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December 9, 2006

Top 20 more popular Web Sites in USA

The company of statistics web Compete, has published an interesting post that shows us which are the 20 most popular web sites of The United States. The interesting thing is that only this elite of 20 websites overcame 20 million unique visitors in the last October. The graph clarifies it:

As we can see in the […]

Filed by Tom at December 9th, 2006 under Google, Microsoft, Internet, Successful, Yahoo
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November 6, 2006

Monster allies with MSN to give service in ten European countries

Monster, specializing company in career services has announced an alliance with MSN to provide services in ten European countries.
Just think, this collaboration will allow the employment portal to achieve major visibility of their employment offers across the MSN net, while offering a new service to their subscribers directly from their homepage.
Nowadays Monster’s services are available […]

Filed by Tom at November 6th, 2006 under Business, Microsoft, Web Services, Clients, markets, Successful, career services
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November 3, 2006

Microsoft makes pact with Novell

After years, the open source and proprietary software bring positions over. Microsoft has signed an agreement with Novell, who will lead them to collaborate in three basic items:
First, both companies sign a peace treatment on lawsuits for patents. Of course that will not concern Dell’s accusation against Microsoft raised in 2004, but from now Microsoft […]

Filed by Tom at November 3rd, 2006 under Business, Microsoft, Internet, patents, Internet Business
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October 18, 2006

Microsoft and Yahoo prepare themselves to fight against Google

The impetus of Google in developing their Internet strategy is motivating the two other Internet giants.
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, has declared that with Google it’s difficult to find and to incorporate new and better talents. That’s why, they have decided to increase their next year budget for research and development to 7.5 billion dollars, which […]

Filed by Tom at October 18th, 2006 under Google, Microsoft, YouTube, Internet, CEO, Yahoo
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April 6, 2006

Microsoft’s Windows arrives on Apple’s Macs

Is this a breakthrough for Apple or a betrayal of its own operating system? Click here to have your say.
Apple, the computer maker, today shocked its army of fans by unveiling software that will let its newest Macintosh machines run on Windows, the operating system developed by arch-rival Microsoft.
The watershed decision could help Apple to […]

Filed by Tom at April 6th, 2006 under Microsoft, Apple, technology
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March 31, 2006

Microsoft Introduces Exchange Hosted Services

Microsoft Corp. announced yesterday new branding, a new licensing model and the road map for Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services EHS, formerly known as FrontBridge Technologies Inc.

EHS is composed of four distinct services including Hosted Filtering, Hosted Archive, Hosted Continuity and Hosted Encryption. These services offer cost-effective hosted solutions to help ensure the security and high […]

Filed by Tom at March 31st, 2006 under Business, Marketing, Microsoft, technology, Branding, Hosted Services
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March 30, 2006

Microsoft to bring Hotmail onto the desktop

Microsoft has started beta testing software that will take its Web e-mail onto the desktop.
This week, Microsoft served up the first test version of Windows Live Mail Desktop, a free Windows program that will let users manage multiple e-mail accounts. The software is designed to work with Windows Live Mail, the successor to Hotmail that […]

Filed by Tom at March 30th, 2006 under Microsoft, technology, Internet, Software
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March 29, 2006

Gates: five ways we’re service orienting

Bill Gates is pouring on the SOA sauce. Service-oriented applications will underpin Microsoft’s recently announced “Dynamics” product vision, which will start emerging over the next year. That’s the word from Chairman Gates in his keynote at Microsoft’s Convergence user conference in Dallas, as reported in Computer Business Review Online.
Microsoft is rallying the troops around its […]

Filed by Tom at March 29th, 2006 under Microsoft, Web Services
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Microsoft mixes software for business ‘mashups’

Chairman Bill Gates said Monday that the line continues to blur between Office-like tools and programs that house businesses’ more formalized, or structured, data.
“Applications are changing in their architecture,” Gates said, speaking at the Convergence 2006 trade show here.
Gates said that much of the work in Microsoft’s Business Solutions unit consists of helping workers […]

Filed by Tom at March 29th, 2006 under Business, Microsoft, Windows, Mashups
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Big day for RSS on Windows

Talk about a one-two punch. NewsGator launched new versions of both their Outlook add-in, now called NewsGator Inbox, and FeedDemon, a desktop RSS client. The company has also completely redesigned their pricing to address customer concerns about the subscription model they adopted in the previous release. NewsGator founder Greg Reinacker, announcing the new releases on […]

Filed by Tom at March 29th, 2006 under Business, Microsoft, Windows, RSS
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