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Syndicated Client Starter Kit

Monday, April 14th, 2008

When doing WPF development, a good source of information is http://windowsclient.net. One interesting download on that site is the Syndicated Client Starter Kit . It is a Starter Kit designed to make it easy to create rich, syndicated multimedia and content client applications. It has built-in ad-serving capabilities, and includes ...

Surface Launch

Friday, April 11th, 2008

As mentioned in an earlier post, we worked with AT &T and the Microsoft Surface team to build a Surface application for AT &T retail stores. It was demo'ed 2 weeks ago in Vegas, and will be going live April 17 in stores in Atlanta, New York, San Francisco and ...

News Corp., AOL Pursue Yahoo Deals

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Yahoo Inc. and Time Warner Inc.'s AOL are closing in on a deal to combine their Internet operations. But Microsoft is recrafting its assault plan by talking with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, about mounting a joint bid for Yahoo, people familiar with the matter ...

Yahoo!’s Board of Directors Responds to Latest Microsoft Letter

Monday, April 7th, 2008

The Board of Directors of Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today sent the following letter to Steve Ballmer, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation. Dear Steve: Our Board has reviewed your most recent letter with regard to the unsolicited proposal you made to acquire Yahoo! on January 31, 2008. Our ...

Microsoft Sends Letter to Yahoo! Board of Directors

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) sent the following letter to the Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) Board of Directors: Dear Members of the Board: It has now been more than two months since we made our proposal to acquire Yahoo! at a 62% premium to its closing price on January 31, 2008, the day ...

Now that’s a cool table

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

We worked with AT&T and the Surface folks to build this desktop application that will be showing up in AT&T locations across the company. Some of the fun features will be the interactive map, real-time phone comparisons by placing two phones on the table and lots more. We built the ...

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Putting JCR into action – Sling and µJAX During last couple of years the enterprise content management community has been noticing a steady rise in the popularity of JCR aka JSR170. A lot of CMS vendors and application server vendors have pledged support to this initiative. For those who are not ...

RIAs and Content Management

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Forrester recently published a report on Rich Internet Applications and Content Management. The report covers some of the key topics in this area such as organic Search Engine Optimization, changes in build and release management, and how to change Content Management to better support RIA. The content for the report ...

Share Google Spreadsheets via Google Gadgets

Monday, March 24th, 2008

This is kind of neat, now you can share parts of your collaborative spreadsheets via a Google Gadgets. So, it can show up on your iGoogle page and other places. Neat way to pull folks into looking at your exciting number crunching;). Google also launched spreadsheet notifications. Tools lik eZoho ...

highscalability.com looking under the covers..

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

A very cool site that gives us a look under the covers at what some of the super high-volume sites out there are doing to get their content and functionality to people. It's amazing to see how some of the highest volume sites out there leverage open source so effectively. ...