Dell Remakes Itself
Posted on: March 10th, 2010
Michael Dell (Dell) thinks the future of his company lies in reducing IT complexity for customers. “We’re simplifying your client infrastructure, we’re simplifying your data center,” he told attendees at the Oracle (NSDQ: ORCL) OpenWorld conference in San Francisco two weeks ago. “And we’re launching services to assess complexity and simplify your environment.” Dell said he plans to triple the size of the company’s services business within three years.
Mozilla floats Weave as Web platform
Posted on: January 10th, 2010Mozilla is expanding its browser platform into new realms, creating APIs and a portable storehouse for bookmarks, customizations, passwords, histories, preferences and other metadata. Just like Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and others, Mozilla wants its platform, called Weave, to serve as a kind of a Web operating system, managing basic services for users (more on Techmeme). Under the auspices of Mozilla Labs, the non-profit also plans to build tools and APIs to extend its framework for creating new user experiences. Read the rest of this entry »
Bing – Microsoft’s Own Browser
Posted on: July 2nd, 2009
Bing was released sometime ago and Microsoft advertised the search engine with the tag line, “Your search has been found!” Is it really as good as they say it is? Well opinions vary for the world is still a Google world with most of the searches done on their huge data centers that has bots or search engine indexers scanning the internet at regular intervals to keep track of new additions to the internet. With the internet now comprised of 155 Billion web sites, that is indeed a lot of information to index and store. Bing may have some advanced search bot that does things faster to give credence to their claims. Read the rest of this entry »
Firefox Goes 3.5
Posted on: May 2nd, 2009
The much loved web browser that has taken the web monopoly out of the much used Internet Explorer has turned version 3.5 when release candidates have been released even as their version 3.0.11 was for distribution. The newest installment is overall way better than the previous ones but they are having to face another problem and it isn’t IE yet, it’s other open-sourced browsers that have made their entry into the web. From Google’s Chrome, Apple’s Safari and of course Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, they are sharing the web they used to own over IE and they are feeling it. The improvements they have included with the latest release is being received well but time will tell if it will retain it’s grip on most of the web browsing crowd. Read the rest of this entry »
Internet Technology goes Mobile
Posted on: March 2nd, 2009
Everybody knows of the proliferation of mobile apps and the many browsers that allow people on the go to access the internet. It has taken the office out of the workplace and social life into the office. This has caught the eye of marketing specialists who through viral videos and other mobile marketing trends have begun to exploit their ability to reach people even when they are out of their desks. May you be at home or in the workplace, life is getting wired bit by bit and with the many CMS systems around, people are getting the content they need fast while sending feedback as to their reader’s habits allowing well aimed advertising. Read the rest of this entry »
Inside Apple Stores, a Certain Aura Enchants the Faithful
Posted on: July 2nd, 2008
It was 2 o�clock in the morning but in the subterranean retailing mecca in Midtown Manhattan, otherwise known as the Apple store, it might as well have been midafternoon.
Late one night shortly before Christmas, parents pushed strollers and tourists straight off the plane mingled with nocturnal New Yorkers, clicking through iPod playlists, cruising the Internet on MacBooks, and touch-padding their way around iPhones.
Reinventing Dell
Posted on: February 28th, 2008
The owner, Michael Dell, thinks that his company’s future lies in simplifying IT for his customers. He wants to reduce complexity in their client’s infrastructure and data center. Therefore, he plans to launch services that will achieve this objective. He told the attendees at the Oracle OpenWorld Conference in San Francisco that the first step he needs to make is to triple his company’s size within three years.
Dell Corporation is very aggressive right now in acquiring other companies to pursue its growth. Just in the past four months it already bought four companies, the latest of which is Everdream – the provider of software on-demand for managing PCs used in business.
Lack Of Black Tech Professionals Hurts U.S., Bill Gates Says
Posted on: January 20th, 2008
A recent study says that less than 10% of graduates of computer science programs in the U.S. are black — a fact that will contribute to a shortage of technology professionals in the years ahead,Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) chairman Bill Gates said.
“The United States is not turning out from any group as many of the great engineers as there will be jobs for,” said Gates, who added that blacks are particularly underrepresented in the tech industry because high school dropout rates in the black community exceed 50%.