Today HP announced the acquisition of EDS and this was in stark contrast to the process Microsoft used to acquire Yahoo.
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This merger significantly closes the competitive advantage IBM has in outsourcing effectively closing what is now a better than 60% lead enjoyed by IBM over HP to around 20% in this space. In addition, as a result of the process that was created during the Compaq ...
Carly Fiorina was forced out of HP as the CEO but prior to that not only was she one of the most powerful women in business she was one of the most successful. What tripped her up at HP were poor CEO skills but she was a master of personal presentation, marketing, and company politics. In many ways she was an analog to Steve Jobs in a number of critical areas but lacked some of the important l ...
Over the past few months, PC Magazine Editor-in-Chief Lance Ulanoff, columnist John C. Dvorak, and I have all weighed in on the current debate about whether or not the iPhone will become the next PC platform. Lance and I both agree that the iPhone represents a completely new approach to mobile computing. John, on the other hand, argues that these devices are small and can be easily misplaced or re ...
Play Ball!
Spring 2009. Ah Spring! Baseball, apple pie, enjoying TV. Portable TV at the backyard barbeque, at the seaside, at work, at the ballpark. Oh well, at least we still have baseball and apple pie. In this case, two out of three IS bad - and yet can still be avoided. Because on Feb 18, 2009 - all that changes. Those battery-operated analog TVs become collector items at best
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A small news item March 27 noted that Phoenix Technologies agreed to buy BeInSync, a private Israeli software company, for an undisclosed sum. BeInSync provides peer-to-peer technology that keeps files synchronized between different network-connected computers. On the surface, this announcement was fairly unremarkable, and news outlets that did cover it remarked with a terse paragraph or two.
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