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Monday, 30 July 2007 |
Microsoft's new chief software architect Ray Ozzie and his cohorts were not short of visionary statements about cloud infrastructure services and moving to a software as a service strategy when talking to financial analysts last week. However, it was left to CEO Steve Ballmer to spell out what the software company really wants - Google's business.
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Monday, 30 July 2007 |
The latest news that Target, the second largest retailer in the US, is going to stock Blu-ray players exclusively in its physical stores over the holiday shopping season is a worrying sign for Toshiba and the backers of the HD DVD high definition video format.
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Sunday, 29 July 2007 |
When Steve Jobs gave the stage at Macworld to the CEO of Cingular Stan Sigman to announce the Apple-AT&T collaboration, it seemed an unlikely marriage. Jobs easily prancing around the stage in his jeans and long sleeved black T-shirt and Sigman in his suit reading from cue cards. Are signs emerging that it was a marriage made in hell?
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Sunday, 29 July 2007 |
We've all heard the heard horror stories of people attempting an upgrade to Vista. We've heard about it's hunger for memory and system resources, the lack of drivers, and so on. However, people I know who have been using it for a while now, say it isn't too bad and we better get used to it anyway because we really have no choice.
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Sunday, 29 July 2007 |
Last week, a US court heard that YouTube "hoped" to have its long awaited copyrighted content filtering system by September, according to an Associated Press report. The key questions are will Google once again fudge its self imposed deadline and, more importantly, could YouTube survive with such a system in place.
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Sunday, 29 July 2007 |
One look at the home page of Linden Lab's Web 2.0 virtual world Second Life reveals that the central theme of the site is about making money. After all, what other web site gives a running tally of their daily dollar turnover right up front? So why has Linden Labs banned potentially the biggest money spinner, gambling?
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Wednesday, 25 July 2007 |
The airwaves are literally buzzing with reports that sales of the iPhone may not be meeting the lofty pre-launch expectations of the market. The reports have led to a slide in the company's share price.
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Wednesday, 25 July 2007 |
Many ideas are great but only a few make it to the big time. One such idea was Facebook, another was Connectu, both of which were Harvard social networks started in 2004. The Connectu founders have accused the Facebook founder of stealing their idea and intellectual property. Is it true? Does it matter?
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Tuesday, 24 July 2007 |
Reading the essay titled Exploiting the iPhone on the website of security firm Independent Security Evaluators, two things are crystal clear. First, the iPhone is actually a computer. Second, Apple is about to get a taste of the security nightmares that have plagued Microsoft for the past 13 years since the Internet went mainstream.
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Monday, 23 July 2007 |
News that the iPhone can be hacked just like any other "computer" should come as no surprise. If you visit a malicious website using any known browser that interacts with any known operating system, you're likely to get hacked. The iPhone is a small computer and, as the New York Times reports, it took a serious security expert about one week to find a flaw that would allow him to gain complete control of someone else's iPhone.
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Friday, 20 July 2007 |
About the only thing I like about Ooma is the name - because it reminds me of one of my favorite actresses. To put it simply: the world needs another cheap voice calls company as much as another sequel to Rocky. Trying to launch such a service is an exercise in futility.
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Thursday, 19 July 2007 |
Just days before his departure from Microsoft, when we all thought he was in his job for the long haul, Peter Moore, Corporate Vice President, Interactive Entertainment Business, Entertainment and Devices Division, promised that the software giant's games business would be profitable in 2008. He made this pledge out of one side of his mouth, while out of the other he admitted that Microsoft would have to take a charge of about US$1.15 billion to fix its defective Xbox 360 consoles.
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Wednesday, 18 July 2007 |
Search leader Google, mindful of growing criticism concerning the amount of private data it collects about individuals on the web, has announced a change to its data retention policy concerning cookies. However, for most web surfers, the policy change will mean no change at all.
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