Monday, November 23rd, 2009
Recently, News Corp. has been making a lot of noise about removing their web properties from Google's search index. This appears to be a desperate move being made by a company that has not adequately embraced the culture or technology of the Internet. The important aspect of a total removal ...
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
Recently, it was announced that Microsoft is suing GPS device manufacturer, TomTom over GPS patent violations. TomTom runs on the open source Linux operating system and a lot of people believe this is an attempt by Microsoft to assert their perceived intellectual property rights over Linux.
Normally, this news would not ...
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Sunday, March 1st, 2009
Recently, we upgraded one of our Macbook Pro laptops with the idea of selling the old model on Craigslist. Within an hour of posting the laptop, there were a handful of interested parties. The question asked by most of the interested parties was, "What software is installed?" This question seemed ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
photo credit: Lodewijk van den Broek
Cloud computing is garnering a lot of attention lately. There are wild rumors and announcements about Google, Microsoft, IBM and others entering the space. Additionally, startups like 10gen and Heroku also appear to be working on the same problem.
Cloud computing will be a fast ...
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
In what will undoubtedly be the largest tech deal of 2008, Microsoft has announced that they would like to get closer to Yahoo!, a lot closer. Microsoft is in acquisition talks with Yahoo! for the mind-blowing sum of $ 44.6 billion.
Forced Hand
Yahoo! has been under intense investor pressure for the ...
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
There have been several bloggers talking about Microsoft purchasing Limelight. The real question is why would they do this? Limelight is a public company with an EPS of -0.53. Perhaps Microsoft believes they can streamline operations and turn the company around. This sounds like a pipe dream to us. Another ...
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