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by Stan Beer
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Monday, 02 November 2009 |
I have been a loyal Firefox user ever since I decided about four years ago that it was a far superior browser to Internet Explorer 6. However, some disturbing things have happened in the past year and that has persuaded me to move away from Firefox to greener pastures browser-wise - in this case to Apple's Safari.
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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 15 July 2009 |
In an earnings
season when stocks go up if a company posts results that are not as bad
as expected, giant chipmaker Intel has joined its financial and
healthcare brethren Goldman Sachs and Johnson & Johnson in beating
market estimates for Q2. As a result, Intel's stock has soared and
could point the way to a market recovery.
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by Stan Beer
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Sunday, 14 June 2009 |
It seems that the competition regulator of an unelected government
purporting to represent the sovereign nations of Western Europe is
waging a socialist war against US technology companies - and Microsoft
is the key target. The battle has now come to a head with Microsoft
acquiescing to yet another nonsensical demand from the European
Commission but still not able to make peace.
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by Stan Beer
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Tuesday, 09 June 2009 |
IBM has
lost out to EDS and Infosys in a $450 million of IT development and
maintenance contracts with Telstra but has renewed a $745 million
infrastructure agreement with the carrier. The deals give three of the
major services suppliers a piece of the lucrative Telstra pie while
locking out smaller local players and other global operators such as
CSC and TCS.
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by Stan Beer
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Monday, 08 June 2009 |
The global server market suffered a devastating decline in the first
quarter and what has been tagged as the worst slump in history may be
due to a shift toward virtualisation and cloud computing rather just
than the economic downturn, according to an EMC senior executive.
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by Stan Beer
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Monday, 01 June 2009 |
Microsoft
has once again upset many in the netbook user community with news of
artificially imposed limitations on the entry level version of its
upcoming new operating system Windows 7. All over the web netbook users
are accusing Microsoft of crippling Windows 7 Starter edition for no
other reason than to extort extra dollars from them.
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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 27 May 2009 |
The jury is
in about the performance of Windows 7 RC on netbook computers - it's as
slow as a wet week. For Microsoft the "great white hope" is now Moore's
Law. Will new entry level netbooks be powerful enough to prevent
Redmond's second white elephant in a row?
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by Stan Beer
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Tuesday, 26 May 2009 |
The blogosphere is
teeming with reports and rumours about the imminent release of a new
Microsoft search engine possibly as early as next week. We caught a
glimpse of it a couple of months ago when Microsoft leaked some screen
shots of its Kumo project.
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by Stan Beer
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Monday, 25 May 2009 |
Some
market watchers say that a pricing announcement today by Vodafone and
Hutchison will not influence an ACCC determination about their proposed
merger on May 29. However, it is hard not to view the announcement
promising to maintain existing pricing for the next two years as a
pretty fair attempt.
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by Stan Beer
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Monday, 25 May 2009 |
Microsoft
has lashed out at the European Commission over its treatment in a new
antitrust case and for once the Redmond software company may have a
point. The EC has brought a case against Microsoft over its long time
inclusion of Internet Explorer as part of Windows.
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by Stan Beer
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Sunday, 24 May 2009 |
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Chairman, Graeme Samuel, seemingly stopped short of calling for the structural separation of Telstra in his speech to the ATUG 2009 Regional Conference in Canberra last week. However, Samuel's thinly veiled address left little doubt that the physical break up of Telstra is what the regulator unequivocally wants.
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by Stan Beer
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Tuesday, 19 May 2009 |
While everyone seems to be
aghast at the capabilities of new computational search engine
WolframAlpha, most ordinary users will still be visiting Google and
Wikipedia - unless they want help with mathematics, physics, chemistry
or some obscure factoid involving measurement.
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by Stan Beer
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Thursday, 14 May 2009 |
Number two
microprocessor player AMD is gleefully digging the knife into its much
larger rival Intel over the US$1.45 billion fine imposed by the
European Commission for antitrust activities. AMD, which has never had
much higher than 20% market share is playing the EC ruling for all its
worth, stating every single case where Intel is said to have abused its
dominant market position.
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