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Now that Microsoft has officially unveiled Windows 8, it has to sell it, Laura DiDio, principal of ITIC, told the E-Commerce Times "I think it has created a great product with Windows 8, but now it needs to make the case to consumers and businesses. It needs to create buzz ar...

"Remember ATM? The token ring local area network? These were supposed to supersede the Ethernet not that long ago," Laura DiDio, principal with ITIC, told the E-Commerce Times. "We know how that turned out." At the same time, there have been trends that analysts have missed, ...

To say that Microsoft has a lot riding on its imminent Windows 8 launch is to have a magnificentgrasp of the obvious. By now, most of us have heard the reports that Microsoft will spend a whopping US$1.5 to $1.8billion in an all-out Windows 8 and Windows 8 RT Surface tablet marketing blitz. Microsoftdeclined to confirm the figure, saying it never comments on such matters. Just this week, however, thecompany did release two pertinent numbers: $39.99 and $499; that is the introductory list priceof Windows 8 and the retail price of the Windows 8 Surface Tablet, respectively...

"Oracle has done a lot of server and support charge increases. The first thing they did was price change, and they did not grandfather in existing customers until renewal," Laura DiDio, Principal at ITIC, told LinuxInsider One of the big impacts of this action is that Linus To...

It is not surprising that Oracle's hardware sales are down, said Laura DiDio, principal of ITIC "These are tough times, and companies are still not investing heavily in capital equipment," she told the E-Commerce Times.

"You want HP to succeed because they one of the original high-tech companies and they have always had good products," Laura DiDio, principal of ITIC, told the E-Commerce Times However, the mismanagement of the company over the last several years has left it with very little m...

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Comparisons of Nina and Siri don't mean much, as both are works in progress, Laura DiDio, principal of ITIC, told TechNewsWorld. "Speech recognition has been around for a long time and been evolving all the while." Nina reportedly is a bit buggy, she noted....

It's been a busy summer for Microsoft and chief executive Steve Ballmer ...

"There is definitely a huge, untapped buying group out there that want the best of what tablets can do but don't want to spend the extra money on an iPad," Laura DiDio, principal of ITIC, told TechNewsWorld "The tablet market has caught fire, and people who have grown up wit...

Not likely, Laura DiDio, principal of ITIC, told TechNewsWorld "Clearly we are moving to a mobile world where applications are untethered from a desktop, and Microsoft has certainly recognized this shift is under way," she said. "But what people don't recognize is that change ...

The honeymoon is over for Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg. In fact, it ended before it began ...

It pays to advertise, right? Not necessarily, as Oracle found out when it tangled with IBM recently over advertisements in which Oracle claimed its servers were faster and much less expensive than IBM hardware. ...

Others, though, cast the latest revisions in a more radical light. "They're blowing Chrome up," ITIC principal analyst Laura DiDio told TechNewsWorld. "It looks like a traditional operating system now." "With this new release, with Aura and the shelf/task bar, Google is adopti...

It has been clear for some time Dell is trying to stretch beyond its traditional bailiwick of hardware and servers, Laura DiDio, principal of ITIC, told the E-Commerce Times. "Dell has challenges in its traditional market space of the desktop and server, but especially the de...

"I think the $12 to $14 share price is a good one," Laura DiDio, principal analyst at ITIC, told the E-Commerce Times. "The trick with the valuation is to keep it on the lower end with a modest IPO." It is important for Yelp to raise cash but not raise expectations so hig...

Election year or not, privacy ought to worry Internet users, suggested Laura DiDio, principal analyst at ITIC. "Everybody young and old should be concerned about it," she told the E-Commerce Times....

Microsoft could do a better job telling the market its story, said Laura DiDio, principal of ITIC. This is a surprising charge against a company that was covered exhaustively in the press a decade ago but lately seems to be overshadowed by Facebook, Google and Apple "People ar...

"Overexposure of any substance or device can trigger adverse reactions such as IAD," Laura DiDio, principal analyst at ITIC, told TechNewsWorld There is no longer any argument that addiction to the Internet, television or video games is real, she maintained.

"Ballmer had Ryan Seacrest, an entertainer, on stage. That tells you something," Laura DiDio, principal analyst at ITIC, told the E-Commerce Times. "Ballmer has moved past his over-the-top performances of the past. His performance at CEA was not overwhelming." Part of the pr...