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Amazon and Microsoft Announcements

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.  … Continue reading

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Work Anywhere

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 … Continue reading

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Search News and Seeing Data

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. … Continue reading

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The Next Generation of the Internet – Third Installment

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 … Continue reading

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Twittering the Internet

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 … Continue reading

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A Renaissance in IT-land

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 … Continue reading

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Amazon Gobbles Up Audible – January 31, 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 … Continue reading

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WordPress Storage & Second Life Grid make News – January 22, 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 … Continue reading

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Technology Story – December 29, 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 … Continue reading

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Technology Story – December 20, 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 … Continue reading

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