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- An alternative to Google's book-scanning project
- The Internet Archive received a $1 million grant from the New York-based Sloan Foundation to digitize the collections of the Boston Public Library, the Getty Research Institute, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, AP reports. The grant marks a challenge to Google, which has been working with universities to digitize...
- Tags: Open Content Alliance, Google Inc., Libraries, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2006-12-22
- Microsoft and Yahoo further deepen ties
- First came the way Yahoo's music store only sells music that's copy protected by Microsoft digital restrictions management (DRM technology. In other words, it only plays back on Microsoft PlaysForSure-compliant products. (By the way, the way Yahoo just doubled the price of its portable music subscription service is...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., music, Open Content Alliance
- Blog posts 2005-10-31
- Universities, private sector join in Open Content Alliance
- A consortium of nonprofits, universities and private sector companies have launched a digital book library project called Open Content Alliance. Driven by the Internet Archive, the consortium includes the universities of California and Toronto, international archives, and private companies like Yahoo!, Adobe, and O'Reilly Media.From the OCA website: ...
- Tags: Open Content Alliance
- Blog posts 2005-10-03
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- MSFT versus GOOG - there's a big gap
- Countering Google[i]At the current rate of Google?s revenue growth, 7 per cent, it would take it more than 3 years to reach Microsoft?s current quarterly revenue.[/i]The above is true if you assume MS will have no growth over the next 3 years. I don't think that will be the case....
- Tags: Web browsers, Operational accounting, Strategy, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-23
- Jigsaw Pieces Can Be More Agile Than Platforms
- Box.net, the little company that likes to tweak Goliath Microsoft's nose with digs at Sharepoint - the billboard above is near Microsoft's silicon valley digs - announced an alignment with Salesforce.com CRM earlier today. Nothing earth shattering here at first glance: it makes perfect sense for...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Microsoft SharePoint, Compliance, Box, Content Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Software As A Service (SaaS), Enterprise Software, Software, Emerging Technologies, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- News to know: Windows 7; Verizon; RightNow; Salesforce; Palm; HP
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Windows 7, Vista exposed to 'teardrop attack' Microsoft patches gaping Windows worm holes Firefox to run...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Larry Dignan, Patent, Hewlett-Packard Co., Palm Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Microsoft Corp., RightNow Technologies, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Microsoft Windows 7, Cable, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Telecommunications, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2009-09-09
- Industry fight against Google hurts education
- So it's NOT OK for Microsoft to control technology......but it IS OK for Google to try and take over the world of information?Sorry...not buying it.Google does no evil, just IS evil?Look at the account TOS. Anything that requires an active Google account -- gMail, gTalk, gApps, etc. -- is...
- Tags: Google Inc., education
- Discussion threads 2009-08-21
- Interview with 'Us Now' collaboration film director
- I had the opportunity to attend a screening of the film 'Us Now', a documentary film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet last week at the Barbican Arts...
- Tags: Film, Ivo Gormley, Government, Collaboration, Groupware, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-03-04
- Google's future: Predictions for 2009
- At the end of each year, the blogosphere is flooded with predictions for the next. It's time for a sneak peak into 2009 for one of the most exciting, and unpredictable, companies in existence -- Google. There are a few things that are almost certain to...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Internet, Software, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-12-25
- Google: it’s time to get Real
- In my previous post, I alluded to some of the issues that might prevent an average consumer -- "Joe Sixpack", John Q. Public, or Jane Doe from migrating to Linux on the desktop. One of them, without any doubt, is the lack of a way to...
- Tags: Google Inc., Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Digital Music, Linux, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- Linux: The Joe Sixpack Strategy
- On the surface, it would appear that a slowing economy might pave the way for increased Linux and Open Source software adoption by the unwashed masses, those who may want newer software than what their current XP system provides but don't want to pay the high...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Google Inc., PC, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-11-03
- Microsoft OOXML opponents won't back down
- Microsoft OOXML opponents won't back downIt lies with the winner?Microsoft didn't win--it did it's usual thing of lying and cheating to steal a result it couldn't earn. E.g.,http://deepakphatak.blogspot.com/2008/05/this-is.htmlNot a standard, yetWith the appeals and the lack of publishing, it's still not a standard.OOXML is largely irrelevant and will "die"ISO...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Office Open XML, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format
- Discussion threads 2008-06-04
- Adobe shoots for 'create once, present anywhere' value with worthy Open Screen Project
- Trying to deliver rich content effectively to the stubbornly heterogeneous end-user device tiers has produced more tears than triumphs. Adobe is aiming to fix that with the ambitious and inclusive Open Screen Project, which today throws adobe's considerable installed base weight behind an industry-collaboration movement to standardize interface delivery. ...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Mean, Home Entertainment, Personal Technology, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- Is Google locking up historical works?
- Google provides funding to universities and researchers around the world who scan and digitize books for them. Many of these books have considerable historical significance, although Google's real goal, according to a CNN piece on the effort, is to create Google Inc.'s Book Search, a portal...
- Tags: Google Inc., Book Search, Portals, Channel Management, Internet, Web Technology, Marketing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Yahoo's strategy: Torpedo the Microsoft deal or up the offer?
- There are two ways to look at Yahoo's latest move in the Microsoft-Yahoo chess game: Yahoo is either trying to torpedo the deal or trying to force Microsoft to rush into it by upping its offer. Yahoo announced on April 9 "that it will begin a limited...
- Tags: Strategy, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Search, Financial Accounting, Finance, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- Open Text and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server: The Road to Greater Productivity
- This White Paper focuses on the solutions and frameworks that Open Text has developed to address this market need. These solutions augment and extend the SharePoint environment so that content from SharePoint sites can be structured and managed, connected to other organizational content resources, and incorporated into industry- or process-based...
- Tags: Open Text Corp., Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Microsoft Office, Server, Microsoft Corp., Enterprise Information Management, International Data Group, Content Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2008-02-01
- VP of Technology Avis Budget Group: John Turato - Transcript
- Dan Farber: John, thanks for joining me. John Turato: Thank you. Dan Farber: You are the Chairman of the Open Travel Alliance, and perhaps you could start by giving us some color on exactly what it is. John...
- Tags: Avis Rent A Car System Inc., Specification, SOA, Service, Open Travel Alliance, Notification Service, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Data Centers, Internet, Hardware Upgrade, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Administrator
- Blog posts 2008-01-08
- Secure ripping from "episodic DVDs" described in just-published Microsoft patent app
- A major new Microsoft Patent application entitled DVD identification and managed copy authorization describes and illustrates a secure manner in which DVDs could be enabled for "ripping" of selected sections of media. In other words, and as Paragraph 44 of this app...
- Tags: Consumer, Multimedia, Authorization, Activation, Content Provider, Client, Information, Microsoft Corp., Copy, Copy Service, Identification Response, FIG, Authorization Service, Method 1000, Method 1100, Method 1200, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
- Wind River's John Bruggeman on Google Android and the advent of mobile internet devices
- Read a full transcript. The Android open source mobile platform made a splash in October when Google announced it, along with the Open Handset Alliance OHA. An Android software development kit SDK came on Nov. 12, and the first Android-based open source platform mobile phones are...
- Tags: Google Inc., Wind River Systems Inc., Google Android, Phone, Mobile, Open Source, Internet Device, Mobile Internet Device, Carrier, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- Did the W3C acknowledge CDF's potential as an office format (vs ODF) in newly public e-mail?
- Last week, after interviewing most of the players involved in a controversy regarding the future of the OpenDocument Format (a controversy mostly rooted in the confusion of two nearly identical but very different acronyms: ODf and ODF), I noted that some of those players -- IBM, the World Wide Web...
- Tags: W3C, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, OpenDocument Format, IBM Corp., CDF, Edwards, OOXML, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-12-04
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