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Dan Farber

EIC Squared: Will the tech sector melt down in the economic crisis?

Posted by Dan Farber Post a Comment In this week's EIC Squared podcast, ZDNet's Larry Dignan and I talk about how the economic crisis will impact the tech sector. Both the House and Senate have passed the bailout package, but...

Five riffs on EmTech08

Sep 26, 2008

I spent the past couple of days attending Technology Review's EmTech08 conference at MIT. Lots of interesting speakers and ideas, some in areas of tech that I follow day-to-day (such as Cloud Computing) and others that I...

Oracle's Larry Ellison nails cloud computing

Oracle Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison (Credit: Dan Farber) Finally, a technology executive willing to tell the truth about cloud computing. Speaking at Oracle OpenWorld, Larry Ellison said that the computer industry is...

MIT's Emerging Technologies Conference

Funny anecdote: I was waiting backstage to go on stage for my TR35 elevator pitch on Drupal at MIT's Emerging Technologies Conference, scheduled to be directly after Craig Mundie's keynote presentation. (Craig is one of...

Microsoft's Mundie outlines the future of computing (CNET)

CNET - CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--Microsoft Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie on Thursday offered a long-term view of where Microsoft and the world of computing are heading over the next few decades. Speaking at...

Oracle's hardware gambit: Not so crazy

Posted by Charles Cooper Post a Comment Larry Ellison is finally in the hardware business. Maybe the second time's a charm. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison (Credit: Dan Farber) In the late 1990s, Ellison tried to drum up support...

Gates takes U.S. financial crisis in stride

Posted by Dan Farber Post a Comment Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates appeared on the NBC Nightly News Wednesday speaking with Tom Brokaw about the current economic crisis. Gates wasn't concerned about the state of the U.S....

Ning closes in on 500,000 social networks

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--Ning co-founder and CEO Gina Bianchini started off her keynote speech at the MIT Emerging Technology Conference by describing Ning as the social network you've never heard of. Unlike Facebook, which is...

Cisco ramps up collaboration software portfolio

Posted by Dan Farber | Post a comment As Wall Street struggles to redefine itself, Cisco is busy this week introducing its latest wave of collaboration products to compete with Microsoft, IBM and Oracle. "It's a major...

Consolidation and open source: Not likely anytime soon

Sep 22, 2008

CNET editor-in-chief Dan Farber believes a wave of consolidation is about to hit the technology industry, as "sharks--Microsoft, Google, HP, IBM, Cisco, Oracle, and a few others--are looking at the landscape to see what...

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