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What Cloud Means to Marketing Forecast - Nick Carr The Big Switch

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:37:15 -0000

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The gorilla in this nascent market is Google. It has been spending billions of dollars to build huge data centers, or "server farms," around the world, enabling it to run all sorts of consumer software and store enormous quantities of personal data. Combine that processing muscle with the company's dominance of web searching and advertising, and you have a juggernaut capable of redefining the software business on the media model.

Tags: cloud-computing google grid-computing microsoft server-farms

Posted by: garyedwards

ODF useless for Microsoft needs - Google: OOXML 'insufficient and unnecessary' - Talkback at ZDNet UK

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 23:51:10 -0000

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ODF's limited spec can't support all MS Office features unless Microsoft goes on a major entending trip.

Tags: embrace-extend google harmonization odf ooxml opendocument unification

Posted by: garyedwards

Google: OOXML 'insufficient and unnecessary' - marbux - ge comments | ZDNet UK

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:51:22 -0000

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ODF and OOXML are standards in... Marbux

Tags: google interop odf ooxml opendocument zd-uk

Posted by: garyedwards

ODF and OOXML are standards in name only - Google: OOXML 'insufficient and unnecessary' - Talkback at ZDNet UK

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:27:41 -0000

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Both ODF and OOXML flunk that test badly. Their interoperable implementation neither has nor can be demonstrated. Both are designed for the waging of feature wars, not for interoperability. Both attempt to legitimize market-leading companies embracing and extending their own formats. They are standards in name only. What we are watching is a contest to decide which big vendor formats will be allowed to undeservedly claim the title of "international standard."

Tags: brm google interop iso marbux odf ooxml opendocument openxml zdnet-uk

Posted by: garyedwards

Microsoft bids big for Yahoo - $44.6 Billion |Techworld.com

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:23:58 -0000

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Microsoft has offered to buy the search engine company Yahoo for $44.6 billion (£22.4 bn) in cash and shares.

The offer is 62 percent above Yahoo's closing share price on Thursday

Tags: anti-trust google microsoft yahoo

Posted by: garyedwards

Look what Google can do now: OOXML!

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:52:43 -0000

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Instead of dialing 411 on your phone and paying the service fee, dial 800-GOOG-411

Send the name of the business and the city or the ZIP code to GOOGLE. (Type GOOGLE into the address or number field, like you would if you were using a phone number.) Google will text you back with the address and phone number.

Tags: cdf google ibm iso oasis odf ooxml opendocument openoffice sun symphony

Posted by: garyedwards

privacy and data rights - a comparison (with real information)

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 08:28:58 -0000

Tags: data facebook google msn netflix privacy yahoo

Posted by: mhedayat