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SAP and Microsoft, Watch Your Back - BusinessWeek

Topix - Linux  Sat, 11/15/2008 - 15:15

A timely snapshot, but I don't think Google has a strategic or structural competitive advantage in this context Google Apps, Linux, and other free or inexpensive systems are winning more fans in the corporate ...


 

Apple is the new Sony; Sony wants to be the new Apple

Topix - Linux  Tue, 11/04/2008 - 07:04

Apparently, Sony wants to be more like Apple, according to an BusinessWeek report.


 

Feasibility of New Solid Aluminum Manufacturing Process?

MacRumors  Tue, 10/07/2008 - 12:38

Businessweek spoke to some experts about the feasibility of the rumors that Apple will be introducing a new manufacturing process and bringing notebook manufacturing in-house.

iSuppli analyst Kevin Keller believes that while short ter...


 

Apple's Plans: New Products or Establishing Existing Ones?

MacRumors  Fri, 10/03/2008 - 09:57

Businessweek's Arik Hesseldahl raises some questions about what the strategic direction Apple will pursue in the next 6 to 24 months.

As obvious as the path to a tablet device seems now, I have trouble imagining the next obvious path ...


 

Conflicting Opinions on Windows Mobile: Open Source or Open FUD?

Linux Today  Wed, 10/01/2008 - 16:05

The Open Road: "So, which will it be? Open-source Windows Mobile or proprietary Windows Mobile, continuing to be sold at an outlandish $8 to $15 per phone for software that Businessweek's Stephen Wildstrom calls "awkward to use after a decade of tweaking by Microsoft.""


 

SQL Injection Turns BusinessWeek Into Viral Replicator

Topix - Linux  Mon, 09/15/2008 - 11:50

Hundreds of pages in a section of BusinessWeek's website which offers information about where MBA students might find future employers have been affected." [+] 353 comments bullyBEEF writes "Malicious hackers ...


 

End Runs Around Vista (BusinessWeek)

LWN.net  Mon, 09/15/2008 - 04:03

BusinessWeek takes a look at what various vendors are doing in light of Vista's problems, including a report that HP is considering making its own Linux distribution.

"Still, the sources say employees in HP's PC division are exploring the possibility of building a mass-market operating system.

HP's software would be based on Linux, the open-source operating system that is already widely available, but it would be simpler and easier for mainstream users, the sources say.


 

Hewlett Packard Ponders A Windows-less World

Topix - Linux  Sat, 09/13/2008 - 21:02

There's a story in BusinessWeek that Hewlett Packard has been exploring the possibility of using something other than Windows for some of its computers.


 

HP looking to avoid dependence on Windows

Topix - Linux  Fri, 09/12/2008 - 20:09

Is HP developing its own operating system to avoid Windows? According to a recent BusinessWeek article they're at least looking into it.


 

This is good

Topix - Unix  Sun, 09/07/2008 - 15:27

BusinessWeek is reporting that Microsoft's next release of Internet Explorer, version 7, will not be integrated into Windows .