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Google Chrome OS: Why should people switch?
Mountain View :: CA :: USA | 9 days ago
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Google Chrome OS has buzz now, but a number of stars will have to align for many folks to migrate to it. 11.20.09 Will you be using Chrome OS a year from now? At the Web-based operating system’s coming-out party at Google headquarters on Thursday, Google...
Tags: Google Chrome OS, Mountain View, Google Chrome, Cross-platform software, Gmail, Google, Cloud, Cloud clients, Web 2.0, Technology Internet, Microsoft, Netbook, Virtual machine, VirtualBox, VMware Fusion, VMware ESX, VMware, EMC Corporation
Twitter sales top $4 million; ad business planned
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility Twitter, the social-networking company valued at $1 billion by venture capitalists, said it is generating sales of more than $4 million a year and plans to build on that revenue with advertising. Twitter plans to start the ad business in early 2010, Chief...
Tags: advertising, Dick Costolo, San Francisco, Online social networking, Web 2.0, Institutional Venture Partners, Benchmark Capital, Venture capital, Twitter, Real-time web, Social media, Business Finance, Technology Internet, Software distribution, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft, Software as a service, Microsoft Office, Presentation software, Cloud applications, Blog hosting services, Foursquare, Google, Gone
Microsoft offers about 24K training vouchers in NC
Charlotte :: NC :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility North Carolina residents who want to improve their computer skills so they can improve their lot in the work force...North Carolina residents who want to improve their computer skills so they can improve their lot in the work force. Gov. Beverly Perdue...
Tags: Microsoft, Charlotte, Education economics, Alternative education, School voucher, Technology Internet, Labor, Microsoft Certified Professional, Bev Perdue, North Carolina, Business Finance, Voucher
Microsoft’s Xbox Live chief on banning modders and browsing Facebook photos on TV
London :: CA :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility Microsoft launched Xbox Live as an online gaming service in 2002 amid great skepticism. It didn’t really take off until Halo 2 launched in 2004, but now the service is huge. There are more than 20 million active Xbox Live subscribers (both free users...
Tags: xbox living, Xbox Live Arcade, Facebook, Modern Warfare, social networks, concurrent users, Microsoft, million concurrent, xbox 360s, Netflix, London, Microsoft games, Xbox 360, Xbox Live, Halo 2, First-person shooters, Windows games, Multiplayer online games, Technology Internet
eBay Is $2 Billion Richer!
Zurich :: Switzerland | 10 days ago
Credibility But you can stop scratching now. eBay just completed the spinout of voice and chat service Skype, receiving $2.05 billion in cash and IOU notes from a consortium of private investment firms . Since eBay is keeping a 30% stake in the operation and selling...
Tags: Switzerland, Zurich, Skype, Portable software, MercadoLibre.com, Hutchison 3G, Linksys iPhone, EBay, Freeware, Web 2.0, Business Finance, Apple Inc., Intel Corporation, Microsoft, Commerce, Netflix, Zune, Technology Internet
Mexican Carlos Slim overtakes Bill Gates as world's richest man
Mexico City :: Mexico | 10 days ago
Credibility Carlos Slim and President Bill Clinton �Hola! The Mexican telecom magnate surpassed Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates as the world's richest man...That's the rate at which Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim 's fortune has been multiplying this year.
Tags: Latin America, Carlos Slim, Bill Gates, richest man, Telefonos de Mexico, Mexico, Mexico City, Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett, Telmex, Microsoft, Mexican Stock Exchange, Arab Christians, Business Finance
Microsoft shareholder meeting: Sunnier overall, with wispy Apple clouds
Bellevue :: WA :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility Chief Executive Steve Ballmer looked backward and forward in his address: "There's no doubt that fiscal year 2009 was one of the most challenging we've ever face. The economic reset had a major impact on companies around the globe and Microsoft was certainly...
Tags: AM Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, shareholder meeting, Bellevue, World Wide Web, Microsoft, Ken Hutcherson, Say on pay, Publicly traded companies, Human-computer interaction, Hypertext, Business Finance
Stephenie Meyer Keeps Day Job
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility Celebuzz recently obtained a transcript of one of Meyer's customer-care phone calls...I can imagine you with a cape, not for flying, but to add to your mystery...I was watching my children at swimming lessons, and thinking to myself, "Isabella, what a...
Tags: Stephenie Meyer, Microsoft, STEPH, meyer keeps, Los Angeles, Apple Inc. advertising, Get a Mac
Would Top Sites Really Opt-Out Of Google Based On A Microsoft Bribe?
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility It's a silly game, but in an oddly timed move, three people (who have all put forth "how to kill Google" ideas in the past) all suddenly published similar ideas, yet again. Jason Calacanis , Mark Cuban and Tom Foremski all posted similar ideas about how...
Tags: Microsoft, Google, San Francisco, Hypertext, Mobile Payment, World Wide Web, Jason Calacanis, Web search engine, Internet search engines, Human-computer interaction, Technology Internet
Thai teacher wins 'Educators' Choice' award at Microsoft Worldwide Innovative Teacher Awards 2009
São Paulo :: Brazil | 10 days ago
Credibility Thai teacher's innovative work with Microsoft Excel impresses fellow participants from more than 60 countries around the world Microsoft has announced the winners of the 2009 Worldwide Innovative Teacher Awards at the Worldwide Innovative Education Forum...
Tags: innovative teacher, Microsoft Thailand, Microsoft Excel, teacher award, Microsoft Worldwide Innovative, Janjira Pongchoo, excel game, game building, building techniques, choice award, Brazil, São Paulo, Teacher, Microsoft, ExCeL London, Education
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