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On the day that Java was Open Sourced, Tim Bray wrote:

And I bet that nobody else will talk about this, so I will: there was internal resistance, and it was passionate… There are people who are bruised and hurting now…

Well, if the rumour-mill has it right, it looks like Tim wasn’t wrong. Infoworld reports […]

Now that Zune has been on the market for a couple of weeks, it seems a good time to review where we stand in terms of the sales trends for the new Microsoft music player. Microsoft’s view, apparently, is that Zune sales are, “Exactly where they hoped they’d be.” But where […]

Back in September, I wrote about Java on the Sony PSP. Or rather the lack of it. In September, the frustrating thing was that a Java ME port for PSP had actually been written, but there was no license to distribute it.
Now, with Sun having open sourced it, Java ME for the Sony […]

Looking around the Internet, it seems that Zune is really under fire. Very few people seem to like it. I can’t say I’m surprised. So, with the Zune taking flack from all sides, how are the Zune team and Zune fans reacting?
Looks like they might be feeling the heat, because it appears […]

A Microsoft employee, Marc Dencker, has joined in the conversation about Zune on my blog. Marc says,

Maybe it is because you can get it cheaper at Dell or Costco (and probably others)
eitherway read this and you might get it.
And then, points to an article in Business Week.
First, thanks for posting Marc; it’s good to […]

At the end of October, I posted my Top 5 Reasons Why Zune would fail. Now, Microsoft’s new music player has launched. So, how is it selling in the market? Has the Zune been a huge success? Or was my prediction that Zune would fail correct?
Looking at the top 100 […]

As I said in my recent post - Java On The Next Billion Devices - Will History Repeat Itself? - all the signs were that we were a matter of days away from the Open Sourcing of the Java platform. Well, today’s the day - Sun Microsystems will announce the first big step to […]

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Jonathan Schwartz poses a great question in his latest blog entry, entitled - I Believe in Network Clients. The question being:
With Java now powering more than four billion devices (ahem, network clients), the question we now face is how do we approach the next few billion.
He is keeping everyone guessing what his […]

Well, you’re almost bound to have checked out Riya’s new site - Like.com by now. So, I won’t bore you with a long introduction… essentially, Like.com is a new type of search engine. It lets you search images of consumer products, based on what they look like (photos), not text descriptions. So… what […]