Charlie Rose
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The two sides of Bill Gates
News Speaking at the TechNet Innovation Summit, Microsoft co-founder wears both philanthropist and hypercompetitive businessman hats.
Tags: Game players, Mac OS, Innovation
Napster foe Lars Ulrich takes label online
News Lars Ulrich, the drummer for hard-rock band Metallica and better known in Net circles as Napster's most prominent antagonist, is launching an online venture of his own.
Suddenly, infrastructure is cool again
News commentary Cloud computing would have happened anyway. But the recession has given IT a more pressing reason to consider making the switchover.
Tags: Innovation, Network infrastructure, Service level management, Web 2.0, Virtualization, Hardware, Computing, Storage, Cloud Computing, Jeff Bezos
Report: Google readying its checkbook
News Google thought startups were overpriced earlier in the year, but its recent purchase of On2 Technologies may be a sign that it's once again in the acquisition market.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Charlie Rose, Video, Cloud Computing, Nikkei, Dow Jones & Company Inc., Eric Schmidt, Google Apps, acquisition
Schmidt: Google 'unlikely' to buy Twitter soon
News Search giant's CEO declines to address an acquisition of the micro-blogging site, saying the company has plenty of money but prices are too high.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web logs, Twitter, TV, Charlie Rose, Conference, Morgan Stanley, Google Inc., Advertisement, e-mail
Google quietly starts behavioral targeting
Techguide Last month, Google initiated what it calls interest-based advertising, or behavioral targeting to the rest of us. If this concerns you, find out what you can do.
Tags: Web sites, Privacy, Microsoft Corp., Cookie, Google Inc., Web Browser, behavioral targeting, Michael Kassner, Rep Boucher, Advertisement
Google entering video-on-demand business
News Service lets users pay up to US$3.95 for recent and classic movies, TV shows, sports games.
Tags: TVs, Games, Search, Video
The biggest spam challenge: defining it
Insight Charlie Rose, during a recent taping of his TV show, asked me and three other guests for our definitions of spam. The other responses ranged from "unsolicited commercial e-mail" to "an unwanted automated message" to "anything I don't like." My own response? The biggest problem of all is that there is no agreement on what spam is. Nor should there be.
Cisco, Microsoft: Cozy competitors
News Both companies plan to work more closely to make sure their products interoperate, while remaining competitors in several markets.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions
