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• Dell repair adventure, conclusion

  Well, our hero's story had a happy ending. The service tech came out to my office and replaced both the motherboard and the screen on my Dell laptop. After than ...

  Tags: Digital Equipment Corp., Channel Management, Dell Computer Corp., Supplier, Dan Kusnetzky, Marketing

  Sep 05, 2008 3:30 AM PDT

• VMworld is bringing out the vendors

  Planning for an announcement is a challenging task. Large suppliers know that just about whatever they do will be picked up by the media and presented to the world. Smaller ...

  Tags: Channel Management, Supplier, Dan Kusnetzky, VMworld, Marketing, Announcement

  Sep 05, 2008 3:00 AM PDT

• End of an era: Dell may dump its factories

  Dell is reportedly trying to dump its manufacturing facilities across the globe in a turnabout that indicates it has no discernable edge in making PCs anymore. According to the Wall ...

  Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Larry Dignan, Hardware, Manufacturing, Desktops

  Sep 05, 2008 2:41 AM PDT

• News to know: Windows 7; Patch preview; Office 2.0; Dell

  Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Critical WMP, MS Office bugs on Patch Tuesday swat list Dancho ...

  Tags: Linux, Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Corp., Operating Systems, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Office 2.0, Comcast Corp., Software, Google Inc.

  Sep 05, 2008 2:11 AM PDT

• XO sold through Amazon this year...Who cares?

  The One Laptop Per Child OLPC program will begin selling its XO laptop via Amazon this year in a reprise of its Give One Get One (G1G1) program, according to ...

  Tags: Developing Country, XO, Christopher Dawson, Amazon.com Inc., One Laptop Per Child Project

  Sep 05, 2008 1:59 AM PDT

• From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture

  The appliance computing culture earned its successes by focusing on the revenue generation side - and that, in turn, drove its own evolution to database technology, the "application as interfaces ...

  Tags: Servers, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Database, Hardware, Paul Murphy, Processor, Job, Mainframes, Recruitment & Selection

  Sep 05, 2008 12:15 AM PDT

• Martin jabs back at Comcast over suit

  FCC chairman Kevin J. Martin responded to Comcast's lawsuit challenging the agency's authority to sanction the company. "Given Comcast's past failure to disclose its network management practices to its customers, ...

  Tags: Federal Government, Advertising & Promotion, Government, Marketing, Richard Koman, Networking, Comcast Corp., Productivity

  Sep 04, 2008 10:39 PM PDT

• Seinfeld & Gates: Was this ad supposed to be funny?

  The long-awaited $300 million ad campaign that Microsoft launched to counter Apple's successful "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" campaign aired during the Thursday night kickoff to the NFL season. ...

  Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Advertisement, Hardware, Productivity, Desktops, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Microsoft Corp., Jerry Seinfeld, Apple Inc.

  Sep 04, 2008 7:31 PM PDT

• Google Chrome already beating Opera

  Maybe Google really does have something here -- in just two days, they have leapfrogged Opera in market share, and have their eyes set on bigger fish. I would have ...

  Tags: Web Browsers, Opera Software, Garett Rogers, Internet, Google Inc.

  Sep 04, 2008 7:10 PM PDT

• Cablevision blankets Long Island with Wi-Fi

  Cablevision Systems, one of the biggest cable providers in the New York City metro area, announced that it's completed the first stage of a massive Wi-Fi network project called Optimum ...

  Tags: Sean Portnoy, Cablevision Systems Corp., Wireless LANs, Wireless, Wi-Fi

  Sep 04, 2008 7:03 PM PDT

• Microsoft Student Technology Day UK

  Note Wednesday 1st October 2008, a little over 3 weeks away from today in your diary. Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft and a whole load of influential partners and companies ...

  Tags: Management, Zack Whittaker, Microsoft Corp., Entrepreneurial, Entrepreneurship

  Sep 04, 2008 6:47 PM PDT

• Red Hat draws its line in the virtual sand with Qumranet

  The caves of Qumran, located in in the highly disputed region of the West Bank that sits between Israel and Jordan and is populated by both Palestinians and Jews, is ...

  Tags: Virtual Desktop, Red Hat Inc., Jason Perlow, Hardware, Open Source KVM, Hypervisor, Virtualization, Qumranet

  Sep 04, 2008 6:10 PM PDT

• Silicon Valley's gender gap

  I recently spoke with Judy Estrin, one of Silicon Valley's top entrepreneurs, about her new book "Closing the Innovation Gap." But what about closing the gender gap? I asked her ...

  Tags: Management, Human Resources, Silicon Valley, Entrepreneurship, Gender And Diversity, Tom Foremski

  Sep 04, 2008 6:04 PM PDT

• First Microsoft make-over ad airs: $300 million well spent?

  During the NFL season opener on September 4, Microsoft aired the first of the ads that it paid agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky $300 million-plus to create to help make ...

  Tags: Advertisement, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley

  Sep 04, 2008 5:55 PM PDT

• Should political postings stay or go? A survey.

  I've been blogging for ZD Net for several years, writing for ZD publications for almost 20 years. I've always found readers to be intelligent and thoughtful, which is why I ...

  Tags: Blog, Discovery, U.S., Politics, Business Operations, Creationism, Survey, Internet, Research & Development, Rational Rants

  Sep 04, 2008 5:26 PM PDT

• Handicapping the Fall Enterprise Software Race: SAP vs. Oracle vs. Microsoft

  It's leapfrog time in enterprise software land, and the next frog to jump will be Oracle, which is hosting industry analysts next week in Redwood Shores and then hosting the ...

  Tags: SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Smb/Sme, Joshua Greenbaum, Small And Medium Enterprise, Strategy, Software, Enterprise Software, Oracle Corp.

  Sep 04, 2008 5:11 PM PDT

• Adobe and NBC to provide live streaming of NFL games

  Adobe just announced that the NFL is going to use Flash to deliver live, online streaming video for NBC Sunday and Thursday night football games. You can go watch the ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, NFL, Video Quality, Ryan Stewart, Video, Marketing, NBC, Games, Corporate Communications, Live Streaming

  Sep 04, 2008 4:10 PM PDT

• Microsoft finally earns a passing grade (barely) for WGA

  Microsoft launched its Windows Genuine Advantage WGA anti-piracy program in early summer 2006. Its first year was, to put it charitably, a disaster. An epic fail. A big fat F ...

  Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Product Key, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, Operating Systems, Microsoft Corp., Activation, Microsoft Windows Vista, Ed Bott

  Sep 04, 2008 4:10 PM PDT

• Is Microsoft is putting Windows 7 on a diet?

  As part of Microsoft's mission to insure that Windows 7 and Windows Live Wave 3 are joined at the hip, Microsoft is exorcising features that used to be part of ...

  Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Mary Jo Foley, Software, Microsoft Windows

  Sep 04, 2008 3:12 PM PDT

• Microsoft slashes Xbox 360 prices

  Microsoft has slashed the price of the Xbox 360 gaming console to half of that of the PlayStation 3. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

  Tags: Game Players, Personal Technology, Microsoft Corp., Console, Microsoft Xbox 360, Consumer Electronics, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Microsoft Xbox

  Sep 04, 2008 2:55 PM PDT

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