Archive for the ‘Microsoft’ Category
Friday, September 28th, 2007 |
Microsoft on Thursday urged a US Senate Panel to oppose Google’s Purchase of Online Ad Targeting giant DoubleClick, arguing that 3.1 Billion Dollar Deal threatens competition and privacy.
Sources for Microsoft said “If Google and DoubleClick are allowed to merge, Google will become overwhelmingly powerful medium for all forms of online advertising.”
Google in turn defended the deal stating that Worlds leading search engine and DoubleClick were complementary companies and not competitors. Google’s Chief legal Officer David Drummond explained it by saying that the simplest way to look at this is by the way of an Analogy : “DoubleClick is to Google what FedEX is for Amazon”
He also pointed out that rivals like Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft themselves recently acquired Ad-Specialty Firms. Microsoft has agreed to pay six billion dollars for ad-targeting firm aQuantive and Yahoo paid 680 million dollars to acquire Right Media. Also AOL recently bought ad serving companies ADTECH and TACODA,which specialize in behavioral targeting of Online Ads.
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Monday, July 2nd, 2007 |
General Motors REPLY TO BILL GATES:
At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated,
“If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon.”
In response to Bill’s comments, General Motors issued a press release stating:
“If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with following characteristics :
1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.
2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.
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Sunday, July 1st, 2007 |
As far as the Internet statistics go Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Hotmail along with AOL mail, make up the vast majority of the 500 million or so webmail users around the world (see chart included in this post). Most of these users are still using the old, tedious, Ajax-free Yahoo Mail and Hotmail user interfaces, requiring entire page refresh for every click. The new applications, along with Gmail, offer a much richer experience, much like Outlook or Mac mail. When these webmail clients are performing well, their speed and ease of use is easily as good as a desktop client.
Overall I prefer Gmail over all other webmail applications because performance (speed) is consistently fast, and emails can be tagged making search much more effective. They also offer more storage and other features, and it.s free. However, Yahoo and Live Hotmail offer more mainstream Outlook-like user interfaces (although Live Hotmail does not allow you to access other email accounts from their application), whereas Gmail takes some time to get used to. (more…)
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