GLG News in Technology, Media & Telecom

This overview relates to current European market positioning within optical networking sector. It presents actual industry trends and directions for future growth.

What is going on here?  Samsung is working in their shareholders' best interests, as is SanDisk.  In the end, the separation between these two interests is thwarting meaningful progress in negotiations.  Objective Analysis, in its Alerts, has outlined the impact this should have on each company.  We do not anticipate the consummation of this deal before the memory market returns...

Many business have held on to Windows XP for two reasons, the first was the instability of Vista and the second was to avoid the high cost of upgrades to be compatible. With Windows 7 they are going to be force in many cases to move up.

1. NIchia is very protective of it's intellectual property using legal proceeding to stall competitors from competing in key makrets such as backlighting for notebook computers, and genral purpose lighting. 2. Although some of the NIchia competitors may have violated Nichia intellectual property, in some cases Nichia has lost IP lawsuits both in the U.S. and SEA. 

o Recognizing the potential of off-premises hosted computing, Microsoft is moving to establish its place in the cloud. o Despite any drawbacks, the desktop landscape is still dominated by Microsoft Windows; Azure will allow Microsoft to leverage the pervasiveness of Windows to integrate its desktop strength with cloud computing. o While Microsoft is usually not the first vendor to enter an emerging...

Some authors are $60 per scanned book richer. That's better than nothing. But Google gets to monetize all that content for a pittance. Some wealth gets re-distributed, which is probably a good thing.

Google has potentally created another new industry around books that were mostly only gathering dust. A cornucopia of information is being made available, and it's only small change for Google.

At 8sm on 11/03/2008 CC will announce the closing of 155 Stores, will be this be enough to save the company or is it the start of a slide out of business?

Nuance's management changes match its strategy, notably putting Steve Chambers in charge of both the enterprise business (a large part of which is automating customer service call centers with speech recognition) and the mobile business (software on mobile phones and network-based services, many of which involve speech recognition). Nuance, more than most companies, recognizes the full opportunities...

his week at Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT)'s Professional Developer Conference, Microsoft executives took the wraps off Windows Azure, a new development platform for building cloud-based applications. In the opening keynote, David Thompson, corporate vice president of Microsoft Online, noted that Microsoft plans to eventually move all its enterprise software into the cloud. Although Azure was widely expected,...