Microsoft Aims at Office Interoperability
Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in News and Blogs | Comments OffThat was fast! We're only one day into the post-Bill Gates era, and already Microsoft is taking steps to improve interoperability between its Office suite of productivity applications and competing products, including open source alternatives such as OpenOffice.org. The new initiatives ...
Oracle Still Top Dog in Tough Database Market
Sunday, June 29th, 2008 Posted in News and Blogs | Comments OffThe field of commercial relational database vendors is a lot less crowded than it used to be, and it's no surprise, considering the players have to contend with a massive software juggernaut like Oracle. According to the latest numbers from ...
Search Engine Marketing and Search Engine Optimization
Saturday, June 28th, 2008 Posted in News and Blogs | No Comments »If you are like most business owners, you have probably heard of Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and/or Search Engine Optimization (SEO). You also may or may not know the differences between the two. The bottom line is, SEM and SEO work, a good ...
Mobile Platforms Loosen Grip
Friday, June 27th, 2008 Posted in News and Blogs | Comments OffNokia's move to buy out the other shareholders in Symbian may signal another large shift in the cellular industry as it moves slowly and angrily from closed networks with restricted devices and walled gardens, to something that starts to resemble ...
Manufacturer Printer Ink vs. Cheap Printer Ink
Friday, June 27th, 2008 Posted in News and Blogs | Comments OffPaying thirty something bucks for one little ole ink cartridge is enough to make anyone give the third party ink cartridges a try. The people who make printers count on selling you those $30-something cartridges. In fact, you can't even ...
Is It Possible to Bypass Vista?
Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Posted in News and Blogs | Comments OffApparantly, some of the largest companies in the world are trying to do just that; sit this cycle out, so to speak. Microsoft typically releases a new version of Windows every three years. That being the case, we're 18 months into ...
In-Flight Broadband Soft Launches on American
Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Posted in News and Blogs | Comments OffAmerican Airlines yesterday flew the first commercial jet with in-flight broadband enabled since the shutdown of Connexion by Boeing in 2006. American's Boeing 767-200 was to make a routine, scheduled round-trip from JFK to Los Angeles International (LAX) on Wednesday; ...
Fiber Forces Fibs?
Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Posted in News and Blogs | Comments OffVerizon is peeved, the Associated Press reports, because its cable competitors are running advertisements across the U.S. that make light of the telecom giant's fiber-optic based FiOS service by pointing out, "We already have a fiber-optic network serving ALL our ...
