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October 18, 2007

Kill the NY Times? That would be nice!, Rupert Murdoch says

Last night, John Battelle interviewed Rupert Murdoch (pictured in the middle) and MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe (left) at the Web 2.0 Summit. Rupert Murdoch said that he wants to improve the recently acquired Wall Street Journal by expanding the...

Adobe Got the Visual Experience Nailed But Everything Else Sucks, Java Creator says (podcast)

After the formal presentations, I had a chance to chat with James Gosling. The Sun Fellow and Father of Java is now spending most of his time coordinating the development of the Java client(s) after several years focusing on...

Sun Java Strategy Collides with Adobe, Microsoft and Nokia! (video)

Yesterday evening, Sun's VP of Software, Rich Greene, and James Gosling, the father of Java, gave an update on JavaFX: the new Java platform introduced earlier this year at JavaOne. This session was indeed needed because in a typical...

October 17, 2007

Web 2.0 Summit Opens: It's 2000 again!

Well.. at least, it really feels like it. An overcrowded hotel lobby, a standing room (a Microsoftie complained that they paid $15K for the sponsorship plus $2K for the badge and they can't even get a seat!) and 2...

The Printer is your Weakest Link, HP says

It's hard to imagine that the office printer could be the weakest link in your IT security infrastructure. But that's exactly what HP coming out saying today at a briefing announcing a system that would securely print sensitive document...

October 16, 2007

There Will Be No Web 3.0, O'Reilly says (video)

At the eve of the Web 2.0 Summit, we thought we'd share this short video taken during a press conference at the Web 2.0 Conference & Expo, held earlier this year. There, Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle were answering questions...

October 15, 2007

The Week Ahead: ISPCon, Web 2.0 Summit, Java client update, HP security

Here are some of the events in our calendar, coming up this week: - Tuesday: The Internet service provider's ISPCon conference starts at the San Jose convention centre. There you'll be hearing about hosting, pipes/bandwidth, billing, wimax, firewalls, etc. -...