Tag Archives: Microsoft

A Third Leg of the Stool

This is going to be all about the business side of operating systems so if you find OS’s boring and passé at this point, don’t read this post… So Google announced this week that they are going to produce an … Continue reading

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Google Wave, the Twitter Explosion, and Social Media

I am not sure if you would have seen the press releases on a new service Google is going to offer later this year, so I though it might be helpful to at least mention it. Google Wave is a … Continue reading

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Google says “Uncle”

Last week Google announced that they were pulling one of their latest services off the Web.  Google Lively was their first attempt to play in the virtual world space.  The concept seemed to me to be a poor attempt to … Continue reading

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Safety In (File) Numbers

Cloud-based File Storage Last weekend on Twitter, I saw a few tweets where a friend had lost a file, and try as she might, she could not find it on her machine, it was simply gone.  There were lots of … Continue reading

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The Platform of Clouds

We hear about the ‘Cloud’ at every turn lately, but the cloud has been coming for a long time, in many varied ways.  The well known players are all household names: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Salesforce.com, Sun and … Continue reading

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Microsoft and the Cloud

At a developers conference last week, Microsoft rolled out a mind bending set of new ideas (products?) that leverage the concept of cloud computing.  This makes a lot of sense because as companies figure out that they can rent software, … Continue reading

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Technology and the Down Economy

The nice thing about this new stream is that we can write about technology trends that are important – right now. Well, the dominating news seems to be the imploding economy. I am going to set aside my utter disdain … Continue reading

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Small Computers & Limitless Storage

Our computers are shrinking again, even as they become incredibly more powerful.  Ultra portable laptops, sometimes called ‘netbooks’, are sitting on boardroom tables all across America, and smartphones are in the hands of teenagers, the college crowd. and (shudder) even … Continue reading

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Semantic Search Goes To Work

We are increasingly tied to data. Business has always been about the data, whether it is how to successfully grow crops, trade money, or even building cars; all businesses are really the business of knowing how to do something.  The … Continue reading

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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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