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For Sale: Palm. The Buyers: HP, Cisco, and Google?
Palm announced their quarterly results – bad really bad. Eric Savitz has a post on it with commentary from analysts. Palm stock had a brief run up yesterday at the bell and shortly afterward prior to the company’s call. Then the Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein opened his mouth – the stock plummeted. The news had ...
Cisco Says Its All About Security & Video – Announces Borderless Network Vision and New Switches
According to Forbes online, Cisco is announcing specifics on their Borderless Network vision with specifics on new switches. These specifics come one week after Cisco’s overblown router announcement that was supposed to change the Internet forever. We at SiliconAngle were reporting that Cisco was going to provide more ‘edge’ products as part of that big ...
EMC Does Deal with QLogic – Fibre Channel Switching Finding It’s Place In Datacenters – Data & Storage Networking
The convergence story is playing out on the main stage with the moves in the Fibre Channel market as reported by Network World this morning. EMC does deal with QLogic adding them to the list of approved EMC vetted solutions (thanks @stu from EMC for the clarification). EMC’s sales force will now be able to ...
Oracle Who? SAP Co-CEOs Slam Oracle – They Are The Old Way
Under a beautiful day in Silicon Valley while Jonathan Schwartz (ex Sun CEO) blogs away as a mere moral just weeks after Sun has been consumed by Oracle, SAP introduced the new five-week old partnership of co-chief executives Jim Snabe and Bill McDermott. Jim Snabe and Bill McDermott are sharing the role of CEO at ...
Twitter Data Suggests A New Class Of Web User – 80/20 Rule Applies
A report by Mashable that walks through data researched by Barracuda Networks Labs speaks volumes on what I call a new class of web user. The fanatic, engaged early adopter. We (SiliconAngle labs) were storing and analyzing twitter up until July 2009 until the project moved over to Bing. The reported data from Mashable is ...
Cisco Announced Router Upgrade – No New SetTop Box or Telepresence
As reported on Friday I was reporting a huge announcement from Cisco that was dubbed “The Internet will change forever” hype. If you want to track the live blogging of the announcement go here from Scott Raynovich. It was the general opinion of all journalists that this made Cisco look bad for overhyping this announcement. ...
Cisco Wants To Rule Your Living Room – Launching New High Speed Network With Set Top Box March 9
Update: Cisco Announces upgrade but no set top box and no telepresence. Three out of five of this report announced by Cisco. Reactions were not that favorable. Update (March 8 2010): Cisco’s Future Is Already Here — Looks like Verizon, Juniper Networks, NEC, and Finistar are demonstrating trials on the eve of Cisco’s big announcement ...
SmartPhone Wars – Same As Browser War? Microsoft Windows Phone 7 "We Are A Consumer Product"
Last night I attended a small private briefing held in San Francisco by Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 team. My expectations were very low. I was pleasantly surprised. Microsoft has some work to do and they know it. They had a humble and confident swagger. This morning it hit me. This is the browser war playing ...
Beyond the Press Release – Announcing Startup CEO Posts – Transparency and Direct Messaging
Today we are launching an experiment. Starting today startup CEO’s can post their opinion, vision, and their "angle" on the market they are going after. Why? Over the past few months we’ve noticed that startup CEOs wanted to get their message out about their vision and value proposition in a way not dependent on begging ...
Mobile Product Strategy – Get To Market First As A Priority -Mobile Fragmentation Discussion
In a post by Richard Wong from Accel Partners he talks about and shares his opinion on the Mobile space specifically fragmentation. It’s a solid post worth reading. I agree with most of it except Ray’s point about unifying force that he says will never come. Mobile Innovation Cycle I’ve talked about our mobile innovation ...
