The new service offers 7.1Mbps downloads and 768 kilobits per second uploads for $42.99 with a one-year contract that also includes local phone service. Verizon President Denny Strigl recently acknowledged during an interview at an investor conference that the company has been downplaying its DSL service in lieu of its fiber to the home service [...]
Kagermann was speaking at SAP’s Sapphire conference in Orlando, Fla. ZDNet’s Larry Dignan captured the action. Kagermann speculated that Microsoft wouldn’t have made the offer if it didn’t have a good handle on how to integrate the two companies.
In 2004, Microsoft and SAP were in talks to merge but nothing came of it. It [...]
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If you want blow-by-blow coverage of Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ keynote address on Monday, make sure to pay us a visit before 10 a.m. PDT for our live report.
I’ll be inside Moscone West on Monday morning, where we expect Apple to unveil a new iPhone and talk more about the next version of
Mac [...]
During the same period, Yahoo dropped from 20.28 percent to 19.95 percent and Microsoft dropped from 6.26 percent to 5.89 percent. Fourth-place Ask.com increased slightly from 4.17 percent to 4.23 percent, Hitwise said.
In the U.K., Google had 87 percent search share to Yahoo’s 4.09 percent, Microsoft’s 3.72 percent, and Ask.com’s 3.07 percent.
Google increased its market [...]
Unfortunately for MySpace, ComScore now pegs Facebook at more than 144 million unique visitors worldwide.
But MySpace has been trying to differentiate itself from the more directory-like “utility” Facebook of late, instead positioning itself as the heir apparent to MTV in pop-culture influence. It’s no surprise that founders Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson are on the [...]
NAND flash is used in flash drives for digital cameras and digital music players as well as solid-state drives.
As a result, IM Flash Technologies (IMFT), a joint venture between Micron and Intel, will discontinue the supply of NAND flash memory from Micron’s Boise facility. The NAND operation shutdown will reduce IMFT’s NAND flash production [...]
It looks like Dell is beginning to get its ducks in a row, as this is the second straight quarter the Texas PC maker has shown positive growth. “To have this kind of growth in the U.S. is a good sign for them. It points to their new retail strategy and overall shift toward portables,” [...]
In August 2007, The New York Times reported that NBC Universal was unhappy with the financial terms Apple offered and had decided not to renew its contract to download shows through iTunes.
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James McQuivey, a prominent media analyst with Forrester Research, suspects Apple likely offered some concessions to lure NBC back.
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The good news for Microsoft is that its Zunes are priced right in line with Apple’s new
iPod Nano and iPod Classic line. From either company, a 120GB hard drive player fetches $249, a 16GB flash model sells for $199, and an 8GB flash model will sell for $149.
Update 11:10 a.m. PDT: Well, [...]
Ultimately, enterprises collaborate around documents, and Cisco appears to have little to no strategy on managing that content. It has lots of ways to talk about it but seemingly lacks a central repository for storing, managing, auditing, and building workflows around that critical content.
Why? Because Cisco is playing the collaboration game against companies that are [...]
