Posted by great scott!This week, Rand (semi-reluctantly) takes a look at everybody’s favorite new time-waster application: Twitter. He outlines a few points that may help late adopters get over the hump and realize that, while it may seem a little silly, Twitter can actually have considerable social and marketing value to those of us in […]
Microsoft announced that it will introduce support for Open Document Format, Portable Document Format and XML Paper Specification in Office 2007 SP2, due for release in 2009. This is another step by Microsoft to support Open Source while at the same time hopefully keeping their critics quiet. As I’ve said before I now expect other […]
Well things are quite quiet on the tech news front which gives me the opportunity to look at the Windows 7 debate again. I read Ed Bott’s artcle on Windows 7 here. He makes a two points regarding beta cycles and feedback that I don’t agree with.Long beta cycles make better products. Oh really? If […]
The Wall Street Journal blogs summed up nicely why Google are looking at a search deal with Yahoo:The enemy of my enemy is my friend: Google co-founder Larry Page thinks a Google-Yahoo deal is the best idea ever. In further news, he still hates Microsoft with an intensity hotter than a thousand burning suns.And for […]