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4 weeks ago
Did Ballmer hint at a Windows AppStore?
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer yesterday appeared to hint at the possibility of a Windows application marketplace that would be similar to the Apple iPhone AppStore. But the idea is not ...
zdnet Commentary - 9:10 a.m. Friday 7th November 2008
zdnet Commentary - 9:10 a.m. Friday 7th November 2008
2 months ago
Troubled times ahead for tech?
If you believe the US credit crisis has little to do with the technology industry, think again.
zdnet Commentary - 11:01 a.m. Monday 6th October 2008
zdnet Commentary - 11:01 a.m. Monday 6th October 2008
2 months, 1 week ago
Minchin will take Conroy down
The appointment of Nick Minchin as shadow communications minister is a bald-faced attempt to wipe Stephen Conroy off the face of the earth; and it will probably succeed.
zdnet Commentary - 5 p.m. Tuesday 23rd September 2008
zdnet Commentary - 5 p.m. Tuesday 23rd September 2008
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Carla Fiorina's mouth, meet Carly Fiorina's brain
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina's gift of glib gab backfired on her Tuesday when she became too candid for her own political good.
zdnet Commentary - 12:33 p.m. Wednesday 17th September 2008
zdnet Commentary - 12:33 p.m. Wednesday 17th September 2008
3 months, 1 week ago
Aussie IT unions rise from the dead
Australia's creaky technology unions have finally awoken from their long slumber and have started to throw their weight around.
zdnet Commentary - 2:28 p.m. Thursday 28th August 2008
zdnet Commentary - 2:28 p.m. Thursday 28th August 2008
3 months, 1 week ago
Asia's open source hangup
One of the main draws and selling point of open source technology is its much celebrated developer ecosystem. But, according to an industry expert, this community spirit seems to be ...
zdnet Commentary - 7:40 a.m. Tuesday 26th August 2008
zdnet Commentary - 7:40 a.m. Tuesday 26th August 2008
3 months, 2 weeks ago
How to create a Blue Screen of Death
Feeling nostalgic about the Microsoft Blue Screen of Death, which used to plague desktops in the bad old days of Windows? No need to keep those feelings locked away. This ...
zdnet Commentary - 3:36 p.m. Thursday 21st August 2008
zdnet Commentary - 3:36 p.m. Thursday 21st August 2008
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Olympics are a boon for Silverlight
Here's the way things work at Microsoft. After correcting shortcomings in the first and second editions of its software, version 3.0 of a Microsoft product usually silences the company's worst ...
zdnet Commentary - 2:40 p.m. Friday 15th August 2008
zdnet Commentary - 2:40 p.m. Friday 15th August 2008
7 months, 1 week ago
Intel and Cray link up, denting AMD
Supercomputer expert Cray and Intel have entered a multi-year agreement on high-performance computing, a deal that seems to leave rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) in the lurch.
zdnet Commentary - 10:15 a.m. Tuesday 29th April 2008
zdnet Commentary - 10:15 a.m. Tuesday 29th April 2008
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Apple sneaks past Intel to make own processors?
If you listen to Intel, the last hold-outs against the x86 instruction set are about to fall — with super-powered Nehalem swarms mopping up the high end of massed Power ...
zdnet Commentary - 4:27 p.m. Thursday 24th April 2008
zdnet Commentary - 4:27 p.m. Thursday 24th April 2008
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Can graphene keep Moore's Law alive longer?
Carbon. Is there nothing it can't do? As well as being the fundamental element behind life, the premium component in energy storage and the top contender for executioner of the ...
zdnet Commentary - 9:32 a.m. Wednesday 23rd April 2008
zdnet Commentary - 9:32 a.m. Wednesday 23rd April 2008
9 months, 1 week ago
Microsoft hijacks virtualisation: What's in a name?
Virtualisation was high on the list of important technologies at the Windows Server 2008 launch yesterday -- and not just one or two sorts of virtualisation. By the time the ...
zdnet Commentary - 8:53 a.m. Friday 29th February 2008
zdnet Commentary - 8:53 a.m. Friday 29th February 2008
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Microsoft plays open but patent jaws still have teeth
zdnet Commentary
- 9 a.m. Friday 22nd February 2008
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Yang guards Yahoo's gates, but he's no Bill
Friday's New York Post writes that an independent group of Yahoo board members believes Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang may be letting emotions trump his better judgment; and that's why he's ...
zdnet Commentary - 9:07 a.m. Monday 18th February 2008
zdnet Commentary - 9:07 a.m. Monday 18th February 2008
9 months, 3 weeks ago
The three companies that handle the accumulation, logistics and storage of 80 per cent of the Australian wheat crop, GrainCorp, the CBH Group and ABB Grain, have provided a number of assurances to growers, as the wheat industry prepares for a new era. --
By now, the regulatory, cultural, practical and financial problems in Microsoft's Yahoo acquisition have been well aired. Let's skip forward to 2009, when they've all been solved and Yahoo is ...
zdnet Commentary - 7:35 a.m. Thursday 14th February 2008
zdnet Commentary - 7:35 a.m. Thursday 14th February 2008
