"The biggest news is that it will fulfill all the promises of Vista," says Microsoft server chief Bob Muglia.

According to this story this morning, Samsung will launch a phone based on Android, the software developed by companies including Google, in a matter of months. The phone will become available in North America the second quarter of 2009 from Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile USA, which currently offers the only Android phone available in the U.S., the G1. The story implies the phone may look similar to Samsung Instinct.

The controversy over Google's content delivery plans and the Wall Street Journal's description of them has convinced me that the fight over network neutrality is a very strange one indeed. It appears to be a fight with only one side....

From Creative Capital, December 18, 2008: How bad has it gotten for Internet companies? Answer: It's worse than the dot com bust in at least one important way!!! Roddy Moon, senior vice president with investment bank Jefferies & Co., recently...

One of the frustrations of reviewing products is that I always have to write before I have spent enough time with a product to feel really comfortable about my assessment. Sometimes, however, I'm able to use a new product over...

I just talked with a shareholder who attended Sirius XM's annual shareholder meeting this morning. More than 150 people in attendance were at first greeted by a dozen banners, urging them to vote against a reverse split. The protesters did not succeed.

Less than two years after Dan Nye joined LinkedIn as CEO, he's leaving in mid-January. He will be replaced by Reid Hoffman (pictured), angel investor extraordinaire and cofounder, chairman, and president of products for the online business networking company. Also...

From Creative Capital, Dec. 16, 2008: Yesterday morning, I posted a story saying that the Bernard Madoff scandal represented a new low point for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, underscoring the need for fresh leadership at this small yet...

So posits a reader that goes by the name MacUser. He points out that: While Apple is able to host their own events very successfully, I feel that Macworld is really the opportunity for those third Party developers to really...

With almost every major Team Obama appointment announced or rumored, the technology minded among us are wondering about the so-called Tech Czar position. The White House CTO, if you will. But is there even to be such a position? Our...

File this one under 'frenemies': The Microsoft exec in charge of its virtualization software business and category leader VMware’s CEO are good friends—even as Microsoft tries to squash VMware’s $2 billion-a-year business. Over dinner at San Francisco’s Fifth Floor restaurant...

U.S. officials today bagged one of the biggest fish in the online gambling industry. On Tuesday December 16, in U.S. District Court in lower Manhattan, Anurag Dikshit, the reclusive billionaire co-founder of the Gibraltar-based online gambling Web site PartyGaming, pleaded...

As Arik just blogged, Apple has announced that Steve Jobs will not be doing the keynote at this year's Macworld show, and that this will be the last year Apple attends the tradeshow that has been the venue for so...

From Creative Capital, December 16, 2008: The Bernard Madoff scandal is the last straw for the existing leadership of the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission. That the SEC was warned repeatedly about Madoff, and even conducted several inquiries into his...

One of the reasons the debate over network neutrality is so confusing is that the term itself is so slippery. It has an engineering meaning to engineers and an ideological meaning to ideologues while to businesses, it seems to mean--not...