
- Dell Net Drop May Be Payback
- Dell's stock price has taken a small hammering as its margins have slumped. So far I've seen this attributed to expanded marketing expenses probably associated with its move into Asia and to a slowing economy. But I wonder to what degree falling margins and the need for the ongoing "turnaround"...
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Google Invests More Money in Start-Up of Co-founder's Wife
- You'd think that a billionaire like Google co-founder Sergey Brin would be happy to channel some investment money into his wife's start-up. And you'd be right. Only, believing in the old business phrase of Other People's Money, he's doing so not just out of his own pocket, but those of...
- Blog posts 2009-06-19
- Google, Yahoo, Facebook Face Congress
- Governmental interest in online behavioral advertising has been heating up since last summer when the House Energy and Commerce Committee issued letters to online ad industry leaders about whether they track consumer web surfing to better target advertising. The process continues as Google, Yahoo, and Facebook appear before two House...
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- Klingon High Tech
- Sometimes the world seems so strange that you have to step back and wonder. From what I can tell, there is an upsurge of high tech for … wait for it … Klingon aficionados. by Erik Sherman
- Blog posts 2009-05-24
- Apple Server Farm and 3 Consumer Reasons For It
- The rumors of Apple planning on a billion dollar server farm are hot and heavy. It may be so much talk, the general idea might be right but the amount grossly exaggerated, or it could be accurate. Apple certainly has need for servers -- maybe management's hoping that more hardware...
- Blog posts 2009-05-28
- Supreme Court to Hear Bilski, Make or Break for Many Patents
- Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Bilski v. Doll, which means that virtually every industry, and especially high tech, will be waiting to see how the United States will handle method patents. If the court upholds the ruling of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, an...
- Blog posts 2009-06-02
- Google Killers? Maybe Text Search Killers
- Every time there is news of a new search engine, pundits start asking the question, "Is it the Google killer?" Although this seems like more of the tired horse race journalism that James Fallows described in his 1996 book, Breaking the News, there actually is something to it. Only the...
- Blog posts 2009-05-26
- Can Apple Have A Netbook Its Way?
- The rumors are flying that Apple is preparing a tablet form netbook, as noted Larry Dignan at our sister site ZDNet. And as my colleague Michael Hickins so correctly notes, the company has multiple good reasons to make the push. But I think ultimately it are doomed to failure, caught...
- Blog posts 2009-05-22
- Credant Uses Funny Numbers in PR Campaign
- Statistics are a dangerous tool in the hands of the unwary or uncaring. If you don't know how they work, you can be conned, and if you don't care about how you use them, you can fool at least some of the people some of the time. In high tech,...
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- IBM 4,169, Google 58: Top 2008 US Patentees
- There's nothing that can make you sit back, scratch your head, and wonder at the correlation between innovation and patents granted than looking at the top 300 list published by the Intellectual Property Owners Association, or IPO. This summary of how many utility patents companies received in the US last...
- Blog posts 2009-05-18
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