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by Stan Beer
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Saturday, 24 June 2006 |
Google, a company that has some great online technology, is really in the business of selling advertising. This fact was once again hammered home by a strategic new product offering the company is testing. Free video downloads, supported by advertisements, could well be the way of the future. The model appears to be diametrically opposed to the one Apple Computer is currently trying to hawk in Hollywood.
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by Stan Beer
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Friday, 23 June 2006 |
The events of the past couple of days at Microsoft are perplexing to say the least. On Monday, Microsoft launches Windows Live Messenger with great fanfare. Playing a central role is the vice president of marketing for Windows Live and CEO Steve Ballmer’s protégé Martin Taylor. By Wednesday, Taylor is out the door.
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by Stan Beer
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Thursday, 22 June 2006 |
A US$30 million lawsuit launched against MySpace by a 14 year girl who was allegedly sexually assaulted by a 19 year old man she met on the site may not succeed say some legal sources. However, the case does raise some serious issues that sections of the global community of internet users, educators and parents have flagged for some time.
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by Stan Beer
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Monday, 19 June 2006 |
 For more than two decades, Apple Computer has excelled at creating high quality closed proprietary systems at the top end of the price band, loved by a few and ignored by many. As a trade off for creating its exclusive market, Apple's products until recently remained niche, thus limiting the company's growth. No longer.
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by Stan Beer
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Monday, 19 June 2006 |
The market may not have responded to the announcement of the retirement of Bill Gates from the pivotal role of chief software architect at Microsoft. However, maybe that’s because the market had already factored in his departure from an active role in the company he founded in 1975.
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by Stan Beer
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Thursday, 15 June 2006 |
The issue of so-called Net neutrality is a sticky one. Not only is it difficult to understand, it cuts across political boundaries and it is not at all clear at first glance who the good guys are and who are the baddies. However, when you look at the issue closely it becomes crystal clear why Net neutrality is essential.
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by Stan Beer
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Monday, 12 June 2006 |
It seems that the lure of Chinese lucre is proving too much for companies like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, who in order to get a piece of the action in China, have all compromised the values that enabled them to grow into the gigantic businesses they are today. According to a Reuters report, Google co-founder Sergey Brin says the search leader intends to press ahead with its heavily censored search site Google.cn.
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by Stan Beer
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Saturday, 10 June 2006 |
The news that Microsoft users are shocked because the anti-piracy Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) program reports back to home base is astounding. The astounding thing, however, is not that WGA calls home but that some users claim to be shocked by this.
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by Stan Beer
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Thursday, 08 June 2006 |
Our latest poll shows that about two out every three readers think that the newly announced Google Spreadsheet is not a serious threat to Microsoft Excel. For the record, at the time of writing, there were 557 respondents to the question: Is a Google Spreadsheet a significant threat to Microsoft Excel? 369 (66.2%) answered no, 188 (33.8%) answered yes. POLL STILL ACCEPTING VOTES
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Thursday, 08 June 2006 |
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A few months ago a co-worker sent me a link to an Ajax based online word processor called Ajax Write with a message about how brilliant it was. I went to the site full of excited expectation and opened the word processor thinking to myself, "Ah Microsoft what are you going to do now?" Within an instant, I knew the answer. Microsoft does not need to do a thing right now about any competition coming from the online crowd.
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Is a Google Spreadsheet a significant threat to Microsoft Excel?
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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 07 June 2006 |
A poll of a reasonable sample of computer users shows that a majority want Adobe to allow Microsoft to save Office 2007 files in PDF format. However, there is also a sizeable proportion of users against the idea.
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by Stan Beer
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Sunday, 04 June 2006 |
It seems that an analyst can speculate about virtually anything these days and before too long rumours will be circulating and start to be taken seriously. The latest such speculation, initiated by Peter Misek, an analyst with Canadian venture capital firm, Canaccord Capital, is that iPod maker Apple may team with Blackberry maker RIM. There’s only one problem – the chances are slim to nothing that Apple will do it.
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by Stan Beer
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Thursday, 01 June 2006 |
Search leader Google has reportedly told market analysts that the company is not interested in using its growing pile of cash to make acquisitions but would rather enter into partnerships with big name companies. In a conference call with Wall Street analysts on Wednesday, Google CEO Eric Schmidt also reportedly said that he prefers to build markets rather than buy into them.
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