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L’âge de Big Brother est arrivé - 12 octobre 2010
La sortie en Europe du film sur Facebook est peut-être l’occasion de rappeler, exemples à l’appui, à quel point notre vie privée est rognée par les nouvelles technologies, écrit The Guardian.
The Social Network est vraiment un film hilarant qui vaut le détour. Mais ne comptez pas y trouver une réflexion sérieuse sur les (...)
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Adobe and Microsoft : an acquisition that wouldn’t make sense for either side - 11 octobre 2010
Rumours that Adobe might be bought by the software giant don’t stand up to examination "“ because the two sides have more to gain apart than together
Adobe has declined to comment on a report in the New York Times that its chief executive met Steve Ballmer, head of Microsoft, to discuss tactics relating to Apple - (...)
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Microsoft Suggests Android Violates Its Patents... But Gets HTC To Buy A License - 11 octobre 2010
Ah, the patent games Microsoft plays. For years, it’s spread FUD, claiming that open source operating systems, such as Linux, violate its patents — though it has never detailed what patents or really sued anyone directly over those patents (though some have argued that it has done so with a couple patents (...)
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Samsung to Make Microsoft DRM Stronger, Just as It Made Microsoft’s Linux Racket Stronger - 11 octobre 2010
Summary : Samsung Electronics signs a DRM deal with Microsoft, on top of the Linux patent deal
Samsung’s patent deal with Microsoft has been damaging to Linux and we have a special page about the subject. The latest development teaches us that Samsung not only helps Microsoft by enabling Microsoft "˜tax’ on Linux (...)
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Microsoft and Adobe : A Threat to Apple’s Creativity ? - 8 octobre 2010
The New York Times’ Bits blog is reporting that two companies with very good reason to fear Apple’s growing influence in the tech industry recently got together to discuss the current state of affairs. The hour-long meeting saw Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer meet Adobe chief Shantanu Narayen at Adobe HQ in San Jose, (...)
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L’action Adobe bondit avec la rumeur d’un rapprochement avec Microsoft - 8 octobre 2010
L’action de l’éditeur de logiciels Adobe s’est envolée jeudi à la Bourse de New York après qu’un article de presse eut rapporté une rencontre secrète entre le patron du groupe et celui de Microsoft, au cours duquel un rachat par le géant informatique aurait été évoqué. Selon un blog du New York Times, le patron d’Adobe, (...)
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Cloud computing : will Microsoft and its rivals find a silver lining ? - 4 octobre 2010
Steve Ballmer will bound into a lecture hall at the London School of Economics on Tuesday in evangelical mood.
The chief executive of Microsoft is coming to the UK to explain the multi-billion dollar bet that the world’s biggest software company and a poster boy for corporate America is making.
The wager ? That (...)
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AOL to Acquire TechCrunch to Bolster Its News Coverage - 29 septembre 2010
AOL said on Tuesday that it was buying the influential technology news blog TechCrunch to bolster its growing online editorial business.
The deal, signed on stage at a TechCrunch conference here, will add to AOL’s technology coverage, which also includes the gadget blog Engadget.
The companies did not disclose (...)
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AOL rachète le site TechCrunch et tente de se relancer - 29 septembre 2010
Le groupe de média en ligne AOL, en pleine mutation pour se relancer comme un portail d’information, a annoncé mardi trois acquisitions, dont celle de l’influent site d’information sur les technologies TechCrunch.
Fondé par l’ancien avocat Michael Arrington, TechCrunch vient rejoindre sous la tutelle d’AOL trois autres (...)
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By the Numbers : Apple, Microsoft, Dell, H.P. - 29 septembre 2010
Back in May, Apple edged past Microsoft as the most valuable technology company. And, my oh my, has Apple stretched its lead since then.
$222.12 billion versus $219.18, or $2.94 billion "” That was the gap separating Apple and Microsoft at the close of trading on May 26.
$49.53 billion "” That’s the gap separating (...)
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L’ogre Apple écrase les marchés boursiers - 27 septembre 2010
La high-tech adore mesurer ses performances en termes de classement. Il y a deux jours, Facebook était à la fête parce que son PDG, Mark Zuckerberg, avait dépassé le patron d’Apple, Steve Jobs, au classement Forbes des Américains les plus riches. Nananère ! Vendredi, c’était au tour de la firme à la pomme de se (...)
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Oracle Growth Plans Worry Rivals and Customers - 22 septembre 2010
Each year, Oracle’s presence looms over this city for a week, during the company’s Open World customer conference. About 41,000 people arrived this week to discuss business software in fine detail and talk over beers. Stretches of downtown streets closed and gave way to makeshift tents housing coffee stands, bars, (...)
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Yahoo CEO says no interest in Alibaba stake sale - 17 septembre 2010
That is what Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) Chief Executive Carol Bartz tells the founder of Alibaba Group whenever he asks if he can buy back Yahoo’s 39 percent stake in the Chinese Internet company.
Alibaba "constantly" approaches Yahoo about repurchasing its stake, Bartz told Reuters in a wide-ranging interview on (...)
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BlackBerry Gets Squeezed by Rivals - 17 septembre 2010
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. posted a surge in quarterly profit and revenue, though it added fewer new subscribers than it had expected amid intensifying competition in the U.S.
RIM said it shipped 12.1 million devices to wireless carriers and stores in its fiscal second quarter, up 45% from a year (...)
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Google Ventures Hires an Entrepreneur-in-Residence - 17 septembre 2010
Google Ventures, the search giant’s venture capital investing arm, has hired the man behind Google Voice to build a new start-up.
Craig Walker will be Google Ventures’ first entrepreneur-in-residence. He co-founded GrandCentral, the service that became Google Voice, which gives people one phone number and routes (...)
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L’ascension éclair de HTC, le petit taïwanais devenu l’un des plus grands fabricants mondiaux de mobiles - 17 septembre 2010
Londres, mercredi 15 septembre, dans l’un des bâtiments historiques de la City londonienne : Peter Chou, le PDG de HTC, jean troué - griffé Diesel, précise un communicant -, présente deux nouveaux téléphones du groupe taïwanais, le Desire HD et le Desire Z, à des centaines de journalistes européens.
La société. HTC - qui (...)
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HP Acquires ArcSight - What’s Next ? - 13 septembre 2010
In March, I wrote about which stocks might go up because of the "Times Square Bomb" . I recommended ArcSight (ARST).
Specifically, I said, "ArcSight keeps track of every keystroke logged in a corporate enterprise and examines the data for anything suspicious, such as the same user logging in at the same time from (...)
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HP sur le point d’acheter ArcSight pour 1,5 milliard de dollars - 13 septembre 2010
Le numéro un mondial des ordinateurs Hewlett-Packard serait proche de conclure un accord pour l’acquisition de la société de sécurité informatique ArcSight, moyennant environ 1,5 milliard de dollars, a affirmé dimanche soir le Wall Street Journal.
Ce montant serait supérieur de 25 % à la capitalisation boursière (...)
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Dell Raises Bid for 3PAR to $1.53 Billion - 26 août 2010
Dell Inc. raised its takever offer for 3PAR Inc. to about $1.53 billion in cash, slightly topping an offer made by rival Hewlett-Packard Co. earlier this week.
The new Dell bid, which was approved by 3PAR’s board, is $24.30 a share, compared with H-P’s offer of $24 a share. 3PAR’s board has deemed Dell’s proposal (...)
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3PAR accepte une nouvelle offre de Dell - 26 août 2010
Le fabricant d’ordinateurs américain Dell a affirmé, jeudi 26 août dans un communiqué, que 3PAR avait accepté une nouvelle offre de rachat relevée à 1,6 milliard de dollars (1,26 milliard d’euros). 3PAR, fournisseur international spécialisé dans le stockage dématérialisé, est aussi convoité par son concurrent (...)
