Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
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 massive amounts of information that our corporations produce on a ...
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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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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
One of the hardest things for me to do as a technology guy is to be patient when a new product comes out. When the iPhone was announced, I was torn between my greed to have the latest, and my grown up awareness that the price would drop and 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, June 10th, 2008
It is my observation that one of the hardest things to do as a businessperson is to look into the future and be able accurately see a picture of how things are going to be. As I sit here today, I had no idea I would be paying over $4 ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Google just announced a set of gadgets and standards under the moniker "Friend Connect." Click here to get the instructions and a better deeper description. I am really intrigued with what they are providing with this effort. The main concept is to provide a set of tools that ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
I was talking to a new friend of mine, Louis Wing from BeyondROI, recently about email marketing trends and statistics. He was a founder at a company that dealt exclusively with email marketing from the application service provider standpoint. We spoke in detail about his views on email campaigns, ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
There are already a lot of iPhones on campuses nationwide, but this time they are being given free to incoming freshmen at Abilene Christian University, in Abilene Texas. Faculty will be given the iPhone and the school will pay for the data plan, while the students will have to ...
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