Monday - January 5, 2009
Well, this is CES week, and I am eagerly waiting to fly to Las Vegas, participate in the Tiger Build Your Own PC race, and spend the following three weeks relearning how to walk. This year should be interesting because I'm getting weekly notices that the hotels are lowering room rates, and one of the vendors is letting me use one of its pre-paid rooms for free. This suggests a show like the last Comdex, where I'll actually have a great time but folks will wonder whether it is the last CES. This week I'll talk about what I expect to see.
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Monday - January 5, 2009
Google, Yahoo, Cisco, Intel, AMD and other companies are slashing employees and cutting expenses. And then there's Salesforce.com. During Thanksgiving week, the San Francisco-based software company began driving a big white truck -- a traveling billboard -- up and down Highway 101 as part of a major recruiting push.
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Sunday - January 4, 2009
Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition, Vol. 35, a periodic discussion and dissection of software, services, SOA and compute cloud-related news and events with a panel of IT analysts. In this episode, our guests make their top five predictions for IT in 2009.
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Wednesday - December 31, 2008
Dell, the No. 2 PC maker in the U.S., has fired two top executives as part of a major restructuring designed to help close the gap with its largest competitor, HP. Chief Marketing Officer Mark Jarvis has stepped down; President of Global Operations Mike Cannon will retire, effective Jan. 31. Cannon will be replaced by Jeff Clarke, currently head of Dell's business client product group.
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Tuesday - December 30, 2008
Taiwan's economics ministry said on Tuesday it asked DRAM chipmaker Powerchip to resubmit plans for a company turnaround as the government tries to engineer a rescue for the struggling sector. Powerchip, along with other major DRAM makers in Taiwan, recently submitted plans for turning around its operations, after posting massive losses in recent quarters amid the sector's worst ever downturn.
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Monday - December 29, 2008
Microsoft first talked about pay-as-you-go computing years ago, but a recent patent publication suggests the software giant is moving ahead with an alternative strategy for expanding PC access around the world. The application, filed on Dec. 25 with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, provides a glimpse of what could be Microsoft's vision of the future of computing.
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Monday - December 29, 2008
Picture yet another Windows vs. Mac ad, with the dweeby PC guy and the ultracool Mac dude engaging in their usual schtick. Now picture a Jimmy Carter-esque peacemaker parachuting into the shot, getting the two to shake hands, and you'll understand the rationale behind HP's new class of MediaSmart home servers.
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Monday - December 29, 2008
This summer, Bob Lyons was tapped to lead Avaya's contact center division. The new general manager and vice president of customer service applications joined the company at a crucial time. It was in the midst of reorganizing its operations around three business units: the contact center, unified communications, and small and mid-sized business applications.
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Monday - December 29, 2008
People don't like to change; particularly as we get older, we take comfort in the status quo and start avoiding things that are new and different. As we get older we gain more power and this generally places the most conservative people in positions of authority. Let's look at four companies this week and how they are likely to change in 2009/2010.
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Sunday - December 28, 2008
Todd Pierce recently put his job on the line. To meet the computing needs of 16,300 employees and contractors at Genentech, Pierce took a chance and decided not to rely entirely on business software from Microsoft, IBM or another long-established supplier that would have let Genentech own the technology. Instead, Pierce decided to rent these indispensable products from Google.
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