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Standards, antitrust and Microsoft

No need to add to the Microsoft - Yahoo speculation frenzy, as plenty of others will do that for the remainder of this week (though if anything pops into mind, I'll certainly talk about it in these pages).  Instead, I'll return to the topic I had planned to write about...

Tags: Software, Antitrust, Microsoft Corp., Standards, Standards Competition, Quality, Business Operations, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-02-06

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Reinvigorating Microsoft's mobile strategy

MS should give up and go homeNobody wants Windows Mobile. It's declining share and the increasing share of competitors makes it also-ran.Many are not wanting Windows at all as evidenced by its declining market share.There is no reason for Windows on the mobile device given reliability and performance are...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, strategy, Microsoft Corp., phone, mobile

Discussion threads 2009-11-30

Sorry Kindle owners, the new firmware still doesn't support local public libraries

Library DRM'ed contentThat is one of the few circumstances where DRM actually makes sense, legally as well as traditionally/historically. Maybe the publishing industry should compete with libraries in this regard - DRM'ed content for dirt cheap, valid for a couple of weeks. On top of that they should offer non-DRM'ed,...

Tags: E-books, firmware, e-book, Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-25

Apple seeks injunction to end Psystar Mac clones ... oh, and $2.1m

Let's cheer the death of competition!!!Competition is good... as long as it doesn't hurt Apple. Cue the double standards...Apple, congrats for winning in the legal court. Maybe you can take that $2.1M (that you won't get) and add it to your PR budget to repair the damage you've done in...

Tags: Apple Inc., Psystar, gizmo

Discussion threads 2009-11-25

Google goes all-in with an open source cloud

Open standards set terms of competition that advantage the low-cost producer of bits and processing. That's Google. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Google Inc., Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-11-23

Mozilla: Still too dependent on Google for revenue; Can it diversify?

well its in Google best interest ...that mozilla is healthy and and kicking .... anyone claiming monopole they point out that they support Mozilla foundation big time ...Google keep its competition alive they should do more invest in ubuntu ... so they...

Tags: Web browsers, SEARCH, Operational accounting, revenue, Google Inc., Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Do we need a 'beautiful mess' in operating systems? Yup

To make a good soup, you've got to stir the pot...Ok, sure - it turns cloudy, short-term. Just be sure to filter it or let it settle, before serving.Whereas the classic 'design-by-committee' model so often fails, its always useful to have multiple, talented teams working on similar projects, independently. With...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Programming languages, Linux Distro, operating system, John Gruber, Linux, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Apple nukes Psystar

Why is this legal?What I want to know is *why* is it legal for Apple to say "OSX can only run on hardware we provide"? Wouldn't that constitute a monopoly on OSX since they stifle competition and someone else can't provide OSX software systems? Isn't that the literal...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Operating systems, Apple Inc., Psystar, hardware, OSX, software

Discussion threads 2009-11-15

Rogue Amoeba: App Store 'broken'

Yikes, I will never buy an iPhone app then[i]Kafasis goes on to say that Rogue Amoeba won't develop additional apps and that updates to its existing iPhone applications "will likely be rare."[/i]How terrible! You buy an iPhone app, it has a couple bugs in it, but because of Apple's incompetence...

Tags: Smart phones, way thing, Rogue Amoeba, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

Friday Challenge: What's your take on OS/browser market share trends?

Firefox is taking over...With Firefox the days of vendor lock-in withIE required are over, like banking sites theyare cross-platform as they should be.I use CentOS/Fedora/RHEL and use I am able todo all of my job functions and use any applicationI want without the fear of security holes andthreats from a...

Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, COMPANIES, Other Countries, Web browser, Friday Challenge, operating system, Mozilla Firefox, browser market share, security hole, security, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

CCHIT going on almost as if nothing happened

Republicans up to no good again.Another buck for doing nothing.CCHIT HappensThats it.We bought a package that was CCHIT certified, one of our requirements.We had plenty of other requirements for an EHR, but they wanted to make sure it was certified by someone else just incase the goverment came up with...

Tags: CCHIT, eHR

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

Is MySQL an "albatross" around the neck of Larry Ellison?

The EC is CLUELESSAbsolutely NOTHING changes about MySQL or its license open source with the buy out.infiltrated M$ agents are obfuscating this issueThe MySql should be a slam dunk, but M$ agents are feeding false information to the commision to harm OSS.Are you sure about that?MySql (and of course SUN...

Tags: Databases, MySQL, open source, Larry Ellison, Microsoft Corp., agent

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

Google: Is there anyone who doesn't have an opinion?

Google is 1995 MicrosoftFor now, Google is up there, with great products, a bright future and way in front. But...Google can't be different from any other company that ever emerged, flourish and then met their nemesis. Everybody thinks it will be MS or Apple but the reality will probably be...

Tags: Strategy, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

18 truths: The long fail of complexity

Agree *****One of the best distillations of what 'risk' actually is, and why complexity exponentially increases it, I have read.But more to the point takes a realistic, rather than optimistic or pessimistic, view of how to asses it. And correctly acknowledges the 'human' factors involved in both cause, and...

Tags: Strategy, HEALTHCARE, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

A Net Neutrality Solution: Opinions Wanted

First thoughts"the incumbents fought it tooth and nail"Same thing happened in the last 4 industrial revolutions!I'm broadly in favour of your improvements ... with a few caveats ... and will look at the 2 papers you plugged, sorry referenced ;-)"Users should be concerned that the Internet services they pay for...

Tags: Fiber optics, Net Neutrality, Net Neutrality Solution

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

A Net Neutrality Solution: Opinions Wanted

I’ve been thinking about Net Neutrality for some time and wanted to get your thoughts and feedback on a solution that seems, well,  so simple and obvious that I can't believe nobody has proposed it.  A bit of background before you dive-in. Before analyzing and tracking...

Tags: Content Provider, Net Neutrality, Gold/Platinum, Internet, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-10-26

Retail distribution may tip e-reader race; Barnes & Noble rolls out Nook

Barnes & Noble unveiled its Nook e-reader, the latest in a line of alleged Kindle killers, and much of the chatter revolves around open standards, touch features, a little color and competition. The reality: Retail distribution may be much more important to winning the e-reader race. Barnes...

Tags: E-reader, Barnes & Noble Inc., Nook, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-21

What's a brick?

Shortly after I posted my blog on CalStar making building materials from coal ash, I heard from the American Brick Industry Association BIA. They feel CalStar is ripping off centuries of brick brand equity. Here is the email with BIA's side of the brick business: "I...

Tags: Brick, CalStar, ASTM STANDARDS Here, Branding, Blogging, Manufacturing, Marketing, Internet, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Beware the allure of Fool's Cloud

no securityNo one in their right mind would send theircritical apps off to the cloud.Another pie in the sky to dream up getting ridof expenses only to make more expenses.Still no Security or...Public clouds are not secure. They are just like the regular Internet. Only put on the public cloud...

Tags: Strategy, cloud provider, Clear, public cloud, security

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

The really inconvenient truth: real price of our energy

A different take"Economics and business have a notoriously short-sighted, narrow-minded set of considerations. Haven?t we just re-learned that ancient lesson from the hedge funder corruption and the phoney mortgage miasma?"What lesson did you learn? Did these markets fail or did government intervention in market operations corrupted them? Why are tax...

Tags: Inconvenient Truth

Discussion threads 2009-10-17