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Taking a shine to Google's Chrome
Stephen Ellis IS Google's sudden foray into the web browser market last week an offensive or defensive move?
Seinfeld can't fix cracks in Windows
Stephen Ellis IT WILL take more than a quirky TV commercial that ends with Bill Gates waggling his butt at Jerry Seinfeld to restore lustre to Microsoft's Windows brand name.
SAAS still unknown quantity
Stephen Ellis WHEN enterprise software giant SAP reported its latest financial results a month ago, slow progress for its mid-market software-as-a-service play was just about the only blemish on an otherwise excellent quarter.
Business value elusive in social networks
Stephen Ellis FOUR years into the rise of online social networking, its business value to most of the corporate sector, and the most effective way to tap into that value, remain elusive.
Net users lower guard too easily
Stephen Ellis INTERNET users (or customers for most things, truth be told) typically claim to be deeply concerned about protecting their privacy and personal data from grasping corporations, but their behaviour almost never matches up to their words.
Linux rises to top dog in servers
Stephen Ellis LAST week's LinuxWorld talkfest in San Francisco, which brought together 10,000 vendors and users of the open source operating system, offered yet another indicator of its growing popularity across enterprise IT groups and among developers.
Amazon shows price of cloud leadership
Stephen Ellis IT'S a truism in information technology that it rarely pays to be a user of the early versions of anything, and especially of the first release.
Sun comes around on channelling middlemen
Stephen Ellis FOR two decades, many of the most fiercely contested battles between major IT vendors have been over differing strategies for selling to (and supporting) customers.
Big picture takes iPhone beyond web
Stephen Ellis YES, this is yet another media item about the iPhone, but rather than hyping (or slamming) the device itself, excoriating Apple and/or its telecoms partners over pricing and launch glitches, or capturing user reaction, it's about the iPhone as part of a bigger picture.
Walled gardens not about to take over net
Stephen Ellis THE internet may be slowly choking books, newspapers and perhaps even some traditional concepts of what reading involves, as many argue, but a surprisingly large number of its ideas, memes and controversies still begin their lives as ink on dead trees.
Yahoo no easy meal for Microsoft
Stephen Ellis AS rumours swirl around the tech world of Yahoo and Microsoft taking yet another tilt at a merger, alliance or other arrangement to compete with Google for online advertising, it's hard not to wonder whether Steve Ballmer and his team are pursuing the wrong partner in the wrong market.
Time Machines standard for backup
ANYONE who has upgraded to Apple's new version of OSX, Leopard, knows that one of its more obvious features is an invisible, automatic, built-in backup.
US mobile industry in turmoil
THE demise of the $US95 billion ($108 billion) US mobile phone industry as we know it is not quite imminent, but if the events of the past week are taken at face value, it seems a lot closer today than it was last Tuesday.
Rudd must avoid US broadband idea
AS the new Labor Government considers how to deliver on its promise of improving Australia's broadband infrastructure, one market it should avoid borrowing ideas from is the US.