@parislemon neatly summarized today’s news about H-P getting out of the PC business: HP To Apple: You Win. I hope he meant more than tablets, because the victory of the Apple model is much broader. Just a few days ago, Google caused a major earthquake with the announcement that it would acquire Motorola, one of [...]
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Great to see somebody on top of things, here Michael Hayden, previously director of the NSA and the CIA in the context of the Shady Rat attacks: “You see Google acting in some ways as nation-states used to act, exercising to the best of their ability some attributes traditionally associated with sovereign states. ‘We’re going [...]
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This installment of the “three questions” is with CumuLogic‘s founder Rajesh Ramchandani. CumuLogic was started by Sun veterans who had been working with Java for a long time, and naturally their market focus is Java. Compare with AppHarbor’s take whom I asked the same questions earlier this month. Here is Rajesh: 1: Who should and [...]
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Dave Winer has a wonderful description of the model of many “leading” internet companies: the “hamster” business model. He writes: This is, btw, the user-as-hamster business model. The one where you sit in a cage and make the wheels spin around. Either you’re watching commercials while doing your workout, or you’re generating information about yourself [...]
From Stack to Cloudscape
Nico Popp shows us a new way to think about the “cloud technology stack”, over at the Verisign Infrablog (or should that now be the Symantic Infrablog?). Unlike the old stack diagram, this one causes one to think …
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