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Why Do Anti-Dumping Measures Not Apply to Software? - Flexible Costing Lets Coders Charge What They Please -
If an American chip company were doing with microprocessors what Google is doing with software, it would be hauled in front of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in short order.
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CES 2010 Wrap - Where Vendors Gather, Worlds Collide -
By now, most industry followers and leaders have reported exhaustively (and exhaustingly) on the cacophony that is CES, and as reticent as I am to add to the noise, I thought I’d offer my hopefully different perspective to the flow.
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GPU Computing Will Change Your Life - nVidia and Partners Point the Way at Industry Confab -
nVidia held a scaled-down GPU (graphics processing unit) Conference in San Jose Sept. 29-Oct 2, 2009...
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Building Blox Redux - Old Wine in a New Bottle -
Back in the summer of 2000, the last hurrah for the Dot Com bubble, as it later turned out, I gave a talk to members of the PC industry, which had been on a tear for half a decade and didn’t know that it was about to go in the tank for a couple of years.
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Mix and Match - New Hardware and Software Platforms are Arriving Every Day -
Have all normal boundaries in the endpoint world simply disintegrated? It seems as if in the past couple of months, we’ve seen announcements of virtually any and every possible combination of hardware platform, operating environment, application stack, and form factor.
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The EU Again Lays on the Heavy Hand - Huge Fine Against Intel Tracks Pattern of Actions Against U.S. Technology Firms -
The whispers proved right. In its latest antitrust activity, the EU smacked Intel with a record fine.
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Windows 7 Release Candidate is Hitting the Milestones - Client OS Development Matures at Microsoft -
The Windows 7 development process, which produced its first release candidate (RC1) this week, bears...
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Fujitsu Integration Heralds a Step Up in Enterprise Competition - Economic Circumstances Merely Accelerate Trend Already Underway -
Today, Fujitsu announced that it has absorbed its German affiliate, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, and w...
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Peas in a Pod or Night and Day? - HP and IBM are not Nearly as Similar as Most People Think -
Quite often these days, people compare the results and business models of IBM and Hewlett-Packard (H...
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Saving Your Data - Rich Range of Choices Confronts Small Firms and Consumers -
Most large corporations have elaborate procedures to protect, archive, and back up important data. ...
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CES Wrap - Show Lumbers on Despite Economic Woes -
The signs of a greatly diminished CES were everywhere last week: two minutes to get on a shuttle from the airport, hardly any check-in line at the hotel, no wait to get the badge holder, plentiful empty cabs, cabbies opining about a figure of 80,000 attendees, bar tenders opining about sparsely populated rooms, easy paths through the show floor with few clots of gawkers, no checkout line at the hotel, no wait for the cab to the airport, and even no wait in the departing security line.
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A Dollop of Holiday Cheer - Buyers are Likely to Shift Toward the Low End -
It’s a feeble wind that doesn’t blow some ill for everybody, and the worldwide economy has been sustaining gale force lately.
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AMD Spins Out Manufacturing Assets - At Long Last, Chip Company Completes Foundry Partnership Deal -
Good on AMD for putting together the right partnership with various financing groups in Abu Dhabi. ...
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The Drawbacks of Federated Identity - A Potential Nightmare in the Guise of Convenience -
At Facebook’s recent annual developer conference, F8, the company announced Facebook Connect, a means of sharing identity information among multiple social networks, and founder Mark Zuckerberg started talking about how nice it would be to share identity information between social networks.
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The Repositioning of Acer - A Sleeping Giant Awakens -
Acer held a major press conference last week, but you could be forgiven if you didn’t know about it because the event took place in Budapest, Hungary, which isn’t exactly the center of the technological world (unless you mark its two endpoints as the United States and China, in which case it falls pretty close).
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On the Cusp of Visual Computing - As Video Becomes Ubiquitous, The Web Will Need New Infrastructure -
I attended nVidia’s brandy new conference, nVision 2008, Aug. 25-27 in San Jose. And it turned out to be something that industry conferences are often not: fun.
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From Security to Convenience - Fingerprint Reader Market Focus Shifts From Security for Enterprise to Convenience for Consumers -
In the past 18 months, security peripherals vendors have begun to notice a change in buying patterns.
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The Dawn of Visual Networking - Social Networking and Video Make a Powerful Brew -
I remember years ago my astonishment when I began to understand “meta-reality,” the concept that with nothing other than key taps, mouse clicks, and lit pixels, people were changing reality far beyond their physical presence.
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Pac-Man Revisited - Embrace and Extend can be a Good Thing -
Microsoft pleased thousands of its faithful developers at Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas this April by demonstrating that it has the juice when it comes to virtualization.
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Building Out the BIOS - Innocuous Software Layer Aims to Become a Major Platform -
A small news item March 27 noted that Phoenix Technologies agreed to buy BeInSync, a private Israeli software company, for an undisclosed sum.
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Chaos Revisited - Humanity Casts an Even Longer Digital Shadow -
About a year ago, IDC put out a document quantifying the amount of data generated by all sources in 2006 and came up with the astounding number of 161 Exebytes.
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Popsicle Hack Tries to Chill Zeal for Hardware Security - Academic Paper Slams Trusted Platform Module -
Frozen memory sticks will not undo the Trusted Platform Module (TPM), the silicon core of security in most commercial notebook PCs.
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Is There a ‘Business-Rugged’ Market in the United States? - An assessment of Market Receptiveness to Enhanced Durability Features in Notebooks -
For many years, a few PC hardware vendors have mined a small but profitable niche supplying rugged notebook PCs to customers — military personnel, policemen, firemen, emergency medical technicians, off shore oil workers, field utility workers — who need a system that won’t fail under any circumstances short of a direct hit by a 60mm shell.
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Desktop Fragmentation - Increased Connectivity Opens Multiple Endpoint Possibilities -
Time was when a client was a client was a client. We had desktops and notebooks, basically stationary and mobile PC clients, and you either got one or the other.
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The Relevance of Tablets - Forecast Update After Two Years and Vista's Arrival -
It’s time to take a look at the tablet market again. Recently it has been rather quiet, but there is still plenty of activity.
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Happy Holidays? - A Mid-Quarter Assessment of 4Q07 -
It's amazing, but after all this time, the doddering old long-in-the-tooth PC market still seems to be rocking along.
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iPhonery - Can You Hear Me Now? -
It's difficult to add anything to all the hype about the upcoming iPhone launch. But consider this: I spoke with a journalist from a major outlet today who expressed frustration at having to attend an "iPhone launch coverage planning meeting" with other staff members.
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Chaos of the Digital Universe - Coming Soon to a Hairball Near You -
A couple of weeks ago, IDC put out a study http://www.emc.com.
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Is a Drone a Pilotless Airplane? - Yes, of course it is -
So, the irate caller to the San Francisco Chronicle's complaint line http://sfgate.com?
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The Trouble with DRM - Musicians Should Work Like the Rest of US -
There's been a lot of talk lately about whether or not digital music sold over the Internet should come wrapped in digital rights management (DRM) software.
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Moving Toward Customer Centricity - A Maturing View of Segmentation -
Hidden in Dell's recent announcement about personnel changes was a hint of a message that may turn out to be the most important strategic shift in the industry as 2007 unfolds.
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Near-Term Forecast of Windows Vista Adoption - Out of Season for Consumer; Early for Businesses -
In mid-November, Endpoint contacted a handful of enterprise CIOs and IT managers to discuss their likely Vista adoption plans.
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Tech Suggestions for the Holiday - A Luddite Tries His Hand at Seasonal Advice -
Unlike me pals here on Pundits, I can't say I've done any exhaustive searching for holiday gift ideas.
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A Look into the Viability and Health of "Subnotes" - Will Wide Screens Revive This Struggling Form Factor? -
Subnotebooks, the smaller, lighter cousins of the workhorse "thin-and-lights" that dominate the notebook category, have gotten a bad rap.
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YouTube Bruté? - Video Site Changes the Game -
It may seem unbelievable that YouTube, a company founded less than two years ago and yet to turn a profit, is about to be sold for a ten-figure sum.
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Windows Vista and the European Community - Finding a Balance to Avoid a Launch Delay -
The European Community continues to argue with Microsoft about what should and shouldn't be in Vista.
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Seismic Activity at Microsoft - The End of an Era -
Despite the suddenness of the announcement, I'm not that surprised.
It was a long time coming.
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The Visible Face of PC Security - Fingerprint Readers Will Reach the Market Density of Security Chips -
The Case for Fingerprint Reader Modules
In the past two years, a growing proportion of PCs — prim...
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Truth More Pumped than Fiction - The girlz Of destruction Fight Real Life Battles for Online Wins, Money, and Respect -
When I read Cory Doctorow's "Anda's Game," I was riveted by his short story depicting a bizarre but ...
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The Benefits of Trade Relations - U.S. Companies Gain from Maturing U.S.-China Relations -
As a postscript to my note (http://news.com.com...
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Browbeating Won't Work - Microsoft Needs to Take a More Cooperative Approach to the EU -
Microsoft's continued bone-headed approach to the EU is bound to backfire. I understand aggression,...
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Where the Trade Deficit with China will Lead us - A Look at the Nearly Unthinkable -
The record high trade deficits with China that the United States has been logging recently offer the...
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Wireless Wide Area Network Client Attach Forecast - The Next Big Thing -
Not since doing end user research in 2000 have I seen an emotional response of this magnitude. At that time, flat panel displays were being introduced as desktop computer monitors (notebooks had already been based on panels for a long time, but were rare in the client mix because of their $1,000+ premium).
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Defining Endpoint Technologies - Not so Fast: There's More to it Than Meets the Eye -
When I founded my company, I was looking for a name that would reflect my years of experience in PC hardware, but allow for some growth into adjacent areas, particularly other types of client devices.
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The World According to Endpoint - 2006 Predictions -
This is the moment to add my voice to the throng making predictions about the new year. As in predi...
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My CES - Highly Subjective Commentary About the 2006 Show -
Given the amount of CES coverage by analysts and press, I can hope to contribute little in the way o...
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Is there or Is There Not a Halo Effect? - Plenty of Back and Forth on the Subject, but Little Closure -
For several years in the mid-1980s, after Apple had launched the Macintosh — the first personal comp...
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How We Reach Our Audiences - Everything is Different Now -- Change or die -
None of what I say here is actually new, but I feel that the revolution sweeping the information tec...
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This Ain't Your Father's Internet - How Hardware Security Will Become Nearly Ubiquitous as a Rock Solid Solution to Safeguarding Connected Computing -
Few people know anything about the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) or the Trusted Platform Module (TPM), which is amazing in its own way because within five years everybody will have a TPM in their computers.
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An Assessment of XPS - The Value of Dell’s Bringing a New Brand to a Mature Market -
For many years, Dell has been known as a highly resourceful company, one with zero fat and no more infrastructure than necessary to get a product into a buyer’s hands with maximal efficiency.
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The Disaggregated Desktop - Under-sung Form Factor Doesn't Get an Even Break -
Desktop growth has slowed in recent years. Despite still representing the largest revenue contribut...
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Windows Media Center Takes on New Life - Reforecast of the Digital Home Market -
When Windows Media Center Edition (WMCE) was launched in late 2002, Microsoft had high hopes for it. Finally, home PCs were going to be able to deliver digital content to consumers, and the PC would be safely ensconced as the hub of the digital living room.
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Nightmares on the Nerd Bird - What You Don't Know CAN Hurt You -
Those of you in the information technology industry will at one time or another have flown on what we sometimes like to call a "nerd bird," an airplane traveling between two locations such as San Jose, California, and Austin, Texas.
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The Magic Invisible Cloth That Only Wise Men Can See - About Oakland — and Tablet PCs — Is There Any There There Yet? -
I hate to break it to you, but the emperor is virtually naked. At Comdex in November 2002, and with great fanfare, Bill Gates introduced the tablet as the next mainstream mobile platform.
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Government to Mess Up Our Lives (Again) - New Law on Daylight Savings Will Cause All Kinds of Scheduling Headaches -
As of George Bush's signing of the new energy bill Monday, Aug. 8, a clause changing the timing of Daylight Savings in the United States also kicked in.
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Form Factor Scenario - The Supply Chain Effects of Smaller Desktops -
As one looks out beyond a five-year horizon typical of most industry forecasts, one can see more significant shifts in the relative proportions of PC client form factors than the near-term forecasts reveal.
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Early Test of Strength - Lenovo Retains Most of its Employees During the Transition -
At Lenovo's first worldwide analyst conference July 26th, CEO Steve Ward pointed out that since the ...
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