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March 01, 2008

HP, Intel Open Labs, To Unveil What's Next?

Next Thursday is going to be Tech's Super Thursday! In the morning, Steve Jobs will be unveiling news around the Apple iPhone, its SDK and some enterprise features. And just after lunch, it'll be HP's CEO Mark Hurd turn,...

February 29, 2008

Rock Bottom Prices at Microsoft Employee Store!

During the Microsoft press event lunch break, I wandered at the company's employee store and was like in "software heaven". Well, if only I needed some Microsoft software of hardware for my Mac :-) Check it out for yourself....

Microsoft Pushing "Software+Services" in the Enterprise

I arrived around midnight this morning in Redmond, WA (my Alaska Airlines flight was nearly 2 hours late!) to attend a Microsoft press briefing focused on the company's top business priorities and share its Software + Services strategy and...

February 28, 2008

Scott McNealy on Post-CEO Life, Yahoo/Microsoft, Open Source, KKR, a CEO's #1 Nightmare and Golf! (video)

For those who think that Scott McNealy (pictured) is out of the daily busy business life since he resigned his CEO position at Sun Microsystems, almost 2 years ago and after 22 years on the job .. well... think...

February 27, 2008

iPhone to Launch in Asia, More EU countries, Will Reach 10 Million in 2008, Apple COO confirms

In a Q&A session at the Goldman Sachs Technology Investment Symposium in Las Vegas, Apple COO Tim Cook gave an update on Apple's future plans for the Mac, iPhone and iPod businesses as well as Jobs' "hobby", the Apple...

Apple To Unveil iPhone Software Roadmap, Release SDK, Enterprise Features

We just received this morning an invite from Apple to attend an event next week to learn about the "iPhone software roadmap, including the iPhone SDK and some exciting new enterprise features". The event will be held next Thursday...

MySpace Prepares New Face! (video)

Last night, I attended the International Press Club dinner hosted by MySpace at San Francisco French restaurant Frisson. Food was good and conversations were even better! MySpace was of course well represented, with CEO Chris DeWolfe, VP of Strategy...

February 26, 2008

Adobe CTO Talks Open Source, JavaFX, Internet Video, Future AIR apps and Scripting

At the end of yesterday's Adobe event, CTO Kevin Lynch engaged (apologies for the pun!) in an open Q&A session where he covered various issues and trends including his views on the competitive landscape, open source, Sun's JavaFX platform,...

February 25, 2008

Misconception: Microsoft Silverlight Competes with AIR

So here you have it, another misconception finally cleared. First, AIR is not a bus and according to Kevin Lynch, Adobe's CTO, Microsoft Silverlight is not a competitor to AIR either, but rather to Flash. I know the, the...

Salesforce.com Not Looking At Microsoft Silverlight Yet, Focused on AIR (video)

At Adobe's Engage, I tried to get Salesforce.com CEO, Marc Benioff, to talk about some business issues during his Q&A, but to no avail. Questions like: does he still feels optimistic for his company's financial call coming up on...

Adobe To Bridge PC and Mobile Worlds, Adobe CTO explains

AIR has launched, so what's next? In his presentation this morning Adobe's new CTO, Kevin Lynch actually shared some ideas/trends that he thinks are coming up. One of the idea that I thought was quite interesting was the shift...

AIR is Adobe's 4th Plaform, following Postscript, PDF and Flash (video)

For Adobe CEO, Shantanu Narayan, AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) is the 25 years old company 4th platform, after Postscript, PDF and Flash. "But what's most exciting about AIR frankly is that the more that gets unleashed, the creativity of...

Adobe Sees AIR Everywhere

I'm here this morning at Dogpatch Studios in San Francisco for Adobe's Engage event... the official launch event for AIR, the company's new runtime that runs Web/Flash applications offline on Windows, Mac and Linux. AIR 1.0 launched today. You...