My Thoughts

Future of Google(?)...

2005-02-11T13:52:00.000+02:00

Google Reveals Its Product FormulaARTICLE DATE: 02.09.05 By Matt Hicks, eWEEKGoogle executives attempted to demystify the search company's product decisions during presentations with Wall Street analysts on Wednesday.As Google Inc. has moved beyond Web search and into product areas as diverse as e-mail, photo-organizing software and mapping tools, one of the common questions for the company is

"Microsoft vs. Linux"-Two Different Poles

2005-02-11T01:00:00.000+02:00

Microsoft's Security Chief Says Windows Safer Than Linux By Gregg Keizer,

Firefox is generally for individuals not for companies

2005-02-10T17:08:00.000+02:00

Gartner caution on Firefox take-up By Sam Varghese February 9, 2005 Organisations should not begin a wholesale switch to Firefox in the near term, but should consider ways to manage browser co-existence because that is the most likely long-term outcome, the technology research firm Gartner says. In a commentary released recently, Gartner researchers R. Valdes, D. Smith and W. Andrews said

Google's plan for Asia

2005-02-10T17:02:00.000+02:00

Analysts eager to grill Google February 9, 2005: 11:50 AM EST By Aaron Smith, CNN/Money staff writer NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - When Google meets with Wall Street analysts Wednesday, executives will be facing a stiff series of questions. Among them: Can the red-hot search engine keep up its phenomenal growth, and what about all those stock options that could cause a wave of stock selling next

News from Gartner - IP Telephony

2005-02-09T10:48:00.000+02:00

IP telephony refers to the management and delivery of voice communications using an organization's data network, via IP. It usually requires the upgrade or replacement of a traditional time division multiplexing (TDM) phone switch-often a PBX or key system-with a LAN-based server, new desktop phones and a significant upgrade of the underlying network. Potential benefits include operational cost

Longhorn is coming !!!

2005-02-09T01:55:00.000+02:00

Microsoft: Longhorn beta will arrive by June By Ina Fried CNET News.com February 7, 2005, 1:00 PM PT SAN FRANCISCO--Microsoft is on track to release the first full test version of the next major Windows release by the end of June, a Microsoft executive told CNET News.com on Monday. The company has said publicly that Beta 1 of Longhorn would arrive by the end of 2005, though internally, the

Interoperability and .NET and new technologies

2005-02-09T01:46:00.000+02:00

Microsoft Avalon, Indigo to Help Align .NET By Michael Singer February 7, 2005 SAN FRANCISCO -- Microsoft (Quote, Chart) unveiled a new set of developer tools and partnerships today it hopes will make its .NET (define) framework work better with the outside world. The announcements this week at the VSLive! 2005 developer show here highlight Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill

Being the Distinguished One?

2005-02-09T01:09:00.000+02:00

A New Direction at Google By BOB TEDESCHI Published: February 7, 2005 AFTER Google disclosed last week that it had been granted the right to sell domain names, the question in many minds was, "Why?" Why would the company, which just reported click-advertising sales of more than $1 billion in the most recent quarter, compete in a relatively low-margin business with Network Solutions, Yahoo,

GOOGLE goes one step further by GMAP!

2005-02-09T01:06:00.000+02:00

Google releases test of mapping service Tue February 8, 2005 11:53 PM GMT+05:30 SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Web search leader Google Inc. on Tuesday released a new map service that helps users get driving directions and search for restaurants and other businesses. The roll-out comes amid a flurry of new Web search-related products and features from Google and its rivals. The Google

M-Learning Becoming Real

2005-02-08T20:33:00.000+02:00

IBM, Sony, Sony Computer Entertainment and Toshiba disclose more of the Cell chip "During a presentation at the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) IBM, Sony and Toshiba disclosed in detail the multi-core architectural design of their jointly developed microprocessor code-named Cell. The Cell is capable of showing clock speeds greater than 4 GHz. (not MHz) !!!!!!!!!! A team

Snow in Istanbul

2005-02-07T18:56:00.000+02:00

Today as yesterday there was a snow in Istanbul and it is continuing now. Some people say that the winter in Turkey came later than expected because in the mid December or mid January there were no snow (expect one day snow and then melted after a day) and in general the weather was warm. But at the beginning of February, the "traditional weather" changed 180 degrees. Istanbul wore WHITE CLOTH.

" Gates v Google" nice article from Telegraph.co.uk

2005-02-07T18:40:00.001+02:00

Microsoft has declared war on the world's best-loved search engine but it may find its dominance of the software industry works against it. Andrew Murray-Watson reports There are not many parts of the internet that Microsoft, the largest software company in the world, does not already dominate. Last Tuesday, the Seattle-based giant moved to tighten its stranglehold on cyberspace with the

Meeting with TakingITGlobal

2005-02-05T15:16:00.000+02:00

Today I met with TakingITGlobal. What is TakingITGlobal? TakingITGlobal.org is a global online community, providing youth with inspiration to make a difference, a source of information on issues, opportunities to take action, and a bridge to get involved locally, nationally and globally. There was an interesting issue which is directly related to my interest and I wanto share it with you.

Google vs. MSN Search

2005-02-05T01:42:00.000+02:00

Two days ago MSN Search released and after this date in some of the newspapers there is a debate about the topic that "will MSN Search beat Google?" After releasing of MSN Search, I entered to look at "new" search engine that went for 100 million dollars. First of all, it is not as simple as Google. Before going over this subject I want to mention something. When I entered to MSN site, I saw

Golden Newspaper

2005-02-05T01:19:00.000+02:00

They released Golden Newspaper in China. 4.02.2005 13:47 | BBCRussian.com In China the first in the world gold newspaper is printed. The news agency of Sinhua reported on this. Newspaper left in two copies. To the first edition was 500 grams of gold, and it managed more than into eight thousand dollars. The second, cheaper edition, cost three and one-half thousands of