Category: Enterprise
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AMD, wins and losses
AMD just announced two things nearly simultaneously : loosing $600 millions in operations in the last quarter (the financial balance is not good, but the message in there is: “it’s gonna be better soon”) and receiving a €262 millions from the German government (approved by the European Commission) to support the investments in their Dresden…
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All the Warner catalog for free
And it does not even look illegal: Warner signed a partnership with imeem to share the adveertisment revenues from the web site when the North American users freely listen to the music freely available from the Warner catalog (including Madonna, Linkin Park, Green Day, Josh Groban, Faith Hill, My Chemical Romance, Big & Rich, John…
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Palm is out of emergency care
Palm, the PDA manufacturer taht competes directly with the Microsoft technology known as Windows Pocket, has been suffering for years in an economical context very adverse to this market segment. But they received in beginning of June a nice shot of dollars in the form of financing by private-equity Elevation to the tune of $325…
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The advantages of self-employment
When you’re self-employed, you have all the advantages of the world: Copyright Andy Singer.
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Research companies on the web
In France, we have public and private services to research information about existing and past companies. The best example is certainly and other services described in “Euridile et Cie – L’information financière à propos des entreprises françaises“. But when you are speaking about American companies it seems that things are a bit more complicated. That’s…
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Color-blindness and software specification
Do you happen to know that 5% of all male population is actually affected by some form of color-blindness (females are much less prone to it). It means that plenty of activities that tend to rely on color identification by the user is significantly flawed for about 2-3% of the user population. This can become…
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Intel/AMD, at war again
July will be another month of price wars for Intel and AMD (after a very bumpy April). Both announced that they would shoot prices down once again in July trying to grab a larger market share (for AMD) or trying to asphyxiate the competition (for Intel). AMD will start at the beginning of the month.…
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Music without limits
The recent news lead me to talk again about digital music and its cohabitation (or lack of) with network technology. As a matter of fact, we learn this week that our new French President is in favor of a strong action against pirated music and downloads. This is not very new, indeed, but the confirmation…
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Crop circles and more
You already knew about the unreadable writings done (by and for extra-terrestrial beings) under the form of ground engravings in South America or crop circles in Europe and North America, but human marketing people will not let themselves outdone by little grey (or green) men for large scale communication: