In advance of tomorrow’s elections, here’s a pair of videos of the two presidential candidates, Republican Sen. John McCain and Democratic Sen. Barack Obama, talking about tech.
While Obama has many more supporters in the tech and Internet sectors in terms of overall numbers, including Google CEO Eric Schmidt, McCain’s tech fans include Cisco CEO John Chambers, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman and former H-P head Carly Fiorina.
We’re posting all the interviews from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place in late May.
Here’s an interview that Walt Mossberg did with Michael Dell, the founder of the once-high-flying computer company who has returned as its CEO. Dell was forced to resume the role in 2007 after changing market conditions caused the company to falter and competition from Apple, Hewlett-Packard and Sony increased.
This is part three of three parts.
We’re posting all the interviews from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place in late May.
Here’s an interview that Walt Mossberg did with Michael Dell, the founder of the once-high-flying computer company who has returned as its CEO. Dell was forced to resume the role in 2007, after changing market conditions caused the company to falter and competition from Apple, Hewlett-Packard and Sony increased.
This is part two of three parts.
We’re posting all the interviews from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place in late May.
Here’s an interview Walt Mossberg did with Michael Dell, the founder of the once-high-flying computer maker who has returned as its CEO. Dell was forced to resume the role in 2007 after changing market conditions caused the company to falter and competition from Apple, Hewlett-Packard and Sony increased.
This is part one of three parts.
In this first part, Dell talks about how Dell stumbled and how it is trying to right itself.
With the economic situation obviously worsening–don’t say you weren’t warned–BoomTown has no doubt now that Internet companies are in the midst of reevaluating their troop numbers to streamline themselves for the coming few months of financial winter.
That’s why, according to several sources at Yahoo, for example, top execs are telling some employees that the company is considering options to get itself sized right for an expected slowdown in the advertising market.
Why now? Well, it is critically important that Yahoo give Wall Street a solid performance when it reports third-quarter earnings on Oct. 21, for the period ending Sept. 30.
Of course, the layoffs at Hewlett-Packard were expected, part its cost-cutting integration after the $13.25 billion acquisition of Electronic Data Systems Corp.
HP said yesterday that the 24,600 jobs the tech giant axed, or 7.5 percent of the total work force, were made to “streamline the combined company’s services” businesses.
But BoomTown has to wonder if other big tech and Internet companies might be looking at HP’s move and the current economic mess and wondering if it might be a good time to pare down a bit themselves, after a spate of overhiring.
So is this the way Microsoft intends to try to best Google?
Pay consumers to search? Pay computer companies to put its search in their hardware?
Ah, Dale Carnegie’s big-bag-of-money tactic!
What’s next? Giving out dollars in Internet cafes for folks to stop using Google’s simple box?
So I took a trip up to Rochester, N.Y., over the summer to visit Kodak, the once powerful film giant, which has been struggling in recent years to make the difficult transition from film to digital.
I made a few videos there and then neglected to post them in the rush of other breaking news.
But [...]
John Paczkowski reads a lovely selection from Carly Fiorina’s appalling memoir, “Tough Choices”, about her clearly hostile feelings for former Compaq head Michael Capellas. The screamingly unhappy merger partner of the former Hewlett Packard chief, Capellas was named today as transaction processor First Data’s new CEO, despite the fact that Fiorina tried to strike a [...]
Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference. Read more »
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