Intel Becoming a Software Powerhouse – Whither Google and the Rest?

Posted on August 19, 2010 by dsarna

Chip maker Intel Corp. agreed to buy computer-security software maker McAfee Inc. for $7.68 billion, or $48 a share, according to a press release dated August 19, 2010. Intel said current security doesn’t fully address mobile, television, ATMs and other Internet connected devices. McAfee will become part of Intel’s rapidly software and services division. This [...]

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China Relents; Google Bends

Posted on July 10, 2010 by dsarna

The Wall Street Journal reported on July 9, 2010 that Google Inc. said China’s government renewed a license the company needed to continue using its Chinese Web address, despite months of tensions over censorship requirements. Of course, Beijing may revoke the license at any time or block access to Google’s services. Google’s Chinese site, google.cn, [...]

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Lesson From Microsoft: How to Lie With Statistics

Posted on June 27, 2010 by dsarna

While Microsoft’s Frank Shaw claims Linux has only a 21.2% server share, it carries 66.61% of active server traffic, against a paltry 17.04% for Microsoft.

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Microsoft: Offense is the Best Defense

Posted on February 28, 2010 by dsarna

Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer have long been students of Niccolò Machiavelli. The art of war, he wrote, and they apparently agree, requires that the Prince not dismiss morality; instead, he politically defines it. For cruel action to be effective, Machiavelli said, it must be decisive: swift, effective, and short-lived. His famous book, published in [...]

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Defeated in Tech Ring by TKO, Microsoft Hits Below Belt in Street Fight (Part 3)

Posted on February 27, 2010 by dsarna

Understandably, the behemoth from Redmond, WA is running scared. Since, it effectively lost the main tech wars that matter “fair and square” in the tech ring by a technical knockout, it resorted to throwing three devious “below the belt” punches in the street. How so? First, Google made the courageous decision to stop filtering information [...]

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Defeated in Tech Ring by TKO, Microsoft Hits Below Belt in Street Fight (Part 2)

Posted on February 27, 2010 by dsarna

Losing Share in the Browser and Email Wars Even though it ships free with Windows, Microsoft has for years been losing market share in the browser wars to Firefox, Safari, and more recently, to Chrome. It’s still dominant, but a far cry from its near-monopoly a few years back. Compare the same stats a year [...]

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Defeated in Tech Ring by TKO, Microsoft Hits Below Belt in Street Fight (Part 1)

Posted on February 27, 2010 by dsarna

Microsoft, still the leader in yesterday’s desktop operating systems and software has lost decisive battles in the tech boxing matches, in what is effectively a technical knock-out. As we shall see, it lost it in the tech ring, so it took its fight into the street, and hit Google below the belt. Several times. Losing [...]

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Google Pulls the Plug on Wall Street Journal, Restricts Financial Times

Posted on February 23, 2010 by dsarna

The GoogleGazer noticed two days ago that Google searches no longer returned results from the Online Wall Street Journal, even when queries were crafted to elicit hits from WSJ specifically. News Corp., owner of the Wall Street Journal had long threatened to do exactly that if Google refused to pay them for their content. Apparently [...]

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Google Gives $2 Million to Wikipedia

Posted on February 17, 2010 by dsarna

Google donated $2 Million to further the development of Wikipedia

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Steve Jobs: “Google’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Mantra is ‘Bullshit’”

Posted on January 31, 2010 by dsarna

Wired says that as is traditional after a big Apple announcement, at a Town Hall at One Infinite Loop, Jobs took questions from Apple employees. In response to a question about Google, Jobs said, “This don’t be evil mantra: ‘It’s bullshit.’” “Obviously, he was reacting to Google’s push into the phone business, which Apple regards [...]

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