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 the global powerhouse software company SAP - whose current value is at $54 billion dollar (market capitalization). Jim and Bill were visibility tired, but they didn’t show it.  After hours of jet lag and late nights honing and finalizing SAPs business and technology strategy, the two CEOs showed excitement and punch to their new business strategy. Bill and Jim Show Jim Snabe talked about the agile and entrepreneurial sp

Joe McDonald with the Associated Press, today reported: China's top Internet regulator insisted Friday that Google must obey its laws or "pay the consequences," giving no sign of a possible compromise in their dispute over censorship and hacking. "If you want to do something that disobeys Chinese law and regulations, you are unfriendly, you are irresponsible and you will have to pay the consequences," Li Yizhong, the minister of Industry and Information Technology, said on the sidelines of China's annual legislature. That's a position that has no room for negotiation. Yet Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, earlier this week was reported by Jerry Dicolo at the Wall Street Journal, saying, "We are in active neg

In case you haven’t heard, there’s a little gathering of geeks taking place in my home state, starting this week, called South by Southwest. Naturally I’ll be down there attempting to bring relevance from the chaos which generally is that event. I’ll be assisted by Michael Sean Wright, Robert Scoble, Leo Laporte and a cast of dozens. You’ll be able to find my primary coverage here at SiliconANGLE, but also showing up on the TWiT Network, The Inquisitr, Nicefishfilms, Rizzn.com, and elsewhere. In the mornings, I’ll be roaming the halls of the convention center hunting down interviews, and in the afternoons, Michael and I will be anchoring a few hours of live coverage from the Texas Coworking Studios, followed by Leo’s regula

[Editor’s Note: Pay attention here – chances are that if you do, you’ll be more interested in the iPhone as well. –mrh] It feels like it’s been more than two months since the iPad was announced. The masterful PR craze that preceded it was only matched by the public backlash. Now that the waters are quieter, I would like to ponder a little about our upcoming iLife. Do we really need a tablet? Tablets are nothing new. Back in 2004, when I was still studying, I was the proud owner of a convertible Acer Tablet PC. I took notes, read comics, ebooks and watched series during class(muted and with subtitles of course!). In 2006, Intel introduced the Viiv, which was another attempt at introducing the tablets to the mainstream consume

Heavy Rain is a pivotal game. On its face, because it appears to be exactly the type of game we’ve been asking for: an emotional, character and story driven piece. In many ways, this is the flagship that shows what games could be. It is a major undertaking for Sony, who backed French developer Quantic Dream during the 4 years of development, calling it their “most important release.” Heavy Rain is the studio’s third game. Both previous games, The Nomad Soul and Fahrenheit, have been praised for their efforts in movie-like presentation and immersion, but were criticized for their lack of “game” aspects. According to the game’s Director, David Cage, the game is "a very dark film noir thriller with mature themes.” It te

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.  TelecomTV was very critical of this overhype. I reported five major elements that Cisco was going to announce an end-to-end network play which would either will be announced individually or collectively as one big “grand” vision. Here is what I heard and posted last Friday Here is what appears to be breaking next week: 1) An “AppleTV” style cable set top or edge consumer box based on their Scientific

Old Media is dying. Grab your popcorn, you can now watch. Looking to strike while the iron's hot, the current king of aggregation Gabe Rivera has now launched a wider media site called mediagazer.com. It's still finding it's legs so I'm not sure if it's just for social media or whatever the printed is pushing. I do think this is the perfect time for this. With old media biting their nails, someone from the blogosphere should stand up and assure the ancient giants how much we still care about them. This is a destination site that’s ripe for a syndication model. I can't imagine Gabe not doing this as a business model, so maybe some dinosaur media publisher will give him an offer down the line.

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 reported by FierceTelcom, Information Week, and released by Verizon today. The announcement came as Cisco was preparing a major announcement for Tuesday, believed to be its entry in the 100G race. Google has already said it plans to test 100G networks in selected regions. You can take the 100G piece out of the Cisco equation and the notion that Verizon will be standing with Cisco at their podium.

When Google discovered it had been hacked it quickly pointed the finger at sophisticated hackers acting on behalf of the Chinese government and vowed to hit back by stopping censoring its search results in China. But was Google really the victim of highly expert Chinese hackers? Nick Farrell, on TechEye, reports that it could have been the work of amateurs. According to a new report from McAfee the Operation Aurora attack targeted the source code management systems of companies, allowing them to siphon source code as well as modify it. ... According to the paper, the hackers gained access to software configuration management systems (SCM), which could have allowed them to steal proprietary source code or surreptitiously make cha

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 for the approval by influential blogs. In addition more and more the press release is becoming more irrelevant every day and social media is taking center stage. The world is moving toward transparency and this is part of that movement. Over the past few months, we've been getting inquiries from companies to get coverage.  Some of the companies PR firms I have a positive relationship with and know th