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- Michael Hickins has written about technology and business for BNET, InformationWeek, InternetNews.com, eWEEK -- where he was executive editor from 2007-2008 -- The Curator, Pseudo.com, Multex Investor, Reuters, and Conde Nast's WWD.com. Hickins is the author of The Actual Adventures of Michael Missing, a collection of short stories published by...
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- Nokia And Microsoft... But How About Android?
- Putting together the Microsoft-Nokia alliance announced last week with Gartner's new figures on the smartphone market, and you would think the entire device world revolves around Nokia's focus on keeping runner-up Research in Motion at bay. And at first glance, you'd be right. The alliance does a...
- Blog posts 2009-08-17
- Apple-Google Rift Growing
- The second shoe â€" or in this case, Apple â€" has fallen. Google CEO Eric Schmidt has resigned from Apple's board, barely three days after the FCC sent letters requesting information from both companies (as well as from AT&T). But while this may seem like a reaction to the Obama...
- Blog posts 2009-08-03
- Microsoft's Thirty Percent Solution
- Most observers have dismissed the Microsoft-Yahoo alliance as a non-starter for both companies. Yahoo looks like the 50-year-old schnook who took a second mortgage on his house to buy himself a Corvette, while Microsoft seems to be buying an illusory bump in the ComScore ratings game. My...
- Blog posts 2009-07-31
- Taking Stock Of Cloud Computing
- Contrary to popular preconceptions, cloud computing isn't the stuff of start-ups and fringe companies â€" it's really big business run by very public companies (and I don't just mean Salesforce.com and VMware). My colleague Erik Sherman has an interesting take on the cloud computing business model, but putting aside his...
- Blog posts 2009-07-30
- Yahoo On Sunset Boulevard
- Yahoo's search deal with Microsoft is the Internet's version of Sunset Boulevard, with Yahoo as the downtrodden young writer and Microsoft as the aging actress with whom he hooks up, giving him access to her wealth and Bing I mean bling, but confining him to a hopeless future. ...
- Blog posts 2009-07-29
- IBM's Buy Stunts SAP's Intelligence
- IBM's planned acquisition of data analysis software specialist SPSS for $1.2 billion in cash adds an important element to its array of applications intended to help companies run more efficiently, while depriving rival applications vendor SAP of a key partner in a market segment that IBM claims is growing by...
- Blog posts 2009-07-29
- Qualcomm Smartbooks More Like Smartphones: CEO
- Qualcomm has identified at least one significant difference between its proposed smartbook and the netbooks offered or announced by the likes of HP, Acer, Gateway and others. Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs told Kara Swisher during the Fortune Brainstorm conference that the company's smartbooks will resemble smartphones more than PCs, especially...
- Blog posts 2009-07-29
- Why Is Network Solutions Covering Up Breach News?
- Richard Nixon taught us that the cover-up is worse than the crime. Tylenol taught us that everything is forgiven if you're willing to fess up. So I have two questions for Network Solutions management: Why did you wait almost two...
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
- Apple's October Surprise A Christmas Gift For Google?
- Apple is set to launch a tablet-like device in October, in time for the 2009 holiday season. If it's anything like what's expected, its native features plus those that could be annexed from Google would be enough to swamp Microsoft on a number of fronts. The most...
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- Four Ways Google Is Killing Microsoft
- Google has engaged Microsoft in a long-term death-match on a series of fronts, as Dan Frommer and Nicholas Carlson at Silicon Alley Insider noted this morning, in a piece on ten areas that Google and Microsoft are fighting it out. But I disagree with four areas where...
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- Verizon To Rival Apple, Nokia, Qualcomm?
- No, Verizon Wireless isn't about to start selling phones or chips, but it is going to start selling mobile apps, and that move will throw it into a whole new competitive set and further scramble a market that has been recently roiled by Google and is growing more competitive by...
- Blog posts 2009-07-24
- SAP Claims 'Security Breaches At Salesforce.com'
- Incredibly, SAP would still rather talk trash about software-as-a-service SaaS than bring its own innovative products to market. During an interview on SAP TV (approximately 57 seconds into the video), SAP's CTO, Vishal Sikka, tried to portray SaaS as the "cheap" and unreliable bastard child of surviving...
- Blog posts 2009-07-23
- Google Wave: 'Like Real-Time E-Mail. On Crack.'
- Developers are finally getting their hands on the developer preview of Google's Wave, which means we can finally get some first-hand accounts of what it's really like to use, unfiltered by Google's own programmers. Wave, demonstrated by Google at its I/O developer conference in May of this...
- Blog posts 2009-07-22
- Moore's Law Reaching Statute Of Limitations
- It turns out that Gordon Moore never predicted that processing power would continue to double every two years. What former Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel co-founder Moore wrote for Electronics Magazine in 1965 was that the costs of electronic components will be sufficiently depressed by demand to allow...
- Blog posts 2009-07-22
- Sybase Mobilizes Enterprise Cloud Computing
- The wheel of fortune is spinning in the right direction for Sybase these days, making CEO John Chen's decision to move the company into the mobile platform business seem positively prescient as enterprises move towards adoption of mobility and cloud computing. Sybase's results also demonstrate the growing...
- Blog posts 2009-07-21
- Apple App Store Vs. Android Vs. BlackBerry Vs. Ovi Vs….
- While Vic Gundotra, Google's developer evangelist, argues that mobile applications will be sold through Web browsers rather than app stores controlled by handset makers, most mobile apps today are sold through app stores. Microsoft Windows Mobile for which there is no app store at this point aside,...
- Blog posts 2009-07-21
- Apple To Google: It's Not You, It's Me
- Was that a note of bitterness I detected in Google’s statement when Apple bounced its Google Voice from the iPhone app store? We work hard to bring Google applications to a number of mobile platforms, including the iPhone. Apple did not approve the Google Voice application we submitted six...
- Blog posts 2009-08-03
- AT&T: Your World Of Hurt Delivered
- AT&T was behind Apple's decision to pull the Google Voice app from the iTune store after all. This isn't conjecture -- there is a smoking gun, which is the following response by an Apple customer service rep, posted by Google Voice developer Sean Kovacs: ...
- Blog posts 2009-08-04
- The Year Of Tweeting Dangerously
- It's been a tough few months for Twitter and its users, as the social network service has been downed by several outages in recent weeks, dismissed as irrelevant by David Letterman and been used as the basis for a lawsuit by a landlord. But the biggest danger...
- Blog posts 2009-08-14
- ODF Not Implicated In i4i Suit
- Contrary to several reports, i4i's patent suit against Microsoft's infringing use of "custom XML" won’t affect the Open Document format. The patent that i4i is protecting with its suit is a process for separating content and meta-data in different silos â€" something that Microsoft does with its...
- Blog posts 2009-08-13
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