Archive for January, 2008

Amazon Gobbles Up Audible - January 31, 2008

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Amazon, the world's leading book e-tailer, is getting larger by acquiring Audible. Audible is the leader of audible books sales on the internet with some 80,000 titles in the stable. Reuters is reporting that Amazon will pay $300 million for Audible, a 23% premium. This move gives Amazon a ...

Google AdWords, CrowdSpirit - January 28, 2008

Monday, January 28th, 2008

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Don’t Forget the Hackers… January 23, 2008

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

A few years ago there were a lot of executives talking about network security. Now, most of them had no idea how to get it, but they were concerned because they were reading lots of stories of break ins and data loss. Unless my ears are letting me ...

Wordpress Storage & Second Life Grid make News - January 22, 2008

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Wordpress, a very substantial blogging engine and CMS, has recently announced that all Wordpress.com hosted blogs now have 3 GB of storage, up from the 50 MB they previously had. This is huge news. Blogger, the Google offering, today hands out 1 GB, and to get 3 GB ...

Online Software vs. The Shrink Wrap - January 20, 2008

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

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Widgetmania and my new assistant, Enso

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Widgets are a hot topic, we have covered them here on Technology Story (search: widget), and it seems like the momentum is only growing. I am excited about seeing the new J.J. Abrams movie Cloverfield, so I hit the site this morning and noticed right away that they are ...

MacWorld Announcements - January 16, 2008

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

I feel somewhat obligated to continue my post on Apple and the role they will play in the world - especially since they made their annual set of announcements at MacWorld yesterday. It was not the same blockbuster type of list as in the past, but they did make ...

Apple’s Assimilation of the World - January 13, 2008

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

I have to start this off by admitting that I have been working with PC's since 1981. Sadly, that is longer than some of the developers that work for me have been alive. Having hung around the technology world for 27 years or so, I have been blessed ...

Outsourcing, Crowdsourcing, and Banks Closing - January 11, 2008

Friday, January 11th, 2008

So, I had a strange experience this week because I was in a meeting with a few bankers and I started talking about Second Life, and started to tell them about the banks that are opened there. Half of them had never heard of it, so I logged ...

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) - Can it really change the World? Jan 9, 2008

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

As I mentioned previously, I ordered an OLPC laptop through the program where you buy two and receive one, while the other gets donated to a needy person overseas. I have been playing with it as I have time, and have also run into a friend of mine that ...

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