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Re: Dell’s Go Private Case Emerged as Business Eroded

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Re: Dell’s Go Private Case Emerged as Business Eroded

willo — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:52:49 -0000

It´ll start with the PC makers, HP, Dell, Asus, and later on Lenovo etc. Then the final push will be Microsoft.

Wake up and realize nobody want a "big" computer anymore. ALL the future is in tablets, phones and eventually wearable computers like bracelets. Battery tech is on the verge of exploding, at the same time the amount of GPU/CPU power ARM and others are able to cram into these tiny devices is simply amazing.

Take a look at the latest Apple Tv3 revision, running on less than 1watt per hour.

Did anyone ever see a SCI-FI movie with big bulky computers? No, it´s smaller smaller smaller that matters. Microsoft Metro was a shady attempt to enter the mobile segment, but as we all know it failed.

Watch these PC companies crumble followed by the demise of Microsoft. And remember this, their strategy was exactly the opposite of the trend. What Microsoft calls a tablet Surface Pro is nearly 1KG with a freaking cooling Fan.

and you wonder why? Pff.

Re: Dell’s Go Private Case Emerged as Business Eroded

paulos777 — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:20:20 -0000

Whitewash - Dell does not care about share price. He is about to release Ophelia, the computer-on-a-USB-stick that will shake up the computer industry, and double the sales of the company. But being greedy as all billionaires must be, he does not want you or I to reap the benefits. Likely Silver Lake knows this, as do Blackstone and Icahn, which is why they are willing to pay more and more for the company. If the company were in as bad trouble as this spun filing claims, what on earth are these takeover bids trying to achieve? VOTE NO, the shares are worth twice as much as sales will double in short time. Remember how ipods and iphones made Apple rich? That's because of portability. Scale is the revolution Ophelia will ride. Plug into your 52-inch screen and surf, email, watch movies, etc, etc. For 100 bucks a pop, don't you think everyone in the world will want one? I'll buy two. So will you. It's the next stage in the evolution of cloud-computing.

Re: Gartner Raises 2013 IT Spending Forecasts to $3.8 Trillion

Reality Check — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 14:33:37 -0000

A lot of enterprises are looking for ways to turn their IT department into a business asset and competitive advantage so it's not surprising to hear that budgets and spending are going up. The right technology can have a dramatic impact on the way a company does business.

Re: US Writes Its Worries About Buying IT Gear From China Into Law

youmyyou — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 09:25:36 -0000

interesting....

Re: NSA Declassifies — Sort Of — Its Super-Secret Internal Magazine

Matt — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 19:42:35 -0000

This is interesting... according to Wikipedia the NSA was founded in 1952 however according to Cryptolog, it has been around since at least 1946. Check out the August 1974 edition, page 6 under the TBD (Texta) section: "A system of recording and maintaining a data base of technical information on communications targets, it was instituted in 1946 by agreement among NSA, ... CENSORED". According to Wikipedia the NSA's predecessor was Armed Forces Security Agency (AFSA), created on May 20, 1949. How could they have decided on TEXTA in 1946 then??

Re: HP Negotiating Early End to San Jose Arena Naming Rights Deal

BobbyBarker — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:36:55 -0000

That's $47M the San Jose taxpayer didn't have to cough up.

Re: HP Negotiating Early End to San Jose Arena Naming Rights Deal

BobbyBarker — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:35:39 -0000

As this was done during Carly's reign I expected it to be named the HP Fi Arena.

Re: HP Negotiating Early End to San Jose Arena Naming Rights Deal

J H — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:34:08 -0000

As an HP shareholder this will be a good turn of events if HP can sell those rights to SAP. That money can be better spent elsewhere.

HP only derived 15% of 2012 profits from PCs. This first quarter of 2013 PCs made up only 10% of profits. I expect that this trend will continue. Although HP is the largest PC company in the world it is not accurate to describe HP as a PC company.

Unfortunately that's not going to change as long as PCs are the only thing that the general public knows about HP. I would rather see HP advertise more for its Enterprise Group which is really where HP's future lies.

Re: HP Negotiating Early End to San Jose Arena Naming Rights Deal

tracyallenparks — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:10:06 -0000

how about let's all stop lining pockets with corporate money and just name it something normal like: The San Jose Arena or The Shark Tank or something along those lines.
I am so tired of these sports arenas changing names every half decade or so.

Re: Oracle Acquires Network Manager Tekelec

Kevin R Petschow — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:38:02 -0000

Cisco's
steadfast execution to lead the next-gen mobility market transition is
just beginning to heat up. http://cs.co/minv

Re: Blackstone Group Offers To Buy Dell

Create a New Lab — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 11:21:02 -0000

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but Dell isn't Dell without Dell
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Re: Weapons in Cyber Attack on South Korea Killed Targeted PCs

EagleEye223 — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 13:51:21 -0000

"sum of all fears" tactic... I like it. Though, this also implies that N. Korea has smart hackers.

Re: Weapons in Cyber Attack on South Korea Killed Targeted PCs

King Of Versailles — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 06:41:40 -0000

Sounds like someone is playing both sides against each other. Any idea who could gain ?

Re: Weapons in Cyber Attack on South Korea Killed Targeted PCs

Steve Miller — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 04:49:54 -0000

Let them fight it out. Better than war. Cyber wars are upon us.

Re: Oracle Blames Third-Quarter Miss on Sales Execution

lazerator — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:18:02 -0000

How long will it take Hurd to ruin yet another good company?

Re: Oracle Earnings Miss Expectations

autox — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 23:34:11 -0000

So what has Hurd done exactly for Oracle - has he turned "Sun" into a power house computer again? He has failed to deliver that's way he is looking to move on.

Re: Liveblog: HP Faces Its Restive Shareholders

Xuanlong — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:41:55 -0000

Anyone who's bought stock in HP can't be too smart, and the fact that they re-elected the entire board of directors (which is largely responsible for the mess HP is in today) really proves it.

Re: Liveblog: HP Faces Its Restive Shareholders

dirtyp — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:43:18 -0000

Are you going to comment on the "coughing" comment made during the human rights subject?

Re: Seven Questions for the Man Shaking Up HP’s Operations, John Hinshaw

Kris — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 11:20:48 -0000

A one sentence paragraph ending with a double negative. This should be a great read...

Re: Slowing China Shipments Push PC Market From Bad to Worse

Kevin_Mitchell — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 07:57:06 -0000

No, you're right.

They do like to game but not on the PC. They tend to do that with the gaming consoles though.

My personal anecdote was more to do with the trend of PC and Mac sales and that sales decline for PC's and increase in Mac sales may be due to more people switching to Macs and not necessarily due to people upgrading their old Macs because of degraded functionality of their current Mac. In other words, if people weren't switching, then maybe sales of both platforms would be declining. Possibly there are stats somewhere that would show the breakdown of up-graders and switchers.

But that is a strong bow to pull on one user statistic.

Re: That Yahoo Mail Vulnerability — Not Really Fixed

Fifi Gaia — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:28:09 -0000

wow... it is as easy as copying two cookies!?

Re: Slowing China Shipments Push PC Market From Bad to Worse

symbolset — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:29:23 -0000

The tide has turned. Time and tide wait for no man.

Re: Seven Questions for the Man Shaking Up HP’s Operations, John Hinshaw

Steven Robertson — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:16:58 -0000

Really interesting interview.

Re: Seven Questions for the Man Shaking Up HP’s Operations, John Hinshaw

Warren S — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:34:58 -0000

Meg was clever to get a guy like Hinshaw.