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[Posted on August 3, 2007 - 3:14 PM]
George Dies, Hewlett-Packard Co.'s director of strategic planning , said he cannot recall another time in his seven years with the company that it announced two acquisitions on the same day, as it did last week with the announcement of the $1.6 billion purchase of Opsware Inc. and the $214 million purchase of Neoware Inc. Coincidence? Probably not, said...

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[Posted on August 2, 2007 - 5:54 PM]
A panel speaking about Second Life and the rest of the virtual Web at Stanford University's AlwaysOn Summit challenged the conventional wisdom of these communities as entertainment sites for the young, and said they would increasingly be used by an older, more business-focused demographic. The very definition of the term "social networking," used to describe sites like Facebook and...

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[Posted on August 2, 2007 - 12:28 PM]
It's tempting to celebrate every successful high-tech initial public offering these days as another sign that happy days are here again. But one banker who spoke Tuesday at the AlwaysOn Summit sponsored by Stanford University said that that view is misplaced. "The only reason it feels like the IPO market is back is because we went through Death Valley...

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[Posted on August 1, 2007 - 5:12 PM]
At a time when the Internet industry is deep into Web 2.0 mode, you'd think it would have solved all the old Web 1.0 problems, like how to enable comparative shopping for consumer electronics, or how to make restaurant reservations online. Not so, if you believe the businesses that were featured at a CEO Showcase Wednesday during the AlwaysOn Stanford...

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[Posted on August 1, 2007 - 5:10 PM]
It's still widely regarded as an entertainment destination that attracts a youngish demographic, but Second Life — and the larger virtual Web it inhabits — is getting serious attention from big businesses. A panel discussion on the virtual Web Wednesday at Stanford University's AlwaysOn Summit featured executives from IBM Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc., who argued that virtual communities...

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