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Archive for the ‘Speculation’ Category

July 22nd, 2008

Apple Plumping Up My Windows System?

I’m poking around my computer tonight and looking for old apps that I no longer use and can get rid of from my Control Panel.
The first one that caught my attention is Apple Mobile Device Support taking up a whopping 43.25MB. I’ve actually got an iPod, but it’s defunct right now so I’m not […]

By Jason Bean -- 2 comments

July 7th, 2008

Microsoft Interested in a New Yahoo Board

More news today on the Microsoft and Yahoo front. Supporting Carl Icahn’s desire to get a new board in place at Yahoo, Microsoft says they’d be interested in talking again to Yahoo about a buyout and merger.
Microsoft’s support of Icahn also intensifies the pressure on Yahoo co-founder and Chief Executive Jerry Yang, whose handling of […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

June 18th, 2008

A Little Bit of Windows Live Confusion

There’s a new URL in town and you can get to it by going to http://my.live.com. If you were me, you’d see this when you went there.

That’s all cool, but then I was clicking around in my account and looking at my settings and when I clicked on “Home” (http://home.live.com) I saw this:

Are […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

June 16th, 2008

Windows XP - For Whom the Bell Tolls

Only a mere 2 weeks from now the final death toll will have rung for Windows XP. Your default option for a Windows operating system will be Windows Vista. It’s time for it to sink or swim right?
I’m not sure how I feel about this move. I realize and understand that Microsoft needs to […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

June 12th, 2008

Google and Yahoo Announcing Partnership?

What’s changed?
TechCrunch is reporting that Google and Yahoo are announcing a search partnership today at 1:30pm.
Update: everything I’m hearing says that the companies will be announcing a search partnership of some sort at 1:30. Since we’re talking about public companies here, I want to stress that this has not been confirmed by either Yahoo […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

June 12th, 2008

Microsoft Named Tech Provider of Republican National Convention

I just read from Technosailor that Microsoft has been chosen as the official technology provider for the Republican National Convention.
Under the agreement, Microsoft will provide the convention with support for various products, including Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Forefront Security Suite, and its Office Communications Server. Microsoft will also provide knowledge to streamline collaboration using […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

May 29th, 2008

More From Microsoft Live Labs

After surfing through the Microsoft Live Labs website some more I’ve learned about a few different apps that are in the labs and being worked on as we speak.
Perhaps the most famous of them is the Photosynth application. This takes a collection of images from the same place and stitches them together into […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

May 29th, 2008

Microsoft Live Labs: Deepfish

I was hanging out with a friend last night and he had a new mobile browser on his phone called Skyfire. It looked very similar to the functionality of the iPhone browser in allowing you to select an area on the page and then zoom into it as needed. That was in beta and […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

May 21st, 2008

Microsoft and Yahoo A Business Affair - No Commitment

I’ve been watching the news around the webs about the latest developments the Microsoft and Yahoo! relationship.
First of course was the all out attempt to come in, guns a-blazing and take over the floundering company and take advantage of some serious name and brand exposures.
That didn’t work out so well as Yahoo! CEO, Jerry […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

May 16th, 2008

Now Chat with Live Contacts in Yahoo! Mail

I just noticed when I logged into my AT&T U-verse e-mail account that I can now chat with Windows Live contacts from within Yahoo! Mail.
I thought this was a nice feature, and even interesting that it has been worked on and released within such close time frame to the hostile takeover bid by […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

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