tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-284274382009-02-20T22:29:24.958-08:00A tech business blogScott Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11086482387938614612noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28427438.post-69831450889057342452007-03-01T23:32:00.000-08:002007-03-01T23:39:19.275-08:00

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Apple struck a deal with Cisco to use the iPhone trademark last night.How much Apple had to pay was not disclosed, nor were other terms of the deal. One thing is clear: The computer maker electronics geniuses won't face an injunction in June when the spiffy phone goes to market.Under the agreement, Cisco and Apple will both use the iPhone trademark on their phone products. Control freak Jobs

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Apple and Cisco are drawing near a self-imposed deadline of Thursday to work out their differences over the iPhone trademark.I'm not so certain that I buy the Cisco PR spin on this that they want to just work out some sort of amicable technology-sharing deal. I've seen two WSJ stories take this angle. The latest comes from WSJ scoop monster Nick Wingfield. So maybe it's so.Yet I can't help but

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Hackers have already been able to poke holes in Vista betas. But what fun is it when it's not out in the real world.Sure, there have been plenty of so-called white hats who have taken the Swiss cheese software Vista and shown where it's vulnerable so that Redmond-based Microsoft can fix it.But there will be others--the black hats--with less-helpful intentions. Then the script kiddies will be

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At first blush it seemed an Apple iPhone was the next phase of the revolution. But if the uprising means eating your own--cannibalizing its iPod--maybe it's not so simple as that.But if an iPhone doesn't come, aren't others going to just blow past iPod with music phones anyway, stealing away business. It seems the inevitable direction. For Apple, damned if you do, damned if you don't ...See

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Google on Monday proved that they are not only hiring eggheads but also paying morons.Yes, the search geeks are sharing ad revenue with the guys who filmed the YouTube hit "The Diet Coke & Mentos Experiment," according to a report. OK, I take that back. These guys aren't total morons. And they're getting paid. I just watched the "Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiment," which is spectacular. It

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Merrill Lynch analyst Justin Post is playing matchmaker for Yahoo and Microsoft, tossing some logs on the fire, lighting the candles, and playing Marvin Gay's "Let's Get it On."He thinks the Internet has-beens should shack up with Internet wannabe Microsoft so they can face gangbusters Google together. Makes sense. What with Microsoft's yet-to-be-proven AdCenter and Yahoo's still unproven Panama

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Ali G Ice Cream Glove

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I can't get enough of Ali G's "Ice Cream Glove" pitch.There's a part in it where he's multiplying the number of Internet searches on ice cream and the number on gloves to get the value of his product. It sounds as absurd as some of the multiples people use to value Internet companies.He explains his pitch to two VCs:"Me did an Internet search for ice cream.""Me did an Internet search for gloves."

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It's plain to see now why Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs shows no fear of Microsoft's upcoming wireless Zune digital media player and service.Patent filings reveal he's entrenched in plans that could include a Wi-Fi device and wireless downloading of songs from an e-commerce store. The filing was explicit enough to note that the patent would allow a device to pick up songs from thin air, send a

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It was plainly evident that Google was going to have a blockbuster quarter from all the Street signs.This story tells at least a part of what went into the numbers.But gains going in were notable for the following:Ad networks pushing 15 percent more ads Google's way.Click fraud declines.Gains in sponsored clicksIncreased search volumeMore used search engine (50 perent of searches, Nielsen//

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Couldn't help notice how Dan Farber tossed this mention of the new Crave blog as another reason why CNET, ZD, and the whole network of corporate bile blogging is king of blogs.Crave actually has an opposite effect. It's like seeing a fat old guy on a MySpace page in Urban Outfitter gear. Imitation indicates desperation. It almost feels like something MSFT would do or has done.Truth be told,

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We all get option anxiety now and then--just pull up to a vending machine and watch it set in. But the options anxiety plaguing Silicon Valley nowadays is not the pleasant and sweet kind.A source today told me that there are now 144 formal investigations inside companies looking into their practices of granting employee stock options. He said that number was only about 10 percent of the actual

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CNET Networks had one awful bad day Wednesday. It was the worst in company history (aside from buying mySimon for $700 million).CEO Shelby Bonnie resigned amid acknowledgement that there were "deficiencies" in his part in how the company handled stock option pricing. That same day CNET GC Sharon Le Duy, SVP Heather McGaughey of Human Resources, and former CFO Doug Woodrum also agreed to get the

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So it is. I'm humbled by the rumor-turned-fact.Google agreed to acquire Internet mega hit video site YouTube for $1.65 billion Monday after close of markets. TechCrunch kicked it all off Friday in what seemed highly speculative at the time. I guess it helps to have friends at Wilson Sonsini to dish dirt, eh?So I wonder who spilled it? Was it GC David Drummond? Check out his bio for clues. Does

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Drunk online shopping. The latest bad habit online. Oh, geez.I haven't really been keeping tabs on the NYT technology section, with the exception of some crack reporting on HP and a few others, but when I see stuff like this, I just wonder ...

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TechCrunch set the rumor mill for a good Google-YouTube spin yesterday. Even the WSJ got Googly on this. OK, so a number of pubs and cable channels acknowledged the chance. A couple things here (besides the fact that this kind of reporting is irksome froth):One: TechCrunch got acknowledged. By even the Journal?Two: While I think that is somewhat cool that a blog was given some recognition, it's

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From Red Herring story:How else do you explain fat cash bonuses for execs?Google is instituting a cash incentive plan to encourage senior executives to meet financial goals.It’s a “program designed to motivate participants to achieve the company’s financial and other performance objectives and to reward them for their achievements when those objectives are met,” Google wrote in documents filed

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Hewlett-Packard was scheduled to deliver on Monday a batch of documents related to its snooping scandal to the U.S. House of Representatives' Energy and Commerce Committe. Word is it did.Tomorrow and through the week should be plenty interesting as people familiar with the documents start jabbering about their contents.

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Toshiba is making a move into the battlefield for notebooks fashionable among games players.With its Satellite P100, button-down PC maker Toshiba is offering three laptops that will sport a souped-up graphics from Nvidia, among other features. The company is offering laptops with the GeForce Go 7900 GTX. The laptops presumably aim at the same market Dell's XPS line of games machines target.These

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Circuit City Stores on Monday reported a first-quarter profit that beat analyst expectations by 3 cents.The electronics retailer reported for the quarter ending May 31 a profit that increased to $6.4 million, or $0.04 per share, from a loss of $13.1 million, or $0.07 per share, in the same period last year.A survey of analysts from Thompson Financial had expected Circuit City to post a profit of

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Verizon on Monday filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Internet phone service Vonage.The suit comes after Vonage's IPO flop and shareholder suits.Verizon's suit over voice over Internet Protocol technology involves seven patents. Vonage said it plans to have its intellectual property outside counsel investigate the matter."Vonage believes that its services have been developed with its own

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Electronics megastore Best Buy on Tuesday reported that first-quarter net earnings rose 38 percent, blowing past analyst expectations.Best Buy earned $234 million, or 47 cents per share, for the quarter that ended May 27. That compares with earnings of $170 million, or 34 cents per share, during the same period last year.Analysts surveyed by Thompson Financial were expecting earning of 36 cents

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Luxuriating with a $9 million venture capital investment might come more naturally if you're Luxury Link.That's because the online luxury travel company specializes in luxury vacation accomodations in hotels, resorts, cruises, tours and other options. It claims to offer tips for the "sophisticated" traveler. Translation: the wealthy traveler with money to burn.San Francisco's Equity Partners and

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While the real estate market is in pull-back mode, who says Internet real estate LoopNet site should be? The newly public company's shares surged nearly 27 percent in its opening Wednesday.LoopNet priced at $12 per share and was at $15.23 in midday trading. The IPO will give the real estate site $42.1 million in net proceeds.Credit Suisse Securities managed the offering, and Thomas Weisel

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