Last week, Amazon announced its contract with Google expired and that it had switched to Microsoft for its search services. The new agreement with Microsoft covers three significant Amazon properties, including Amazon, Alexa and A9. While none of these properites is a...
John Dvorak’s opinion piece about the telecom industry is bordering on the ridiculous. I think he should stick to gadget reviews and leave business analysis to someone else. While there is some truth to the notion that Washington (including the FCC) is slow and...
Amazon just announced the launch of its new S3 service, which allows developers to utilize their highly-scalable storage systems. Of course, web-based storage is not novel. This does appear to be an evolution away from ISP hosting services in favor of content...
AOL and Warner Bros. announced that they are collaborating on a new, broadband content network, In2TV.More precisely, In2TV will offer free, on-demand download of television shows, including Warner’s historical archive of classics. The service, which is...
I recently received a mass email communication from MoveOn.org, a political action group whose newsletter I receive. The email begins as follows:”AOL recently announced what amounts to an ’email tax.’ Under this pay-to-send system, large emailers...
Observers of Microsoft’s product development over the last couple decades have noted the Company’s exceptionally poor timing. They were late to the Web and let Netscape own the browser at first. They were late to “software as a service” and let...
