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10.15.09 / For Microsoft, Innovating Means Copying Apple

October 2009 is shaping up to be a company-defining month for Microsoft. On October 22, Microsoft is poised to launch Windows 7, the latest version of its ubiquitous Windows operating system. Plenty of ink and electrons have been sacrificed to … Read more »

06.5.09 / Will Bing Be Big?

Bing a Better Way to Search from MicrosoftPerhaps the best thing we can say about Bing, Microsoft’s new foray into the search arena, is that it might just be . . . well, pretty good.  Bing might not prove to … Read more »

05.15.09 / American Well Brings House Calls into the Digital Age

Back in the stone age, it used to be that when you got sick, you called up a doctor and he came over to your house and paid you a visit.  No forms, no office visits, no fuss—the doctor came, … Read more »

04.30.09 / Microsoft Getting into Social Networking, Only in Case of Emergency

In a recent article posted by Tech News World, it was reported that Microsoft is in the beta stages with Vine, a social networking tool, but not in the Facebook department of social networking.  Microsoft’s Vine will only be used … Read more »

04.30.09 / Is Verizon Double-Dating Apple and Microsoft?

On one hand, you have the Boston Globe reporting that Apple’s iPhone “may be poised to shake up the cell phone industry a second time” by introducing a model that could work on Verizon Wireless’ network.  On the other, you … Read more »

04.24.09 / Software, Online’s First Quarter Winners and Losers

First quarter earnings reports from some of the software and online industry’s biggest players are in, and they’re painting an interesting story—a mixed story at that.  Microsoft, EBay, and Yahoo seem to be getting killed, while Apple and Amazon seem … Read more »

04.7.09 / Improving User Experience Could Hasten Adoption of Online Digital Health Records

Online digital heath records—the kind controlled by patients—have been available for years, but the trick is to get people to use them in the first place, reports the New York Times.  And aside from concerns about privacy—a significant obstacle, to … Read more »

03.31.09 / Facebook, Adobe Announce Partnership

Facebook and Adobe have announced a partnership to bring Facebook developers support for the ActionScript® 3.0 Client Library on the Facebook platform.  The partnership announcement comes a day after it was announced that social networking rival MySpace had forged a … Read more »

03.31.09 / Rethinking Free in a Down Economy

Not so long ago, you could have collected enough of those “Try AOL for Free” installation disks to shoot skeet—for free—for the rest of your life.  The move may have backfired for AOL, but in the Great Recession of 2008-2009, … Read more »

03.25.09 / Develop It Once, Run It Anywhere, Key Theme at SWANH Mobile Application Platform Symposium

Decreasing the total cost of development and deployment . . . lowering the complexity . . . leveraging standard technologies and tools.  With hundreds of mobile phone service providers, thousands of devices, and scores of operating systems to choose from, … Read more »