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Four things to watch for in HP-3Com merger
Insight commentary With every merger comes some customer trepidation about changes that could be made. One CIO lists four items he'll watch to decide if Procurve continues to be a viable solution.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Acquisitions, Mergers, Hewlett-Packard Co., Lifetime Warranty, HP ProCurve, networking equipment, software, network, Business Strategies & Functions
Check Point looks to 'consolidation'
Insight newsmaker CEO Gil Shwed, dubbed "Bill Gates of Israel", explains why being "complicated" is good for security industry and how Check Point tools are going broad.
Tags: Enterprise risk management, Firewalls, IDS (Intrusion Detection Systems), Security, software, U.S., Information Technology, network, Asia, Singapore
Open source, features to drive smartphone market
News Symbian remains dominant mobile OS but market share will dip, with emergence of competing open source platforms Android and Maemo, predicts In-Stat.
Tags: Mobile platforms, Applications and tools, Nokia Corp., Open Source, Symbian Inc., Phone, Operating System, mobile, handset, Smart Phone
Mibasoft PodQuest
Product Reviews Mibasoft PodQuest
Tags: Direction, Intel Corp., Web Page, IBM Lotus Notes, Graphics, Apple Macintosh, menu bar, Mibasoft PodQuest, Mozilla Firefox, Apple iPod
Google, Bing continue gains at Yahoo's expense
News Over last several months fewer and fewer searches have been performed on Yahoo's sites, with market leader Google and upstart Microsoft seeing the benefits.
Tags: Search, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., U.S., Internet search, Asia-Pacific, ComScore Networks Inc., Yahoo Search, barrier
Google Dashboard lifts curtain on stored data
News A new page off user's Google Account settings lets them review all the data the company has stored regarding that account, and make changes or delete data.
Tags: Privacy, Web sites, Google Inc., Blogger, Web sites, Internet search, Google Picasa, Dashboard, YouTube Inc., YouTube Video
Ex-MySpace CEO wants to gamble on social games
News In Chris DeWolfe's new venture, sources say, he'll attempt to snowball a bunch of social online games properties and pit himself against industry leader Mark Pincus of Zynga.
Tags: Games, Facebook, MySpace, Rupert Murdoch, CEO, Online Game, News Corp., entertainment, TechCrunch, private equity
Augmented reality: Not that real yet
News Why iPhone apps that act as a digital guidebook aren't quite ready for prime time and is a step down from using conventional mapping and search applications.
Tags: Smart phones, Phone, App, GPS receiver, Smart Phone, McDonald's Corp., GPS, Smartphone, Washington, Apple iPhone
So you're the boring guy
Blogs As I write this, news organizations all over the world are still scrambling to cover the sudden and shocking death of Mi...
Mozilla not interested in building Firefox OS
News Does Firefox backer want to turn its open-source browser into the basis for an operating system a la Google's Chrome OS? Not for now at least.
Tags: Browser, Web browsers, Google Inc., Mitchell Baker, Operating System, revenue, Web Browser, Mozilla Corp., Internal Revenue Service, Microsoft Internet Explorer
The day tech saved me
Blogs A few months ago, I accepted an invitation from my car manufacturer to attend a driver orientation program. During that ...
Pro-Linux group nabs Microsoft patents
News The Open Invention Network has acquired 22 patents sold recently by Microsoft, aiming to help Linux-based companies avoid becoming targets for more legal action.
Tags: Linux, IBM Corp., Patent, Red Hat Inc., IP, TomTom, AST Computers, Linux
Asian tech startups still worthwhile investments
News Returns may not be as good or take longer to realize, but venture capital firms investing in region are still focused on wringing monetary ROI out of technology.
Tags: Investments, Angel investing, Business, Patent, Phone, Asia, Investment, IPO, venture capital, venture-capital company
Proper data management key to e-discovery
News Singapore kicks off new protocol for discovery of electronic documents to be used as court evidence, which experts say reinforces need for better information management.
Tags: Legal, Data Management, IT Governance, Hewlett-Packard Co., Phone, Security, Protocol, Organization, Keystone Law, Singapore
Google tries its own take on customer service
News Not surprisingly, the search giant thinks automation and innovation are important. But as CEO Eric Schmidt says, everyone wants to wring a neck when things go wrong.
Tags: Customer support, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Services, Google Inc., Phone, sales team, Customer support, Services, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Sales
