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Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50: Last year, TechCrunch40 was an enormous showcase for startups to present their idea to venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and the press. This year, it's even bigger. by Andy Smith; Tags: TechCrunch, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, Management, Andy Smith, entrepreneurs, TechCruch, bloggers; Image galleries 2008-09-08
Bigger blogger presence at DNC: There are 15,000 members of the media credentialed for the Democratic National Convention and 120 of them represent blogs. That may seem like just be a drop in the bucket, but as CNET's Kara Tsuboi explores the blogger lounge known as "The Big Tent," it's clear the nontraditional media...; Tags: Presence, Blogging, Advertising & Promotion, Telecommunications, Internet, Marketing, News, kara tsuboi, dnc, colorado, obama, mccain, clinton, bloggers, green, environment; Videos 2008-08-27

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Mumbai Attacks : Knowledge is Power: There is a huge difference between verified information, speculation, incorrect information and disinformation. The net is buzzing about the communication enabled by Twitter, Flickr, youtube, wikipedia and bloggers from Mumbai, with CNN stating "It was the day social media appeared to come of...; Tags: Event, Knowledge, Twitter, Attack, Wiki, Security, Online Communications, Oliver Marks; Blog posts 2008-11-28
Text analytics helps find what you're searching for: As search becomes more and more of a commodity, many people are beginning to ask “what’s next” for the enterprise search industry. The answer may lie with the fast-evolving area of text analytics, says Lexalytics' Jeff Catlin. Commentary--Enterprise search is still growing, evolving and improving....; Tags: Enterprise Search, Financial Planning, Cloud Computing, Finance, search, analytics, Jeff Catlin, Lexalytics, Special to ZDNet, Jeff Catlin, Lexalytics, Special to ZDNet; News items 2008-11-24
Unsealed court filing: HP's Hurd had Vista concerns: HP CEO Mark Hurd told Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in an e-mail last year that HP's call centers were "being overrun" by customers who were having difficulties upgrading to Windows Vista, a detail that was revealed in the unsealing of a court filing in the Windows Vista Capable lawsuit. ...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Steve Ballmer, Mark Hurd, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Sam Diaz; Blog posts 2008-11-20

ZDNet's 2008 Holiday Gift Guide: What good is it to have the best line-up of product bloggers around if they can't help you pick out holiday presents? With that in mind, we tapped our crack crew to help us help you find the year's best tech gift ideas. We'll run...; Tags: Holiday, Blogging, Cellular Phones, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Josh Taylor; Blog posts 2008-11-19
CRM 2009 Forecast: How'd I Do in 2008? Gimme A High Four!: Usually, when I begin my forecast for the coming year, I like to look at how I did the previous year - which is usually disconcerting to say the least.Â So, in honor of my first non-intro post for this ZDNET blog, I'm going to be nakedly transparent and show...; Tags: Social Media, Business, Tool, CRM, Zoho, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg; Blog posts 2008-11-18
Adobe lands MLB.com deal: updated: Adobe has reportedly landed a Flash deal with MLB.com upending Microsoft's Silverlight. Andy Plesser at Beet.tv reports: Adobe has landed a two-year agreement with Major League Baseball to stream its 2,500-plus spring training, regular season and post-season games live to MLB.com's 1.5 million subscribers.Â Games...; Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., MLB, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Games, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-11-17
Preparing for a Flickr Apocalypse (Updated, with Yahoo response): What would happen to my food blog and precious memories if suddenly all 12,000 of my photos were suddenly to disappear off Flickr? Tuesday's posts by ZDNet's Janice Chen and SAAS Blogger Phil Wainewright scared the living crap out of...; Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Blog, Flickr, Photograph, Flickredit, Blogging, Internet, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-11-14
Arrington: 'Yahoo Almost To $10. Referee, Please Call This Fight': As Yahoo stock dropped almost 9 percent to just $10.34, TechCrunch's Michael Arrington points to a horrific big-picture view of the company's staggering plummet to the bottom: "That means they've officially destroyed $31 billion in shareholder value since turning down Microsoft's acquisition offer earlier this year. We now remember...; Tags: Yahoo! Inc., MicroBook, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance, Andrew Nusca; Blog posts 2008-11-12
The time is now for a Microsoft-Yahoo search deal: The patience over Microsoft and Yahoo's never-ending deal dance is wearing thin among the chattering class--bloggers, analysts and folks sick of following this dysfunctional courtship--and the consensus is right. The time to do a Microsoft-Yahoo deal is now and it's time to put aside the bad boardroom blood and hook...; Tags: Yahoo Search, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Squali, Aggarwal, Data Centers, Outsourcing, Search, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-11-11
Memo to the President-elect: Environmental responsibility and economic revitalization go hand-in-hand: No matter their political affiliation, most people who have an opinion about what President-elect Barack Obama should do first after he's sworn into office point to the country's economic identity crisis as his first order of business. And given how much the latest jobs report rattled the...; Tags: Job, Clean Technology, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-11-08
Would you flip to Microsoft?: Would you flip to Microsoft?Nope...happy in the land of Open Source and true freedom. ]:)Spelling mistake, off is spelled O-F-F not T-O... ntntWhat does it matter?why so intent on what people use? Microsoft, Linux, Apple, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.If a company feels that this solution or that solution...; Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating systems, Blogging, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-11-07
That "unlocked" Windows 7 taskbar is also unfinished: That "unlocked" Windows 7 taskbar is also unfinishedCompletely defeats MS' purpose....The whole idea was to show complete features. Unlocking incomplete features will have a negative effect when people start finding the bugs. Good idea MS to keep these features locked that weren't complete, but unfortunately they were unlocked.Thanks for the...; Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, KDE, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-11-03
Who would be better for tech, McCain or Obama?: Who would be better for tech, McCain or Obama?not an issueso by adding the word tech into the discussion u think it is valid,enough is enoughwe dont want to hear read see political opinions on the tech blogthank youRE: Who would be better for tech, McCain or Obama?Thank you for...; Tags: Obama; Discussion threads 2008-11-03
SAP, Oracle, SaaS - The changing ERP market: The times they are a changing This InformationWeek article is a must read for any ERP buyer, seller or market watcher. SAP Global Operations CEO Bill McDermott confirms some details about SAP and the hosting for its Business ByDesign product line. He also has some choice words...; Tags: Software-as-a-service, Oracle Corp., SAP AG, ERP, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Software As A Service (SaaS), Enterprise Software, Software, Emerging Technologies, Brian Sommer; Blog posts 2008-11-01
Should Facebook be tapping users for cash?: It hasn't even been a month since Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg told a German blog that growth, not monetization, was the priority for the social networking site. In fact, he even went so far as to say that he didn't see a revenue plan coming into play for three more...; Tags: Facebook, Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz; Blog posts 2008-10-31
Prime Minister 'doesn't recognize' IT failures: Prime Minister 'doesn't recognize' IT failuresThird choiceThe Prime Minister didn't want to do a post-mortem or a pre-mortem himself at that time. So he said he didn't know if the numbers were true, and brought the discussion back to a 20 billion pound issue he was prepared to discuss.Minimal...; Tags: IT Failure, Clegg, information technology; Discussion threads 2008-10-31
Friday talking point: A question of hacking ethics: Friday talking point: A question of hacking ethicsWow. Difficult either wayI've seen stories but cannot find them that Yahoo! and other email providers wouldn't people the access to people's email and whatnot after they had died soldiers included, so there is a precendent for that.However, given the fact that someone...; Tags: hacking; Discussion threads 2008-10-31
Microsoft's cloud push: Too little too late on purpose?: Microsoft's cloud push: Too little too late on purpose?Yet another clueless, ignorant ZDNet bloggerOMG....how clueless do you really have to be at ZDNet?Microsoft's strength and point of differentiation to all the FUD and ridiculous hype around "the cloud" is to be exactly in the Software PLUS Services space.What the hell...; Tags: Game players, Blogging, Microsoft Corp., Azure, Software-Plus-Services, WTF; Discussion threads 2008-10-30