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Bursting the proprietary-software bubble
Insight perspective Strip away all the bluster and jargon and you soon realize the end is nigh for proprietary software, argues open source expert.
Tags: Business applications, Open source, Software licensing, Marginal Cost, IT Budget, Bubble, Open Source, Financial Company, software, theory
At 40, the Internet's still reshaping history
Insight The Net has crushed geographic barriers and withstood extraordinary growing pains. But the human race has work to do adapting to its creation.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Netcraft, WWW, Net, cloud computing, Web 2.0, Web sites, PC, Facebook
S'pore mobile players target region
News Singapore's mobile services providers target users in developing markets across Asia-Pacific by bridging gap between high- and low-end devices.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, Applications and tools, Communications, Mobile, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, phone, e-mail, video service, SMS
Are telcos new drivers of outsourcing industry?
Blogs The recent TPI Index from TPI highlighted an interesting trend where a few very large telco-to-telco contracts--instance...
Ciena buys Nortel's Metro Ethernet business
News Nortel Networks will sell another piece of its business for US$769 million as part of its bankruptcy proceedings, which require it to dismantle its business.
Tags: Network infrastructure, Ethernet, Nokia Corp., Nortel Networks Corp., CIENA Communications, network, Siemens AG, Wireless, Bankruptcy, Metro Ethernet
Did Viacom find smoking gun in YouTube case?
News YouTube's internal e-mail indicate employees and managers knew about copyright content, sources say, but chose to leave the material on the site. What are the DMCA ramifications?
Tags: Web 2.0, Digital rights management (DRM), Google Inc., Viacom Inc., Web 2.0, Matz, TV, Entertainment Company, Entertainment Industry, Video
Why 'Joe Facebook' wants to cash out
News Reports indicate that Facebook's official employee stock buyback program has been "oversubscribed". Here's why this is normal, and hardly greedy.
Tags: Web 2.0, IPO, Stock, dot-com, payment, Facebook, Silicon Valley, Web, Web 2.0
The Internet as the medium
Blogs It has been proclaimed many times that the Internet is a great leveler that has the power to eliminate barriers and ineq...
Nortel faces delisting from stock exchange
News Telecommunications equipment maker's stock is in jeopardy of being delisted from the New York Stock Exchange as the share price trades below US$1.
Tags: RFID, VoIP, Network infrastructure, Nortel Networks Corp., Alcatel, Telecommunications, Wireless, Stock, Bankruptcy, telecommunications equipment company
Contrarian Google launches investment fund
News Google's new investment arm will focus on start-ups working on the Internet, biotech, green tech, software, and health care.
Tags: Venture capital, Investment, Google Inc., IPO, National Venture Capital Association, venture-capital company, Silicon Valley company, Silicon Valley, Wall Street Journal, Web Site
'Global' India is more insulated than 'regulated' India
Blogs Now that it's proven that Uncle Sam is in poor financial health, everyone's been wondering what this means for India. Ev...
The world is flat. So what's our problem?
News commentary Budgets are tight everywhere but take a lesson from one Indian outsource giant, where employee education and retraining remains a corporate priority.
Tags: HR policies and procedures, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Outsourcing, India, Workforce, Nilekani, job posting, co-founder, New York Times Co., America
Why netbooks are good for Seagate
News The hard disk drive company's chief executive Bill Watkins talks netbooks, Palm's new smartphone, and his favorite CES trend.
Tags: Handhelds, Storage, Notebooks and tablets, Seagate Technology LLC, Storage, Sales, Notebook, Consumer Storage, PC Ecosystem, projector
Sun’s missing mojo: MIA until when?
Insight commentary Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz keeps painting a sunny picture. Then come more losses, layoffs, and letdowns.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Earning reports/forecasts, Investments, Sales/revenue, Hewlett-Packard Co., Financial Company, Jonathan Schwartz, Sales, Sun Microsystems Inc., Server
Is smart grid the next green-tech bubble?
News IT heavyweights and start-ups eye stimulus money to modernize grid but there's concern too much money and hype could lead to inflated expectations.
Tags: Green IT, Clean Technology, Cisco Systems Inc., Google Inc., Grid, wind energy, venture capital, information technology company, network, Green IT
