John Hazard

report%20card.jpg It’s report card week in Silicon Valley (also in Armonk, N.Y., and Redmond, Wash.) and Google, Microsoft, IBM, Intel and AMD, all bellweather tech companies, report quarterly earnings this week. Key takeaways: Intel is up and AMD is doing better, signs PC demand remains strong. Intel and AMD are also signs of the spending […]

The SCO Group must pay Novell $2.5 million after a judge rules that Novell, not SCO, owns the rights to the Unix operating system. Utah District Court Judge Dale Kimball ruled that SCO owes Novell for royalties it collected when it licensed Unix to Sun Microsystems, a product it did not have the rights to […]

Mac%20Clone.jpg Apple has sued Psystar, a White Box maker that began selling a $399 Mac clone in April, for copyright and software licensing violations. Apple is also asking a court to order Miami-based Psystar to “recall all such products sold to the public as a result of Psystar’s infringement of Apple’s copyrights,” according to the […]

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 what we had in mind […]

Lucy%20and%20Ethel.jpg The Web development tools space is a green field. New technologies appear every day, many of them free, and the opportunity for good technology to gain mass adoption is always there. That’s great news if you’re making the tools, not so for those left trying to make sense of the onslaught of new ones […]

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 overwhelmed establishing accounts for throngs of new customers nationwide. The problem is the compulsory activation. It worked pretty well last year–you waited in a […]

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 deliver the metrics from a […]

A former Hewlett-Packard vice president who had previously worked at IBM was charged June 27 with trade-secret theft for spiriting away IBM pricing info and distributing to his HP superiors. Atul Malhotra, a vice president in HP’s Imaging and Printing Group, was charged in U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif. He was fired in […]

Leopard-iPhone.jpg Leopard rumors refuse to ride in iPhone’s side car. Against all possible odds, the talk leading up to Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference, to be held June 12 in San Francisco, is NOT about the iPhone. If the Apple rumor mill is to be trusted, the company will debut the latest version of Apple’s Mac […]

Think twice before you click on that .info or .hk URL. I can’t recall the last time I came across either, but clicking on one or the other increases the risk you’re visiting a no-no site. McAfee’s “Mapping the Mal Web Revisited,” published June 4, details the most dangerous domains.

Bin_laden.jpg YouTube won’t be the good soldier Sen. Joe Lieberman (ID-Conn) would like it to be. Lieberman, chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, has been on Google’s case to remove videos from YouTube that are produced by terrorist groups such as al-Qaida. Lieberman claims the videos depict violence and disseminate […]

Journalists salivate over courtroom discovery. The raw evidence often lays bare all of the wheelings, dealings, buried bodies and canaries corporate lawyers and PR swallow before the public sees it. case%20files.jpg It can also drown you in paper and bore you to tears. AMD v. Intel, an antitrust claim brought by AMD against Intel and […]