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Silicon valley still the place to be for international start-ups
June 10, 2009
Annual French Tech Tour brings some interesting companies to silicon valley | hvrietsc.blogspot.com
Even though we are in the mids of a global recession and money is scarce, international startups still want to set up shop in the very expensive Silicon Valley. Why is that? Well, the Valley offers everything a start-up needs and one year in the Valley is equal to 5 years some place else.
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the new iPhone could spell trouble for the gadget industry
June 9, 2009
Will the new iPhone make all my other gadgets unecessary? | hvrietsc.blogspot.com
The new iPhone 3GS announced yesterday is not only a phone, but also a music player, a video player, a digital camera, a video recorder, video editing application, voice recorder, Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), and a GPS unit. You can get all of this for $199 plus a cell phone contract (which you already have), which is much cheaper than buying all these gadgets by themselves. Now with the recession going on and people trying to save money will the rest of the gadget industry suffer while Apple thrives?
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New iPhone 3G S has video recording, so YouTube watch out
June 9, 2009
New iPhone3GS gets video capture, HTTP streaming video | www.fierceonlinevideo.com
The new IPhone 3G S announced yesterday has video recording, video editing and with a single click you can upload the video to YouTube. This will mean an increase of YouTube uploads and YouTube views which will be good for Google's ad revenue.
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Does Google Wave show the future of the corporate Desktop?
June 8, 2009
Google Wave shows the Future of the Corporate Desktop | hvrietsc.blogspot.com
Google Wave can easily replace email, IM, blogs, Wikis and SharePoint in other words ALL the collaborative tools that are in use in the corporate world of desktops. Almost as a side effect Google Wave is taking on the Microsoft desktop monopoly, forcing them to up the ante, so as to not loose the very profitable desktop business.
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Google Wave taking on the Microsoft Desktop Monopoly is just a side effect
June 8, 2009
Google Wave is a virtual PC desktop | blog.wihood.com
Yes Google Wave can be seen as a virtual desktop replacement, but this is just a side effect of their strategy to glue user's eyeballs to their web pages.
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Google Wave is not another FaceBook
June 8, 2009
Google's New Wave | www.reuters.com
Google Wave is designed to replace email, IM, wikis and bogs. It is not designed to be another Facebook, although it will take away some "eyeball marketshare" from the likes of FaceBook.
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Does being aware of the dangers on the Internet make you safe?
June 8, 2009
DutchNews.nl - Dutch 'most naive' about internet security | www.dutchnews.nl
From a study done by PayPal one may conclude that the Dutch are the most naive about internet security, only 23% of the Dutch worry about loosing their digital identity versus 90% of Americans. But does being aware really make you safe enough on the Internet?
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Yes Google will become Big Brother, because users don't care
June 4, 2009
Internet and Personal Security | notes2self.net
In order to be competitive Google needs to collect personal information about its users so they can better target their ads. Without proper targeting, the ads will become annoying to the user and a waste of money to the advertiser. So the race is on to collect as much information as legally allowed.
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Vision of the future: all data centers will be green and no company will have its own data center
February 11, 2008
http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/02/07/Google-Apps-edition-bypasses-IT-department_1.html?source=NLC-DAILY&cgd=2008-02-07 | www.infoworld.com
Google's team edition of Google apps seems like an IT worst nightmare: all the company documents on a public server. But is it really that bad? What about having all your sales leads on a public server, wouldn't that be even worse? Oh wait isn't that what salesforce.com is all about? Completely outsourced IT services will be the future. Why have your own data center if you can rent the services on a as needed basis? Companies do not have their own power generators so why have your own data center or your own IT staff? What needs to happen before we can get there?
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Can you trust your private data to the web?
January 22, 2008
MySpace Bug Leaks 'Private' Teen Photos to Voyeurs | www.wired.com
So if even a MySpace has bugs that exposes private data of their users to anyone on the web, then what about all the other web sites where we enter our private data? How do we know that the banking web site or the credit card web site doesn't have the same kinds of "bugs"? Consumers are trusting more and more information to the "web" but is it really safe to do so?
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January 16, 2008
Sun Microsystems Announces Agreement to Acquire MySQL, Developer of the World's Most Popular Open Source Database | www.sun.com
Sun is buying MySQL for almost a billion dollars. This looks like a big gamble. Why are they doing this? Is MySQL worth that much?
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Your PC is safe now, but your MySpace page is not!!
November 26, 2007
Looming Online Security Threats in 2008 | www.businessweek.com
Most if not every PC user knows they need some form of malware protection and most if not all PCs ship with some form of malware protection. So our PCs are pretty safe these days. But most people who use MySpace have no idea that they need protection when on MySpace (or FaceBook or any other "social" website).
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Is Second Life the next Internet?
November 26, 2007
CNN enters the virtual world of Second Life | www.cnn.com
The online world Second Life (SL) and the similar World of Warcraft both seem to indicate that the Internet is no longer just for websites. Even Google is rumored to be working on its own online world. So are these just other ways of showing more online ads or is this something new?
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Why might Apple be allowing their new MacOS Leopard to run inside a Virtual Machine?
November 1, 2007
Apple to Allow Virtualization of Leopard | db.tidbits.com
If Apple does indeed allow for their MacOS to run inside a Virtual Machine then people will no longer have to buy Apple computers to run MacOS. This could open the way for Apple's MacOS to be used inside corporations who normally do not want to spend too much money on "computers that look pretty". It also allows Apple to participate in the next wave of desktop virtualization. Are they starting to make their MacOS a separate business?
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VMware had a great 3rd quarter and their stock is way up, but can it last?
October 25, 2007
VMware Reports Third-Quarter Results | vmware.com
VMware has first mover advantage, but they are not alone in this "new" space of server virtualization. When will Microsoft enter this space? And if they do how will it impact VMware? Is VMware doing enough to stay ahead of the game?
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data-at-rest encryption: can it be a stand alone business?
October 10, 2007
McAfee to buy mobile data security company for $350M | www.bizjournals.com
Data-at-rest encryption is easy: anyone who has a computer science degree can create one or better still download a free encryption source program from some open source website. The REAL problem is key management!
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September 20, 2007
Getting Inside Google's gPhone | www.businessweek.com
The Personal Computer (PC) created a revolution, but the new generation (our kids) will not be using it. Instead they will use a Personal Communicator (PC): part phone, part instant messenger, part computer. What will happen when the consumer desktops and laptops will be replaced by the next PC? Will this change the desktop as we use it at our work? Why is the Google phone and the iPhone so important?
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VMware taking first steps into the land of managing virtual machines from other vendors
September 12, 2007
VMware Acquires Dunes Technologies | vmware.com
VMware acquired Dunes Technology, so now they have virtual machine management not just for their own platform but for all the virtualization solutions. Microsoft announced just recently they will support all the different flavors of virtualization as well. Is the race heating up?
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What if your computer is sending out SPAM: Is it bad for business? Is it a virus?
September 11, 2007
Zombie Pfizer Computers Spew Viagra Spam | www.wired.com
If your company computers are sending out SPAM then you should be very worried. If your personal computer is sending out SPAM then you probably don't know about it and you will not care about (or do you?). So does it have a virus? What kind of malware is there?
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Is Google's online software a first step to SaaS?
September 11, 2007
Google's online software gets boost in business world | www.cbc.ca
Why is Google providing online software like spreadsheets, word documents, emails and more? Are they competing with Microsoft office or what is going on? What are the advantages of the so called Google apps?
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