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HP's big splash on EDS all about shrinkage

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I think this year is not about growing the top line, but growing the bottom line by yes — cutting and cutting.

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Microsoft Gears Up for Midmarket Server Blitz

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Microsoft gives its partners a better look at the Windows Small Business Server 2008 and Essential Business Server 2008. The Microsoft products are aimed at the SMB and midmarket segments….


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The Top Ten 3G iPhone beaters

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The very best smartphones - minus the Apple one

Round-up Sick to the teeth of 3G iPhone this and 3G iPhone that? Then express your anti-Apple anger by selecting one our list of the top ten feature-packed alternatives. Counting down, in reverse order, we kick of with the……

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Kiss in-flight movies goodbye

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Cut! Cut ! cut! as the recession hurts, and the companies scramble to save money.

I heard one top exec say, ” well, I think we can kiss goodbye to our dream of increasing the topline. I think we have to weather this by focusing our attention to cutting the expense, and trying to maintain the bottom line.”

many agree.

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Cisco: Bad news for tech

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Cisco chief John Chambers has some bad news for the technology sector: He no longer expects the recent slowdown in tech spending to pick up until next year at the earliest.


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Microsoft Sets Pricing, Fee Sharing for Services

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Microsoft plans to charge business customers a monthly subscription of $15 per user for a suite of & hosted& software, which includes e-mail, Web meeting, collaboration and messaging applications running on Microsoft's computers….


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Lose your cigarettes or your job

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Prioritizing wellness, and making a rule that employees have all opportunities to be healthy and well could well pay dividends in the company….

Maybe mental and health wellness is the key to a successful company more than anything else?

The employees of Lincoln Industries are all physically fit. Marc LeBaron demands it.

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National speed limit pushed as gas saver

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Planes are being flown a few minutes longer to save a fuel.

What is important to note that you probably get optimal mileage going around 35 to 50 miles per hour, and after that, there is so much wind drag, that probably yes, there is a going down curve in terms of fuel consumption.

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Is Microsoft trying to capture photography market?

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Scoble has a point… I think there is reason to believe that a user of one thing will more particularly favor the other — and in the tech world, you have to go for being the platform or tool of choice in which people want to build on top.

There is some success if you make great applications, but there is a great degree of success if you are the platform in which people can build great applications.

This week Thomas Hawk (my favorite “Flickr-famous” photographer) and me will join a bunch of others on Microsoft’s campus up in Redmond, Washington, to attend a pro photography summit that Microsoft is hosting.

Why is Microsoft hosting a bunch of professional photographers?

Is it to kick off Microsoft’s Pro Photo Tools, Photosynth ( which got me, in 2006, to say it was the demo of the year), or DeepZoom? Maybe. After all, these things are really cool and photographers should flock to them in droves.

Is it because the digital photography market has finally gotten big enough to get Microsoft interested? Maybe.

But I think Microsoft has something else up its sleeve.

It knows that if Silverlight is going to have a chance against Flash it will have to get designers to give up Photoshop, or at least use other tools alongside.

Why?

Because designers now are in control of the toolset that many companies will chose. What’s the most important tool to these designers? Photoshop.

So, along comes a Microsoft salesperson trying to get Silverlight and the Microsoft toolset in the door. Things go well with the developers, because .NET code is a lot nicer than Flash stuff. The management likes the pitch too, because they probably will get a break on something else they are already buying (Office/Sharepoint/Exchange are all very popular inside most corporations). But then the team gets to the designers and they say “give up Photoshop? Over our dead bodies.” And the deal ends and the team chooses Adobe’s Flash. Adobe’s salespeople then get a call and they come over and show off Acrobat.com, which is a hit against Microsoft Office and you can see how this goes.

So, I’ll be watching this week to see what’s really behind Microsoft’s moves into photography. Is it to do something really remarkable (which Photosynth and Deep Zoom are)? Or is it to switch designers from Adobe stuff?

What do you think?


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