Symantec Seems Operationally Challenged

Symantec Corporation (SYMC), best known for the whimsical Norton Anti-Virus, provides software and services for information security, availability, compliance, information technology, and systems performance. The company’s mission is to develop and maintain IT leadership in protection from intrusion or exposure. But this leadership is riding on a few new products, and a bunch of old

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Verisign Needs to Acquire

Verisign (VRSN) provides services for the security of business activity over networks and the Internet. The company consistently relies on its core existing programs of domain registry and SSL certificates to produce results. Is it enough to continue to increase shareholder value? The company has two divisions: the Internet Services Group (ISG) and the Communications

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The Next Big Innovation in Microprocessors: Anant Agarwal (Part 15)

SM: What you are proposing sounds very disruptive. AA: It is completely disruptive; we can displace, depending on the market, FPGAs, DSPs, processors, ASICS. Right now initial markets are really in networking, but the fundamental technology is revolutionary. It will be the way all multicore systems are built in the future.

The Next Big Innovation in Microprocessors: Anant Agarwal (Part 13)

Here we begin to examine the current market segments where the multicore processors are having a significant impact. The two major markets are networking and multimedia applications. SM: Coming back to where your applications are – complex networking applications, and multimedia, right? AA: I don’t know if you want to use the word complex, because

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Enterprise 3.0 Event: Nuggets

Here are some of the nuggets from the MIT Enterprise 3.0 event last night: * If you are an entrepreneur looking for opportunities to focus on, there are white spaces in the portfolios of larger players like Microsoft, Google and Cisco, especially in the area of Prosumer productivity and collaboration. Probably more built-to-flip models. *

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VMWare’s IPO: Wait?

It has been a strange summer of uncertainties elsewhere in the market, but certainly, VMWare’s hot IPO has not felt any of the pressure. In fact, it has made a slow August exciting with one of Tech’s most important events this year. Eric Savitz at Barrons reports: “EMC (EMC) today generated a massive return on

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Innovation in the Microfinance Industry

By Robert Lowry, Unitus Microfinance is a powerful, sustainable way of reducing poverty. However, despite its tremendous strength, it’s just not available to enough people. Three decades after Muhammad Yunus started giving microloans to women in the village near his university in Bangladesh, fewer than 20% of the world’s working poor have access to basic

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In The Shadows Of Iraq: Qubad Talabani (Part 8)

If you have read much of world news lately, you will notice there has been ongoing tension between the Kurdish region and Turkey. Reflecting back on the stability issues, this must be diffused in order to allow significant external investment to take place. SM: How do you answer the questions regarding the recent threat of

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