Archive for the ‘IT’ Category
Thursday, May 27th, 2010
The moment came when Apple surpassed Microsoft in Market Cap [*].
A few numbers:
Market Cap: Microsoft at $219 billion - Apple at $222 billion (yesterday)
Revenue: Microsoft at $58.4 billion - Apple at $42.9 billion
Net income: Microsoft at $14.6 billion - Apple at $5.7 billion
Cash: Microsoft at $39.7 billion - Apple at ...
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Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
Via Silicon Alley Insider. The great turnaround of Apple illustrated in a chart.
Since the iPhone launch in 2007 Apple has been getting closer to Microsoft faster and faster. The iPad "effect" is closing the final gap. It is only a matter of time that Apple will surpass Microsoft in market cap. ...
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Friday, February 5th, 2010
The future of Adobe Flash is in the hands of Google.
Apple's reluctance to support Flash on the iPhone and the iPad is putting tremendous pressure on the future of Adobe's ubiquitous platform, present in 98% of browsers worldwide.
The Adobe Flash Player is the engine behind 99% of Video in the ...
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Friday, January 30th, 2009
We have seen recent announcement of job cuts in almost all Telecom and Tech companies, including Microsoft and Google only to name those that are new to those announcements.
GigaOm recently echoed a recruitment firm report that estimated almost 200,000 job cuts in the tech industry in 2008.
Still there are reasons ...
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Sunday, January 18th, 2009
The rise of Netbooks, of which 21 million units* will be sold in 2009, may put in jeopardy the progression of Moore's Law, as netbooks cannibalize sales of laptops. As a result of Moore's Law, the price of a mid-range PC has not changed much since long, but every year ...
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Friday, January 2nd, 2009
Year 2008 will be remembered for the financial crash but also as the year when
iPhone 3G confirmed Apple's revolution of mobile phones. RIM also strengthened their corporate position with new multimedia capable models and Android saw its first handset launched, the G1.
Wireless broadband became a reality, with 3G/HSDPA/EVDO ...
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Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Mike Manos, Microsoft Data Center Chief, has unveiled in his blog the design of future "Generation 4" Microsoft data centers. With the mission to provide massive easy-to-scale computing infrastructure to power the Cloud, Microsoft envisions pre-assembled containers equipped with a few thousands of servers each and its associated cabling and ...
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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
These are the top hottest five topics that we have covered over the past twelve months with the biggest potential for a disruption in both the Communications Industry and in our habits.
1) Mobile Internet, the Internet way.
The iPhone and Google's Android have revolutionized Mobile Internet in the handset, making web ...
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
Online players, such as Google and Amazon cope all bets to reign over the Clouds, benefiting from their global reach and huge experience on web scalability. Others foresee IBM -talking about utility computing for decades- or HP, after acquiring EDS, as strong contenders to put IT systems on the clouds.
But ...
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
While the IT industry has Moore's law in their DNA, the Telecom industry (both telcos and vendors) have not yet been able to embrace the concept and many analyst keep raising doubts about the sustainability of Telecommunications decreasing margins.
Microprocessors, hard-drives and memory cards double its performance/cost ratio every year. The ...
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