Now, Microsoft is far from alone in this vision. I’ve heard similar talk over the years from Hewlett-Packard, Veritas (now Symantec), IBM and others.
Microsoft’s approach of having a data center that can respond dynamically to business needs, while still years off, is compelling, said Forrester Research analyst Frank Gillett. Virtualization is a key component that [...]
Indie Labels now account for upwards of 30 percent of total music sales, up from the low 20’s just a few years ago. This is a profound shift in the powerbase that favors the independent artist and innovator.
Social music sites such as LastFM, Pandora, iLike and many more are making the fans into tastemakers with [...]
Well, the world survived somehow (though really, some of you guys need to get a life). I still think Lacy got a raw deal. What’s more, I wonder how many of those tut-tutters from the blog commentariat pushed away from their computers to pay attention when ABC co-anchors, Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos turned [...]
Today, at 11 a.m. PDT, you can harass me with all of your burning headphone and MP3 player accessories questions in CNET’s ATE Live forum. It’s like MP3 Mailbox Monday, only live! So go ahead: hit me with your best shot.
“People expect their phones to deliver the best experiences from PCs and the Web right to their pockets,” Todd Peters, Microsoft’s corporate vice president for its Mobile Communications Business, said in a release Thursday. “Investing in the right solutions from companies like MobiComp will extend the capabilities of Windows Mobile and Windows Live to help [...]
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Chris Hecker)
For every Second Life or YouTube that exists today, that encourages users to create their own content and to potentially do so without spending any money on their corporate parents’ products, there are endless examples of companies going out of their way in the past to make sure you do anything but that.
“You [...]
Here’s why:
FriendFeed
Twitter
And that, in my mind, is what social networks are all about. No longer is the Web confined to a one-way street mentality where content creators and service providers perform a particular task and the users are in place to consume that material.
Flickr
But how can we have it both ways?
Whether it’s Twitter, FriendFeed or [...]
Zune? It appeared on one slide, but Bach mentioned it for only about five seconds–blink and you’d miss it. Microsoft’s showing the device in a nearby demonstration area, and the company has assured me that they’re planning some sort of update later this year. But still–4 percent market share, combined with a new urgency on [...]
Importing Digg stories on Facebook
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Adding to Tuesday’s release, Facebook has added an additional service for Mini-Feed importing, Digg.
This is a big win for Digg. Over the last six months, I have seen a significant increase in the usage of Digg by college students, and this inclusion in the Facebook Mini-Feed will only [...]
WM Recycle America announced Wednesday it is committing to the Basel Action Network e-Stewards Pledge. Along with committing signatories to the statutes of the Basel Convention about exporting e-waste, the pledge also requires organizations to prevent hazardous e-waste from entering municipal incinerators or landfills.
The United States is the only developed nation that has not [...]