• Who needs a PC? HP acquires Neoware for its thin Linux client technology

    Intelligence seems to take place on the network these days. What about this amazing breaking news of HP acquiring Neoware for $16.25 per share i.e. $214 million announced today. Check out the news.It strikes me as HP is the leading vendor in PCs and yet they place their bet on a thin client, but a Read more

  • Online surpasses radio ads, user-generated content sites make more than $1.6 billion

    It’s been a while since we didn’t bend back on numbers. Here are some good news on the online ad spend for 2007, coming from emarketer.com, that I wanted to share with you. If you don’t want to read it all, here is a quick summary: eMarketer is raising its 2007 forecast from $19.5 billion Read more

  • We’re moving from Desktop to Webtop

    “Microsoft and IBM executives Wednesday admitted feeling heat from Google now that the Web search giant is trying to make inroads into the enterprise market with its hosted suite of communication and collaboration tools.” says NetworkWorld. Desktop productivity suites — i.e. Microsoft and Open Office — are beginning to appear as legacy apps for younger Read more

  • Widgets reach 21% of the WW internet audience n April

    Just a very quick one fellow marketers, I found out this number on AdvertisingAge and could not resist but share it with you. Widgets reached about 21% of the worldwide internet audience in April, ComScore — who started to track widgets usage accross the web — found. About 40% of widget use, or 81 million Read more

  • Google Gears: last mile to a 100% web based application world?

    In a meeting recently, in my new job at Sage, we were discussing with R&D about the client model in our new world. Interesting debate among specialists that are seeing the world through RIA (Rich Internet Application), RDA (Rich Desktop Application) and the fading 100% HTML or client/server models. It clearly shows we’ve been moving Read more

  • Microsoft finally strikes back

    Even on holidays, I could not escape the news: Microsoft finally made its mind on how to enter the $125 billion Advertising Market, they acquired aQuantive on May 18th for $6 billion. Interestingly enough, not only do they acquire one of the most powerful web media buyer but they also acquire web design services through Read more