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Nick Carr writes about a possible major strategic statement from Microsoft, one that would address an expansive and detailed strategy for moving its software business into the cloud. While this is only a rumor, I do not consider Nick to push anything he wouldn’t consider important or substantial, so there are some teeth here. [...]

Many years ago, we had desktop operating systems. The ones that succeeded were the ones that were able to develop an ecosystem of applications and developers around them. That worked very well for a long time. Then along came the web, and as the web has matured, the platform that developers build [...]

I am pretty much assuming that the Microsoft/Yahoo deal will go through, much to my chagrin. The first question I had was, what about Yahoo’s open source projects. Much as I like Google, Yahoo has always been a super open source friendly company and has pioneered support for projects like Hadoop (the open [...]

This post is surely going to raise eyebrows as it pushes the boundaries (probably crosses them) of what we know as privacy. Wired asks the question Should web giants let startups use the information they have about you?. It is a very valid question. Companies like Google, Yahoo, Ebay, Amazon, and even Craigslist [...]

Is it me, or do some of Sun’s customers seem to be a little behind the times?
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The fastest grower (in terms of datacenter infrastructure spending) was growing 100% per month.

Unless you’re Google, there is no way you should be in this situationl
The striking point … unless you’re Google, there is no way [...]

Robert Scoble wrote an excellent post, discussing his decision to leave PodTech. As you can make out from all the posts on Techmeme and the comments on a lot of the blogs, he took a lot of heat as well. However, that’s not what this post is about.

The problem with the “Web 2.0” phenomenon is that it constrains innovation by perpetuating the assumption that the web is accessed through computing devices, whether PCs or smartphones or game consoles. As broadband, storage, and computing get ever cheaper, that assumption will be rendered obsolete. The internet won’t be so much a destination as a [...]

Om Malik has a rather eloquent piece on Google’s infrastructure putting up barrier to entry for competitors.
Not quite as eloquently, this is a subject that has been covered at TechBizMedia a few times recently
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Technorati Tags: Google, Om Malik, Infrastructure

Over the past year I have received my fair share of invitations to write for this and that blog. As a science blogger I have resisted any such invitations. As a tech and business blogger, I write for this blog, a duopoly that was definitely influenced by GigaOM. A few days ago, [...]

As an avid Google watcher, it’s always interesting to note what the search giant might do next and what the implications might be. Om Malik notes that Google is now making its own high speed network switches. Why would they want to do that?