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Microsoft Drops 3-App Limit, Publishes Strict Windows 7 Netbook Limits
May 25th
If perpetual Windows apologist Paul Thurrott’s sources are reliable, and there is no reason to doubt the ultimate Microsoft supporter, it appears the company has finally done something right by opting to drop the much-despised 3-app limit from Windows 7 Starter Edition. But just when you thought Microsoft was being generous they turn around and cause even more ill will. This time the company has published very restrictive limitations on what types of machines will be allowed to run this stripped-down version of Windows. Why is it so hard for the company to do good without pissing off [potential] customers?
IntuApps Releasing The “Swine Flu Tracker” For iPhone
May 2nd
TechCrunch, known for its sometimes provocative, but current reporting, announced a promising new addition to the pipeline at Apple’s App Store — Swine Flu Tracker — produced by IntuApps.
Although TechCrunch’s MG Seigler spins this new app as the “latest thing to capitalize” on swine flu, he makes a slight touch on its importance-
…it’s [Swine Flu Tracker] also pretty useful as a way to know what areas to avoid on the go…
“Pretty useful?”
The Mac Experience
Apr 28th
A quick couple of months have passed since I migrated from a Microsoft Windows environment to Apple’s OS X — the experience so far has turned out to be nothing shy of rapturous.
I’m still grounded in Microsoft at work, but have no complaints doing so — it keeps me unbiased.
I’ll say this about Mac-
Windows 7 Starter Edition Blows Chunks, Limits Users to Three Simultaneous Applications
Apr 23rd
In early February we wrote about Microsoft’s plan to offer Windows 7 in 6 flavors. The least expensive version offered, Windows 7 Starter Edition, is directed towards the netbook market because netbooks are [supposedly] not used for much other than web browsing. That in and of itself is no big deal – what is absolutely as crazy as a bed bug is Microsoft’s peculiar decision-making process: the company has implemented a limit of running three simultaneous applications in Windows 7 Starter Edition!
mediaXchange 2009 Flops On Attendance
Mar 20th
With a stellar lineup of vendors and an A-list of high profile speakers, mediaXchange deserved to see a better attendance record last week at the Mandalay in Las Vegas.
Now a marriage between Newspaper Association of America’s (NAA) marketing and newspaper conventions, last week’s Vegas-based mediaXchange promised to carry a new flame in igniting the industry’s need for digital innovation and redirection.
Although the fire was there, very few lined up to roast marshmallows by it.
Why is Whitelisting Absent from Telephones?
Mar 7th
The telephone has come a long way since its introduction in the late 1800’s. Throughout the years since its birth, the telephone has seen countless technological advances, leading up to the iPhone, arguably the most advanced telephone available today. Surely Alexander Graham Bell never conceived such a device would ever exist. But along with all these advancements, there is one striking feature eerily absent from the majority of telephones in service worldwide – whitelisting?
7 P’s To Successful IT Projects
Feb 26th
It is always a shame when IT projects fail because of a lack of the ‘7 P’s.’
Positive Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance are words to live by. You can use them in just about every aspect of your life, but we’ll focus here on how they apply to IT projects.
Apple Does Not Need A Netbook To Be Their Savior
Feb 25th
I am unable to figure out, for the life of me, why there are so many people who blindly believe that Apple needs to release a netbook. Most folks claim that for Apple to stay viable because of the economic situation facing America, and how that sudden fallout is going to affect their ability to sell niche products at elevated prices, they need to do the smart thing and release an inexpensive Mac netbook.
Business Towers – Technology And The Butterfly Effect
Feb 22nd
‘Things’ naturally just feed off each other. Butterflies and hurricanes, housing markets and recession, US economy and the world economy. There are no two systems on our globe that maintain complete independence of each other.
Whether they work together smoothly or grind gears is worthy of debate.
It’s a butterfly effect and it applies to businesses and their systems as well as it does to butterflies and hurricanes. No two business towers operate without affecting the other — finance and marketing — manufacturing and advertising — all are intertwined at some [if not many] x-y point in a process. In reality, business is chaos.
Trackle Yourself To Death
Feb 16th
Get ready to open a grand can of worms with Trackle.com (now in beta). You haven’t experienced information overload until you’ve visited their site and started receiving updates from their free subscription services.
Pavan Nigam, CEO and Founder of Trackle, has already proven that he can ramp up and rake in millions of new project revenue. His most recent venture, Cendura, was sold to major software vendor, Computer Associates, for [what we're sure was a hefty] undisclosed amount. And this is the guy who gave us the mega-health site, WebMD — part of a monster e-health company that Pavan’s bio on Trackle [says] is on its way to a billion dollars in revenue.
So will Trackle be Pavan’s next successful monster start-up? With his experienced serial entrepreneurship behind the eight ball, the chips are likely stacked in Trackle’s favor. But an interactive look into Trackle may say otherwise.
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