Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
I really like Matt Asay's article on why we need to focus on keeping the cloud open and less about keeping the operating system open. If you think of the cloud as an 'array' of applications and less of a hosting solution it starts to open up the aperture on ...
Tags: Articles, google, Matt Asay, Microsoft, Open source, Operating system, Programming, Red Hat
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
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Google announced a new language called Noop today. It looks pretty interesting, building on the power of spring and most notably for them, building dependency injection right into the laungage. Here's some of the highlights. As we look across the projects we are working on it's clear how ...
Tags: Dependency injection, google, Spring
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Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Believe it or not but Microsoft’s newly evolved search engine bing is nothing less than the answer of the above analogy question. You must have solved many of these analogy questions during your SAT exam. When I apply my knowledge and understanding to the question“Windows : Mac :: Google : (?)”, ...
Tags: apple, bing, google, mac, Microsoft, Search Engines
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Thursday, April 16th, 2009
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It's great to see cloud computing pushing for deep interoperability. This MSDN post covers some interesting topics around the manifesto and also speaks a bit about some interesting demos showing integration between Google's App Engine and Azure. Very excting.
"At MIX, we highlighted the use of our Identity Service ...
Tags: Amazon Web Services, AppEngine, Azure, Cloud computing, google, Google App Engine, Microsoft, Python
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
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Exciting to see folks pulling together some Cloud Computing standards to help us live seamlessly across the different cloud vendor offerings. I heard it first on the This Week in Tech podcast, it's starting to sound a lot like the Terminator's version of Skynet. ...
Tags: Amazon, Cloud, Cloud computing, google, IBM, Microsoft, Skynet, Terminator
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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Yesterday, Google launched its first beta version of open source web browser called Chrome. Some people consider this launch as Google’s attack on Microsoft’s IE and some regarded this launch as yet another browser to choose from. Google indirectly claims that market needed a fresh web browser. A browser that ...
Tags: Browsers, Chrome, google, IE, Microsoft, WebKit
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
By now almost everyone who keeps an eye on search market is aware of the launch of new search engine - cuil.com. And to my amazement most of us have already given a verdict on this new offering as to if this is a real Google killer or just another ...
Tags: Cuil, google, privacy, Search Engines
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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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