Shame, poor Amazon, they must feel so left out. No one is suing them. Yet.
Created by: MBA Online (via Patents | MBA Online)
Source: mbaonline.com
Elevation Partners Director and Co-Founder Roger McNamee
Roger is an investor in some huge tech successes. He’s in a band, loves HTML5 and has invested in Forbes and National Geographic. This guy is engaging, entertaining and makes some very succinct points on where he thinks the future lies.
Here’s some topics he covers:
- Demise of Microsoft Means Opportunity
- Google in a Tough Spot
- Creativity Rules in HTML5
- Apple Domination in Tablets
- Access from Any Screen
- The Social Wave Is Over
- TV the Last Protected Media
- Why Apple Supports HTML5
- Money in the Music Industry
If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed… Oh wait! He does!
Friends don’t let friends use Internet Explorer 6
I can’t believe so many SA corporates still have IE6 as the standard-default-thou-shalt-not-uninstall-this-browser-else-you-will-be-fired browser.
Come on folks, even Microsoft wants you to stop using it!!
Source: Mashable
Google launches Cloud Connect for MS Office
Watch the video for an explanation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H12teRzulW0&feature=player_embedded
Looks promising! Document version control too. Nice.
Source: googleenterprise.blogspot.com
Microsoft vs Apple: Who’s cool, who’s the giant?
I find it quite funny how the perceived positions of these two companies are starting to switch.
First up: Microsoft (the boring geeky corporate monolithic safe bet) sells a record breaking 8 Million Kinects over the holidays. Yep, they’re fast becoming a big gaming player.
Secondly: Apple ramps up it’s business offering, sells 17 million iPads and gnaws away at laptop and netbook sales, and overtakes Microsoft to being the most valuable tech company and the the 2nd most valuable company in America (nearly catching Exxon).
Nice! Google Launches Microsoft Office Plugin for Google Docs
I have been waiting for this for years, and have tried other 3rd party apps long the way (without much success). Here’s hoping this one rocks.
Google Launches Plugin That Fuses Microsoft Office With Google Docs
Source: TechCrunch
Microsoft jumps on the Chilean mine bandwagon
Read full article here > Microsoft Store opens at bottom of Chilean mine
Source: feedproxy.google.com
Despite Microsoft’s efforts to distinguish them, there is considerable overlap between what Silverlight does, and what HTML5 in IE9 does, especially when in the browser.
Source: webmonkey.com
Wow, Redmond still owns the desktop in a big way.
Via Pingdom: The consistent failure of Linux to grab even 1% of the desktop OS market
Source: feedproxy.google.com
Google today unveiled an open-source, royalty-free video format called WebM
Oh boy, the video format wars are going to heat up. H.264 is too costly to licence for the open source brigade but both Apple and Microsoft have backed it.
Please, please lets just settle this for once. This has been ongoing since Betamax vs VHS days. Enough now!
Read more here » Google tries freeing Web video with WebM | Deep Tech - CNET News
Source: CNET
Docs.com launches. Will you use it?
This seems a bit premature to me. What do you think?
Source: docs.com
