Netbook Sales Slow, But Not By Much
There’s a lot of armchair analysis around the story today that netbook sales have slowed. Most are attributing the “sharp reversal in the trend” to the growth of the iPad. The problem with this…
Moving Up The Stack – VMWare and Salesforce.com Team Up for Turn Key Cloud Applications as a Service
By John Furrier
Today, VMWare and Salesforce.com teamed up to announce VMforce an enterprise Java cloud. In an effort to productize general-purpose cloud computing services VMware and Salesforces produce a joint product called VMforce. The new solution…
Redux – for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad ?
So be it. If the only way to get good video on the iPad, iPhone and iPod is via apps then bring it on. Redux carried over their brilliant video entertainment to Apple and…
Verizon Drops Nexus One. Is Google Pondering Being a Telco?
By Tom Foremski
Google’s strategy with its Nexus One mobile phone is in trouble as Verizon drops plans for support. Bloomberg’s Amy Thomson reports: Without a Verizon partnership, Google loses access to the carrier’s more than 90…
Emulex March Quarter Earnings
Summary While Emulex reported better than expected EPS results, the tone of its earnings call was not upbeat. Weak demand in Unix markets, combined with revenue of $102.2M, which was at the lower end…
Breaking News: Berkeley Police Bash Down Gawker Media Bloggers Door, Seize Computers
Twitter is abuzz at the moment – as you may have heard, Gawker Media has been in possession of an unreleased fourth generation iPhone, and blogged to great fanfare the details of what the…
It Is US Census time, What about IT Data Centers?
By Greg Schulz
With the 2010 census underway, not to mention also time for completing and submitting your income tax returns, if you are in IT, what about measuring, assessing, taking inventory or analyzing your data and…
Where is Your Ning Community Going to Live?
If you’re one of the hundreds of thousands or even millions of people running an online community on Ning, it’s time to pull out your credit card or look for new digs. The company…
What the FTC and Facebook Can Learn from the Final Fantasy Franchise [Make Menus More Fun]
This Sunday, Chuck Schumer (Democrat Senator from New York) held a press conference around a letter he wrote to the FTC asking for regulation around privacy settings on social networks. From TheHill: "Hundreds of…
Facebook Insights: Not Scary and Not Effective (Yet)
I wrote a post the day of Facebook’s f8 developer conference trying to mitigate the outrage and panic expressed by a lot of Open advocates. Since I wrote that post, a great deal has…