| Brainstorm Tech: Getting down to business |
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:46:00 PDT
Source: CNET News.com - Business Tech |
Fortune's three-day Silicon Valley confab focuses on technological change and its effect--good and bad--on the business world. |
| Video news' future: Deja vu all over again? |
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:32:00 PDT
Source: CNET News.com - Business Tech |
When a collection of A-listers gets together at Stanford University to debate the future of video news on the Internet, I had this odd feeling that we'd been here before. I was right. |
| Checking the horoscope of VC exits |
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:46:00 PDT
Source: CNET News.com - Business Tech |
A group of venture capitalists size up the tech market's outlook for the foreseeable future in an economic downturn. |
| Microsoft speaks on Games for Windows Live changes |
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:03:00 PDT
Source: CNET News.com - Business Tech |
Interview with Microsoft's Kevin Unangst on Games for Windows Live news |
| Earnings alert: Yahoo earnings drop |
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:32:00 PDT
Source: CNET News.com - Business Tech |
Plus: Mac shipments set Apple record...Google misses profit expectation...Microsoft earnings don't wow. |
| So when do we get over with it and declare Google a monopoly? |
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:09:00 PDT
Source: CNET News.com - Business Tech |
Antitrust scholars say that big numbers don't tell quite the entire story. Call it what you want. In the meantime, it's got Microsoft flummoxed trying to figure out what to do. |
| Games for Windows Live goes free |
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:34:00 PDT
Source: CNET News.com - Business Tech |
Microsoft announces updates to Games for Windows Live |
| Details emerge on user-generated games on Xbox Live |
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:29:00 PDT
Source: CNET News.com - Business Tech |
Microsoft will give game creators a piece of the profit if their games sell. |
| Microsoft's 'photo op' moment at open-source conference? |
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:16:00 PDT
Source: CNET News.com - Business Tech |
Software giant needs to engage with open source at the code level, not the conference level. |
| The attribution problem |
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:14:00 PDT
Source: CNET News.com - Business Tech |
As open data, creative writing and media, and code merge, we're going to increasingly need to reconcile the issues that matter most to the communities who own the copyrights to their respective bodies of work. |
| SanDisk: Windows Vista not optimized for solid-state drives |
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:01:00 PDT
Source: CNET News.com - Business Tech |
Featured links from the CNET Blog Network
SanDisk: Windows Vista not optimized for solid-state drives--SanDisk says Windows Vista is not optimized for solid-state drives, which will cause a delay in the roll-out of optimized drives.
IDC survey proves open-source software as viable business model--The numbers don't lie. There is real money in open source.
Why E3 should be held every four years--Don Reisinger thinks E3 should stop its annual schedule and start being held every four years. Does his radical plan mean E3 could be saved?
Microsoft: No tech support for you--I try to get free tech support for Windows XP SP3 and for IE7.
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| SAP winds down TomorrowNow |
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:56:00 PDT
Source: CNET News.com - Business Tech |
German software giant will close subsidiary, following long-running legal case with rival Oracle. |
| Servers in the home remain scarce |
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:00:00 PDT
Source: CNET News.com - Business Tech |
A year after its release, Microsoft's Windows Home Server product still rare on store shelves and well known only among hard core techies. |
| Amazon offers automatic credit for S3 outage |
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:47:00 PDT
Source: CNET News.com - Business Tech |
Ordinarily, customers would have to apply to get credit for an Amazon Web Services outage, but online retailer is handling Sunday's outage automatically. |
| Amazon S3: For now at least, sometimes you have to reboot the cloud |
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:55:00 PDT
Source: CNET News.com - Business Tech |
Don't be surprised by Amazon's S3 outage, and don't be complacent about it. But think carefully before you say cloud computing is doomed. |
| IDC survey proves open-source software as viable business model |
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:18:00 PDT
Source: CNET News.com - Business Tech |
The numbers don't lie. There is real money in open source. |
| Ultrasonic frogs discovered in China |
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:01:00 PDT
Source: CNET News.com - Business Tech |
Researchers have discovered the existence of frogs in central China whose ears can tune to different frequencies. No joke.
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| Windows Home Server update released |
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:49:00 PDT
Source: CNET News.com - Business Tech |
Microsoft has finished its Power Pack 1, which adds some minor features and fixes a bug that can lead to data corruption. |
| VMware: Windows is toast |
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:44:00 PDT
Source: CNET News.com - Business Tech |
VMware thinks Windows has a very short shelf-life. Could it be right? |
| Carl Icahn blinks, takes Yahoo board seat |
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:19:00 PDT
Source: CNET News.com - Business Tech |
If Icahn was so adamant about ousting Jerry Yang from the CEO spot and doing a deal with Microsoft, what softened his stance? |
| Microsoft copies Google, Salesforce, and Red Hat in new partner initiative |
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:37:00 PDT
Source: CNET News.com - Business Tech |
Microsoft is copying its rivals in a new service, but is it also outflanking its partners? |