There's a whole "Hu's on First," Abbot-and-Costello-style routine to be written about Chinese President Hu Jintao, but since your editor isn't a comedy writer he'll (mercifully) leave that to someone else. In the meantime, Hu had a heck of a week in the U.S. last week, including some less-than-friendly (although totally appropriate -- even necessary) comments from Steve Ballmer about how the software piracy rate in China is 90 percent. More
Posted by Lee Pender on January 24, 20112 comments
The big news late last week, of course, was that Eric Schmidt will soon step down as CEO of Google and turn the company back over to company cofounder Larry Page.
As news goes, though, that story was a little bit boring. The whole thing seemed pretty friendly -- Schmidt will stay on as an adviser and as executive chairman and will no doubt continue raking in loads of cash. Everybody wins. More
Posted by Lee Pender on January 24, 20110 comments
Mee-ow! Microsoft this week put out a blog post on how (according to Microsoft, ahem) Exchange is kicking notes around like a cheap, um, messaging system. The title of the blog entry? Don't Be the Last Company on Notes. Ouch!
Posted by Lee Pender on January 24, 20110 comments
OK, so we were expecting some blenders, maybe a washer or a food processor, but the appliances HP and Microsoft trotted out yesterday are more about cloud computing than what used to be called "home economics."
There are five appliances in total, one of which is intended to help companies build a private cloud "in a box." That leads us to wonder -- when is the cloud not the cloud? If it's installed and administered on-premises, is it still the cloud? And can the cloud be put in a box? More
Posted by Lee Pender on January 20, 20111 comments
The fickle nature of the financial world is such that everything might have changed by the time you read this, but Apple's stock price took a bit of a hit on Tuesday with reports that the great Steve Jobs -- seriously, let's not even begin to deny the man's genius -- is once again taking leave from the company for health reasons.
Posted by Lee Pender on January 19, 20110 comments
Microsoft has a strange habit of working on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. We've noted this before, and on Monday it happened again.
While much of the nation was sledding or skating on frozen ponds on Monday (hey, sunshine types, don't knock winter until you've tried it), Microsoft was busy talking up by far its most complete version of Dynamics CRM Online, it's software-as-a-service customer relationship management suite. More
Posted by Lee Pender on January 19, 20114 comments
The site you know and love has a brand-new look that is, frankly, fantastic. It also has tons of great content, as always, as well as archives of your editor's ramblings. Check out the new RCPmag.com today.
Posted by Lee Pender on January 19, 20111 comments