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What+Microsoft+does+well

What+Microsoft+does+wellMice, fast food, and jet enginesSo how does a Microsoft keyboard fit into your theory?Or, looking at it from a company twice Microsoft's size at least financially: what is the "core identity" of General Electric?NOTHIINGWindows is garbage.NET is garbageSilverlight is a nonstarterXbox finally made mooney and is getting killed by...

Tags: Keyboards, PRODUCTIVITY, Game players, Strategy, developer, Microsoft Corp., keyboard, computer, new user, killer app

Discussion threads 2008-02-12

Going from killer app to major Web platform

Going from killer app to major Web platformFor most apps, it may be possible. For CAD and image editing, not so fastIMHOHonestly, how much differentis this than "software as a service"? Keep in mind the dot.bomb streets were litered with sos companies.Going from killer app to major Web...

Tags: Channel management, Web, desktop, Web Platform, killer app, GOING

Discussion threads 2007-07-12

iPhone blows away expectations

Once in a while, the truth can be wilder than the rumors. Such was the case today at MacWorld 2007, where Steve Jobs unveiled the long awaited iPhone:Today, were introducing THREE revolutionary new products. The first one is a widescreen iPod with touch controls. The second is a revolutionary new...

Tags: General, Apple Computer Inc., iPhone, telephone, Apple iPhone

Blog posts 2007-01-09

Survey hints business intelligence may be "killer app" for SOA

Survey hints business intelligence may be "killer app" for SOACI not BI is the Killer App.I think to state that BI is the next potentiall killer app for SOA is potentially to misunderstand both the intrinsic nature of BI and what a dynamic SOA empowered enterprise really needs.BI has its...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise software, survey, business intelligence, SOA, killer app

Discussion threads 2006-12-11

It's almost launch: Do you know where your killer Vista apps are?

It's almost launch: Do you know where your killer Vista apps are?The only Killer Vista Apps are......the BSODs.The Answer is NoI have been testing Vista since BETA2. Many XP apps work fine, some don't. My anti-spyware, anti-virus, software firewall, disk utilities, and a few others, need a Vista...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, operating system, Microsoft Windows Vista, killer app

Discussion threads 2006-10-16

The End of Applications?

The End of Applications?Well, if it is the end of applications...it is abominations.Especially as web-based, no-desktop apps have been in the works for years.Why all that costly support of techs who do more to make end-users, who otherwise wouldn't know what to go do with themselves, is just a waste...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, killer app, computer

Discussion threads 2006-08-10

With patent and trademark, Apple phone appears inevitable

With patent and trademark, Apple phone appears inevitableYou miss one major point hereIt is about control, but in this case, that control will not go to Steve Jobs, unless he's willing to build an entire cellular phone network.Every single cellular network company is intent on setting up their own music...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Telecom & Utilities, Digital music, phone, killer app, Apple Inc., digital-rights management

Discussion threads 2006-05-05

Is Jesus the next killer app?

Is Jesus the next killer app?Isn't hubris supposed to be a sin?Still, people also say "Jesus died for our sins." As nobody seems to have learned anything, it's more accurate to say he died [i]because[/i] of our sins.Welcome to "McChurch"!Home of the "Happy Meal" message! Or, as a...

Tags: Jesus, church, sin, killer app

Discussion threads 2006-04-28

Benioff: AppExchange is our second killer app

Benioff: AppExchange is our second killer appSalesfarce and Web .03Benioff may be making SOME money now, but the industry uptake of SOA and SaaS will be slow. They still do not represent the single throat to choke that large corporations DEMAND (they can still claim to oldest excuse in the...

Tags: Sales force management, API, Salesforce.com AppExchange, killer app

Discussion threads 2006-01-25

Benioff: AppExchange is our second killer app

I had a chance yesterday to catch up with Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff, who stopped off in London for the European launch today of Salesforce Winter 06 and the AppExchange, before heading off to Davos for the World Economic Forum this weekend. We talked about a range of issues that...

Tags: Salesforce.com AppExchange

Blog posts 2006-01-24

Additional Resources

iPhone gas application roundup

On 18 June 2008 I published my iPhone app wishlist and I'm happy that most of my most requested applications have been released (Thank you Texas Hold'Em!). Two my most request applications dealt with fuel, specifically a fuel economy tracker and a cheap gas finder. Several iterations...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Vehicle, MPG, AccuFuel, Gas Finder, Roi/Tco, GPS, 3G, Handhelds, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Cellular Phones, Hardware, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTablet (updated)

Previously I speculated about the mysterious "product transition" that Apple's Peter Oppenheimer CFO mentioned no less than seven times in the Q3 2008 Earnings conference call with analysts. Some of his quotes from the call: We are working to develop new products that contains technologies...

Tags: Apple Inc., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-25

iPhone 3G availability tracker mashup

Looking for an iPhone 3G? Apple provides an iPhone 3G availability application on their retail Web page that lists iPhone availability by store location. The app appears to be offline as of press time. The problem is that Apple's availability application forces you to drill down store...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iPhone 3G, Mashup, Chris Barnes, 3G, Collaboration, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Rumor Mill: iPhone to get copy, paste and better navi in firmware 2.1

The most exciting thing around the watercooler today is the rumor that Apple has seeded iPhone firmware 2.1 to developers. MacNN sources tell them that they've found references to cut, copy and paste in the Localizable.strings entry under English.lproj. Woot! According to the story the...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Radio, Apple Inc., Firmware, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-25

IDA Disassembler on the iPhone? Yep.

Ilfak Guilfanov has reported that IDA has been ported to the iPhone. Unbelievable? Yes. Is it useful? Who cares! IDA on the iPhone is hot! Don't act like you don't want IDA for your iPhone, you know you do. ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, IDA, Blogging, Internet, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Weekend Gadget Guidance: Diagnose your hard disks, free

Hard drive acting kinda funny? Free application HDDScan is a utility that diagnoses your hard drive's ills. The app allows you to analyze drive temperatures, conduct S.M.A.R.T. tests, export and print reports to document changes in your hard drive's health, and works on ATA,...

Tags: Hard Drive, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Scrabble-Scrabulous standoff spells L-A-W-S-U-I-T

Scrabble-Scrabulous standoff spells L-A-W-S-U-I-TWHAT???So they let the app slide for two years until they launch their own competing version that proves to be a fraction as popular, THEN they go after these guys cuz their own app can't cut it?I call bullspit!If it was a rights infringement, they should have...

Tags: Games, Scrabble-Scrabulous, Facebook, patent, game

Discussion threads 2008-07-25

Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide

Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicideGood riddance to bad rubbish.Too bad he took others with him.Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicideThis is very sad. There was no reason for him to take other people's lives.Much sadder then you think. Much SadderAs an avid computer enthusiast, owning...

Tags: INTERNET, apparent murder-suicide, Escapee, murder-suicide, Spam King

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

Google's $10M, no, $100M Android Challenge

So does Google have anything up its sleeve, when it comes to the Android mobile communications platform? It better have. Because expectations keep getting lowered. And Apple keeps raising the ante, at least in getting attention for new mobile applications. According to a Forbes.com...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Google Inc., Phone, Mobile, Android, Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Facebook gets serious about app quality

Facebook gets serious about app qualityBetter Late Than Never!!I agreed with with you that these moves are coming late. Third-party applications have become all the rage on the social networking scene and this is something they should have sorted long since. But anyway, it's better late that never and i...

Tags: Social networking, app quality, Facebook

Discussion threads 2008-07-24