[WEB2] MySpace platform opening up. Finally.
[WEB2] Survey says: Microsoft ecosystem is biggest
In the IT industry, Microsoft and its "ecosystem" of parters are big--on the order of 40 percent of the market. And if any policy makers around the world doubted its influence, it now has the data to prove it. The software giant commissioned research company IDC to survey 82 countries and measure the economic impact of the IT industry, and Microsoft specifically. Overall, the results were not surprising, according to Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer at Microsoft. IT con...
[WEB2] Notebooks continue to drive growth in worldwide PC market
Shipments of PCs to the saturated U.S. market may be declining somewhat, but the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East, Africa) gave the worldwide PC market a big boost in the third quarter, according to figures released Wednesday by IDC. PC shipments grew 15.5 percent worldwide in the past quarter. Growth in the EMEA regions, led by Hewlett-Packard and Acer, was paced by a strong demand for notebooks and back-to-school promotions, leading to the best growth rates in the region in the past two y...
[WEB2] No need for a Fake Marc Fleury
First came Fake Steve Jobs. Next were a host knockoffs, including Fake Steve Ballmer, Fake Bill Gates, Fake Jonathan Schwartz, Fake Scott McNealy and Fake Larry Ellison. former JBoss CEO Marc Fleury(Credit: CNET Networks) But with the feisty language of Marc Fleury, who retired from JBoss after Red Hat acquired the company he founded and formerly led, there's no need for a fake. Fleury no longer has an open-source Java server software company to run, but he hasn't disengaged from ...