Google News on Ulitzer
More good news for cloud computing! Google last week released its once
mysterious Chrome Operating System to open source.
Chrome OS, available in 2010 – is a web-based operating system that
promises to boot up super-fast on a netbook – way faster than the time it
takes to start your basic PC. And Chrome has web applications (competing with
Microsoft Windows Azure) ... (more)
The Social Media Guide
We talk a lot about social media on Marketing Trenches. And for good reason -
Social media seems to be at least one item on the agenda for about 90% of the
meetings we have these days. Everyone wants to run 100 miles an hour to do
something on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. I wrote about this previously in
Want to Succeed In Social Media? It Sure Helps to Have a St... (more)
Mergers & Acquisitions on Ulitzer
We hear - well, you know how people talk - that Oracle has been quietly
meeting with the European Commission and is now expecting it to take - what
with the Christmas break and all - until April or May to get clearance for
its acquisition of Sun Microsystems.
That would be a year to 13 months after Oracle agreed to buy the joint.
It took Oracle longer to ... (more)