Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Microsoft Gets Serious About Data Optimization
I am impressed with the recent move Microsoft has made into the database vertical with the purchase of an Israeli company, Zoomix, which will be moving their offices into the Microsoft Israel R&D Center. The additional applications and intellectual property will become part of the ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Apple Goes Mobile
With the recent announcement by Apple that the .Mac platform is morphing into the new MobileMe system, I think I am going to make a conscious choice to work at home from now on. MobileMe is a push technology that offers your email, calendar, contacts and files all ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Microsoft Grabs Powerset
Microsoft is bolstering its search strategy by buying Powerset today. If you are not familiar with Powerset, you will be. Powerset searches the Wikipedia site, nothing amazing there, but they do it in a slightly different way.
When you use a search engine on the Internet today, you are ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
One thing that easy to forget is that we actually have the next version of the Internet in operation at the moment. It is called the Internet2, and is a very clear picture as to where the commodity Internet we all use will go. If you are not aware of the ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Twitter is what some might consider an anomaly, even on the Internet which began its' own life as an anomaly. Twitter doesn't produce what most would think of as consumable information, Twitter doesn't provide a community calendar, an email platform or a way to gain an upper hand on ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
Only a decade ago an IT professional likely was the master of one or two large scale systems. Perhaps they owned the Tandem, maybe they were an Informix DBA, or perhaps managed several applications running on the Big Iron; but typically they were specialists in their daily life. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Saturday, December 29th, 2007
More year end wrap up... There is a quiet revolution happening with how we use software and it will soon drive massive changes in the technology world, and our ways of operating and that is the change from locally based applications that run off our computers hard drive, to Web ...
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
Intel Buys Into Nirvanix
This is a quick post to say hooray for Nirvanix and the consumer; both of which are better off after Intel bought into the SaaS company. Nirvanix recently announced that Intel had taken a stake in the company. Nirvanix hosts online storage solutions for ...
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