Yesterday, I pointed out that it's absurd to consider Microsoft a declining company when in fact it's been making an average of $15B a year in profit and has

It had become popular in the mainstream media to popularize the "dying" of Microsoft. This is absurd. What is common with a "dying" company is a deterioration of its

After a long, drawn-out bidding process, Google has finally scooped up ITA for $700 million.

Apple and Google Android application development communities continue to flourish while others languish.

If you think about what's happened the last 4-5 years in smartphones, it's truly remarkable. Apple has created an entirely new, multibillion-dollar franchise. Nokia and RIM's dominance have been

There is a growing "meme" out there that Microsoft is on the verge of death and that Google will take over the world with free stuff. Please.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Not Lady Gaga, just Gaga. Admob is out with its latest metrics report and it says that smartphone traffic is growing like mad, on pace to nearly triple in

Service provicers are spending the most time testing the Blackberry OS, but Android-based phones are gaining and the Microsoft Windows and Symbian OS continue to lose share with developers,

Noted developer Tim Bray, who is an XML co-author, former Sun Microsystems employee, and outspoken tech blogger, has decided to take a job working on Google's Android platform and

Sometimes, covering the news makes me nauseous. It doesn't help that all over the Web, there are hundreds of sycophantic bloggers embracing tech-company spin. Of course, often, the companies

The Rayno Report has been carefully tracking the Windows 7 adoption cycle, with the premise that there was pent-up demand for Windows upgrades and new PCs and technology in

Okay, so I'm superficial. I like to simplify things, boil them down. Also, I'm not in Barcelona, so I can afford to make aloof comments about news developments thousands

Today there's a barrage of news streaming from the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona (I miss the tapas), and I see two news items dominating: The new HTC

An interesting little battle is developing on the mobile front with video. You see, as many people complain, the Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPhone does not include Flash support. Neither

Surely 2009 wasn't the best of years for the venture-capital industry, with Wall Street trying to sort out credit turmoil, startups struggling, and the capital simply out of whack

A big focus at CES in Las Vegas this week is on the growing smartphone wars, as a number of mobile manufacturers gear up to battle the dominance of