HTC Touch Diamond
(Credit: HTC)
As expected, HTC officially took the wraps off the HTC Touch Diamond today at a press conference in London and great googly moogly does this thing look hot. Not only does it look sexy from the outside with its sleek, black casing, but the Touch …
Vodafone is the latest cell phone company to get Apple’s iPhone, the company said Tuesday.
Telecom Italia also said Tuesday it’s going to sell the iPhone in Italy.
Vodafone will be distributing the iPhone in 10 countries, making this the first time that Apple has sold the phone …
Tivoli unveiled its NetWorks Go Wi-Fi radio in 2007, but it was subsequently delayed its release.
(Credit: dvice.com)
In June 2007, Tivoli Audio unveiled two Wi-Fi radios at a Manhattan event: the Tivoli Audio NetWorks tabletop radio and the portable NetWorks Go (pictured above). Both models were said to offer identical functionality: the capability to tune in any MP3, WMA, or RealAudio Internet radio station, network audio sources (PC-based digital music collections), and standard over-the-air FM radio. And it wasn’t just vaporware, either: company founder and CEO Tom DeVesto used the prototype to quickly pull up two distant stations based on requests from the audience. Unfortunately, neither product was released. The fall 2007 release window came and went, and it wasn’t until February that a brief notice on Tivoli’s Web site officially rescheduled the release date to June 2008.
However, it looks as if later this week we’ll be getting updates on these products. …
SAP said on Tuesday that it plans to release a pair of tools that could ease the process of customizing how business software works.
The company launched the tools, NetWeaver Business Process Management and NetWeaver Business Rules Management, at its Sapphire conference taking place this week in Orlando, Fla.
Combined, …
What do you do when you have billions of dollars in the bank and more money coming in each day than most companies can score in their corporate lifetimes?
You probably don’t open source your software.
That’s the conclusion that Mary Jo Foley and I arrived at following a long conversation at Sun’s JavaOne Conference about what Microsoft should do about open source. It’s nice to think of Microsoft fully joining the open-source community, but it’s unlikely. The company has billions of reasons to make feints at open source to appease its critics while holding a proprietary line to appease its shareholders.
It’s not pretty, but it’s reality.
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In an open-source business, a vendor’s biggest competition often derives from a freely available, “community” version of its product. By extension, an open-source vendor’s biggest competition comes from the systems integrators that provide implementation services around that vendor’s community software.
Crippling this competition–so tempting on the surface–tends to cripple all the benefits that come from it, including facilitated adoption of the software, and lower sales and marketing costs.
The question, then, is how to foster unfettered adoption of one’s open-source software while still preventing would-be partners from undermining one’s own ability to profit from the software.
Over the past two and a half years, my company, Alfresco, has struggled with this tension and has, I believe, come up with some winning strategies and policies. I share them here, in case they’re helpful to you in your own efforts to build an open-source business.
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An analyst at CRT Capital Group says Nvidia may be treading on dangerous ground with its recent blitz of Intel taunts.
While CRT Capital Group analyst Ashok Kumar readily concedes that Nvidia’s graphics chip technology is far superior to Intel’s, he also issued a warning to Nvidia in …
To: Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang
From: Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com
Re: Getting your company back on track
Now that Yahoo appears to be on its own path, it’s time for the company to find in its past what could again make it great.
Contrary to popular opinion, the …
LOS ANGELES–If Jim Brady had his way, there would be no guaranteed anonymity for those who post comments to Washingtonpost.com.
Brady, executive editor of The Washington Post’s online division, said during a panel discussion at the Digital Hollywood conference here that he would like to see a technology
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China Mobile has opened a wireless service center and Internet cafe at an altitude of 17,000 feet at the Everest base camp, making it the world’s highest such site, according to People’s Daily Online.
According to reports, the Internet cafe is aiming to effectively protect the Olympic
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