Between the Lines

Adobe's Flash flap: Are concerns overblown?

podcast@zdnet.com (Dan Farber, Larry Dignan and David Berlind) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:57:38 +0000

Adobe's well-publicized battle with Apple over Flash's future on the iPhone and iPad may have cast some doubt on the ubiquitous software, but the flap is way overblown, according to an analyst who is putting his money (or at least his buy rating) where his mouth is.

Sprint earnings: More progress in fourth quarter, but still dropping subscribers

podcast@zdnet.com (Dan Farber, Larry Dignan and David Berlind) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:17:59 +0000

Sprint's fourth quarter revealed a company that is making progress, but not enough to give AT&T and Verizon much of a fight. The wireless carrier slowed customer defections, but is still losing subscribers.

AT&T starts vendor selection for LTE trials; Picks Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson

podcast@zdnet.com (Dan Farber, Larry Dignan and David Berlind) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:49:33 +0000

Updated: AT&T has picked Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson as its two equipment suppliers for its planned wireless broadband upgrade in 2011. AT&T will roll out field trials of Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology later this year with a commercial deployment starting in 2011. AT&T is taking a two-step approach to 4G services. First, the company is upgrading [...]

Why WAN acceleration is a hot project in IT

podcast@zdnet.com (Dan Farber, Larry Dignan and David Berlind) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:10:10 +0000

Learn what WAN acceleration can and can't do, how it works, the ROI case, and why it's such a hot project for many IT departments.

News to know: Google Buzz, smartphones; Rhapsody; Win7; Adobe

podcast@zdnet.com (Dan Farber, Larry Dignan and David Berlind) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:00:15 +0000

Google Buzz and Rhapsody top today's headlines

Real, Viacom to spin off Rhapsody

podcast@zdnet.com (Dan Farber, Larry Dignan and David Berlind) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:51:46 +0000

Real Networks and Viacom announce that Rhapsody, a subscription music service that has struggled to compete, will be spun-off into its own company.

Google Buzz: Forget Twitter, Microsoft's SharePoint is a bigger target

podcast@zdnet.com (Dan Farber, Larry Dignan and David Berlind) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:30:48 +0000

Google launched its new social Gmail experiment dubbed Buzz and the "Twitter killer" comments will be a dime a dozen. But from an enterprise perspective, Google Buzz has a far larger target in mind: Microsoft's SharePoint.

Meet Google Buzz: Google goes social [live blog]

podcast@zdnet.com (Dan Farber, Larry Dignan and David Berlind) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:10:51 +0000

Google unveils Google Buzz, a new social interaction feature built into Gmail. Could it be a Twitter killer?

Seagate unveils 600GB, 2.5-inch enterprise hard drive

podcast@zdnet.com (Dan Farber, Larry Dignan and David Berlind) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:03:31 +0000

Seagate launched a new 600GB enterprise drive that runs at 10,000 RPM in a 2.5-inch package. The drives are designed for data centers.

RIM's BlackBerry, Apple iPhone rule smartphone roost

podcast@zdnet.com (Dan Farber, Larry Dignan and David Berlind) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:58:57 +0000

Research in Motion’s BlackBerry platform has a comfortable lead in U.S. smartphone market share with Apple’s iPhone a solid No. 2, according to comScore data. Microsoft’s Windows Mobile comes in third place. The comScore data is notable as a contrast to the buzz-o-meter. For instance, RIM, which is sometimes portrayed as a has-been set to get [...]