It’s been doing the blog rounds but I thought it worthwhile to mention this quick guide to the sub prime crisis. Well worth a look but be warned that the language is a little rough around the edges
With a hat tip to the fantastic Mauricio, news that SkyDriveLive, Microsoft’s in the clouds storage system is now up and running. Salient points; It’s free Maximum storage of 5Gb Available in 38 countries Doing all your computing in…
I remember a saying from my youth that “Fighting for peace is like [expletive deleted] for virginity”. In a similar way comes an interesting post from Jim about a novel approach towards getting kids active that has been taken…
Over on GapingVoid, the following story is told; During my time in Korea it was relayed to me that Burnett Chicago had a shot at the Microsoft advertising account. Having created icons for some of the most prominent brands…
There’s an interesting duality going on in Australasia around SaaS delivered SME accounting. On the one side you have SaaSu, the Australian solution with a nine year history of development and deployment. In the other corner we have Xero,…
Peter Griffin writes about his experience witnessing the Dutch program of Government rolling out Fibre to the Home (FTTH) throughout Amsterdam. Peter says; The Dutch, you see, are where New Zealand needs to be this time next year –…
If you’re looking to do a deal, and want to find the biggest shiester to maximise your advantage, there’s a little Middle-Eastern country that specialises in producing fast talking deal makers. Witness below the Yahoo chief negotiator….
Following on from the traffic generated through the recent Amazon outage, Alex Iskold posted this fantastic treatise over on Read/Write web. Alex raises some excellent points that will be anathema to his enterprise readers. He says; SLA vs. Common…
An interesting article about the challenges that would be faced merging applications and infrastructure were the Microsoft/Yahoo merger to go ahead. Some interesting quotes that indicate just how much Microsoft considers itself to be a walled-garden; Microsoft’s data centers…
This is cool, Samsung has developed a product, the See’N’Search, which is a set-top box that that is able to read the closed captions on a television show, as well as listens for keywords, to search for related Internet…