Monthly Archives: August 2007
YouTube Users Rail Against In-Video Ads
YouTube has only been running in-video ads for a couple of days, but the video-sharing site has been shelled by comments ranging from annoyed...
The Revolt of the Peers: Skype skips a beat
When all else fails, blame it on the algorithm. Skype had a major service outage recently. But aren't systems that run on peer to...
Enterprise Software: A Fool’s Errand?
Cynthia Rettig has an article worth reading this month in the MIT Sloan Management Review. The article entiitled, "The Trouble with enterprise software," doesn't...
Dying Is Easy, PCI Is Hard
As a group, humans are a tough audience. Cruelly and quixotically, the more difficult and massive the task, the quicker we are to point...
Nokia Remains Top Cell Phone Vendor
A new report from Gartner confirms Nokias position as the top mobile phone vendor, although Motorola continues to make a strong second-place showing.For the...
Mr. 1000 core chip meets Mr. one tenth watt chip
The yin and yang of chip design this week. At the hot chips conference in Stanford, Tilera talked about their 64 processor architecture. The...
Web Conferencing Services Market Heats Up
IBMs announced acquisition of WebDialogs, a relatively small company in an increasingly important niche, shone a light on the nascent but evolving market for...
Google Takes to the Skies
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While I never got the full-on amateur astronomist bug, as a kid I was always fascinated by the stars, the...
Sun Microsystems to Change Ticker Symbol to JAVA
Sun Microsystems, which has built most of its company around the Java programming language brand since it was introduced in April 1995, announced Aug....
AMD Sales Chief Calls It Quits
With just a few weeks to go before its quad-core Opteron processor comes to the market, Advanced Micro Devices chief marketing and sales officer...