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Cloud Seeding: HP eats EDS
Cloud Services - Compute/Storage Services
In the latest consolidation in the IT industry at the top tier, HP announced a definitive agreement to purchase IT services company EDS for $13.9B. There are many views on why HP would make this move, but to me the obvious play is in the “cloud” computing model that is emerging. [...] -
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Sears Story: A Tale of Incompetence
Sears Mangles Appliance Repair
Two weeks ago, our home took a power surge and fried most of the appliances we have. By fried, I mean literally fried, if it was attached to the power circuit and had power flowing into it, it died. A call to Sears on Friday produced a technician on Saturday (good!) along [...] -
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Make Money from Your Blog
If you blog, or even if you run a “regular” website, you might reach the point where you’d like to make a little money from the exercise. If you’re a company selling something, there are pretty straight-forward ways of making money. But if you’re blogging and you’re trying to sell your content so to speak, [...]
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Business
No MicroHoo
Attribution: Dan Appleman
Yesterday Microsoft walked away from the deal that would have combined the companies at a price tag of around $46B. I love Yahoo, I use My Yahoo as my start page (and have for years and years.) I think Yahoo does some great stuff, but $46B was a big premium over intrinsic value [...] -
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Polaris Reports: Inside the Numbers
San Jacinto PlantPhoto Credit: Polaris Geothermal
Polaris Geothermal recently reported full results for the year 2007. A detailed press release about the earnings is available here. The high points: The company got a full year of production from the Phase I of its plant in San Jacinto-Tizate, Nicaragua at around 7MWe of average output, the drilling [...]
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