What competency can’t cure, money can. That’s the new strategy Redmond seems to be moving too as Microsoft looks to buy a stake in AOL. More so than the one-time investment the company made in Apple, this payout comes at a price.
Microsoft is in a problematic position. Until this strategy shift, buying out your competition, […]
Business 2.0 has an interesting thought on Google’s greater ambitions: building a “Google OS”. I’d have to agree (in fact I already have) but there’s a missing component, and a lesson to be learned from the last company out to turn Microsoft irrelevant.
Netscape, and its new resurrection knows that a key point in making the […]
Earlier this year I was critical of the quality of podcasts. I’d have to say that they have improved, but not the way I expected. Better quality, shorter podcasts are out, but they’re not coming from the new podcasting blogger beatniks. They are coming from some of the oldest names in content.
Its no longer news […]
You know I have been a fan of Macromedia for a long time. And I still am. But something is perplexing me. We all saw Flash take a hit as a result of the multimedia overdose that hit the web years back. Fortunately the folks at Macromedia are on top of it, and have cleverly […]
What? Exactly. From Fast Company:
On Microsoft being a fast follower: “[Look at] RealOne: We shipped a media player before that company was founded, period.” Yep, and after QuickTime.
On whether it is better to be first: “Oh, it’s always better to be first. Actually, it’s very expensive.” True enough, but how bad is it when you’re […]
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So I though I was in heaven when U2 teamed up with Apple. What is this, Christmas? My new Business 2.0 arrived today with a look at Apple’s new mini-stores, Firefox and Jon Gales (fellow MacMerc).
Ah, symbiosis. We all win.
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Now that we can no longer blame the bubble burst for failing dot-com business plans, and Microsoft has bagged its .Net subscription plan it’s time to look at what makes a commercial web-based application work.
Free Access
Make a bare-bones free account. To generate meaningful feedback and build a community, you need to get registered users. Example: […]
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I think we have an early answer about Open Source’s impact on the industry. Rumors, if true, that Google is kicking out a Mozilla-based browser shows at least one company that is ready to leverage open source to deliver services.
Years of effort by thousands of Open Source programmers have effectively negated the strategic advantage of […]
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It is interesting that in the same week Russian Mac users are petitioning for Russian localization of OS X Tiger that Russia is named as a major offender in global CD piracy. Of course, this study was limited to music CDs, not software but it isn’t hard to guess why Apple, Microsoft and others are […]
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