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Some of My Best Friends are Windows Users [Early Adopters]
Robert Scoble talked today about why he thinks Windows users aren’t early adopters in a recent blog post: So, a new mobile app wins out over one that runs on Windows, I told them. Why? Microsoft Windows just isn’t on a tech battlefront anymore, according to my biases. Why? And where did those biases come ...
Photo Essay: Google’s Chrome OS Announcement
Earlier today, Google announced the launch of the Chrome OS tablet. We’ve been following this story since John Furrier made the prediction back in 2008 on his personal blog. We’ve had extensive coverage of Chrome OS since John’s original prediction. Here’s a selection of our favorites: I Was Early on my Chrome OS Prediction – ...
Facebook Mail, Hadoop and EMC’s Isilon: EMC is Positioned to Win.
Today’s big story in the enterprise and infrastructure sector is, of course, the $2.5 billion acquisition by EMC of storage solution Isilon. The announcement had no sooner hit the wires when the long awaited announcement by Facebook of their public email system started to eclipse the biggest M&A story of the week in terms of ...
YouTube Finally Decides to Self-Police its Terrorists
There’s finally been a concession in a story I’ve been following since late in 2007: according to a report at NewTeeVee, YouTube has finally acted on a commitment to police it’s userbase, removing users that members of Al Qaeda and inciting others to violence. This is a commitment it made it made two years ago. ...
Live Blogging the SAP Analytics Press Conference #sapanalytics #theCube
Watch live on Justin.tv John Furrier and the Mobile Cube team are on site at #SAPanalytics. Liveblogging in the comments.
Xbox 360 To Get Updated Skin for its Dashboard with Kinect
Steven Hodson over at the Inquisitr found some leaked videos showing what the new Xbox 360 dashboard will look like post-Kinect (we’ve talked extensively about Kinect and what it means for Microsoft and computing in general here in the past at SiliconANGLE). The updates seem to be purely cosmetic, though probably much needed. The physical ...
YouTube’s Live Video Operation Won’t Be UGC
I’ve seen a lot of mentions of the news this morning that Google has stepped into live streaming, but very little analysis as to what it means, both in terms of the rest of this nascent industry as well as to the company itself. I weighed in very briefly early this morning when our own ...
We Haven’t Seen the Last of Zune, Nor Its Marketplace
Emil Protalinski asks today at Ars Technica: “… is there room for a Zune in a post-Windows Phone 7 world?” Remember when Microsoft unveiled the successor to Windows Mobile and said that every Windows Phone 7 will be a Zune? The consequences of that decision for Zune as a platform and for future devices are ...
Cisco Isn’t Likely to Go Direct to Consumers in their Play for Livingrooms
Today, Michael Wolf asks at GigaOM how “Cisco can compete for the new digital livingroom.” What Cisco needs to do is carefully balance its legacy customer sets while creating innovative new service platforms that harness the power of a new generation of software developers. This requires investing in software beyond simple UI and consumer experience ...
HP Found the Buy-It-Now Button on 3PAR Auction [HP FTW!]
No sooner had we posted this morning on the offer / counter-offer bidding war between Dell and HP for the ownership of 3PAR that the Financial Times began reporting that the war was over, and HP walked away the winner. Hewlett-Packard appeared to have won the bidding battle for data storage technology company 3Par on ...
