Microsoft has been busy on the M&A front recently…
It was announced this week that Microsoft has acquired Parlano, makers of MindAlign. MindAlign is a group messaging and communications platform (built on Microsoft technology) that has gained some tracking in corporate verticals. I am most familiar with it in the Financial sector, where fast […]
Archive for August, 2007
Microsoft On The Hunt Again…
Published August 31st, 2007 in Current Events, Humor, Microsoft and Rumors & Speculation. 0 Comments
A Viable HD Web Experience…
Published August 30th, 2007 in Digital Media, Emerging Technology, Trends and Web Video. 2 CommentsAkamai powers the visual web…
They are the leading provider of edge based content caching for the efficient distribution of high bandwidth media. To make this work, Akamai have built a content distribution network with ‘edge servers’ that live at the data centers of most major ISPs.
Clients of Akamai leverage these servers to efficiently […]
Linux Vs. Windows: Yesterday’s War…
Published August 29th, 2007 in Microsoft, Mobile and Open Source. 1 CommentThere’s no shortage of Windows vs. Linux discussions…
The contest between these two operating systems - especially on the desktop - seems to be where the media focuses when covering open source issues. Linux is clearly gaining ground on all fronts, thanks in no small part to the phenomenal packaging done with Ubuntu.
And […]
The Changing Media Landscape…
Published August 28th, 2007 in Digital Media, Open Source, Social Computing and Technology & Society. 0 CommentsSun CEO Jonathan Schwartz has an interesting video on his blog of an interview he did earlier this summer with Pat Mitchell. It explores how traditional media companies need to come to grips with the reality of new media, the challenge of monitization, and dealing with piracy:
I found it to be a refreshingly honest […]
Leopard’s release may be getting close…
Apple has stated publicly that OS X 10.5 will be shipping in October. That’s just two months from now. Even taking a developer’s perspective that October means October 31st, that’s not a lot of time.
And though there is some murmering around the net that there’s still a meaningful list […]
Connecticut will be using a new optical voting machine this election…
To help with the transition from the previous lever based mechanical systems, Connecticut Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz posted an instructional video on how to use the new system. One version is available for download to an iPod, and a second version is […]
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