Microsoft to Get Yahoo Afterall?

January 7, 2009

Well, it looks like there is another rumor going around that Yahoo has another suitor. This time according to Micheal Arrington over at Techcrunch it is a group of high-powered Silicon Valley Execs that will be making a run at Yahoo, using Microsoft as their bank. As Arrington points out, the credit markets are running [...]

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Cloud Computing for Novices

January 4, 2009

This is a presentation I recently gave to a Freshman Computer Science class at UAT on Cloud Computing. I was actually very surprised at the lack of knowledge, or even awareness in this area. After talking to some Instructors at other schools this seems to be the case at other schools as well. It seems [...]

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Internet 101

December 24, 2008

This is a presentation I gave earlier this year to some of the staff at Off Madison Ave on how the Internet works. It covers the History and basics of the Internet. Publish at Scribd or explore others:

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Maximize Productivity Through Tech Spending

December 24, 2008

Many companies spend money on IT projects to fufill their need to have the latest and greatest toys and systems. However most do not evaluate how these projects impact their productivity. Often there is a direct relationship between Tech Spending and Productivity enhancements, however it is not the only thing that can enhance productivity. The [...]

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Migrate Windows User Profiles to a new computer

December 21, 2008

One of the common problems that IT Staff run into is transferring Windows users’ desktop profiles from one computer to another while mainataining all of their customizations, files, settings, favorites, emails, and whatever else. One would think that Microsoft would give IT Pros the tools to transfer this kind of data since they made it [...]

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Did Sirius XM Fire All of Their DJ’s?

November 12, 2008

Today, Sirius XM consumated their marriage by changing up their channel lineups, eliminating some stations, bringing stations from XM to Sirius, and vice versa. That much seems to have made the news, but what I am not hearing about, and have noticed while listening to my standard Sirius stations (Alt Nation, Lithium, Pulse, & Classic [...]

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Microsoft to Yahoo: “Get Lost”

November 7, 2008

Steve Ballmer, the Microsoft CEO, responded to the latest plea for an acquisition from Jerry Yang, Yahoo’s CEO, by essentially telling them to get lost. After successfully fending off a hostile Microsoft acquisition, a near shareholder revolt, a mass exodus of high level staff, and their stock subsequently tanking Yahoo is grasping at straws for [...]

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Don’t bet on a WebKit-based Microsoft Browser

November 7, 2008

The Tech blogs are all a buzz this morning with a revelation that Microsoft may be considering adopting WebKit to use as the rendering engine in Internet Explorer. While I hate to rain on their parade, this will not happen, at least any time soon. Considering that Microsoft is in the process of preparing to [...]

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UPDATE: Google May Jump Ship On Yahoo Ad Deal. Good For Them.

November 5, 2008

It looks like Google finally did bailout of their proposed Ad Deal with Yahoo in an effort to avoid a long legal battle with the DOJ, which was ready file suit to block the deal. I had advocated this in a recent post. This was the right thing to do on Google’s part, and they [...]

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Google May Jump Ship On Yahoo Ad Deal. Good For Them.

October 31, 2008

It is being reported today that Google may bailout of it’s proposed partnership with Yahoo on Ad serving. The deal was announced in June as a way to provide Yahoo a lifeline and cover with it’s shareholders during the Microsoft hostile takeover fiasco. However, thanks to intense lobbying from Microsoft and complaints by advertisers that [...]

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