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EsprintNews » Job cuts hit tech hard
Office Depot, Yahoo and Electronic Arts have added to the mounting job losses in the global economy, with more than 4,000 positions slated for elimination. [Link]
EsprintNews » 4 tech predictions for 2009
You can't really blame technology executives and pundits for not wanting to go too far out on a limb in making prognostications and predictions about 2009. [Link]
EsprintNews » WiMax: Not dead yet
For the last couple years, depending on who you asked, WiMax was either bound for spectacular success or it was dead on arrival. [Link]
EsprintNews » Are There Recession-Proof Industries for Small Businesses?
Recently a lot of reporters have been asking me if there are particular industries that are good for small businesses during recessions.?? I didn’t really know so I took a look at the data.I examined the performance of different industries during the last two recessions 1990-1991 and 2001-2003 using data from the Census Bureau’s County …Source: Small Business Trends [Link]
EsprintNews » SugarCRM: Thorny and Open Source . . .
John Roberts, the CEO of SugarCRM, seems to enjoy being a thorn in the side of his much larger competitor, Salesforce. He says Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce wasn't too pleased when he found out SugarCRM was hosting its user conference at the Marriott, just a few yards from the Salesforce Dreamforce conference at the Moscone Center in downtown … [Link]
EsprintNews » Hi5 - The Largest Social Network You Don't Know
Ramu Yalamanchi, CEO of Hi5 isn't worried about the recession. "We started in a recession so we know what to do. Plus, recessions make available some great resources." Hi5, headquartered in San Francisco, is much better known outside of the region, and the US. It is larger than MySpace or Facebook, in 30 countries especially Spanish-speaking such as Mexico, and … [Link]
EsprintNews » Inc.com Blogs: What Happened to Pownce?
Yesterday, the blogging company Six Apart announced that it had acqu… [Link]
EsprintNews » Twitter was wise to reject Facebook???s $500 million all-stock acquisition offer.
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EsprintNews » Why Google's Best New Feature Is Evil
How the experimental SearchWiki is both helping and hurting us. [Link]
EsprintNews » Open Source: A Silver Lining in the Economic Slump
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EsprintNews » Open Source: The Model Is Broken
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EsprintNews » IBM drools over infrastructure
"We've been given this on a silver platter," says Sam Palmisano, CEO of IBM. "We might as well use it as an opportunity." [Link]
EsprintNews » SMBs Beware: Spam Levels on the Rise
The fight against spam rages on after a spike in spam levels following the shutdown of hosting service McColo. SMBs are particularly vulnerable to malware and spam; ensuring secure, spam-free email should be a prominent security interest. - Earlier this month, the shutdown of hosting company McColo, which many reports identified as the leading spam producer, resulted in a precipitous … [Link]
EsprintNews » Gartner: open source software 'pervasive'
Here, there, not everywhere It is a wise manager that does not make decisions based on the survey data put together by the major IT market researchers. But sometimes a skinny bit of survey data is all you have to start with, and that data is better than no data at all - particularly if you're trying to make a … [Link]
EsprintNews » The Long Fail: Web 2.0's faith meets the facts
Guest opinion Hope is all you need [Link]
EsprintNews » Jerry Yang - Slugworth to Google's Willy Wonka
How did it come to this? Fail and You Yahoo! Ever since Wonka's Chocolate Factory in Mountain View started serving queries, it has been a living monument to the failure of Sunnyvale's Slugworth - and just about everything that has gone wrong can be blamed on Jerry Yang.??? [Link]
EsprintNews » Samsung pitches '15,000rpm HDD speed' SSD
Sequential, yes; random, no Samsung has begun churning out 256GB solid-state drives, and it claimed the new models are more that twice as fast as their predecessors.??? [Link]
EsprintNews » Ding, dong SCO is dead
A federal district judge has sounded the death knell for SCO's patent claims against Linux. [Link]
EsprintNews » Singapore PC market grew 26%
Singapore PC market still posted a 26% YOY growth, slightly beating forecasts, as vendors slashed prices severely in order to meet targets. Hong Kong PC market continues to move along and beat the forecast by 5%, thanks to the demand for mini-notebooks as well as the fulfillment of the University Notebook Ownership Programs that pushed […] [Link]
EsprintNews » Global software market in Q2 2008 reached $3.1 bln
According to IDC, the worldwide storage software market experienced its 19th consecutive quarter of YTY growth in Q2 2008 with revenues of $3.1 bln, a 14.2% increase over Q2 2007. This was the first time that the worldwide storage software market surpassed $3 bln in revenues in Q3 2008. The overall storage software market grew […] [Link]
