A Brief History of OSes
Last month I read Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash. It’s one of those books that throws your ideas about the nature of the world up in the air, leaving them differently-arranged when they land. If you’re...
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Google’s new OS – this means war
If there was ever any doubt, now it’s official: Google is at war with Microsoft. Google’s announcement late yesterday about the launch of the Google Chrome Operating System puts Microsoft square in its...
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Collaboration as competition. Microsoft decides to “collaborate”.
First off, thanks to Alex Bogusky for letting me piggyback the title of this post. Last month my colleague Laura Carrillo asked if it will be Apple or Google to own the third screen. Recent events have...
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The market for tools that are used for Open Government Initiatives is still nascent. But the Open Government Initiative of the White House reinforces the trend towards more openness in the World....
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Microsoft’s e-government browser in Austria: Just a good service or a play to...
I’ve been living here in Canada for 9 months. When I tell people that I am from Austria, they ask me if Austria is like “The Sound of Music.” Austria is indeed a small country with lots of mountains in...
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