Paula Rooney

Paula Rooney has covered the software and technology industry for more than 20 years, starting with semiconductor design and mini-computer systems at EDN News and later focused on PC software companies including Microsoft, Lotus, Oracle, Re…d Hat, Novell and other open source and commercial software companies for CRN and PCWeek. She received a silver award from the American Society of Business Publication Editors in 2005 for her profile on Linus Torvalds and edited and co-authored "Partnering With Microsoft," a book about Microsoft's channel published by CMP Publishing in 2004. Rooney graduated from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1997. In her off time, she enjoys scuba diving, sailing, sun worshipping, running, reading, surfing (the net) and hanging out with her family. She resides on the shores of Scituate, Massachusetts.

Paula Rooney owns no stock in the companies that she covers. She holds a 401K that is managed by Morgan Stanley.

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Imminent Piwik 1.0 release may pose challenge to Google Web Analytics

A Frenchman living in New Zealand may give Google its latest greatest challenge with the release of Piwik1.0 in two weeks.

July 29, 2010 by Paula Rooney in Google

Rackspace, Google, Facebook and Microsoft battle for spotlight at Open Source Convention

Proprietary brand names Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Rackspace battled for dominance at OSCON 2010 this week.Sound odd?

July 22, 2010 by Paula Rooney in Google

Google, Virgin America partner to push ChromeBooks, free WiFi in the clouds (the real ones)

With its Chrome OS getting a slow liftoff, Google has turned to Sir Richard Branson for help.Google has partnered with Virgin America on a special promotion called "Get In The Chrome Zone" that runs from July 1 through September 30.

June 30, 2011 by Paula Rooney in Google

Google insists it will remain open source player

Google insists that Android will remain an open source platform and takes great exception to reports to the contrary.That's good news.

April 25, 2011 by Paula Rooney in Google

Google offers Cauliflower Vest for enterprises using MacOSX Lion Server

Google engineers released its Cauliflower Vest project under an open source license Wednesday. The tool, aimed at MAC OSX Lion Server administrators, is an end-to-end Mac OSX FileVault 2 full disk encryption solution for the enterprise. Google maintains the out-of-the-box FileVault 2 solution in the Mac OSX Lion Server is aimed at consumers and lacks enterprise features.

February 23, 2012 by Paula Rooney in Google

5 issues that could derail Google's Chromebook

Google's Chromebooks may present the greatest challenge to Windows laptops to date, but timing, marketing, fragmentation and quality issues may hamper its progress in both the consumer and business worlds

May 13, 2011 by Paula Rooney in Google

Google's first Honeycomb Android tablet, SDK debut

Google's much anticipated Android 3.0 software development kit was made available yesterday and the first tablet based upon it is is due to ship on Thursday Feb 24, the company announced.

February 23, 2011 by Paula Rooney in Google

Forrester: open source project explosion driving a "golden era" in app dev

The explosion in open source projects in the HTML, mobile, cloud and big data spaces such as Android, jQuery, PhoneGap, Sencha, Hadoop and Cordova are driving a new model and a golden age of "app" development, Forrester Research says.

November 28, 2012 by Paula Rooney in Google

Google: Android, MeeGo don't have to fight

Google open source chief Chris DiBona said he's not in the killing business and expects that Android, MeeGo and other open source cell phone operating systems to play nicely together in the sandbox."MeeGo doesn't have to lose for Android to be great and Android doesn't have to lose for MeeGo to be great," DiBona told hundreds who gathered in San Francisco for the Linux Foundation's :Linux Collaboration summit.

April 15, 2010 by Paula Rooney in Google

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