Why You Should Root Against Icahn
Crusading, faux white knight Carl Icahn is at it again. Icahn sent a letter to Yahoo board chairman Roy Bostock announcing that he is going to lead a proxy fight to try and oust the board members whom he said...
Thursday, May 15, 2008 9:51 AM/EST
Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:34 AM/EST
MicroHoo Collapse Is Good for You
The collapse of the Microsoft-Yahoo deal is the best thing that could have happened to the rest of us. And from all accounts, the Alien really is dead. Consider it from the perspective of Microsoft customers. Even if you're one...
Thursday, May 01, 2008 9:06 AM/EST
IBM Twits or Silly Walks?
It's not easy quantifying the success of Twitter, HitWise numbers not withstanding. As Clint Boulton wrote on eWEEK, the social butterfly can hardly be called mainstream, even if its adepts (myself included) find its growth more useful than many other...
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 4:45 PM/EST
SAP a Day Late and a Dollar Shai
Did SAP get a kick in the teeth or what? No surprise that SAP had a tough quarter--people knew things were tough last year when it turned to BBD (Business ByDesign) as a way to address two problems: its code...
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 3:20 PM/EST
Meshing With Expectations?
Plenty has been said about Mesh, from Robert Scoble to Joe Wilcox, Steve Gillmor, and a healthy dose of ReadWriteWeb. But in a nutshell, from Forrester analyst Ray Wang, is the fundamental reason that Google, Salesforce.com and every other Web-pushy...
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 8:57 AM/EST
Can Second Life Make Your First Life Better?
A Stanford University study shows that people carry over the benefits of their Second Life avatars into their real lives. For example, people with avatars skinnier than their real selves go out and lose weight. The researchers call this the...
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 7:12 PM/EST
Novell Means Business with Fossa
Novell CTO Jeff Jaffe addressed a forum sponsored by Insight Venture Partners (the parent company of eWEEK) to discuss the progress of its Fossa Project, which Novell announced during its BrainShare conference in March. Fossa is a pretty ambitious attempt...
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 6:18 PM/EST
Rubinius Is Coming
Rubinius Version 1.0 will be released in summer 2008, according to Tom Mornini, chief technology officer and co-founder of Engine Yard, the lead sponsor of the forthcoming Ruby virtual machine. That's great news to the growing number of Ruby fans...
Monday, April 21, 2008 11:54 AM/EST
Is IBM The Charlie Brown of Web 2.0?
The Wall Street Journal's tech blogger Kara Swisher has it partly right in writing about reports that Web 2.0 is gaining traction in the enterprise. Swisher was working off a story by Sarah Perez on ReadWriteWeb (happy fifth birthday RRW)...
Thursday, April 10, 2008 6:12 PM/EST
Social Networking for Dummies
Here's a great piece by Alex Iskold that basically argues that Web 2.0 will make cold-calling an anachronism. LinkedIn is becoming one of the ways of warming those calls up, and now folks are writing basic primers on how to...
