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 [...]
In an effort to get further involved in the growing opensource movement, Microsoft has announced that it will be creating and funding ($1 million annually) the CodePlex Foundation. The initial framing of the announcement, is as a neutral place for companies and developers to share ideas and interact, ultimately increasing the commercial opportunities for all [...]
Filed under: News, Technology on September 11th, 2009 @ 12:09 pm
Tagged with: Business, funding, growth, interactive, investing, investment, launch, leaders, management, microsoft, open source, opensource, opportunities, opportunity, product, sharing, software, strategy
Fresh off the heels of last week’s blockbuster deal with Yahoo!, Microsoft announced a new partnership with Finnish cell phone manufacturer Nokia, another attempt to go after the top player in the space. While the Yahoo! deal was about tackling Google’s dominance of the search market, this newest collaboration takes aim at Research In Motion’s [...]
Filed under: Business, News, Technology on August 13th, 2009 @ 11:45 am
Tagged with: brands, Google, leaders, marketing, markets, microsoft, mobile, Mobile Office, Nokia, partnerships, RIM, smart phones, smartphones, software, strategies, strategy, Technology, Yahoo!
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
Over the weekend, the New York Times profiled a start-up called GreenPrint Technologies, a small, Portland-based technology company with a big idea – software that eliminates printing needless paper – but little business know-how.
Four years after GreenPrint’s inception, the owners report a continuous struggle, as only about 25,000 people use the software daily. Some of the [...]
Filed under: Business, News, Technology on July 7th, 2009 @ 6:40 pm
Tagged with: flexibility, green technology, GreenPrint, innovation, software, startup, Xerox
‘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.