- Microsoft acquires AVIcode, Inc. – Operations Manager Team Blog – Site Home – TechNet Blogs
A couple screenshots of the transaction monitoring company Microsoft announced buying today. - Smartphones bring mixed blessings for newspapers
"The telecoms company's study found that 14% of people who access the internet on their mobile phones said they read fewer newspapers as a result. On the flipside, 13% of respondents said that owning smartphones such as the iPhone had led them to read more newspaper content online." - Google opens up can of open source worms in Oracle Java suit
"That's when we loop back to the beginning, with Google arguing that the Java patents are invalid anyway…. It's clear that Google is going for the jugular by dragging up Java's history and the technicalities with open source licensing in its counterclaims. However, Google could also be opening up a can of worms with the licensing details that may eventually work against the company. It's not going to be a pretty fight and it isn't likely to end anytime soon." - Microsoft and Rackspace: Hyper-V Meets OpenStack (Soon)
"Sources say Microsoft Hyper-V will likely gain some integrations with OpenStack, with an official announcement potentially surfacing in late 2010." - W3C: Hold off on deploying HTML5 in websites
- Most Windows 7 upgrades taking place in next 12 months
Out of 115 shops surveys: "Eleven percent of Microsoft customers have finished Windows 7 upgrades, 50% will start upgrading in the next six to 12 months, and an additional 27% plan to start upgrading in the next one to two years. That's according to a Sept. 30 poll of 115 IT decision makers who are clients of the analyst firm Directions on Microsoft." - KT launches first major Korean private cloud | Cloudscaling
- HP to launch new webOS phones in early 2011 | Reuters
"You will see us coming early next year with new phones," Senior Vice President Eric Cador told an industry conference. - Put This On • How to Dress for TV I’ve been doing some TV work…
- Microsoft acquires AVIcode to boost .Net management | The Industry Standard – InfoWorld
Some transaction management tech: "AVIcode's software allows organizations to monitor transactions and understand how well individual bits of hardware and software are supporting these transactions." - Open Information, Government And Collaboration
- Eclipse Enterprise Modeling Day in Zurich « Ian Skerrett
Zürich, October 28, 2010. Europeans love them some modeling! - Verizon: Half-Dozen 4G Smartphones And Tablets Coming In Early 2011
More tablet madness, crossed with 4G: "McAdam said in the 38 markets they expect to launch in, they’ll cover roughly 110 million people, which translates to about a 70 percent coverage in these markets. By 2012, it expects to cover 200 million people." - Riptano – Software, support, and training for Apache Cassandra | Riptano and Digital Reasoning Form Partnership | Riptano
"It is now deploying Synthesis inside the intelligence community across a 400-node cluster. Cassandra and Synthesis together will derive actionable intelligence from hundreds of millions of documents." - Main MeeGo man resigns as Nokia preps for first MeeGo device
- Groklaw – Google Answers Oracle, Counterclaims, and Moves to Dismiss Copyright Infringement Claim
We have a local BBQ chain where they cover themselves in stickers that say "I have clean hands!" Hence, there's a special fun in Google claiming that Oracle has "unclean hands." - Rackspace Partner Leadership Summit: Top 7 Keynote Highlights | The VAR Guy
"Today, less than 10 percent of IT involves the cloud. By 2015, half of corporate computing will migrate to the cloud, Napier said while pointing to third-party research. He says it’s 30 to 40 percent cheaper for customers to run workloads with Rackspace vs. running IT in-house." - Mainstream America is Ready for Bar Codes – Converging "Realspace" and "Mobilespace" « Winksite. Love The Mobile Web.
Piece from 2006 talking about the rise – in Japan, at least – or QRcodes. 4 years later and I'm starting to see them around the US. - QR Codes in Social Media, Marketing, & Advertising – A Definitive Guide
Ah, so that's the point of all those damn square codes. - Black Duck Software Acquires Ohloh.net from Geeknet; Purchase a Boon to Developers — WALTHAM, Mass., Oct. 5 /PRNewswire/ —
"The acquisition of Ohloh demonstrates once more the growing value of data," said Stephen O'Grady, industry analyst with RedMonk. "With Ohloh's database, Black Duck can ease the friction of commercial adoption of open source technologies by commercial organizations and provide developers with more and better intelligence about open source project health. This is a win for the company and communities alike." - Want To Copy Groupon? Read This First
"Many examples from the history of business show us that in steady state, couponing is a fool’s game, as are many forms of discount-based promotions: for decades both Procter and Lever found themselves gearing up for promotions, paying factory staff for overtime, shipping stuff out to merchants, who … then … stored it. At its worst, discounted purchases accounted for over 95 percent of detergent sales, with everyone trying to buy everything on discount every time." - Analyst: iPad Competition to “Fall Flat”
They say you can't beat Apple's price because they're such big customers to their supply chain: "Apple is the world’s largest buyer of FLASH by a wide margin. We estimate Apple buys about 20-25% of the world’s FLASH due to its large iPhone and iPod FLASH needs….Finally, due to its early investment in capacitive touch technology and lead in selling touch devices, it’s difficult to believe any vendor buys more square footage of capacitive touch technology than Apple." - TabbedOut Raises $2 Million For Restaurant Mobile Payment Platform
Austin company that lets you pay your tab on your iPhone (for a 99 cent fee) gets funding. - How Much Does Netflix Spend On Postage Each Year?
Tech people love the content in Quora. - SaaS: Former Google Partner Embraces Microsoft BPOS Migrations
"So why the low demand for the Google Apps productivity suite? Bestritsky says it comes down to lack of user familiarity with the product, a shorter functionality list, and, most notably, serious security concerns." - Ballmer goes to LSE as internal doc calls for radical overhaul of MS • Channel Register
- Data analysis hot at Future of Web Applications Day One
- Black Duck buys Ohloh.net open source project site | Developer World – InfoWorld
"We're going to consolidate all that data into one platform and have it be a destination for developers," said Tim Yeaton, Black Duck president and CEO. - OpenStack infiltrates Ubuntu's cloud diet
- HP-SAP Merger Talk Considered Far-fetched – PCWorld Business Center
"Most everyone I talk to agrees that HP needs to get their software act together." HP has some excellent software assets, such as its testing products, but "there isn't a sense of a unified software strategy like you have with, say, IBM," [Coté] said. While HP generates north of $100 billion in revenue each year, they aren't known for much more than expensive printer ink, "decent servers, and niche software products that seem to work in isolation," he said. "If you wanted to be an 'HP CIO,' there's not much of an ethos, road map, or sort of 'brand' to sign up for." - Moleskine Caves to Your Apple Fetish With Sleek iPad and iPhone Covers
Finally, a way to carry a Moleskine and iPhone at the same time. - Art&Mobile
This dude makes fun iPhone photo apps. - How Facebook Can Become Bigger In Five Years Than Google Is Today
Better junk mail, the re-creation of AOL ("walled garden"), call it what you will: people are expecting big things from The Facebook – "Google’s 2010 revenues will be $28 billion, give or take a billion. The goal of this writeup is to illustrate the ways that Facebook’s annual revenues could grow from $2 billion to more than $30 billion in five years a diverse set of revenue streams that have one thing in common: people."
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