I don't think this really has many implications for CIOs to worry about, but since I've been half-heartedly following it in this blog up till now, I thought I should probably put the capstone...
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There is an article in the Seattle Times this morning discussing the ongoing regulatory fight over the Yahoo-Google deal, a fight which the reporter points out would probably never have happened...
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At a new, low, low price, no less! Actually the company denies that it is interested in Yahoo again, even as it works to derail the Yahoo/Google partnership. But Ben Romano at the Seattle Times has a...
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It's that time of year again; Gartner's annual ITXpo is underway in Orlando and the juicy tidbits are coming out from those bloggers lucky enough to be in attendance. I am not among them....
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Microsoft released this statement from General Counsel Brad Smith on the economic bailout package passed and enacted today: Congressional passage of the financial recovery package is a critically...
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I certainly hope we don't see many more articles in this vein coming out, which suggest that Information Technology may bear some of the blame for the current market crisis. The post, by the...
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As it seems inevitable that we are going to have a significantly down market at this point (previous prognostications over the sustainability of IT in recession or low growth economy are obviously...
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I think the recent release of Google's Chrome browser has opened a lot of eyes to Google's ambitions to break into the enterprise software market... an ambition that has been questioned on...
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Hewlett-Packard's bid to purchase it services company EDS, initiated in May, has finally born fruit after clearing regulatory hurdles in both the US and EU. One of the largest mergers in the...
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Microsoft has just announced the departure of Platforms and Services division president Kevin Johnson and the reorganization of the division into two new business units, Windows/windows live and...
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If you have half an eye on the markets today, you've probably noticed Yahoo stock going up like a roman candle again, on the strength of rumors that *shudder* the Microsoft deal to purchase the...
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In a move which surely has Steve Ballmer tossing chairs around the office this week, China has announced that it will be investigating the Redmond company for every other major political entity's...
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On cue, Senator Herb kohl, chair of the Senate Commerce Committee's Anti-Trust sub-committee, has stepped up to the podium and announced that the group will be rushing to scrutinize the impending...
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Did anyone coin that yet? Am I the first? I don't know who came up with the whole "Microhoo" thing but I am sure they got their fifteen minutes of fame and I hope to emulate their...
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© mike138 This AP article is basically just another of those "Look at how all these rustic industries are being transformed by the power of information technology!" but I think it's...
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In all fairness, the latest Microsoft run at Yahoo at least makes some sense; you wonder if someone finally got to Ballmer with a reality check, or if it's pure happenstance, and Icahn's...
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Microsoft finally withdrew itself from the brink of madness yesterday by formally withdrawing its proposal to purchase Yahoo, a conclusion which always seemed the likely one but which puts an end to...
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Not all of their pledges, perhaps, it's a bit early yet to see what the ultimate outcome will be from their surprise February announcement committing to better relations with the open source...
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If Microsoft's grand announcement last week of their new, broad commitment to openness and interoperability standards was intended as a sop to the European Union Court of First Instance to...
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You have to know I've been waiting all week to use that title. It looks like Yahoo has declined the first pass of Microsoft's buy out offer today, or so reports the Wall Street Journal, citing...
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It was only a matter of time, but now the geeks over at Slashdot have gotten wind of Nick Carr's The Big Switch, and they're not kindly disposed to it. This is in contrast to some of the...
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A couple weeks ago I linked to a Dan Farber article on 3Tera's AppLogic grid processing application-a scalable, on-demand, commercially available processing platform for businesses that want to...
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This isn't really the point of his article, but I have to both say that I am jealous, and to point you to Dan Farber's tantalizing glimpse of Nick Carr's upcoming book. Oh, yeah, 3Tera...
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March'07 has started with a bang!!!, Excerpts from the press release: "Requirements for Performance Management and Business Intelligence solutions are increasingly converging," said...
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