Deal Radar 2009: Open-Xchange

Open Xchange, an open source software company, aims to provide users with an affordable ‘Internet-age’ alternative to commercial email and collaboration platforms like Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint. The company offers features such as shared calendars, document sharing, shared address books and email for iPhones and BlackBerry devices. 

Intel’s Multi-core Future

Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is the world’s largest semiconductor company. It shot into limelight riding the famous “Intel Inside” marketing and branding campaign in 1990. Today, with an employee strength of 90,300 Intel currently ranks 62nd in the Fortune 500 list on the back of FY/06 revenues of $35.38 billion. This is however down from its

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The Next Big Innovation in Microprocessors: Anant Agarwal (Part 10)

Here Anant discusses his final area of innovation in Tilera, which is the piece which really supports their go-to-market strategy and allows companies to become early adopters of multicore processors. SM: What is the final innovation? AA: The fifth and final innovation is in software. The third “P” is programmability. There, we have done some

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The Next Big Innovation in Microprocessors: Anant Agarwal (Part 8)

SM: The market you are pursuing is embedded processors, so you do not really have demand for the fatter operating systems, such as Windows Vista. AA: Right, that is not where we are, but if for some reason that became important to a customer it would be done. Each processor core is full featured, so

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iPhone’s Competitors: Synthesis

Last week, we reviewed iPhone’s competitors. I would bet on the convergence device movement as a whole, and it would be safe to assume that the overall market growth will offer growth opportunity to all the players. I would bet on RIM for the short term, and Samsung for the long term. Palm and Motorola

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iPhone Competitors: Nokia’s Convergence Device Strategy

WSJ has a good roundup on the various iPhone competitors. One of the top iPhone competitors is expected to be Nokia’s N95, a high-end smart phone that, like the iPhone, has a relatively large color screen (2.6 in), can surf the Web and can play music and DVD-quality video. Unlike the iPhone, the N95, however,

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Palm Gets Rubinstein

Elevation Partners is buying 25% of Palm for $325 Million, and John Rubinstein, the now famous Apple executive who brought the iPod to life, and ran Apple’s iPod division until recently, will join as Executive Chairman. The deal also brings Elevation founders Roger McNamee and Fred Anderson (former CFO of Apple) onto the Board of

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Palm’s Fate

With the mobile world awaiting the arrival of the iPhone, which I believe is positioned as a laptop replacement convergence device, Palm has just released its own laptop replacement product. Key points of the Foleo: [With my comments] * Positioning : ProSumer Mobile Companion, that works with a smartphone and keeps it synched. [Not a

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