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January 2007 - Posts
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09:32 AM Tuesday, January 30, 2007
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Zink, the Zero Ink printer company, is coming out of stealth mode and presenting at DEMO 2007 today. The Boston Globe , San Jose Merc , and Cnet have stories on Zink today. Zink is a spin-out from Polaroid's research labs, and is headed by Wendy Caswell, Read More...
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08:02 AM Tuesday, January 30, 2007
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Windows Vista is available in retail stores today and is shipping inside new personal computers from all the usual suppliers. Check out the 100 reasons you will love Vista . Microsoft Office 2007 is also available now. Microsoft will spend $500 million Read More...
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03:12 PM Monday, January 29, 2007
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Verizon, the largest US cell phone service, rejected an exclusive distribution deal for the Apple iPhone because of restrictive terms from Apple. In a USA Today article Verizon says " Among other things, Apple wanted a percentage of the monthly cellphone Read More...
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04:47 PM Friday, January 26, 2007
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Paul Kedrosky says " Time spent per site favors Yahoo over Google " and concludes that " Yahoo has so much leverage in 2007. With the company so far out in front of Google in terms of time spent on Yahoo properties, it comes down to monetization -- Yahoo Read More...
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11:36 AM Monday, January 22, 2007
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At IBM's annual Lotusphere conference Microsoft announced a series of tools to help Lotus Notes/Domino customers take advantage of the unified communication and collaboration innovations that are being delivered as part of the recently released Microsoft Read More...
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09:15 AM Monday, January 22, 2007
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Microsoft Office 2007 is easier to use, says David Pogue of the New York Times . The User Interface has been completely redesigned. Drop down menus have been replaced by a contextual Ribbon that displays all the features applicable to what you are doing Read More...
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01:31 PM Sunday, January 21, 2007
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Data centers are popping up all over the place, at $500 million a piece. Google and Microsoft are in a high stakes race to provide computing infrastructure in the cloud for everything from hosted applications and services to video on demand. My friend Read More...
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08:15 PM Friday, January 19, 2007
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Google has been buying up unused dark fiber from the telcos for pennies on the dollar. According to Robert X. Cringley , they now own or control more fiber bandwidth than any company in the world. So, what are they going to do with all this bandwidth? Read More...
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09:48 PM Wednesday, January 17, 2007
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Robert Scoble introduced me to TechMeme over a year ago. Danny Sullivan of SearchEngineLand did an interview with Gabe Rivera , founder of TechMeme. Great interview, especially if you are interested in how TechMeme works. TechMeme tracks tech blogs and Read More...
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08:56 PM Wednesday, January 17, 2007
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Adesso Systems has announced Tubes, a file sharing and synching application. Liz Gannes at GigaOm has a short review of Tubes. You might recall a review I did a while ago when Tubes was in private beta. It is now out of beta and available for free download Read More...
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05:21 PM Monday, January 15, 2007
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Microsoft and Open Source seems like an odd combination. But it makes a lot of sense . Aras today announced Aras Innovator , built on Microsoft's .Net and SQL Server, and offered as an Open Source product. eWeek says Aras move puts new spin on Open Source Read More...
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11:50 AM Monday, January 15, 2007
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Newspapers have the best local content for local restaurants, movie reviews, local business, school sports, and should be the first search result for any local search. They are not . Greg Linden says Newspapers should own local I think they don't because Read More...
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09:38 PM Sunday, January 14, 2007
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Greg Linden, founder of Findory, announced that he will discontinue development efforts, but the site will continue on autopilot. Findory is a personalized news finder that retrieves news based on your preferences and usage history. I interviewed Greg Read More...
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11:35 AM Wednesday, January 10, 2007
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Apple creates brilliant designs with elegant user interfaces that work intuitively. I started thinking about how they do this. The answer is that Apple controls the whole experience from hardware to software to peripherals . Nothing bad about that, it Read More...
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11:57 AM Tuesday, January 09, 2007
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Yahoo has acquired MyBlogLog reportedly for $10 million . Does anyone stop to do the math on these things? MyBlogLog started business in July...just 6 months ago, and they have 5 employees. They reportedly serve 45,000 blogs, have 33,000 registered users, Read More...
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09:48 AM Tuesday, January 09, 2007
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The original IBM PC, the Apple Mac, and Microsoft's Xbox were all innovative products that were disruptive to existing products or business models. Big companies really can develop disruptive innovative products , but rarely within the normal organizational Read More...
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12:20 PM Monday, January 08, 2007
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The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is going on this week in Las Vegas. Microsoft is unveiling waves of new products . Vista and Office 2007 are the big products, but it was the Xbox 360 numbers that caught my attention. During the 4th quarter there were Read More...
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10:00 AM Sunday, January 07, 2007
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Michael Arrington has an interesting post today " Bubble, bubble, bubble ". Michael makes some excellent points; 1)This isn't really a bubble, 2)Failure proves the system is working properly by letting off steam, 3) VCs understand that most companies Read More...
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04:39 PM Friday, January 05, 2007
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Innovation happens at companies large and small, but truly disruptive innovation usually happens at startups. Why don't we see more innovation from the big companies? Microsoft spends more than $6.5 billion a year on R&D . IBM spends $5.8 billion Read More...
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