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Why Drugmakers Don't Twitter
About 60% of Americans look on the Internet when they need medical information. And at least half of these people use social networks (such a ... More
The Great Android Invasion
The BusinessWeek article "The Great Android Invasion" (Nov. 23, 2009) suggests that mobile-phone makers and application developers have been ... More
Elder Care by Remote
The BusinessWeek article, "Elder Care by Remote" (November 16, 2009), describes a cost-effective home-health system for the elderly that is being t ... More
Verizon Mobilizes Against the iPhone
Verizon is attempting to keep its wireless market share even though the company doesn't have the hottest smartphone on the market (the iPhone ... More
What's Holding Back Tech
Demand for tech products is increasing in some areas, but production is still down significantly. According to the BusinessWeek article "What's H ... More
Dell's Do-Over
Michael Dell, the CEO of Dell, has been making sweeping changes in everything from personnel and partnerships to acquisitions an ... More
The Second Coming of Iridium
Satellite phone provider Iridium Communications is coming back from bankruptcy. It raised $200 million in a recent initial public offering (I ... More
Can Google Stay on Top of the Web
The BusinessWeek article, "Can Google Stay on Top of the Web" (October, 12, 2009), describes how Google has many engineers and executives that do ... More
Tech: The Return of Risk-Taking
There is evidence from technology companies that the worst of the recession is over, and many tech firms seem to be signalling that it's tim ... More
Apps Trump Tunes at Apple
Music isn't nearly as important to Apple as it once was. While Apple built its comeback over the past decade on its music-playing iPods, sales of thes ... More
Oracle has Customers Over a Barrel
Oracle already wields tremendous power in the technology industry, and that will only grow if the proposed acquisition of Sun goes through. ... More
Will Windows 7 Reboot PC Sales?
For the first time in years, the PC market is starting to draw serious attention from Wall Street. Hopes are building among investors that the industr ... More
Microsoft Research Keeps Dreaming big
Microsoft's research and development organization, MSR, claims to have made important contributions to new products. However, Microsof ... More
Samsung's Plan to Widen Its Range
According to the BusinessWeek article "Samsung's Plan to Widen Its Range" (Aug. 24 & 31, 2009), Samsung faces several issues when it com ... More
Microsoft: Take That, Google
Microsoft has just announced a deal to team up with Yahoo! to increase its market share in the lucrative Internet search market. Under the ag ... More
'Motorola Has One Bullet Left in Its Gun'
According to the BusinessWeek article "'Motorola Has One Bullet Left in Its Gun'" (Aug. 3, 2009), the odds of Motorola rescuing its lagging ... More
Google's Battle for the Office
Google just announced that it is creating an operating system to compete with Microsoft's Windows, so it seems that it is determined to  ... More
Building a Social Network That Pays
Intuit seems to have figured out a way to benefit from social media. The accounting software maker directs power users of QuickBooks to a sit ... More
Seeking the 'Next Billion' Gamers
Mobile-phone chipmaker Qualcomm and startup Zeebo are introducing an inexpensive gaming console that will be focused on what marketers dub the "next b ... More
TiVo Wants to Be the Google of Television
The story of TiVo is very interesting and continues to get more interesting. It is expected that TiVo's revenues will shrink by 10% this year, t ... More
Smartphone Roulette
The number of operating systems running sophisticated smartphones that can run advanced software is exploding. Besides Research In Mot ... More
Why We Tweet
BusinessWeek columnists Jack and Suzy Welch used Twitter and the social media to help launch a new book. They describe tweeting as good fo ... More
Microsoft's Search Savior?
Microsoft is just about to unveil a new Internet search engine called Bing. Instead of just finding promising Web links, the site is designed ... More
Managing the Tweets
With the rise of social networking (and sites like Facebook and Twitter),many companies are formulating policies that seek to make sure employees don' ... More
Cisco Seizes the Moment
Cisco Systems CEO John T. Chambers believes that Cisco can capitalize on opportunities to expand during the recession. While many companies ... More
Real Disease, Virtual Help
In recent years, public-health officials have been turning to computer scientists for aid in fighting a variety of infectious diseases. These sc ... More
Clouds on SAP's Horizon
SAP has long dominated the $67 billion global market for corporate software, but the company is now under pressure from the recession and a ... More
The Dubious Promise of Digital Medicine
The federal stimulus program enacted in February gives hospitals the opportunity to receive several million dollars each for tech purch ... More
Tech: Lean and Ready to Spring
It appears that tech companies have learned tough lessons from the Internet bust at the end of the 90s. It may have helped them m ... More
Twitter Makes a Racket. But Revenues?
In the future, it may be found that Twitter was a clever widget that was trendy but had no economic significance and no lasting significance ... More
The Online TV Threat has Cable Scrambling
Steve B. Burke, the president and chief operating officer of Comcast, America's largest cable distributor, is worried about the rush of consumers goin ... More
An All-Out Online Assault on the iPhone
There has been a shift in the technology industry: The mobile phone has been transformed into a sophisticated computing device onto which people ... More
Tech Spending: The Great Divide
Technology companies are being affected differently by the economy based on what types of products or services they sell. In the current environ ... More
Internet TV Just got a lot Closer
Some people are questioning if the Internet will ultimately replace cable television. Only a couple of years ago, the cable compa ... More
The Next Net
With the emergence of the iPhone and other similar devices, "computer phones" are making the mobile Internet more of a reality everyday. &nb ... More
The Squeeze on Online Ads
While online advertising from the big companies like Yahoo and the New York Times are suffering, business is increasing for advertising netw ... More
Windows and Intel's Digital Divide
The computer industry is changing. About 300 million PCs were sold last year, but growth in that market is expected to slow (about an avera ... More
WiMAX: The Signal Flickers
Some of the biggest names in the technology and media business, including Intel, Google, Sprint, and Comcast, have teamed up to invest $3.2 billi ... More
A Field Day for Cyber-Fiends
The combination of a weak economy and a widespread banking crisis is creating opportunities for online criminals to steal valuable financial ... More
The Real Potential of Apple's iPhone
Apple, through its iPhone handset, has an early lead in turning the cell phone into a high-powered computing device capable of running many d ... More
Shakespeare's on the (Cell) Phone
While Amazon and Sony have been competing with each other to create the ultimate electronic book reader, the trend is that a growing number ... More
Search Engine Squeeze?
There is some evidence that Baidu is abusing its position as China's internet search leader. Businesses report that salespeople working for Baid ... More
My High-Definition Crystal Ball
Here are some summarized trends from 2008 and some predictions for 2009. One of the surprises of 2008 was the success of mini notebooks, also ... More
Weighed Down by Investing in Palm
Palm is the Sunnyvale, California company that pioneered the smartphone market in the U.S. with its Treo line of products. Palm has not held ont ... More
Now That we all Have iPods...
Apple may have a problem with the iPod. The iPod has been a powerful growth engine for the company, helping to boost Apple's sales from $5 ... More
Small, Cheap—and Frighteningly Popular
Netbooks, a relatively new family of cheap, light PCs that can handle Web surfing, e-mail, and other basic tasks, are becoming very popular. Est ... More
The Taking of NASA's Secrets
According to experts in the area, there is a new international space race brewing. However, this race is happening here on the planet a ... More
Cisco's Brave New World
Cisco, the technology company that sells everything from the million-dollar routers to videoconferencing systems, also has consulting services to ... More
This Social Network Is Up and Running
About two years ago, Nike launched a Web site, nikeplus.com, that connects runners around the world and uses a technology that tra ... More
Taking the Dull Out of Dell
Dell, the computer manufacturer based in Austin, Tex., is struggling to maintain market share. It continues to lose ground to Apple and Hewle ... More
Making Money Without Mad Ave
Gaia Online, an Internet hangout for some 6 million teens, is not all that worried about how the worsening economy could hurt Web adver ... More
The Dirty Secret of Recycling Electronics
The business of recycling electronic waste is booming. There are an estimated 1,200 companies that generated revenue of over $3 billion last year in t ... More
Wireless Web Phones for Less Than $50
Hutchison Whampoa, a Hong Kong conglomerate that operates ports, retail stores, and wireless-service providers around the world, plans to unveil a new ... More
As Tech Slips, Sun Could Stumble
When the U.S. economy began to falter this year, many people thought the technology sector would be able to hold up. This is ... More
The Anti-YouTube Is Starting to Click
About a year ago, NBC Universal and News Corp. launched the online TV show and movie site called Hulu. Many thought that the Old Media ... More
Make-or-Break Time for Yahoo
Yahoo!, the world's largest Internet portal, has seen its stock price sink to a five-year low (below 19—40% below what Microsoft offered i ... More
Scanning News for Slant and Cant
Former Microsoft executive Todd Herman founded the Web site SpinSpotter.com, which went live in early September. SpinSpotter uses an application calle ... More
Google's Broadside Against Microsoft
Google launched an attack on Microsoft on Sep. 2 by introducing a new browser, Chrome. However, many analysts expect this battle will be muc ... More
Motorola: Fading in China
During the Olympics, Motorola's rival, Samsung Electronics, was the official sponsor of the games and the Chinese government decreed that no ... More
Dell vs. Apple: Why it May be Personal
As early as September, Dell plans to introduce a plan to break Apple's dominant hold on the digital entertainment (particularly digital music) market. ... More
Has Facebook's Value Taken a Hit?
According the BusinessWeek article "Has Facebook's Value Taken a Hit?" (August 18, 2008), several current and former executives (at least nine ac ... More
Plugging America's Broadband Gap
Currently, only 60% of American households have broadband access, which puts the United States in 15th place among developed nations. (Back i ... More
Broadband TVs: Are We There Yet?
A new trend in high-definition (HD) televisions is broadband televisions, which are being introduced by six manufacturers, including Hewlett ... More
At Yahoo, a Threat from Within
So much has been made recently of the external threats to Yahoo!, such as Microsoft's $47.5 billion buyout bid, the contract allowing Google ... More
Where Google Isn't Goliath
Google is not the czar in Russia. Few outside of Russia have heard of Yandex. It is a search engine that has 44% of the Russian market, or 10 ... More
Redirecting the Web's News Stream
The company Daylife and its web-based application and portal maker can automatically assemble news from multiple sources and then display it ... More
The iPhone Eyes BlackBerry's Turf
Apple wants to win corporate wireless service customers away from RIM. Apple wants to position its iPhone to steal market share from R ... More
The Mini-Laptop Changing the Game
Asustek, a Taiwanese company, produces the Eee PC, a mini-laptop that retails for around $300. Chief Executive Officer Jerry Shen expects the ... More
Bluetooth Comes of Age
Bluetooth isn't just for operating wireless phone headsets. It is a technology that allows appliances and processors to talk together. The ... More
Microsoft-Yahoo, Version 2.0
Corporate raider Carl Icahn appears to like the combination of Microsoft and Yahoo! He recently began buying millions of Yahoo shares, buildi ... More
Why HP's Deal is a Head-Scratcher
Hewlett-Packard (HP) just announced last week that it intends to buy Electronic Data Systems (EDS) for $13.9 billion. Many people ... More
Inside Microsoft's War Against Google
Microsoft and CEO Steven Ballmer have a strategy to compete with Google in online advertising. Google, so far, dominates this market, with aroun ... More
How Google Fuels Its Idea Factory
Leading up to the first quarter's earnings report (which was on Apr. 17 of this year), Google's investors had suffered through a stock dec ... More
IBM vs. Tata: Which is More American?
Information technology services companies have typically relied on the U.S. market for a majority of their revenues. However, last quarter& ... More
The iPhone in Europe: Lost in Translation
According to the BusinessWeek article "The iPhone in Europe: Lost in Translation" (April 28, 2008), Apple's iPhone is not doing as well ... More
In Hot Pursuit of a Video-Game Deal
Rockstar Games is preparing to introduce its newest installment of its Grand Theft Auto (GTA) franchise on April 29 to very high expectations.&nb ... More
Google: What Goes up...
Google is having growing pains and may be affected by the slowing economy, according to the BusinessWeek article "Google: What Goes up..." (April 14, ... More
Motorola Sets Its Phone Unit Free
Motorola has finally decided to spin off its mobile-phone business. This area of its business has gone from being a onetime industry leader ... More
Microsoft Office Lurches Online
Microsoft is very concerned about the free Web-based competitors to its Office software, such as Google and the startup Zoho. Both of these c ... More
Public Wi-Fi: Be Very Paranoid
When you are traveling and need to access wireless services found in airports, coffee shops, hotels, and other hotspots, you are usually not on a ... More
Microsoft's Mating Dance
The largest software firm in the world, Microsoft, has offered a $44 billion cash-and-stock bid for the largest Internet portal company in th ... More
Google: The Hollow Echo of a Click
According to the BusinessWeek article "Google: The Hollow Echo of a Click" (March 10, 2008), Web surfers are clicking on fewer ads and the correl ... More
Gore, Geldof, Venter...and This Guy?
Ben Kaufman's new social-networking business, Kluster, hopes to take advantage of the economy of free labor, which has worked so well for sites l ... More
HP's Hurd Is About to Be Tested
Since Mark Hurd took over the CEO position of HP in March 2005 from Carleton Fiorina, he cut costs and got operations working again. Since he wa ... More
Generation MySpace is Getting Fed up
Social networking is supposed to be the "next big thing" on the Internet but many of the sites, such as MySpace and Facebook, have been anno ... More
On the Trail of the Missing iPhones
In what has been dubbed the "Mystery of the Missing iPhones," last month, Apple and AT&T reported that 1.7 million iPhones had been ... More
EBay's New Tough Love CEO
John Donahoe, the new CEO of eBay, has said that his first priority will be revitalizing the company's core business. He plans to ... More
International Isn't Just IBM's First Name
IBM has had to undergo a monumental shift in its operational philosophy. In the past three years, IBM has hired more than 90,000 ... More
Steve Jobs' Video Dreams
Apple has made a huge splash in digital music with its iPod, but apparently Hollywood is fighting its efforts to make the same impact in the ... More
Measuring Your Digital Footprint
The BusinessWeek article "Measuring Your Digital Footprint" (January 14, 2008) discusses a new service from a company called Garlik. The service ... More
Just Ahead: A Wider Wireless World
The long-expected revolution in the wireless communications market may finally come to pass. It will probably be better for consumers, but not s ... More
Psst! Wanna Buy an iPhone?
Apple's popular cell phone, the iPhone, isn't legally available in China yet, but you can buy one at any electronics shop in Beijing for a ... More
Microsoft's Nifty Digital Shoebox
PCs in the home are now serving two very different purposes according to the BusinessWeek article "Microsoft's Nifty Digital Shoebox" (December 17, 20 ... More
Online, Souped Up, and Making Tracks
Edmunds started in 1966 as a publisher of booklets packed with automotive specifications. These were intended to help car shoppers make buyin ... More
Amateur Hour Is Over
Consumers are looking for quality videos on the Internet. This is ironic, as it comes on the heels of the strike by writers and e ... More
Threadless: From Clicks to Bricks
Threadless, a small online T-shirt company, will join the likes of clothing start-ups Lucy.com and Delias.com in moving from online to bricks and m ... More
Tim Wu, Freedom Fighter
Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia Law School, is fighting for "Net neutrality" both on the Internet and in the wireless arena. In a re ... More
So Many Ads, So Few Clicks
Online advertising click-through rates have been steadily declining (0.75% to 0.27% during 2006), and the cost of click-through advertisi ... More
Get Your Hands Off the Web
The BusinessWeek opinion article "Get Your Hands Off the Web" (November 5, 2007) suggests that telecommunications firms like Verizon have too mu ... More
A Bruise or Two on Apple's Reputation
For Apple Inc., the success of the iPod and iPhone is both good and bad news. The good news is that iPod sales have put Apple pro ... More
Palm's Fading Lifeline
Palm is introducing a new product entitled the Centro designed to attract buyers who are younger and less affluent than its current customers.  ... More
A Bruise or Two on Apple's Reputation
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That's One Way To Reinvent A Company
The CEO of Sun Microsystems Inc. (JAVA ), Jonathan I. Schwartz, believes that his company is in the business of selling intellectual propert ... More
Will a Google Phone Change the Game?
Google Inc. is expected to introduce a new cell phone in the second half of 2008, according to the BusinessWeek article "Will a Google Phone Chan ... More
The Water Cooler is Now on the Web
Some companies have decided that rather than fight the trend, they are riding the wave of social networking. Today at companies like S ... More
A Big Sales Job for Salesforce.com
In “A Big Sales Job for Salesforce.com” (September 24, 2007), the author discusses Salesforce.com and increased competition in the internet-enabled (S ... More
Amazon Does Downloads, Sort of
Amazon.com, which owns Mobipocket.com (a digital book company), is not trying to sell more books, movies or music in digital format. According t ... More
Facebook's New Wrinkles
The newest visitors to the social networking site Facebook.com are a bit older than the 20-somethings that have been the bread and butter of this popu ... More
Tearing Down the Wireless Fortress
The Federal Communications Commission has just handed down a ruling that may be helpful to companies like Google, Yahoo, and Skype (owned by eBay). Ac ... More
The Back Roads to IT Growth
Some of the technology giants are banking on growth in emerging markets. The sales of technology to emerging markets are expected to grow from $2.5 bi ... More
Making the iPhone Mean Business
Apple Inc.'s iPhone does not have a secure way to push messages to Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Domino servers, which does not allow the mobile p ... More
Intel Inside the Third World
Intel is in a race with a very surprising competitor to deliver low-priced computers to the third world. The competitor is the tiny philanthropy named ... More
The Info Tech 100
The winners and losers among the Information Technology 100 are discussed in the BusinessWeek article, "The Info Tech 100" (July 2, 2007), which detai ... More
Back from the Dead
The nearly $900 billion telecommunications industry is the subject of this article. The total telecommunication profits are supposed to top $72 billio ... More
How Big Will the iPhone Be?
Few stocks trade on emotion as Apple Inc. does. With the launch of the iPhone just a few weeks away, Apple's stock has gained momentum and doubled ove ... More
How Flash Will Change PCs
Solid-state PC drives known as flash drives are faster and less power-hungry than hard drives and will see wider use as their costs fall and capacity ... More
Is This Really the Next Big Thing?
A new laser technology that many people think may lead to amazing commercial applications is called ultrashort pulse (USP). Lasers of this type turn o ... More
Honing the Razr Edge
A few years back, Motorola developed the Razr cell phone, which became a hit with consumers. The challenge since has been to build on the success of t ... More
An End Run Around the Set-Top Box
CableCARDs bypass a rental set-top box box, but the old cable providers won't give up without a fight. CableCARD, which most cable companies must star ... More
Behind Those Web Mergers
With the possibility of Microsoft acquiring Yahoo swirling around Wall Street last week (it turned out the talks had ended before then), and with the ... More
The Tech Dragon Stumbles
Many of the Chinese technology startups are struggling to stay profitable and failing to gain market share both within and outside of China. Many anal ... More
Remade in the USA
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HP Sees a Gold Mine in Data Mining
Mark V. Hurd, the CEO of Hewlett-Packard, is pushing Neoview, HP's data mining business for large corporations. HP hopes to achieve success with Neovi ... More
Free Information, Please
Google is the latest to offer directory assistance, as phone companies squirm. Ma Bell has yet another reason to be wary of Google Inc. The Web search ... More
How Accenture One-Upped Bangalore
When the Indian outsourcing upstarts came on strong five years ago, it looked as if some giants of the $600 billion tech services industry would fall ... More
Is Google Too Powerful?
Google has a market valuation of $144 billion, which is more than other Media giants such as Time Warner, Viacom, CBS, and the New York Times Cos. com ... More
The Mind-Bending New World of Work
After many years of being mired in a "trough of disillusionment," computer animation, virtual reality, and motion capture are finally being utilized b ... More
New Tech, Old Habits
Even though some countries in Asia, such as Japan and South Korea, have a fabulous IT network infrastructure, they still have a culture that prohibits ... More
Weaving the Web to Your Taste
Hossein Eslambolchi, the former chief technologist for AT'T (which was just purchased by SBC and renamed AT'T!), has an idea that he thinks will chang ... More
eBay's Bid for Celebrity Cachet
Constance White, eBay's style director, is trying to raise its style profile to fend off online shopping rivals. Her mission: to raise awareness of eB ... More
Forget Davos, I'm Booked Up for TED
The Monterey thinkfest has become Silicon Valley's -- and Tinseltown's -- place to be seen. Beginning in 1984, high-rolling techies mixed with enterta ... More
XM and Sirius: What a Merger Won't Fix
XM and Sirius have established a new industry (satellite radio) and built robust brands over the last six years. The two companies now have indicated ... More
The 21st Century Meeting
With about 65% of an average conversation being nonverbal, businesses will probably never be able to use e-mail or conference calls as the only altern ... More
All This and Icahn, Too
Motorola is having many issues recently: (1) It is involved in a price war for cell phones; (2) it is not as efficient in manufacturing phones as its ... More
Make-or-Break Time for the Net Newbies
The so-called Web 2.0 companies that started as shoestring startups in the last couple of years are realizing that it takes money to develop into real ... More
Yahoo's Unlikely Amigos
Yahoo has partnered with nine big media companies that own newspapers to find ways to work together. These partners include storied newspaper business ... More
Turning Cell Phones on Their Ear
Steve Jobs has just introduced his company's latest gem, a combination phone/music player/Web browser disguised as a phone, which Apple calls the iPho ... More
Underwater Peril
On December 26, 2006, underwater earthquakes snapped eight undersea cable systems that supply telecommunications services to Asia. This affected the t ... More
Downloading the Video Windfall
Few businesses seem poised to create more wealth for their founders than Internet (broadband) video. For a recent example you have to look no farther ... More
Desktops Are So Twentieth Century
Although desktop computers started the PC revolution about 25 years ago, they are rapidly declining in sales. In their place, people are purchasing no ... More
The eBay Model Goes to the Movies
InDplay Inc. is a technology startup that helps small, independent filmmakers to connect with new venues for selling and licensing their films. The co ... More
The Soul of a New Microsoft
According to the author, Microsoft is searching for "the next Big Thing." In many ways, the company is searching for what the author calls its "un-Vis ... More
Searching for an Encore to Skype
This article discusses the story of Skype, a European Internet start-up that is an ad-based service offering free phone calls over the Internet. ... More
Verizon: Ivan's Focus on Fiber
Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg's plan for the telecommunication giant is to roll out fiber-optic service to million of American homes. This plan, to offe ... More
Media Storage's Growing Pains
Because many people are downloading media from broadband or Wi-Fi/Max sources and wanting to store these files (which tend to be huge), storage device ... More
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