After over two years of development, Microsoft is wiping the slate clean and introducing a new mobile Windows operating system. Microsoft has been a player in the mobile OS market for some time, but they have been getting behind in the market with their traditional mobile OS, which is largely based on their desktop Windows […]
Oracle clouds with Sun
“Okay, so this evening I’m going to announce the Exalogic Elastic Compute Cloud or a cloud in a box. [..]. And this is the Exalogic machine, hardware and software engineered to work together to run all of your applications, allow you to develop the applications then run the applications.” This statement could be one of […]
A short tale about Long Tail
Once upon a time, let us say in 2004, Robbie Vann-Adibé, CEO of Ecast, a “digital jukebox” company, asked Chris Anderson, editor in chief of Wired magazine, the following question: what percentage of the 10,000 music albums available on the Ecast jukebox were sold at least one track per quarter. The “analog” normal answer would […]
Digital TV, Telecoms, and the push for the end of Net Neutrality
On May 30th 2010 we wrote about the alliance of Sony, Google, Intel and Logitec and their effort to control out TV sets by putting at out disposal the wealth of video, both user generated and commercial, floating in the Web. Well, the days when streaming television displace traditional TV viewing may not be far. […]