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- Ray Wang departing Forrester
- Ray Wang departing ForresterThanksI appreciate your kind words and your insight. Look forward to working with you more closely in future roles and keeping the vendors honest and the end users more educated.
- Tags: Wang, Ray, Forrester Research Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-08-06
- How does a solar cell work?
- How does a solar cell work?400,000 acres??? Guess again!Hello,I just listened to this video, and at the end he claims that California is about 400,000 acres... I did some checking, and California is 163,707 square miles as seen at http://www.enchantedlearning.com/usa/states/area.shtml times 640 acres per square mile equals 104,772,480 acres!!!Later, Ray...
- Tags: solar cell
- Discussion threads 2009-07-21
- Imagining a real-world verdict in Thomas-Rasset case
- Ray Beckerman has a nice little piece of vitriol about the crazy-ass $1.9 million judgment in the Capitol v Thomas-Rasset case. Ray imagines a parallel universe in which the trial was conducted according to the Federal Rules of Evidence and Civil Procedure. In this world, the RIAA needs some shred...
- Tags: RIAA, Ray Beckerman, Ray, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-06-21
- Could Red Ray's 4K compression codec revolutionize video playback?
- Could Red Ray's 4K compression codec revolutionize video playback?How much processing power to decompress?What does it take in terms of hardware to decompress the stream? That may well be why you don't see any demos, and won't see this in consumer level products anytime soon. Too much of a good...
- Tags: Corporate communications, compression codec, video playback, Ray, video, HIGHER RATES
- Discussion threads 2009-04-27
- Red Dog: Ray Ozzie casts a long shadow
- Why was Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie so focused on the Live Mesh sync product, but seemingly less so on the building blocks that were key to powering Microsoft's cloud platform? That's one of the many questions I had when I started researching this week's Red Dog series of...
- Tags: Team, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Ray, Microsoft Windows, Team Management, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-02-27
- Ray's Spelling and Word Games 3.5 (Windows)
- A great way for your child to learn weekly spellings as well as improve reading, vocabulary and logic. The spelling section is incredibly easy to use and has learning, practice and test options, your voice is recorded and automatically played back from within the program. Comes complete with two challenging...
- Tags: Vocabulary, Raylec Software, Ray, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Windows, Games, Microsoft Office, Telecommunications, Office Suites, Software, Operating Systems, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2009-02-06
- Forrester fuels the SAP maintenance price hike debate
- The last few days I've been exchanging email with R 'Ray' Wang, VP and principal analyst at Forrester about the kerfuffle over SAP's unilateral decision to apply a price hike to its maintenance and support fees. Ray specializes in the enterprise market and has special experience of SAP going back...
- Tags: Customer, SAP AG, Forrester Research Inc., Ray, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Investment, Business Structures, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- The changing analyst landscape
- The recent Institute of Industry Analyst Relations poll results produced some startling results. While the power hitters of Gartner, IDC and Forrester were well represented, it was the boutique groups that caught my attention. Redmonk, MWD and Freeform Dynamics all performed well across multiple categories, despite being minnows in the...
- Tags: Analyst, Ray, Blogging, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Internet, Management, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- In the mind's eye, it's now Marissa versus Monkeyboy
- Funny how the mind works. Sometimes it just makes associations whether you want it to or not. And now that I've read the feature article on Google's Marissa Mayer in San Francisco magazine, the images from that profile are etched into my mind whenever I think of...
- Tags: Google Inc., Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Image, Cat, Ray, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-02-29
- Silverlight as the driver for Microsoft's services
- Much has been made of the fact that Ray Ozzie's big vision revolves around services. Today we're getting some screenshots of the Office Live Workplace. The question is whether they will be cross-platform and how Microsoft can compete in a fairly crowded space. It's been interesting to watch Microsoft...
- Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Rich Internet Application, Microsoft Corp., Sliverlight, Ray, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2007-10-17
- Live forever coming soon says Ray Kurzweil...are we already in the Singularity?
- The Singularity is coming--Ray shows his graphs (Oct.2005) I caught Ray Kurzweil's lecture recently, which had many provocative ideas and many many very similar graphs--all steeply angled upwards.The man takes 225 micronutrient pills per day, according tothe introduction by Stewart Brand, the legendary media innovator and community builder (The...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-07-11
- My lunch with Ray Ozzie and Scott Guthrie
- Jeff Sandquist of Microsoft set up a lunch for a few of us with Scott Guthrie and Ray Ozzie here at Mix07. It was a great group of people including Richard MacManus his thoughts on the lunch are up here, Walt Ritscher, Lee Brimelow, Evan Williams, Linda Weinman, and...
- Tags: Microsoft, Mix07, Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- CIO Sessions: Alcatel-Lucent's Ray Gilbert
- In a CIO Sessions interview, Ray Gilbert, assistant vice president for IT Enterprise Collaboration at Alcatel Lucent discusses how the telecom services provider is addressing mobility needs and convergence challenges for the next generation of devices. Watch the video More CIO Sessions videos Boeing CTO: Vaho Rebassoo...
- Tags: Alcatel, Alcatel-Lucent, CIO Sessions, Dan Farber, General, IP Telephony, Mobile, Ray, Ray Gilbert, Telecommunications, VOIP, Web Technology, Wired & Wireless
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- Ray Ozzie on Adobe and software as a service
- Knowledge@Wharton just published an interview with Ray Ozzie in which he talks about Microsoft, software as a service, and a little bit on Adobe: In the docs and spreadsheets realm, I believe there are certain uses of spreadsheets in particular, where the sharing model [enabled by] using...
- Tags: WPF, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Windows Presentation Foundation, WFP/E
- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- Electro-sensitivity - Fact or fiction?
- Can you be sensitive to modern technology? Believe it or not, some people claim they are. A couple of people sent me a link to an article about a woman in the UK who claims to suffer from electro-sensitivity, a condition which she claims causes her to develop a...
- Tags: TVs, Instant messaging, TV & Home Theater, Ive, ray, symptom
- Blog posts 2007-03-22
- Two timely videos worth watching (on sting rays and hydrogen-powered cars)
- Two timely videos worth watching (on sting rays and hydrogen-powered cars)The show must go on?As a former supporter of Wildlife Preservation Trust International WPTI, I have to confess that I was never one of Irwin's fans. I visited the WPTI Zoo on the Isle of Jersey (in the English...
- Tags: Corporate communications, hydrogen, video, sting ray, ray, wishe
- Discussion threads 2006-09-05
- Ray Ozzie's vision lacks an economic foundation
- Some interesting analysis today from fellow ZDNet bloggers reacting to Ray Ozzie's speech last week. But if I distill this all a bit further I keep coming up against an economic conundrum -- one that pinches Microsoft between an Apple model and a Google model. Microsoft, if it tries to...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-07-31
- Ray Ozzie Trips On the Web
- I had a lot of faith in Ray Ozzie and when he was announced as the successor to Bill Gates, I anticipated good things for Microsoft. Today I downgraded my faith level in Ray after reading some Joe Wilcox's analysis on Ray's presentation at Microsoft's annual financial analysts meeting. I'm...
- Tags: Web, Ray, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-07-28
- Ray Ozzie gets it - will he take Microsoft to the RIA promised land?
- Since the announcement that Ray Ozzie was taking over for Bill Gates, I've been doing some digging on Ray's background, some "ROzSearch" if you will. After looking at what he's written on his blog and the kinds of ideas he's championed, I'm really excited about what Microsoft is going to...
- Tags: Ray
- Blog posts 2006-06-28
- Memo to Bill Gates
- Bill -I know you don't read Dear Bill memos in the media as a rule of thumb, which is why the last time I wrote one of these it was addressed to Steve Ballmer, not you. Then the subject was RSS, and the need to embrace it. Whether you heard...
- Tags: Ray
- Blog posts 2006-06-03
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