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- Nokia buys Symbian to form open-source Android killer
- Nokia buys Symbian to form open-source Android killerOpen sores are good, but when is it too many?It's about time Symbian went open sores. I guess, Nokia, Mot and others saw the writing on the wall. Never mind Android, the real fear is Apple iPhone. The juggernaut is unstoppable if...
- Tags: Linux, UNIX, juggernaut, Open Sores, Symbian Inc., open source, Nokia Corp., Nokia Buys Symbian, killer
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- A Cold(play) case in works on 'CSI: NY'
- A Coldplay case in works on 'CSI: NY'I'll bet Coldplay is still smarting a bit.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4591685.stmSay, you know that Media Center PC that's not caught on so well? It's getting its butt kicked by cell phones. Right here on ZDnet a few months back, it was reported that in Japan last...
- Tags: Cellular phones, Sales tools, cell phone, Juggernaut, CSI, phone, PC, cold calling
- Discussion threads 2005-11-30
- Motorola iTunes phone faces uphill battle against MS media juggernaut
- Motorola iTunes phone faces uphill battle against MS media juggernautI see MS having the uphill battleI would seem to me that iTunes already has a huge consumer base, and with profit sharing between the carrier, it would be of greater interest to users, than using an entirely carrier owned music...
- Tags: Digital media, Digital music, phone, Microsoft Corp., MS media juggernaut, MS Media, juggernaut, carrier, Verizon Communications Inc., Motorola Inc.
- Discussion threads 2005-06-27
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- Would Microsoft ever split itself up?
- Would Microsoft ever split itself up?they couldThey could, but they'll never do that. Micro$oft is too greedy. In my perfect world I want to see Microsoft as a software company and another branch as a hardware company for actual computers, Phones and other devices, like Music Players, GPS, and Car-Support.The...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Major Projects, Micro$oft, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-27
- Is Microsoft slow to the punch on SOA, or just waiting for the right moment?
- Is Microsoft slow to the punch on SOA, or just waiting for the right moment?They are waiting for the right time to pounce. Right now, they want to slowSOA as much as possible, to keep the money rolling in for the twin cash cows, but, there will come a time...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Middleware, Microsoft Corp., XML, Microsoft Office, OOo, Web-Stack, SOA, MSOffice-OOXML, OOo team
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- Time to blow up the software industry
- Vinnie Mirchandani's post, Call to Steve Jobs: Please reshape the enterprise software market was bound to get a reaction out of my Irregular chums. 70 reactions to be precise as at the time of writing this post. That's the number of posts to our Google Group on the topic with...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Financial, Software Company, SAP AG, Vinnie Mirchandani, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Management, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Averatec All-in-One
- Averatec's new, self-describing All-in-One offers yet another Windows-based take on the iMac. Compared with similar systems from Dell and Gateway, the $1,300 All-in-One actually has the most aggressive price, as well as the largest screen. In general, and as with those others, Averatec's new PC is less compelling than the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Network technology, Processors, Averatec, Apple iMac, Averatec All-in-One, Intel Core 2 Duo
- Product reviews 2008-06-20
- Do we need two open source office suites?
- Do we need two open source office suites?That Made Me Scratch My Head, TooMethinks Dana needs to go back and double-check his sources. And, by the way, StarOffice's roots actually go back much further than that: Star Division's StarWriter was first developed back in the mid-80's for CP/M. ...
- Tags: OpenOffice, Linux, Word processors, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, open-source office suite, Symphony, StarOffice, Novell Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-05
- D6: Snippets of Microsoft's morphing business model emerge
- As expected, Microsoft's brief multi-touch demonstration of Windows 7 garnered most of the headlines, but when the crowd goes one way sometimes it makes sense to go the other way. And if you go away from the crowd you'll notice more than a few subtle hints were dropped about how...
- Tags: Advertisement, Microsoft Windows 7, Multi-touch, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Why MSFT must make an acquisition in online media
- Businessweek's cover story is: "Inside Microsoft's War Against Google - With Yahoo off the table, Microsoft plans to challenge Google's online-ad juggernaut alone. A behind-the-scenes look at its provocative strategy." This behind the scenes look isn't very deep. It mostly centers on MSFT's "top U.S. salesman for...
- Tags: Acquisition, Advertisement, Online Media, Microsoft Corp., Online Advertising, MSFT, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 Free Edition (rar)
- A MUGEN fighting game (150 MB) . The game includes an arcade mode, team battle, survival, and watch mode. The game uses interlaced graphics :( There's a whopping 56 characters. 28 from each universe: Akuma, Amingo, Anakaris, B.B. Hood, Blackheart, Cable, Cammy, Captain America, Captain Commando, Charlie, Chun-Li, Colossus, Cyclops,...
- Tags: SpiDoL Games, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-05-07
- On owning your own bits
- I recently got rid of my CD collection. It wasn't a big collection, as these things go: Maybe 200 discs. I didn't even need the shelf space...I just wanted to clear out an increasingly embarrassing relic of the "age of atoms." So What? Where...
- Tags: CD, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Ed Gottsman
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Why social software won't dethrone the incumbents
- Why social software won't dethrone the incumbentsThose are all smart arguementsApple, Salesforce.com, Google, VMWare, Amazon:They're companies who were supposed to die and/or who grew from nothing. If it's a forgone conclusion that the big IT guy landscape is cemented, then we should all just give up and go home. The...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Groupware, social Software, incumbent, software, Sig Rinde, Social Software
- Discussion threads 2008-04-30
- Microsoft's competitor to Adobe Lightroom gets another champion
- What's Microsoft want with Adobe Photoshop guru Mark Hamburg, who recently joined the Redmond juggernaut? Hamburg a programmer who has been part of the Adobe Photoshop team since version 2.0 and helped lead the Photoshop Lightroom one, is now a Softie, as News.com's Stephen Shankland reported on...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe Lightroom, Microsoft Corp., Team Management, Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Sony BMG, Nokia merge music subscriptions, devices; Is this the future model?
- Sony BMG Music Entertainment and Nokia on Tuesday launched a service where consumers get access to an entire music catalog when they buy a device. Nokia announced a similar pact with Universal Music in December. The effort, dubbed Nokia Comes With Music, is another attempt to find a workable...
- Tags: Device, Nokia Corp., Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Music, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- Is AOL a viable option for Yahoo against Microsoft?
- Yahoo's board met over the weekend and reportedly decided to chat with both Microsoft and Time Warner, who could unload AOL in some sort of deal. My initial reaction: What would AOL really bring to Yahoo other than a migraine? But when you check out Comscore's latest ranking of Web...
- Tags: Advertisement, America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- What if News Corp., MSN and Yahoo were a separate company?
- For the first time since Microsoft announced its intentions to buy Yahoo, I see one way the coupling might make a tiny bit of sense. As of late yesterday (April 9), Yahoo is now rumored to be contemplating a merger with AOL (talk about the ultimate anti-Microsoft...
- Tags: MSN, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., News Corp., Business Structures, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Entrepreneurship, Financial Accounting, Finance, Investment, Business Operations, Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- Gartner: Windows collapsing under its own weight; Radical change needed
- Microsoft's Windows juggernaut is collapsing as it tries to support 20 years of applications and becomes more complicated by the minute. Meanwhile, Windows has outgrown hardware and customers are pondering skipping Vista to wait for Windows 7. If Windows is going to remain relevant it will need radical changes. ...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Operating System, Gartner Inc., Microsoft Corp., Michael Silver, Neil MacDonald, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- OOXML said to win ISO standardization approval with 75 percent of the vote
- OOXML said to win ISO standardization approval with 75 percent of the voteIt's capitalism, all right!A capital offense against mankind.And all the sheep bleat happily as they line up to be sheared.This is fantastic newsThis means that the man on the street can sponsor Penelope and Rupert's riches through their...
- Tags: ISO standards, Process improvement, OOXML, ISO, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-01
- Adobe's Photoshop Express and the big picture
- Adobe on Thursday unveiled the beta of Photoshop Express, a Webtop version of its photo editing juggernaut. Depending on who you listen to Photoshop Express is either a worthwhile contender in a market that includes a bunch of Web photo editing tools or an instant also ran...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe PhotoShop, Webtop, Webware, Grunin, Business Structures, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-27
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