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All about Microsoft - May 3, 2008
Some — probably many — are going to portray Microsoft’s decision announced on May 3 to withdraw its Yahoo bid as a victory for Yahoo and a defeat for Microsoft Chairman Steve Ballmer & Co. Me? I see this as the …
Tagged: yahoo, corporate strategy
Education IT - May 3, 2008
Purdue University will be replacing its current research computing clusters on May 5th with one of the world’s largest supercomputers. While this isn’t especially surprising at a school known for its computer science …
Tagged: education technology
Education IT - May 3, 2008
Stanford University, in conjunction with Sun, AMD, NVIDIA, IBM, Intel, and HP, is working to create a new computing model that fully exploits modern, multicore processing. As a feature in Ars Technica points out …
Tagged: education technology
hardware News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - May 3, 2008
Worldwide PC shipments grew by 14.6% to 69.5 mln units in Q1 2008, which was above previous estimates of 13.2%, according to IDC. US market slipped to a meager 3.5% YOY growth rate as the general economic malaise …
hardware News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - May 3, 2008
Rank Vendor 1Q08 Shipments Market Share 1Q07 Shipments Market Share QTQ Growth 1 Dell 4,938 30.9% 4,271 27.7% 15.6% 2 HP 3,881 24.3% 3,869 25.1% 0.3% 3 Acer 1,389 8.7% 720 4.7% 92.9% 4 Apple 950 6.0% 759 4.9%...
Tagged: hardware, pc, desktops, apple inc, nb, shipment, acer inc
hardware News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - May 3, 2008
Mainframes never go away--they just find a new use. One thing that has always amazed me about the mainframe is how IBM has managed to cram it into any new technology frontier. Cloud computing? Mainframe. SaaS? …
Tagged: hardware, servers, larry dignan, mainframes, ibm corp
A Developer's View - May 3, 2008
George Ou pointed me in the direction of Stallman’s comments relating to Windows on the OLPC project, though I did nothing about it because my head was (figuratively) on fire. I then saw Christopher Dawson’s response …
Tagged: open source, economic policy
ZDNet Japan - May 3, 2008
W52Tから買い換えました。機種変更で4万+αのところを、ポイントを使って3.8万で購入しました。選...
software News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - May 3, 2008
Carey James Kriz is nothing if not an optimist. Dr. Kriz, who heads the American Academy of Urgent Care Medicine in Orlando, is convinced that technology is the answer to the train wreck called the health care …
Tagged: software, healthcare, computing, dr, health care, enterprise software, benefits, human resources, dana blankenhorn, vertical industries
software News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - May 3, 2008
I thoroughly enjoy my Fujitsu U810 UMPC because it gives me a full computer in a 1.5 pound package that runs for at least 4 hours with a single battery and wireless connectivity. Fujitsu just announced the availability …
Tagged: hardware, microsoft windows, software, emerging technologies, wireless, operating systems, hard drive, wi fi, tablets, matthew miller, fujitsu ltd, at and t corp, notebooks and tablets, ultramobile pcs umpcs, ultramobile pc