February 07, 2008 (5:00:00 PM) - 3 months ago
Cisco told investors on Wednesday exactly what they didn't want to hear: that growth slowed dramatically in January and may not rebound for several months.
February 07, 2008 (4:00:00 PM) - 3 months ago
In his first earnings call since taking the reins at Time Warner last month, CEO Jeffrey Bewkes delivered the vision for change in the media conglomerate that investors had been counting on.
February 07, 2008 (3:00:00 PM) - 3 months ago
Forrester just released a report that should be required reading for enterprise software vendors who insist on inflicting the 20th Century on their customers. According to Forrester, "software licensing and pricing continues to be marred by complexity, soaring maintenance costs, and a lack of flexibility and alignment with business goals."
February 07, 2008 (2:00:00 PM) - 3 months ago
An interesting finding emerged from a recent Reg reader study. It concerns a cause and effect that is pretty obvious once it is highlighted. Put simply, IT departments operate much more smoothly and efficiently if IT staff are adequately trained.
February 06, 2008 (10:00:00 PM) - 3 months ago
When Intel released its first microprocessor in 1971, the 4004 processor had 2,300 transistors. Tukwila, the next generation of its Itanium processor due at the end of the year, will have 2 billion.
February 06, 2008 (9:00:00 PM) - 3 months ago
Google might be able to stymie Microsoft's bid to buy Yahoo by forging a deal to run Yahoo's Web search operations or buy a minority stake -- but even that risks the ire of antitrust regulators.
February 06, 2008 (8:00:00 PM) - 3 months ago
Business Objects and Cognos have long been considered the leaders in business intelligence platforms. But in a surprising new report, Gartner ranks Microsoft ahead of those companies in its ability to execute.
By placing the world's largest vendor of commodity software as one of the BI market leaders, Gartner is demonstrating how quickly BI is moving from a specialized, expensive technology into a commodity itself. The rapidly commoditizing BI market, many industry observers believe, is among the reasons Business Objects accepted a $6.8 billion buyout offer from SAP and Cognos took a $5 billion buyout offer from IBM.
February 06, 2008 (7:00:00 PM) - 3 months, 1 week ago
George Orwell's 1984 envisioned a world where individuals were controlled and monitored by centralized government. In such a world, the individual had no place to hide from governmental omnipresence.
February 06, 2008 (6:00:00 PM) - 3 months, 1 week ago
The great corporate graveyard is filled with hundreds, maybe thousands, of technology companies that managed to go public and then fizzled. Still, most of them weren't going anywhere and never should have gone public to begin with.
February 06, 2008 (2:00:00 PM) - 3 months, 1 week ago
IT organizations will pony up decent size pay raises this year, despite the past few shaky economic months, thanks to continuing business investment in networking initiatives and internal application development work.
February 06, 2008 (10:00:00 AM) - 3 months, 1 week ago
Internet media company Yahoo said on Monday its music service will now be handled by Rhapsody America, an on-demand subscription service run by RealNetworks and Viacom.
February 06, 2008 (6:00:00 AM) - 3 months, 1 week ago
Today, the non-profit organization in charge of the Internet's fundamental naming structure finally began migrating its root servers to IP version 6.
February 05, 2008 (11:00:00 PM) - 3 months, 1 week ago
Sometimes change--any change--is good.
For a company hobbled by cultural and management problems, a $44.6 billion hostile takeover bid from Microsoft may be just the kick in the pants Yahoo needs to rejoin the fight against Google--and potentially Microsoft.
February 05, 2008 (10:00:00 PM) - 3 months, 1 week ago
Nvidia snapped up Ageia on Monday, with plans to add Ageia's PhysX technology to its GeForce graphics chips.
February 05, 2008 (9:00:00 PM) - 3 months, 1 week ago
Dell will begin offering Intel's "Penryn" processor as an option on several notebooks within a week or so, according to sources close to the computer giant.
February 05, 2008 (8:00:00 PM) - 3 months, 1 week ago
Panasonic showed technology on Monday that could shift the digital photography trend of high-dynamic range photos off the computer and directly into a camera image sensor.
February 05, 2008 (7:00:00 PM) - 3 months, 1 week ago
Who would be the most tech-friendly president?
The short answer: it depends. Do you like the idea of Net neutrality so much that you'd hand the Federal Communications Commission the authority to levy open-ended Internet regulations? Do you support pro-fair use changes to copyright law, which many programmers and computer scientists do--but which practically all software and video game companies oppose?
February 05, 2008 (6:00:00 PM) - 3 months, 1 week ago
Microsoft's unexpected marriage proposal to Yahoo has been the talk of the high-tech town. Who would have thought a possible geek betrothal could rival the coverage of Angelina and Brad?
February 05, 2008 (5:00:00 PM) - 3 months, 1 week ago
As I swept through Kent and Calais on a Eurostar last week, the financial markets again threw some entertainment my way in the shape of the SocGen debacle.
February 04, 2008 (5:00:00 PM) - 3 months, 1 week ago
Transmeta, the erstwhile x86 chip competitor, is coming under attack from shareholders.
