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11 May No Longer Just Googling In Online Apps

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It’s confirmed that Google is doing much more than just dabbling in online apps, they are now entering into the web based apps space with full Google force.  The new tagline says it all: Search, Ads and Apps Over the last year, Google has consumed the company’s...

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09 May Microsoft Green with Envy Over Apple’s iPhone?

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Apple’s new iPhone is still a month or more from release, and already Microsoft is making public statements that the iPhone “lacks business savvy.”    Why?  According to an article published on ZD Net, a Microsoft exec is quoted as saying: “Apple's soon-to-be-launched iPhone will be irrelevant...

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08 May Microsoft to Take a Stab at Pay to Play Software

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Microsoft, the company that has made its fortune selling software, has finally accepted what the rest of the technology world has seen coming for quite some time.  The future of software is SaaS (Software as a Service) – pay as you go use of software...

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18 Apr Will Google Beat Microsoft in the Application War?

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Word broke on Tuesday that Google had purchased Tonic Systems, a software company with an online web app similar in functionality to PowerPoint. Google execs say that the new spreadsheet application will join the Google Docs & Spreadsheets suite this summer. Google’s...

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02 Mar Spies Report Pirates Stealing MS Vista's Sales

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In a conversation with a financial analyst, CEO of Microsoft Steve Ballmer argued that MS Vista's sales have been down due to all those pirates doing their dirty job in China, Russia, India, Brazil, and other emerging markets. He also admitted that Microsoft will keep putting...

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28 Feb MS's Steve Ballmer: Open Source "is Not Free"!

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During a presentation to New York analysts, Microsoft's chief executive Steve Ballmer made it clear that partnership with Novell "demonstrated clearly the value of intellectual property, even in the open-source world." Are we to understand that open source can no longer be distributed freely? According to...

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