Looking for Bright Spots While the gloom and doom has been the prevalent sentiment so far (see Part I), a few folks dared to share more optimistic views (see this post on Webmonkey, for instance). We also decided to chip in our two cents and look for some bright spots in the sudden darkness descending on […]

Microsoft has traditionally been a company that sells packaged software for personal computers. However, as several companies have recently created online environments for running applications, Microsoft has quickly changed their strategy to compete with this new model (which is now often called “cloud computing”). As described in MIT’s Technology Review, “a computing cloud is made by […]

It comes as no surprise that over the last few weeks a host of articles and blog posts have pronounced Web 2.0 dead or near-dead. As people come to grips with the fall of seemingly infallible institutions and the ensuing erratic behavior of the financial markets, they start to wonder what exactly all this means […]

That the music industry is in disarray is a huge understatement. Their sales have been diminishing constantly since 2003 and although digital sales have picked up some of the slack, they have not been able maintain the level of business, never mind growing it. The problem, of course, has been the appearance of a number […]