As many of you know, Bill Gates retired last Friday. I know that this email is old; however, I thought it would be nice to bring it back up… So long Bill, we barely knew you (thank goodness). Original Message sent by Bill Gates on Wednesday, January 15, 2003, to Jim Allchin, I think youRead more
With the failure of the Yahoo acquisition, Microsoft is at it again. This time they managed to by the search engine Powerset for $100 million. I introduced Powerset several weeks ago as a possible future competitor to Google (Is Google in trouble?). With the power of Microsoft backing them, Google may very well have aRead more
This is going to be short because I could go on for a long time at how dumb this is. The RIAA is trying to charge the radio stations royalty fees for playing music from their record labels (or they will consider it pirating). The radio stations already are in money trouble, what could theRead more
Back in March, Google completed its acquisition of DoubleClick. What does this mean for us? I do not think this is good for consumers. The holy grail of the internet age is user-targeted ads, so why would this be bad you may ask? Simple, our privacy is out the window, not only will Google seeRead more
I expressed my views about Microsoft Windows Vista. What does Microsoft have to do in order to break the idea that they are out of touch; or are that truly out of touch with what the people want and need. I have said this in the past Microsoft needs to focus more on the consumerRead more