Adobe and Qualcomm announced a deal today to integrate Flash into the BREW developer platform. The most significant parts are:
going forward Flash developers can count on Flash being present on Qualcomm powered handsets (most prominently Verizon’s handsets)
that there will be no Flash royalty that handsets will have to pay to include the Flash runtime which [...]
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A story in the WSJ this morning reports that Seattle Sounders FC has inked a deal with Microsoft to be the main shirt sponsor for the team. The deal specifies that the team will wear XBOX 360 Live on their shirts. I think this is a great match and I was hoping Microsoft would step [...]
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Live Search has some legs I think. Certainly MSFT has the ability to run with this for a while to see what works and tweak the model. It’s like an auction where retailers bid in real-time (although I am not sure how real-time the backend is) for a customer by discounting the product to win [...]
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Live Mesh was introduced yesterday by Microsoft. It is the brain child of Ray Ozzie and really seems like an out-growth of the work he did with Groove. At its simplest, Live Mesh is basic file sync. But another way to think about Live Mesh is as the ultimate P2P platform. When people think of [...]
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So Yahoo earnings are out and they are a little better than expected. But you have to think Yahoo tried very hard to beat the expectations pulling all possible levers to make this happen. If that assumption is true then the real numbers are probably more inline with what the street expected (or worse). So [...]
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