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Tester provides a deeper dive into the new browser engine.
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Cool new extensions that will make browsing the Web even more fun.
Mitchell Ashley talks with Eugenio Pace, Microsoft Platform Architect and Software+Services guru.
It's hard to turn on the TV, read the newspaper or talk to your neighbor without hearing about the...
Microsoft has released a simple, stand-alone program from its U.K. research lab that assembles...
Now that Google has its Chrome browser available in beta, the question is: Will it shine in...
Xcelsius was a market-defining product, but sloppiness, neglect and ignoring its users could be its...
The world of Twitter is a subject I have written about several times in this newsletter and in my...
With the Open Source Conference (OSCon) and IDG's LinuxWorld show in the rearview mirror of 2008,... ...10
Cisco last week announced that it had purchased PostPath for $215 million. This follows the...
Google has added a video sharing component to its Apps Premier suite of hosted communication and...
Oracle plans to buy ClearApp, maker of software for managing the performance of composite...
Google Tuesday released its own browser with a revved-up Java Script engine called V8 designed to... ...4
In the last few issues of this newsletter I've discussed graphics-based Web services that use... ...2
Mozilla has renewed an agreement with Google Inc. that pays the browser maker for assigning... ...1
Microsoft has agreed to buy comparison shopping business Ciao in a deal worth around $486 million,...
If you use Firefox 3 and Yahoo Mail (the nice new interface, not Classic), you might be dealing... ...1
Microsoft Wednesday released the second beta of Internet Explorer 8 and introduced new features... ...5
In a long blog post, Mozilla CEO John Lilly is rather gracious about the new competitive browser released by its partner, Google. He says that despite Chrome's appearance on the market, Google and Mozilla have recently renewed their financial arrangement. Google will contribute cash to the Mozilla cause through November 2011. Mozilla is the only major browser maker that is a non-profit organization.
Preview articleCommentColumnist Richard Waters from the Financial Times argues that software-as-a-service will gut the profitability that traditional software makers tend to achieve. He says it will create a market where customers can easily switch from one supplier to another. While this is good for the customer wanting low prices, it pretty much stinks for the software companies and investors.
Preview articleCommentStardock, maker/distributor of the Galactic Civilizations and Impulse PC games, has drafted what it calls a PC Gamer's Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights consists of items that every gaming company should promise to its customers (like No. 4 -- Gamers shall have the right to demand that download managers and updaters not force themselves to run or be forced to load in order to play a game. or No 8. -- Gamers shall have the right to not be treated as potential criminals by developers or publishers. CNet blogger Dave Rosenberg makes a point that this Bill of Rights should really be applied and adopted by the entire software industry for all software customers -- not just PC game makers.
Preview articleCommentSOA Software, maker of governance software, is a barometer of the SOA industry. The company announced a 400% growth rate in the number of transactions it processes each month. It's customers now use the software to handle over 2.5 billion transactions a month, the company says. It counts Merrill Lynch, Verizon, and Pfizer as customers and is certified to work with IBM, Microsoft, SAP, and RedHat JBoss.
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I just watched the new Microsoft Seinfeld ad. I'm stunned that it wasn't a "blown away" kind of ad. So I have to ask myself, what's going on... what are they doing with these ads- The commercial basically is this; Seinfeld see Gates at a shoe store, goes in, tries to figure...

Well, we moved out of our house and this week I have been focusing on getting everything ready for our move to Japan next...

As previously noted, I think MapReduce is a big deal. Tonight I chatted with MapReduce's most famous non-fan, database...

This week, I've been doing something I don't normally do - building the SharePoint sites that I typically design. As I was...
It's hard to turn on the TV, read the newspaper or talk to your neighbor without hearing about the impact of high...
The world of Twitter is a subject I have written about several times in this newsletter and in my Network World Gearhead...

It's not good to stumble on addicting Flash games early in the morning as a an entire day of work could be blown playing....

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