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Former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz on Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and patent litigation
A great read from former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz on his experiences dealing with the prospect of patent litigation with the likes of Apple and Microsoft. Here’s what he had to say about dealing with Steve Jobs. I feel for Google – Steve Jobs threatened to sue me, too. In 2003, after I unveiled a prototype Linux [...]
Continue reading...Does Microsoft pose a threat to Apple when it comes to mobile gaming?
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
For a company as historically disinterested in gaming as Apple, it’s somewhat ironic that the iTunes App Store is largely anchored by the popularity of games. Looking forward, Apple’s involvement in gaming is about to be taken a step further in light of the excitement developers are showing over the upcoming iPad, and more recently, [...]
Continue reading...Apple Stock closes at all-time high; Apple now has 4th largest Market Cap in the US
Saturday, March 6, 2010
When the markets closed this past Friday, Apple’s stock price was up over 8 points and finished the day trading at $218.95 a share, marking the highest share price Apple has ever traded at in its entire history. There are a few things to take away from this.
Continue reading...Microsoft’s design team in action, Dilbert style
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Yep, Microsoft’s company meetings seen through the eyes of Dilbert. via ObamaPacman
Continue reading...Companies blindly follow Apple into the iPad promised land
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Has anyone yet coined a phrase describing the phenomenon of technology companies reflexively adjusting and configuring their product pipelines and sales strategies in response to moves made by Apple? No? We’ll that’s surprising given that that’s what a number of companies have seemingly been doing over the past few years, and the upcoming Apple iPad [...]
Continue reading...Microsoft unveils Windows Mobile 7, errr, Windows Phone 7 series
Monday, February 15, 2010
Earlier today at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft finally unveiled its long awaited and often delayed Windows Mobile 7 mobile OS - only WM 7 isn’t what it’s called. Microsoft has completely rebranded their mobile OS under the moniker Windows Phone 7 series. Semantics aside, here’s what we know so far about the new OS [...]
Continue reading...Bill Gates not impressed with Apple iPad, is he out of touch?
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates has been a strong advocate for tablet computing for nearly a decade. Back in 2001, he famously told CNN: The tablet takes cutting-edge PC technology and makes it available whenever you want it…It’s a PC that is virtually without limits — and within five years I predict it will be the [...]
Continue reading...Breaking down Microsoft’s profits by product division [Chart]
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
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Telling chart from Silicon Alley Insider breaking down Microsoft’s operating profits by product division. Makes you wonder how much longer they can continue ride the Office wave. And as for the Zune, the XBox and Microsoft’s other entertainment related endeavors, well, let’s just say that Office 2010 is gonna be off the hook!
Continue reading...More on Microsoft’s organizational clusterfuck and their struggle to innovate
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
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Last week, former Microsoft VP Dick Brass penned a fascinating op-ed for the New York Times where he described why a company like Microsoft, despite having a plethora of extremely smart engineers, has been unable to innovate in proportion to its talent level. Brass described an organizational structure within Microsoft that actually worked against innovation, with [...]
Continue reading...New details about Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Phone 7 OS emerge
Saturday, February 6, 2010
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With Windows Mobile now in the depths of despair, and lucky to even be included in a conversation about big time players in the mobile space, comes news that Windows Mobile 7 might make its debut at the upcoming Mobile World Congress set to take place on February 15, 2010. Microsoft is reportedly confident that [...]
Continue reading...On Microsoft’s inability to innovate
Thursday, February 4, 2010
The New York Times has an intresting piece titled “Microsoft’s Creative Destruction” that takes a look at some of the reasons why Microsoft, who ruled the tech world back in the 90’s, has curiously been unable to succesfully innovate in a commercially viable way over the past few years. Microsoft Surface anyone? The author of [...]
Continue reading...Does Steve Jobs hate Google CEO Eric Schmidt? More on the Bing/iPhone story…
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
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In an interesting post on CNBC, Jim Goldman highlights some fascinating nuggets of information about recent reports that Apple is considering making Bing the default search engine on the iPhone, at the obvious expense of Google. Citing a source familiar with the ongoing “search dynamics” between Microsoft and Apple, Goldman gives us a little bit of background as to why [...]
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010
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