Oracle's Java plans sound familiar - and so will the response
Blog The Network Computer was Oracle's 90s project to unseat Microsoft from desktop dominance. The only consolation is that we might still see the end of Microsoft's dominance of the business desktop. I'm glad Oracle, Sun Microsystems' new owner, is so...
[June 3, 2009, 15:32]
What does Microsoft EU decision mean for Vista and Longhorn?
Blog Not only are serious curbs now in place to stop it using its dominance to plough market share for Vista and Longhorn but Google, Apple and Linux (server and a resurgent desktop) mean that the natural upgrade to the next Microsoft offering is no...
[September 17, 2007, 14:45]
Destroy All Androids!
Blog Google has done what it's done on the back of total market dominance by its biggest competitor on the systems that deliver the punters' eyeballs. Significance is what matters, not dominance. At least, that seems to be the reaction of those in the...
[November 8, 2007, 11:00]
Developing Nigerian 3g Mobile Content.
Blog Glo and Mtn are enagaging themselves to establish dominance with product and commercial launch of 3G.At any oppouurtunity,both network providers are quick to market 3G with promises of what it can do.
[March 7, 2008, 13:03]
Microsoft's biggest threat: Linux
Blog I get to hear about the biggest threat to Microsoft's hegemony and market dominance quite a bit. It often goes something like this Linux isn't Microsoft's biggest threat, Google is. Alternatively, as raised recently by ZDNet blogger Adrian Kingsley...
[February 18, 2009, 11:33]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog He is the chap who invented the blue LED -- thus breaking forever the dominance of those red, green and orange twinkly lights that festooned our electronic equipment for 30 pointlessly dull years. Friday 30/1/2004
[January 30, 2004, 15:10]
Unbundle IE in Europe? Why stop there?
Blog My interest here isn't in what Microsoft and the EU agree to as an appropriate remedy for Microsoft's market dominance in web browsers or past legal transgressions. You've probably caught up with the news that Microsoft is going to offer a version...
[June 15, 2009, 9:24]
US military warns of China electronic warfare capability
Blog The PLA sees CNO as critical to achieving "electromagnetic dominance" early in a conflict," said the report. The US Department of Defence has warned of China's increasingly complex electronic warfare capabilities.
[May 29, 2007, 17:29]
WINE and the importance of application compatibility
Blog Each jostled for market dominance. With much talk in recent days about the worthwhile-ness and importance of WINE to the success of desktop Linux, I though it worth re-posting a piece I'd penned a little while ago.
[May 15, 2009, 9:31]
All the Wiki'dness in the world...
Blog Proponent Brian McConnell says that language is the last barrier to communication - it's certainly a biggie - and I've long considered the lack of decent cross-language translation to be far more worrying than the dominance of this or that language.
[January 23, 2007, 17:20]
Breaking news: Microsoft dodges EU appeal questions
Blog The EU is not against high market shares - but rather abuse of that dominance. TThe EU versus Microsoft press conference has just finished in Brussels and chief council for the software giant Brad Smith is doing a good job of saying a lot without...
[September 17, 2007, 14:25]
Late entrant strategies for Visafone and Etisalat Nigeria
Blog Despite the seemingly little dog status in the telecoms market, they possibly have what it takes to challenge the dominance of the big operators. Clear favorites and pioneers like Mtn, Celtel and Glo are poised to face stiff competition from late...
[July 21, 2008, 14:03]
Late Entrant strategies for Visafone and Etisalat Nigeria.
Blog Despite the seemingly little dog status in the telecoms market, they possibly have what it takes to challenge the dominance of the big operators. Clear favorites and pioneers like Mtn, Celtel and Glo are poised to face stiff competition from late...
[March 14, 2008, 16:09]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Total Spectrum Dominance, as the US war machine has it, will be ours. Tuesday 13/6/2006 The street finds its own use for technology, said William Gibson, not realising that this sort of talk leads to bad TV shows.
[June 16, 2006, 18:50]
Virtualisation 'bottleneck' removed for graphics-intensive workstations
Blog Well, you might like to follow that argument that suggests that the virtual machine will grow in power and dominance and start to rule other computing domains. Since attending the Parallel’s Summit 2009 back in January I’ve been trying to listen...
[March 31, 2009, 12:04]
