8 of the Best Adobe AIR Applications

Adobe AIR showed a lot of potential during its period of public beta but unfortunately had very few applications that really took advantage of the technology. Thankfully over the last month or so we have begun to see some impressive and useful applications being released.

Jeremy on August 5, 2008 | Filed Under Internet | 2 Comments

100 Cool Things to Do with RSS

I am a big RSS fan. Not sure if you noticed last May 1st, but we had an RSS Awareness Day going on. I started it.

Anyway browsing on the web today I came across an interesting article outlining 100 cool uses for RSS.

Daniel Scocco on July 18, 2008 | Filed Under Internet | Leave a Comment

Microsoft Backing Up Carl Icahn?

If you still can digest some news about the Microsoft Yahoo deal (for some people its getting tougher and tougher, and I can’t blame them…) TechCrunch is claiming that Steve Ballmer might be talking directly with Carl Icahn to see how they could make things work around.

Daniel Scocco on July 7, 2008 | Filed Under Internet | Leave a Comment

The Economics of Server Farms

I just came across a very interesting article on The Economist which describes the trend about creating new data centers around the world. Basically corporations are investing more money than ever into those super computing warehouses, and the challenge now is to find locations that will supply enough and reliable energy to them. Here is a quote:

Daniel Scocco on May 27, 2008 | Filed Under Internet | 2 Comments

After Yahoo, What’s Microsoft’s Next Move?

Shares of Microsoft rose since last weekend when it announced that it was not interested in pursuing Yahoo in an acquisition bid that was expected to go down till the wire. Analysts are hailing the move as great since there were always the integration hurdles, both cultural and market related that would have eaten costly time.

Daniel Scocco on May 14, 2008 | Filed Under Internet | Leave a Comment

What’s Brewing Between IBM And Google

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The on-stage appearance of Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt and Sam Palmisano at the IBM Partnerworld conference in Los Angeles may pronounce the single largest development to hit the cloud computing space. IBM, with its established credibility in the server and enterprise applications space makes the perfect partner to Google for taking cloud computing to the commercial masses - i.e. the businesses.

Arun on May 13, 2008 | Filed Under Internet | Leave a Comment

Microsoft Walks Away From Yahoo

Its the anti-climax but this is how it appears it is best for all. Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer in a letter to Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang mentioned five reasons for deciding to walk away from the Internet Major, chief among them being that it was not ready to raise its bid to the $35-$37 per share that Yahoo’s board demanded and also that the partnership with Google in ads was simply not acceptable.

Arun on May 5, 2008 | Filed Under Internet | 1 Comment

Microsoft’s Mesh, Google’s iGoogle and Yahoo’s Y!OS

This past few weeks definite indicators have come forth as to how the interface to the internet is being reshaped to better suite our needs. Some of the biggest names in the industry have revealed their plans on making the internet experience a lot more user centric while at the same time keeping people rooted to their respective platforms.

Arun on May 2, 2008 | Filed Under Internet | Leave a Comment

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