Wow… you heard the plans from Microsoft [MSFT] that they were going to launch a retail store, a la Apple [AAPL], going as far as to woo Apple Retail Store employees, especially managers, from Apple. And with the launch of Windows 7, Microsoft has executed their plan with their first outlet in Scottsdale, Arizona. Management [...]
Convergence
A few news outlets reported earlier that they spotted new price reductions in several of the iPod models on the online Apple Store. Some of the iPods received a modest $20 reduction, while items like the 32 GB iPod touch was marked down as much as $120. It seems that only the iPod shuffle was [...]
As the announcement that Disney [DIS] is acquiring Marvel Entertainment [MVL] filters through the financial and entertainment industries, it is obvious that this is going to be a game-changer in a variety of market sectors, as they realize the far-reaching implications of an already-powerful media giant expanding its catalog of valuable assets to include a [...]
For those of you who are old enough to remember the monumental three-way product/platform wars between a variety of different players, as well as the various face-offs between heated contenders, you can often slot the threesters into that ol’ Good-Bad-Ugly trifecta. Perhaps not this time, however. Apple’s [AAPL] Snow Leopard OS release on August 28, [...]
Remember when I just had to get an Xbox 360 Elite Edition to replace my first Xbox 360 that unfortunately suffered a RROD event? Well, Microsoft [MSFT] has definitely come a long way since then, offering to correct their RROD warranty policies to reflect the wider impact of various hardware failure conditions. Now, to really [...]
Could there possibly be any company willing to step up on August 28, 2009, the official release date for Apple‘s [AAPL] new version of their popular operating system, OS X. This new version, codenamed Snow Leopard, is 10.6, but it seems to provide quite a few new features and revisions for existing capabilities. What is [...]
Remember Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook Remix? Google [GOOG], taking a page from Microsoft’s own play book, has announced that their work on the Chrome OS, a “lean” operating system upon which other software may be built, will be forging ahead, after all. No commitment dates yet, although it seems that the estimated rollout would be sometime [...]
Taking a page from the now-popular mobile app stores, Oracle [ORCL] and Sun [JAVA] are ramping up the launch of the Java Store, with a private beta already available, after its announcement during this year’s JavaOne. The premise is, of course, to allow software developers and smaller indie publishers to bring their qualified software to [...]
Yesterday, the Eclipse Consortium officially released the sixth major release of the IDE, Eclipse “Galileo”. While Eclipse was originally developed to support Java development, it has experienced phenomenal growth and expansion to encompass a wide variety of programming languages and architectures. Since it has broad industry support from a galaxy of IT companies and groups, [...]
