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Microsoft Photosynth 3-D Photo Service Hits the Web

By John Hazard | Posted: 2008-08-21

Microsoft Photosynth, the company's three-dimensional photo reconstruction software, went public Aug. 20, letting users render in 3-D photos from Yahoo's Flickr, Facebook or Google
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California Budget Battle Highlights IBM's Mainframe Work

By Jeff Burt | Posted: 2008-08-08

There's little doubt that the budget standoff in California between Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and State Controller John Chiang comes down to politics. But it also raises the
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Riverbed Makes It Official with Microsoft

By Jeff Burt | Posted: 2008-07-25

The folks at Riverbed Technology had a problem. The company, which makes WAN optimization solutions and shipped its first product in 2004, has always had a particular focus in dealing with
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Google About to Buy Digg?

By Jeff Burt | Posted: 2008-07-23

Google reportedly is poised to grab another chunk of the Internet, and once again it would be at Microsoft's expense. Michael Arrington at TechCrunch, citing undisclosed sources, says the search giant, which
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A Compromise, but No Solution

By Jeff Burt | Posted: 2008-07-21

Yahoo executives and outspoken activist investor Carl Icahn may have reached a http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search/Yahoo-and-Icahn-Settle-Microsoft-Deal-Adrift/compromise that will help them avoid what promised
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Bad News from the Online Ad Giants. Is IT in Trouble?

By John Hazard | Posted: 2008-07-18

IT Report Cards yesterday and this week were a mixed bag. The big names of enterprise IT showed little sign of an economic slowdown or recession. IBM profits rose 22 percent on sales of services and software, much of it overseas Intel profit rose 25 percent as demand for

AMD's Tale of Woe

By Jeff Burt | Posted: 2008-07-18

It'd be difficult to imagine a more stark contrast in financial numbers between industry rivals than what we saw this week with Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. Actually, AMD and anyone else in the tech industry, for
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Earnings Reports Show Scant Signs of IT Slowdown

By John Pallatto | Posted: 2008-07-18

There is no sign of an IT recession in the latest quarterly reports from some of the biggest names in the industry. But it's an open question whether Google is dealing with the early stages of an advertising
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IT Report Card Week: Why It Matters

By John Hazard | Posted: 2008-07-17

Google, Microsoft, IBM, Intel and AMD deliver quarterly earnings figures this week.

Attack on the Psystar Mac Clones

By John Hazard | Posted: 2008-07-16

Apple has sued Psystar, a White Box maker selling a $399 Mac clone. Did Psystar really just roll the dice or do they have a trick up their sleeve?

Why I Won't be Reporting from the iPhone Queue

By John Hazard | Posted: 2008-07-15

Friday was a dark day for reporters at newspapers and local television stations nationwide. The iPhone 3G launch meant editors sent them in droves to Apple stores nationwide to ask all the same mind-numbing questions so we could gather the same boring footage and notes and file identical reports. Not

Oracle iPhone Apps Leverage Web Services

By John Pallatto | Posted: 2008-07-14

Enterprises have gained new incentive to adopt the iPhone with the release of the first Oracle application on the iPhone, Oracle Business Indicators, which allows iPhone users to access a
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iPhone, AT&T Activation Swamped by Long Lines

By John Hazard | Posted: 2008-07-11

There is no shortage of live coverage of the iPhone. Almost all reports indicate long lines made worse by slow service. All fingers point to the AT&T activation servers, which were
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Oracle, Salesforce and a Free iPhone

By John Hazard | Posted: 2008-07-10

Oracle and Salesforce.com might be your ticket to a free iPhone? How? Make your boss pay for it. Oracle, the enterprise application giant, and Salesforce.com, the CRM hotshot, are among the first to build apps for the 3G iPhone due July 11. Oracle's Business Indicators applications on the iPhone will

Rating the Bug Trackers

By Jeff Burt | Posted: 2008-07-10

It sounds like a water-cooler sort of discussion that you'd hear in any high-tech company. According to Tim Bray, one of the founders of XML and currently the director of Web technologies at Sun, some Sun
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