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Dell To Make More Acquisitions

The CEO of Dell recently discussed his company’s future, and things are not going to be business as usual; “acquisition” and “innovation” were two of the talk’s main themes.

ROI and Social Computing

Over the last couple of days, I have been reading with great interest a number of the different blog posts that the last two articles I wrote on ROI and Social Computing have sparkled and, as I am going through them digesting some of the great points they bring together (Something I will blog about as well at a later time), I thought I would create an interim pos

PDF Potentially A Malware Vehicle

Proof of concept code demonstrated to Secure Computing showed how Adobe's popular Portable Document Formet could become a massive attack vector for malware distributors.

Google, Apple May Partner On Cloud Computing

As rumors go, this is a pretty solid one: it seems that Google and Apple will partner, and together, the companies are likely to give .Mac a huge cloud-computing boost.

TLE Highlights: The Irony of Social Computing

As I have just mentioned, this is a follow up weblog post from the previous one I have shared regarding some of the highlights from IBM's 2007 Technical Leadership Exchange event held in Paris last week.

More on Microsoft's Surface Computing

I talked with Microsoft’s Surface computing team today. Here’s some more details I learned.

PlayTable, er Surface Computing

Andy Wilson. Remember the guy I introduced you to at Microsoft Research? Funny, he was at the Maker Faire last weekend talking to everyone and showing off his latest thing. He builds demos for Bill Gates and he was the one who first showed me the PlayTable. Now called “Surface Computing.”

Microsoft: Faster Computers = Cheaper Gas

Research firms and think tanks are constantly looking for new ways to process oil in order to increase gasoline production, given the world's dependence on the valuable commodity. Analyzing chemical bonds and refining techniques, however, many not be the only solution when it comes to achieving optimum efficiency.

Mobile Web - A Completely New Ball Game

Rich Skrenta feels that it's time for the Winner To Take All. Google has won in what he calls the Third Age of Computing.

Immortal Computing Is A Little Creepy, Microsoft

In my grandparent's basement, on the wall, there are pictures of ugly, frowning people, relatives of mine, in that ghostly, milky sepia coloring all those 19th Century photos have. They're dead, those people, and some part of them is part of me - but if they had ever spoken to me through those dusty frames (and I imagined they did), Great Great Grandfather would be dead twice, his second life smashed on the mantle.