So the consolidation is starting, according to rumors on the acquisition of Intersil by TI: Wireless LAN chipset vendor Intersil Corp.’s (Nasdaq: ISIL – message board) stock was up today on rumors that the company is going to be acquired by Texas Instruments Inc. (NYSE: TXN – message board). TI is renown as a great [...]
Dan Gillmor asks a question about the case of the Brooklyn Bridge bomber: Why are journalists not screaming bloody murder about this case? Sloth no longer suffices to explain our negligence? My answer: The man (Mohammed Rauf) copped a plea. Criminals do that every day, and it’s not a story. Next problem? Via A-list blogger [...]
Open source is fun, but real software costs money and Larry Ellison wants to keep it that way: The database software giant’s $6.3-billion offer for PeopleSoft has intensified a debate about Ellison’s larger vision, which is that the software industry is embarking on a massive consolidation that would leave it in the hands of a [...]
Nucleus is a nice little piece of blogging software that installs real easily. It can’t import MT yet, but that’s just a small matter of programming.
Wired News reports on the Jobs Squeeze for Indian Workers: U.S. companies such as IBM, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle and PeopleSoft are already exploring countries with even cheaper sources of technical labor, says a report from research firm IDC. The new destinations include Romania, Russia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Back [...]
Cam Barrett, a guy who’s been blogging almost as long as I’ve been, has started a group blog for 2004 Election News, Opinion and Commentary. It’s called “WatchBlog” and he’s still taking applications from Democrats, Republicans, and Independents who’d like to contribute. See Cam’s blog for details.
Is NetBSD better than Linux? Some people think so, which would be kind of funny for all the companies who’ve stalled new features for a year because they’ve been migrating products from VxWorks to Linux. What do we mean by better? Here’s a clue: While NetBSD uses the GNU toolchain (compiler, assembler, etc), and certain [...]
Dan Gillmor’s off-hand reference (“Palm frittered away its long lead, giving Microsoft and the Symbian alliance the time to catch up and in many ways surpass the pioneer”) sent me searching for info on Symbian, which turns out to be the OS of choice for mobile phones, especially those with 3G. Now there’s been a [...]
After watching the FCC ownership rules hearing on C-Span, and listening to as much of the commentary by folks like KKK alumni Fritz Hollings and Trent Lott as I could stand, I came away with the belief that the uproar over these rule changes is groundless. Lawrence Lessig said: “The FCC will liberate the networks [...]
A recent comment of mine that WiFi chipsets aren’t a good bet for investors raised a few eyebrows, but facts are facts. See The Register for the lowdown on current pricing trends for WiFi chips: The price war is being driven by the entry of new chip makers, primarily in Taiwan. Acer Labs and SiS [...]
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