http://www.ghjuventu-indipendentista.com Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:53:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I spent some time checking out the competition to benchmark our messaging and functionality. I was struck by how thoroughly undifferentiated the pitches were. Everyone was giving essentially the same demo, talking about the same functionality and use cases. For those early few, look to open source. It's the best way ... http://www.ghjuventu-indipendentista.com/index.php/2010/09/04/the-enterprise-20-mishmash-of-muddle/ Reason 1: Complementary services At this point, AOL looks far more attractive to Microsoft than some may believe. And although the chances of it acquiring the online firm are low, it wouldn't be a bad idea and one that's certainly worth considering. That said, it's still an attractive company from Microsoft's standpoint ... http://www.ghjuventu-indipendentista.com/index.php/2010/08/29/forget-yahoo-microsoft-should-acquire-aol/ BP is also researching energy storage for renewable energy and advanced photovoltaics, although Koonin predicted it would be decades before they would make a major impact on worldwide energy use. "We're trying (but) it's not easy to change things...You can't cut off the present," he said. "Deployment of energy ... http://www.ghjuventu-indipendentista.com/index.php/2010/08/24/bp-scientist-to-cut-oil-use-make-carbon-expensiv/ Apple experienced a bit of a setback in the U.S. smartphone market during the first quarter after coming out of nowhere last year to rank among the top companies. According to data compiled by IDC, Apple's still the second-leading smartphone maker in the U.S. behind Research in Motion and the ... http://www.ghjuventu-indipendentista.com/index.php/2010/08/24/apples-iphone-loses-us-market-share-in-q1/ "There's too much money chasing too few good ventures, despite the size of this problem," Doerr said. (Credit: Martin LaMonica/CNET Networks) CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--Famed venture capitalist John Doerr is conflicted. He says pace of innovation in green technologies, breathtaking in the past five years, is far from fast enough to address the ... http://www.ghjuventu-indipendentista.com/index.php/2010/08/24/john-doerr-not-nearly-enough-money-going-to-green/ Jerry Yang and Steve Ballmer last words. Full coverage of Microhoo If you were to put Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in the ring, you would expect the boistrous Ballmer to be left standing. With Microsoft taking its offer to Yahoo home, it's hard to tell who the ... http://www.ghjuventu-indipendentista.com/index.php/2010/08/24/ballmer-and-yang-the-last-words/ The Wiesenthal Center, which says the first extremist Web site was identified in 1995, isn't the only party concerned about social media's ability to fuel terrorism. Earlier this week, Sen. Joseph Lieberman made public a letter to Google CEO Eric Schmidt asking the company to remove Islamic extremist content from ... http://www.ghjuventu-indipendentista.com/index.php/2010/08/24/report-sees-hate-20-on-the-rise/ Google is evaluating its next move. The companies had agreed to the terms of the $140 million acquisition in July, but Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service said "nyet." According to Svetlana Gladkova's translation of a Russian news report, the reason is that Google hadn't submitted complete information on employees in Russia, so ... http://www.ghjuventu-indipendentista.com/index.php/2010/08/24/russia-thwarts-google-acquisition-of-ad-firm/ I wrote yesterday that there will be more than one Cloud vendor and today AT&T announced that they are the latest. Gloating aside, this proves that the market is still being shaped and that it won't necessarily be the domain of BigCo tech companies. AT&T and Sprint have long offered hosting ... http://www.ghjuventu-indipendentista.com/index.php/2010/08/24/att-joins-the-cloud-proves-there-will-be-multipl/ Shareholders, of course, are free to enter the main auditorium and pose questions of Jobs and other executives. At the meeting, shareholders were required to register in one line, while press members who didn't hold shares were directed to a different sign-in sheet, and escorted to the overflow room. (Credit: Corinne ... http://www.ghjuventu-indipendentista.com/index.php/2010/08/24/apple-blogger-dominates-shareholder-meeting/