Big brother’s watching Microsoft ’til 2009…prepared to make it 2012

Associated press is reporting tonight that Microsoft has come under pressure again from the Justice Department for lapses under a landmark antitrust settlement. The Justice Department said Friday it wants to extend by two years its oversight of some of the company’s business practices until at least November 2009. This quote that the Justice Deptment […]

Quoted in Blackboard’s Blog

Melissa Chotiner, Public Relations Manager, at Blackboard has posted an article on Tablet PCs to the Blackboard Educate Innovate Blog (www.educateinnovate.com). I offered a few comments on Tablets. Tracy Hooten, one of three students who created the site StudentTabletPC (www.studenttabletpc.com), was also quoted.

Top 10 lies of engineers from Guy Kawasaki

The blogosphere is buzzing today with hundreds of reactions to Guy Kawasaki’s post on the top lies of engineers. It’s funny that there is such a gulf between the business and engineering side of software development — and this gulf tends to get larger after each unsuccessful product release. I respect developers and their patience. […]

Running Windows on my Mac — Thanks Parallels!

Is work “work” when it’s fun? Three words: Parallels is amazing. Tonight I configured Parallels so I can launch and run Windows on my Mac. Have I said “amazing” yet? It was super cool to watch the install process in a “window” on my Mac. And then when I heard the famous Windows first-launch start […]

Facebook takes $25MM … not up for sale

According to Silcon Beat, Facebook isn’t looking for suitors, but instead took $25MM in cash from Greylock Partners, Meritech, Accel Partners, and Peter Thiel, a former chief exec from PayPal. The article reports that David Sze from Greylock said, “is a ‘winner-circle’ company.” Ya…like you wouldn’t say that after dumping cash into Facebook. I’d agree […]

Parallels to the rescue

I’m one step closer to living entirely off my MacBook. I’d read about Parallels before and became more interested when BootCamp appeared on the scene. Scott Lemon has an inside contact at Apple who said the Parallels was the real deal and was awesome. So with this recommendation, I’ve moved forward. Downloaded the beta 4. […]

WSJ article on Facebook value and potential sale

Looks like Facebook has 100 employess. Bigger than I thought, but still a very small group for a $750M+ acquisition target. Today’s Wall Street Journal reports that Accel, the VC that placed ~$13M in Facebok thinks there’s “the potential to be worth more than $2 billion, based on economic fundamentals and the value of its […]

Got Entourage to sync to my corp Exchange Server

I finally connected my MacBook up to our company’s Exchange Server. I found adding Mail accounts to Entourage to be a great experience. I loved how easy it was to connect my Yahoo mail account — just added my email address and Entourage took care of the rest. Exchange was a bit more work, but […]

$2B for a virtual community of students

The Facebook is a babe in terms of years in business. But man have they cranked up the valuation. Turning down $750M is a big pass, but pocketing an extra $1.25B would be a nice bonus if Steve Rosenbush at BusinessWeek is correct. I thought Facebook was cool when I first saw it. I was […]

When does a dog become too old to learn new tricks?

It’s just a few short months before my 40th birthday. I like to think I’m still hip and young. I’ve tried to keep up on trends. Try new music. Try to be the first to find and try new things. However, the fact remains the same: I’m on unavoidable collision with a birthday. In my […]

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