Technology Industry Archive

Cloud computing, wireless versus wired, Internet bandwidth availability: many issues face the telecommunications industry. I had a chat with Qwest’s CTO, Pieter Poll, to get his company’s view of them. BNET: By the early 2000s, there was a general view that the telecommunications industry had significant over-investment in fiber optic infrastructure. Has that worked its way through...

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According to Silicon Alley Insider, Facebook is looking at possibly building an online ad network based on Facebook Connect, though not for at least the next six months. And there’s suspicion that Twitter could do the same. But then, how much good will it do them? In the short term, the online ad outlook isn’t good. The online ad market has not been immune from the general economy....

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Cisco could be thrown of course in its ambition to become the single supplier in the data center because of a coming wave of consolidation in the networking industry, the first sign of which is Broadcom’s bid for networking component vendor Emulex. Cisco’s strategy is dependent on being able to convince IT administrators that it can move data quickly and efficiently through the...

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Informatica, which makes technology intended to help companies manage and deduplicate data held in various technology systems, would be a logical next acquisition target for Oracle, as would a number of other niche vendors in the same space, like Initiate Systems and Siperian. Informatica, however, would be the most logical target because of its reputation as a neutral party that doesn’t...

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If you’ve been around the high tech industry for ten years or longer, you’ll know the signs of technofad. Vendor representatives exhibit hysteria. Pundits declare the technofad to be the savior of corporate computing. Virtually every product, down to paperclips, is recast as a tool critical to the success of the technofad … and of society in general, for that matter. As inevitable...

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A look at highlights of the past week in the high tech legal world. AOL seeks court ruling on Yahoo patents — AOL sought declaratory relief in a patent infringement suit that Yahoo brought against online advertising company Quigo, which AOL bought a couple of years ago. [Source: Reuters] EU sues UK over data privacy rules — The European Union is suing the UK for not applying...

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Adobe introduced a new version of its Flash Web video playing technology for televisions and other home entertainment devices. Anup Murarka, director of technology strategy for the platform business unit at Adobe, told me new TV models with some Flash-enabling technology would be hitting the U.S. market by the end of 2009, although most new features won’t be available until early 2010....

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Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems, should the deal close as expected, would be the conjoining of “two technology titans,” in the words of Scott McNealy, chairman of Sun. It is also the marriage of two companies with reputations that couldn’t be more divergent: Sun is seen as an idealistic company that has never figured out how to get properly rewarded for its...

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Oracle has announced a deal to buy Sun Microsystems for a total of $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of the latter’s cash and debt. The acquisition will change the landscape of enterprise computing, putting Oracle into total competition with long-standing business partners, who may still be locked by circumstances into working with the database giant. According to Oracle, the acquisition...

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Symantec is going to announce the acquisition of Mi5 Networks, a niche vendor in the the Internet security space this week, according to 451Group analyst Brenon Daly. Mi5, named after the famed British intelligence service, sells appliances that help organizations protect their networks and, in particular, are supposed to help ensure that corporate networks don’t become havens for...

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