Just when Microsoft seemed poised to recapture some of Apple’s market dominance with the release of its Zune HD – a worthy opponent to the iPod (mp3 player of choice and current industry leader) – I read press stating that the device won’t be an open platform for third party app developers. Instead, Microsoft has [...]
The recent collaboration between Microsoft and Yahoo! along with predictions that the future of the search could be the addition of “social relevancy” have pointed the lens squarely at the search engine as the most important piece of real estate in the quest for dominance online, but if we zoom out a frame, I have [...]
Filed under: Business, News, Technology on August 14th, 2009 @ 12:44 pm
Tagged with: Apple, browser, Google, internet, markets, microsoft, mobile, online, product, search, search engine, spaces, start-up, Technology, user experience, web
The resignation today of Erik Schmidt, CEO of Google, from Apple’s board of directors came as little surprise to many in the industry, considering the “potential conflicts of interest” between them. While the two tech giants have been seen as allies for the last handful of years, Google’s emerging product offerings – the G1 smartphone [...]
Filed under: Business, News, Technology on August 3rd, 2009 @ 3:31 pm
Tagged with: Apple, browser, Business, economy, Erik E. Schmidt, Google, market share, microsoft, search, software, Steve Jobs, web, web supremacy
The Financial Times reports today that tech giant and number one distributor of PCs and servers in the US, Microsoft, has taken a major hit in sales in this quarter. Though experts in the tech sector are not exactly hitting the panic button, a 17% drop in sales for a quarter in which competitors Apple, Intel, [...]
Filed under: Business, News, Technology on July 24th, 2009 @ 12:19 pm
Tagged with: Apple, Business, IBM, innovation, Intel, microsoft, PC sales, recession, recovery, Technology
‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.