Windows is collapsing under its own weight, Gartner analysts charged this week. (TechNewsWorld)
It takes Microsoft too long to introduce new versions of Windows, and once a new version is released, it takes significant time for the ecosystem to support it and for the release to stabilize. Organizations need to wait for that support and stability […]
that the original Photo 2.0 site now features video. But it’s only for Pro users and only 90-sec. clips. The idea seems to be that it’s not competing with YouTube but offering video as “long photos.”
This works for Arrington, who was originally skeptical but after a demo now thinks the vids are “a perfect […]
Revving up App Engine. Google is launching a preview release of App Engine, a way for developers to run applications on Google’s infrastructure, using the Google’s own GFS and Bigtable. Google provides an environment including dynamic webserving, persistent storage, scaling and load balancing, APIs for authenticating users and a fully featured local environment. Act now: […]
Death, blog not proud. , throw in Om’s non-fatal heart attack, too. The fast-paced worlds of Gawker and TechCrunch are thrown in there, too. Media is definitely moving towards hiring bloggers for piece work rather than staff reporters for life … but plenty of us are creating balanced lives that revolve around family, not our […]
MySpace Music: Free streaming, no DRM, plus ringtones and concert ticket sales. That’s Rupert Murdoch’s idea of a music service. Interestingly, EMI is the only major not to come on board – and EMI recently hired away Douglas Merrill as CIO of Google. What’s the connection? ()
Emerging markets said no to OOXML. While many are […]
iTunes is No. 1. For the first time, a seller of online music has surpassed any seller of plastic CDs. Apple’s iTunes store passed Wal-Mart for the first time. Rolling Stone reporter: “People have long talked about the shift to digital music sales but this seems to be a symbol it is actually happening.” ()
AT&T […]
An Instinct to clone. Need a phone with a touchscreen, colorful icons and a $99 data plan? Check out Spring and Samsung’s new Instinct, which is pretty blatantly an iPhone copycat. It’s even locked in to Sprint’s network, but unlike AT&T they offer a high-speed CDMA EV-DO Rev A network. (InfoWeek)
Realm of the absurd: Congress […]
3G iPhone in June!? Bank of America says Apple will have a 3G iPhone out in June. Analyst Scott Craig calls for 3m phones in production in May, with 8 million coming in Q3. That coincides with the release date of iPhone’s 2.0 software. ()
Another tedious vertical from Yahoo. As if women needed another […]
