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  • Ahead of their time: Nine technologies that came early

    Posted October 26, 2009 - 8:26 am

    The tech industry has seen more than its share of products and services that are ahead of their time. All of them flopped, but all of them also influenced the industry. This list should serve as a warning to those who think that being the first to think of something will lead to any easy road to success.

  • Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News

    Posted October 15, 2009 - 11:16 am

    The good news is that Microsoft says it thinks it can get most of your data back. The bad news is how the problem happened in the first place.

  • Sidekick: Microsoft's biggest failure yet?

    Posted October 13, 2009 - 1:09 pm

    When Microsoft lost T-Mobile Sidekick users' data, it also lost any credibility it might have for security. But, there's a bigger problem for everyone lying underneath this particular fiasco.

  • Don't Blame “The Cloud” or SaaS for Microsoft and Sidekick Stupidity

    Posted October 12, 2009 - 11:53 am

    By now, you probably heard about poor Sidekick users who have lost their contacts, calendar entries, and other information due to a massive fail by T-Mobile's Sidekick division and the Microsoft subsidiary providing data services. People who hate “the cloud” or those selling local disk storage (often the same people) are cheering the loss because it seems to bolster their complaints about Software As A Service not being trustworthy. But a little digging shows the blame sits squarely on management stupidity, where you can usually find the root of all business problems.

  • Microsoft may go open source with Danger

    Posted February 4, 2009 - 9:12 pm

    Microsoft may do the unthinkable with Danger, the mobile software and services developer it purchased last year: Go open source.
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