Expect analysts to push for some more details on Microsoft’s plans to significantly boost Windows marketing, particularly as Apple is gaining not only mindshare with its anti-Vista ads, but also market share.
And of course, folks will be hanging on every word regarding Yahoo, AOL and anyone else Microsoft is thinking about buying. I would expect [...]
IBM is mashing up its mashups to create a product line aimed at business people who want to make Web applications fast.
The products originally came out of IBM’s emerging technologies group, which started exploring the idea of giving end-users more power to make lightweight and short-lived applications.
IBM will continue to sell the two products separately.
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Flagfox is an unobtrusive extension for the
Firefox web browser that offers some assistance by placing a flag in the bottom right corner of the Firefox window. The flag (shown below) indicates the country where the website physically resides.
A big part of phishing scams and identity theft is fooling people into thinking they are on one [...]
That may be a little easier said than done, however. Some consumers (but not including “tech savvy” Giampaolo, of course) will still need help from the sales person to decipher the badging. A daunting challenge in the case of consumer laptops, which are typically plastered with a hodgepodge of stickers from Intel, Nvidia, Advanced Micro [...]
He still has 150 open positions in his unit, but Muglia noted that is down from more than 900 at one point.
“Servers are probably growing flat, 1 (percent), 2 percent sorts of numbers,” Muglia said, referring to recently lowered industry forecasts. “IT budgets are cramped. It’s not like IT is going to dramatically contract, but [...]
She recalled how she had been talking with someone about Leary’s work, and had said that, “Kids really related to what he said.”
Time slipped away, though, and only a couple of weeks ago, Damer alerted me to the fact that this Leary celebration was happening. And, it turned out, I could go and spend some [...]
Another session, titled “Designing Flash-Based Netbooks for Windows 7,” will cover how to design flash-based Netbooks using Windows 7, according to a statement by Leon Braginski, a senior lead program manager in Microsoft’s PC3 team. “We will explain how to calculate the lifetime of a flash-based netbook based on specific workload numbers,” a summary states. [...]
