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Monday, June 16th, 2008
Think about an online-offline silverlight-wpf application that synchronizes your files using LiveMesh.
I like the name. I finally see the Live brand starting to come together for Microsoft. Now all it needs is some more market awareness. So, what is LiveMesh? It's basically a new, invite only for now, platform that ...
Tags: gears, google, livemesh, silverlight
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
With Google Gears, Adobe Air, and Microsoft WPF there's definitely lots of exciting changes in the desktop application area. Using the openness of the web to crack open the 'closed' nature of regular documents that we use today. At the recent Avenue A | Razorfish Enterprise Solutions summit, Andrew McAfee ...
Tags: adobe, air, Andrew McAfee, google, Microsoft, WPF
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
Skype announced unlimited calling last month to over a third of the world’s population with the launch of its new calling subscriptions. The new subscriptions signal the first time Skype has offered a single, monthly flat rate for international calling to landline numbers in 34 countries.
The new subscriptions have no ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
When doing WPF development, a good source of information is http://windowsclient.net. One interesting download on that site is the Syndicated Client Starter Kit . It is a Starter Kit designed to make it easy to create rich, syndicated multimedia and content client applications. It has built-in ad-serving capabilities, and includes ...
Tags: Microsoft, SQL Server CE, WPF
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
As mentioned in an earlier post, we worked with AT &T and the Microsoft Surface team to build a Surface application for AT &T retail stores. It was demo'ed 2 weeks ago in Vegas, and will be going live April 17 in stores in Atlanta, New York, San Francisco and ...
Tags: Microsoft, Surface, WPF
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Yahoo Inc. and Time Warner Inc.'s AOL are closing in on a deal to combine their Internet operations. But Microsoft is recrafting its assault plan by talking with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, about mounting a joint bid for Yahoo, people familiar with the matter ...
Tags: AOL, Microsoft, MySpace, News Corp, Wall Street Journal, Yahoo
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
The Board of Directors of Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today sent the following letter to Steve Ballmer, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation.
Dear Steve:
Our Board has reviewed your most recent letter with regard to the unsolicited proposal you made to acquire Yahoo! on January 31, 2008.
Our ...
Tags: acquisition, Microsoft, Yahoo
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) sent the following letter to the Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) Board of Directors:
Dear Members of the Board:
It has now been more than two months since we made our proposal to acquire Yahoo! at a 62% premium to its closing price on January 31, 2008, the day ...
Tags: Board of Directors, Microsoft, Yahoo
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
We worked with AT&T and the Surface folks to build this desktop application that will be showing up in AT&T locations across the company. Some of the fun features will be the interactive map, real-time phone comparisons by placing two phones on the table and lots more. We built the ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Putting JCR into action – Sling and µJAX
During last couple of years the enterprise content management community has been noticing a steady rise in the popularity of JCR aka JSR170. A lot of CMS vendors and application server vendors have pledged support to this initiative. For those who are not ...
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