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Microsoft lays off 5,000 workers
Bloomberg is reporting that Microsoft will be laying off as many as 5,000 employees in effort to save money in this tough economic climate. Notably, this is the first time that Microsoft has resorted to company wide firings. The reductions, about 5 percent of the workforce, will take place in almost all areas and help […]
Continue reading...Microsoft readies to take on MobileMe and the iTunes App Store
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
According to Neowin, Microsoft is expected to announce three new services that will compete with Apple’s MobileMe and the iTunes App Store. “SkyBox” is a service for users to sync a phones information with the web. Microsoft will be offering automatic backup and restore services, access and management of phone data and provide easycommunication and sharing […]
Continue reading...15 years later, Microsoft starts to get it. Kind of.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
It only took Microsoft until 2009 to make a startling realization. When talking about Windows Mobile, Microsoft Senior Product Manager Greg Sullivan noted: You used to hear Microsoft brag about the density of information on the home screen: I want to see my appointments and how many emails I have, a very dense display of […]
Continue reading...Dan Lyons gets paid to write for Newsweek?! Pt. III
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Newsweek columnist Dan Lyons is up to his old tricks again with a new article about Apple that is more about tabloid-esque personal attacks against Steve Jobs than actual substantive reporting. I’m not a tech-industry insider, so I can’t shed any light on why Dan Lyons seems to have a personal vendetta against Steve Jobs, […]
Continue reading...Microsoft Songsmith – No need for GarageBand to worry
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Songsmith is a new music program Microsoft introduced at CES. I personally think its kind of absurd, but take a look at the video below and let me know what ya think. Could music creation be any less creatively inspired than this? Also, some are saying the computer used in the video is a MacBook […]
Continue reading...Apple planning to attend CES in 2010? Are you for real!?
Saturday, January 10, 2009
AppleInsider is corroborating earlier rumors suggesting that Apple is planning to attend CES in 2010. Wow. At first glance, the rumor seems preposterous. After all, didn’t Apple say that Macworld, which also takes place in January, put too much pressure on the company to come up with a razzle and dazzle product on someone else’s […]
Continue reading...If you thought the Macworld Keynote was boring….
Friday, January 9, 2009
If you thought Apple’s keynote this week was boring, I highly advise you not to watch Microsofts presentations at CES. This isn’t a swipe at Microsoft, but rather intended to show that the vast majority of presentations by tech companies aren’t terribly exciting. Yet for some reason, Apple is held to some impossible to reach […]
Continue reading...Survey: Steve Jobs has second highest approval rating for CEO’s
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Glassdoor.com is a website that lets employees anonymously complain about or lavish praise upon their company and C.E.O, and in its most recent survey for 2008, the site found that Steve Jobs had a 90% approval rating as the C.E.O of Apple, coming in second place behind Arthur D. Levinson, the C.E.O of a biotech […]
Continue reading...“What the death of VHS means to the Mac”
Friday, December 26, 2008
AppleTell has a great article about the evolution of the Mac, and how Apple has constantly succeeded in staying relevant in the tech industry. It’s a great read, and highly recommended. Find some snippets below. Wireless networking, ripping CDs, editing movies—these are all ideas that were added to the computer; “Macintosh” is more of a […]
Continue reading...Apple, Microsoft, and Google sued over File Preview
Thursday, December 25, 2008
If you’re gonna go, go strong. That appears to be the strategy of Cygnus Systems, an Arizona company who on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against Apple, Microsoft, and Google. A trifecta of sorts. The lawsuit alleges that the above-named companies all have products that implement a file preview feature, which allows users to preview the […]
Continue reading...Don’t expect a Zune phone, but look forward to Zune Mobile
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Microsoft has officially denied rumors suggesting that it was set to unveil a Zune phone at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January. Instead, Microsoft is set to unveil a new service called “Zune Mobile” that will comprise a series of music related mobile services that will be available to customers with Windows Mobile […]
Continue reading...Why Microsoft Office won’t be going anywhere anytime soon
Monday, December 8, 2008
A short and sweet explanation as to why web based applications won’t be a serious threat to Microsoft Office anytime soon: The problem is that many if not most medium to large enterprises have years of intellectual property tied up in complicated Excel spreadsheets, Powerpoint presentations, Access databases and Word documents riddled with embedded macros […]
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Thursday, January 22, 2009
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