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Microsoft Sends Letter to Yahoo! Board of Directors

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 ...

Now that’s a cool table

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 ...

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 ...

RIAs and Content Management

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Forrester recently published a report on Rich Internet Applications and Content Management. The report covers some of the key topics in this area such as organic Search Engine Optimization, changes in build and release management, and how to change Content Management to better support RIA. The content for the report ...

Share Google Spreadsheets via Google Gadgets

Monday, March 24th, 2008

This is kind of neat, now you can share parts of your collaborative spreadsheets via a Google Gadgets. So, it can show up on your iGoogle page and other places. Neat way to pull folks into looking at your exciting number crunching;). Google also launched spreadsheet notifications. Tools lik eZoho ...

highscalability.com looking under the covers..

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

A very cool site that gives us a look under the covers at what some of the super high-volume sites out there are doing to get their content and functionality to people. It's amazing to see how some of the highest volume sites out there leverage open source so effectively. ...

“Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think”

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

"Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think" is yet-another-excellent book put out by O'Reilly Books. It contains 33 essays written by respected members of the Software Development community and each essay is a variation on the theme of how we define "Beautiful Code". The range of topics is vast ...

FCC Closes 700MHz Auction at $19.6B

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Bidding in the FCC's 700MHz auction closed March 18, 2008, after the auction raised a record $19.6 billion over 261 bidding rounds. The winners of the spectrum have not been disclosed as yet by the Federal Communications Commission.The results of this single spectrum auction surpass the $19.1 billion combined total raised ...

The Tools Google Uses Internally

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

A web seminar Google held at KMWorld Magazine offered a great deal of insight into how Google manages projects and communication internally. The presentation by Google followed an employee through his first few weeks at the company, explaining the many tools he’s using: from the Google intranet MOMA, the Google ...

Better!

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

I just finished a book I found hard to put down, Better, by Atul Gawande. Atul is a surgeon in Boston who writes for the New Yorker and has published a couple of books. I love his essays and thoroughly enjoyed his first book, Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an ...