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Windows 7 Release May Put the Brakes on Apple Enterprise Growth

July 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

News Analysis: Apple’s performance is besting the top companies in the tech industry. Apple market share, bouyed by sales of iPhones and iPods as well as Macintosh PCs, has grown substantially. Enterprises’ rejection of Vista may have made it easier for Macs to inflitrate corporate offices. But that could change when Windows 7 is released later this year.
– Apple announced its quarterly financial data Tuesday and once again, the company is performing extremely well.

According to Apple, its quarterly profit has risen to $1.23 billion, representing a 12 percent gain year-over-year. It beat Wall Street estimates on revenue and earnings per share. Once …

Exclusive Carrier Contracts Slow Smartphone Use in Business

July 21st, 2009 | No Comments

News Analysis: Exclusivity in the cell phone industry is impeding the adoption of the latest smartphones in enterprises. More companies might equipment employees with the latest smartphones, or at least subsidize them if the devices were carrier agnostic. This problem won’t keep smartphones out of enterprises. But it’s complicating efforts to support the most advanced models at reasonable cost.
– The cell phone industry is an interesting space. It’s highly competitive. It has all the features of a mature, yet growing market. And it has so many products available, few phones will be able to make a mark for longer than a few weeks (except, of course, for the iPhone).
But it’s because of tha…

Analysis: the faded roadmap to India-Pakistan peace

July 19th, 2009 | No Comments

India and Pakistan may have begun talking to each other again but as yet there is no clear vision on where those talks might lead. As a result many analysts are looking to a roadmap agreed in secret two years ago â€“ and which only really came to light this year â€“ as probably the best model

Amnesty International: War Crimes in Afghanistan, Or: What You Don’t Learn in Science Class

July 17th, 2009 | No Comments

This week, Physicians for Human Rights, using forensic analysis and satellite imagery, documented a war crime — and the subsequent U.S. supported cover-up — in Afghanistan.

Desktop PC’s Corporate Reign Fading with the Rise of Mobility

July 16th, 2009 | No Comments

News Analysis: Desktop sales are shrinking and it’s not just the economy thats to blame. The desire for mobility is making laptops, notebooks and now netbooks the choice for computing at the office as well as at home. A new study shows that while desktop sales are going to fall sharply this year, notebook shipments will show a substantial increase.
– Although desktops were, at one point, integral to business
operations at practically every organization around the world, today,
they’re on their way to becoming a relic of the past. Those
desktops that were in almost every cubicle are being replaced with
slim, lightweight and portable notebooks…

Desktop PC`s Corporate Reign Fading with the Rise of Mobility

July 16th, 2009 | No Comments

News Analysis: Desktops sales are shrinking and its not just the economy thats to blame. The desire for mobility is making laptops, notebooks and now netbooks the choice for computing at the office as well as at home. A new study shows that while desktop sales are going to fall sharply this year, notebook shipments will show a substantial increase.
– Although desktops were, at one point, integral to business operations at practically every organization around the world, today, they’re on their way to becoming a relic of the past. Those desktops that were in almost every cubicle are being replaced with slim, lightweight, and portable notebook…

Chrome OS Can’t Compete with Microsoft WindowsÂ—Yet

July 13th, 2009 | No Comments

News Analysis: Chrome OS doesn’t have what it takes to compete with Windows yet. But could it happen over time? Possibly, but a lot of software development has to take place before Chrome OS will be considered a major player in the business world.
– Google’s Chrome
OS is being heralded as the next big thing in the operating system space. Google
is saying Chrome OS is the next quot;logical step quot; for operating systems.
It plans to bring its technology to netbooks by 2010, although Acer and
Hewlett-Packard hope to have Chrome
OS on thei…

Housing Price Reductions Are Proliferating

July 11th, 2009 | No Comments

Nearly a quarter of the homes listed for sale in the U.S. have had at least one price reduction, with an average discount of 10% off the original asking price, according to an analysis by the listings site Trulia.com. The analysis shows that o…

Obama Suggests Sanctions For Iran: Analysis

July 11th, 2009 | No Comments

WASHINGTON — After a half-year of extending patient feelers to Iran, President Barack Obama has set a timeline _ warning Tehran it must show willingness to negotiate an end to its nuclear program by September or face consequences.

If th…

What Would You Do if Google Web Services Stopped Being Free?

July 10th, 2009 | No Comments

Analysis: Google’s introduction of its Chrome Operating System is causing a lot of debate in the high-tech sector, with some pundits mulling whether Google has taken its free software model to the edge in its attempt to battle Microsoft. eWEEK asks readers what they would pay for Google’s Web services.
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Google’s introduction of Chrome OS, its Linux-based operating system for netbooks, sparked no shortage
of questions by reporters and bloggers. You can easily tick off a list of 20
questions and that wouldn’t begin to cover the minutiae and the what-ifs.
Long term: Will Chrome OS be…