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Apple iPad Announcement – Apple iPad #iPad #Apple #SteveJobs
Apple releases information on iPad. The facts about the Apple iPad and Apple’s official release. After listening to Steve Jobs this morning (post is here), it is clear that their vision of technology meeting liberal arts is some of the most relevant product vision that I’ve seen in a decade. Of course the Apple vision ...
Breaking: Apple Tablet IPad – Apple is Biggest Mobile Device Company
It’s official! The Apple Tablet is here – It’s called the iPad. Apple Computer has launched their biggest new product since the iPhone and it’s the Apple Tablet according to all kinds of media hype. They sold our 250 millionth iPod Last quarter they had 250 million visitors to their stores App store: over 140,000 ...
Did Sun Founders Failed In The End? – Scott McNealy’s Final Memo
Update: I’ve been getting tons of emails privately from SUN fans, employees, and ex employees. SUN deserves the credit for many great things. I’m critical because I admired SUN for the brilliance and contribution. They had their miss steps that cause the current situation. In the end they contributed to the computer and software engineering ...
Cisco The Apple of Networking? NOT – The Polycom Juniper Partnership Implications
Over the weekend the Wall Street Journal broke a story that Polycom was teaming up with Juniper Networks to deliver a different approach to video conferencing (aka teleprence) as compared with Cisco’s highly touted and proprietary high end video conferencing solution dubbed Telepresence. Juniper and Polycom say the global market for visual communication managed services ...
Google Q4 Earnings Not Bad At All – Google is Still Unstoppable
Google (GOOG) reported Q4 earnings today. They reported revenues of $6.67 billion for the quarter ended December 31, 2009, up 17% vs the fourth quarter of 2008. Earnings for the quarter came in at $1.97 billion, up from $348 million for the same quarter of 2008. Earnings per share were $6.13, up from $1.21 a ...
Changes in the Datacenter and Cloud – NewScale Allows Pioneers in Cloud to Work with IT
NewScale, a company that develops cloud services solutions, just last week announced record financial and customer results. This week, NewScale is announcing the release of newScale 9, which enables IT organizations to provide to their customers a self-service ordering and lifecycle management for both desktop and data center services, across cloud, virtual and physical compute ...
Skype Has A Big Chance To Own The Social Web
I ran across this blog that had the story “Skype’s New Dawn” written by Jeremy Wagstaff a technology columnist, author and journalist, writing for The Wall Street Journal and the BBC. What a great ‘angle’ on Skype. Jeremy writes: Pretty much everyone I know is on Skype—more so than Facebook—and their investment in it is ...
China Targets Bay Area Companies – Was Cisco Targeted? Did China Get The Goods on Cisco
As news about the China attacks continue to surface, numerous news reports confirm that Juniper was not attacked but instead just targeted. The Wall Street Journal has a story that paints a different picture in China with respect to Google. Here we have everyone weighing-in an attempt to “cloud the main issue “cyber-espionage”. This brings ...
HP Microsoft Poney Up $230 Million & Team Up To Drive Cloud Adoption
According to new reports Microsoft and HP are expanding their 25 year partnership. According to the briefing (which we were not part of) over the next three years, the two companies will invest $250 million to help customers and partners improve the customer experience for developing, deploying and managing today’s IT environments, and building next ...
War Against The West – Google China Situation
Here is a round up of some of the facts being reported around the web. Obviously to me this is a war against the west. Google has gone above and beyond the call of duty to comply with the China marketplace requirements. The China government is way out of bounds because its policies are too ...