Five Microsoft .NET Development Tools I Wish I Had
I've been doing a lot of coding lately. This has been a bit of a departure from my usual work as a technology evangelist or a development manager, but - as you might imagine - it has been quite a lot of fun! Having said this, the process of actually sitting down and coding for 12 hours a day over the past few months has left me wishing that Visual Studio .NET shipped with a handful of additional capabilities in the box.
"Mobile Web 2.0" – How Web 2.0 Impacts Mobility & Digital Convergence
This is a series of three articles - the first (this one) outlining the significance of Web 2.0 technologies, the second article discussing the impact of Web 2.0 technologies on mobility, and the final article on the impact of Web 2.0 technologies on digital convergence. If you are already familiar with Web 2.0, my goal, in a nutshell (no pun intended!) is to extend Tim O Reilly's seven principles to mobility and digital convergence.
Google Googles AOL, Microsoft Goes to Sidelines
A detailed agreement between Google and AOL hinges on Google acquiring 5% of the Time Warner subsidiary for $1 billion. Early analysis shows Google the winner in this round of its battle with Microsoft over search leadership. But the story appears to be more complex than that.
Firefox Auto-Upgrade Users Become Surprise Beta Testers (TechWeb)
TechWeb - Some Firefox users may be wondering why they are using a version of the popular open-source browser that has yet to be released.
Dion Hinchcliffe's SOA Blog: "Trust and Privacy in Web 2.0: Microsoft, Search, and the DOJ"
As I write this I'm sitting here in the front row next to Robert Scoble at Microsoft Search Champs listening to a great talk by Microsoft Fellow Gary Flake about the Internet Singularity and today's announcement of Live Labs (a fascinating development which I'll dedicate an article to shortly complete with a podcast of Gary's overview.) Read the brand new Live Labs manifesto here.
Broadcom Becomes First Chipset Manufacturer to Piggyback on IEEE 802.11n Draft Spec
Broadcom Corporation announced the availability of its new 'Intensi-fi' family of wireless LAN chipsets, the first solutions designed to comply with the IEEE 802.11n draft specification.
The Internet As the New Local Newspaper?
According to a new study by The Kelsey Group and ConStat, Inc., 70 percent of U.S. households now use the Internet as an information source when shopping locally for products and services -- an increase of 16 percent since October 2003. This puts the Internet on par with newspapers as a local shopping information resource, with the Internet
likely to surpass the impact of newspapers in the very near future. Most of the Internet s growth for shopping research can be attributed to large search engines such as Google, Yahoo! and Ask Jeeves, the usage of which increased significantly, from 47 percent in 2003 to 55 percent in
2005, said Tim Trickett, vice president of business development at ConStat. Further, the research shows that the increase in usage of the major search engines has been powered by broadband users exclusively.
IBM to bring Mac Notes up-to-date
IBM is expected to get its Notes client software up to speed on the latest Mac OS next week at its annual Lotusphere conference. The company released Notes version 7 in September . . .
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