For those of you new to the Rayno Report (oh wait -- I'm new too), one of our big themes is investigating, analyzing, and playing the big trends, whether

Yesterday I remarked about the proliferation of bad news. Well, here's some good news: The NYPD did an incredible job defusing a bomb in Times Square, conducting a quick

Apple announced today that it has already sold 1 million iPads, coming in less than a month after it was launched. Wow. As pointed out in the press release,

LAS VEGAS -- You've heard about the "cloud," yeah? That's a fancy marketing term for connecting to computer services over a wire. In the old days they called that

HP is starting to sound like the first year of the Obama Adminstration. They have their own version of fixing the economy, winning a war, and giving everybody health

Research firm Broadpoint AmTech, which has been on top of the solid rally in specialty chipmakers, yesterday raised its earnings estimates and price target for Omnivision (OVTI), a chipmaker

LAS VEGAS -- Demonstrating HP's feisty attitude in its escalating networking row with Cisco, HP Network Chief Technologist Paul Congdon attacked Cisco's dominant position in the networking business, saying

LAS VEGAS -- I entered the show floor here at Interop, a long-running IT and networking technology conference, only to be bombarded with the words "cloud computing." For those

Sometimes it's nice to get away a few days, disconnect, and refresh the mind. And then you come back, and find out that Facebook wants to rule the world.

Bloomberg has scooped everybody this morning with the news that Google is talking to travel-technology power ITA Software about a potential acquisition in the $1B range (article available to

It gets to the point where you wonder of maybe Apple will make enough money that they can help us bail out the U.S. government. Apple announced earnings last

Tech blog Gizmodo has acknowledged paying for the acquisition of prototype next-generation iPhone that was allegedly "found in a bar" in Redwood City (oohhh, what was the Apple employee

This is a big year for new Google products, as the company has introduced its own smartphone, the Nexus One, and is in the process of trying to buy

Another day, more Twitter. Are you annoyed? Fine, so am I. But you see, if you are a budding manic techno-bloggo--analy-journalist like myself, you need to cover this stuff.

Well, Twittermania has taken full hold in Silicon Valley. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that Techmeme, a news aggregation site frequented by technology trade journalists,

As rumors run amok about who's going to buy Palm, I have to point out what I did earlier: I can't see paying a premium for this company. A

There is a surge of startups trying to address the management of smartphones in enterprise networks, which is surely going to be a massive issue. If you think about

Well, they did it: Twitter has announced a business model. It's called advertising. Heard of it before? They are calling it "Promoted Tweets." What's interesting is that the social

Yesterday, Palm (PALM) shares traded up on lots of option-buying activity and chatter that it could be acquired. Today, the shares are backing off. Financial reporters, traders, and stock-message

The whole National Broadband Plan discussion is turning into a circus, at tax-payer expense. The way I see it, the FCC is standing in front of the operators with

You gotta love Rupert Murdoch. While many media executives are hunkered down in their bunkers, whimpering about lost revenue streams and afraid to say anything remotely offensive to people

I have been looking forward to a big Google-Apple brawl which I'm sure is only going to get more nasty. It looks like it's escalating quite rapidly, with AllThingsD

Gold-plated Silicon Valley venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KP) is upping its bet on iPad applications. The partners, in a post on TechCrunch, say that the immense

I have been working for about 20 years, pretty much straight through since college, in the same industry (media). I have survived three recessions (1990-1991, 2000-2002, and 2008-2009). What's