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Greg’s Bite: Microsoft loses strategy VP

Greg’s Bite: Microsoft loses strategy VP

Posted by | Jul 5, 2011 | , |

By Greg Mills

When I read stories in the press about defections from Microsoft’s executive suites, I consider the overall long term business situation at the Redmond campus. Since Ballmer took over from Bill Gates in 2000, Microsoft has shed half its market cap.  That is a fact. 

Rather than a string of successful new product launches, it looks more like a laundry list of epic product disasters when one considers Microsoft’s failed strategies and dismal product failures. Anybody want a Kin phone?

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URL Extractor for Mac OS X updated to version 3.3.1

URL Extractor for Mac OS X updated to version 3.3.1

Posted by | Jul 5, 2011 | |

Tension Software has released URL Extractor 3.3.1 (http://pomola.com/products_urlextractor/urlextractor.html). It’s a maintenance release with some bug fixes.

URL Extractor 3.3 adds additional utility commands for the URL table list and imports list of keywords from an external text file to use for search engine extraction point. There are additional utility commands for the keyword table list . Also, version 3.3 adds google.co.jp (japan) and google.cn (china) to the list of available search engine for search engine extraction.

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Apple, Microsoft, Sony, RIM, Ericsson and EMC win patent auction

Posted by | Jul 1, 2011 | |

By Greg Mills

It has just been announced that Apple, Microsoft, Sony, RIM, Ericsson and EMC won the Nortel 6,000 patents up for auction, covering a lot of important technology. Bloomberg reports that the final bid was a staggering 4.5 Billion dollars. The final bid was much higher than any of the analysts had predicted. Google bid $900,000 and lost to Apple and its partners.

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The Northern Spy: the scythe of time

The Northern Spy: the scythe of time

Posted by | Jul 1, 2011 | , |

By Rick Sutcliffe

“For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die…” — Ecclesiastes 3 : 1-2a.

Last month the Spy reflected on this theme and its implications for individuals. This month he returns his attention to products and companies, but with the same air of impermanence.

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Android leads smartphone acceleration in Japan

Android leads smartphone acceleration in Japan

Posted by | Jun 30, 2011 | |

ComScore Japan KK, a wholly owned subsidiary of comScore (http://www.comscore.com), which “measures the digital world,” has released the latest insights into mobile usage in Japan from its comScore MobiLens product.

The report found that Google Android led as the top smartphone platform in March 2011 with 4.6 million users, more than doubling its subscriber base from December 2010. Apple ranked second with 3.9 million mobile subscribers in Japan.

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