But because the press has fallen in love with Macs, everything is easier for Apple. It’s a strange phenomenon, but people that start using Apple products have a sense of loyalty to them unlike any other computer brand. And it’s that phenomenon that Apple uses to its advantage and what keeps the press coming back [...]

An AOL-Yahoo deal, with AOL retaining its Google search relationship, could rival Microsoft’s initial $31-a-share buyout bid for Yahoo, according to Charles Di Bona, a research analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein.

“The rest is now up to (Yahoo’s) board…With or without the acquisition, we are committed to becoming a world-class digital-advertising company,” Turner said in the [...]

Pascrell pointed out that Marie O’Neill Sciarrone, a special assistant to the president, spoke at Monday’s forum regarding federal cybersecurity efforts–but the event, hosted by the Information Technology Association of America, cost $50 for government employees to attend.

Schneider made it clear at a forum on Monday that Robert Jamison, the DHS undersecretary for national protection [...]

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And although these two groups posted a 2 percent and 8 percent increase in January year-over-year retail e-commerce spending, respectively, this type of concern over job security could lead to belt-tightening down the line, he noted.

The middle-class, for example, accounts for 46 percent of online retail spending, while the upper-class represents 34 percent, [...]

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Pikistore’s angle for getting you to ditch the competition is that the online store you create exists as its own destination, and not a part of some network of other stores. Unlike Etsy, which does something similar, but focuses on the network of other sellers as part of the [...]

I find it unlikely that MS would ever offer anything that I would consider relevant. Money? Hey, they have it, and I like it, but I obviously don’t value it over everything else. And they are unlikely to offer the things I really value.
And on working for Microsoft:
Hence, Linux may fade away. At some point, [...]

The system does not currently work with groupings of blogs, but on any single feed, clicking the “show details” link gives you a small drop-down with publishing verses readership information. In the future I’d love to see the option to view your reading habits with groups of blogs so I could reconsider which clusters deserved [...]

Sure, there are a lot of players in this market, and there is bound to be consolidation. I can certainly see Foundry, Juniper, Hewlett-Packard, or Nortel acquiring someone, especially in the current financial climate in which companies are undervalued. In my view, this would be a worthwhile move for any of these industry leaders. Juniper [...]

During the interview, Heiliger said that Facebook has more than 10,000 servers and leverages mostly open-source software across a distributed architecture, with thousands of MySQL instances. “It’s almost a new challenge every day,” Heiliger said regarding the challenges of keeping up with the growth in users–about 250,000 new users per day. He said that Facebook [...]

On the other hand, there are multiple examples of video games inspiring Hollywood to do what it does, such as Tomb Raider, BioShock and others.

But, from this corner, Spore needs to be a commercial and critical success before anyone thinks about how far it can go outside the traditional game space. It may well be [...]