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Google’s future: Predictions for 2009
At the end of each year, the blogosphere is flooded with predictions for the next. It’s time for a sneak peak into 2009 for one of the most exciting, and unpredictable, companies in existence — Google.
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A Year of Change Ahead for Microsoft in 2009
For Microsoft, in many respects, 2009 promises to be much like 2008. The company has all the same challenges it exited 2008 with – lingering legal issues, efforts to test and ship the latest version of Windows, and the continued development and evolution of its “cloud computing” plans. Did we mention the down economy? -
Google Friend Connect now available to the masses
This program has been in private beta for a while now — but just recently it was opened up for everyone to use. Friend Connect is an extremely simple way to make any website you have a bit more social — people that “join” your site (which I think can be confusing when you already have a mechanism for users to sign up) can use embedded Google gadgets which take advantage of Google’s Open Social API.http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=1199
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The First Apple Tech Support Call Ever
Stan Veit
—first editor Computer Shopper—has a fascinating first-person account on the very early years of Apple, starting with what may be the very first Apple tech support call ever, answered by Steve Jobs himself.“See! It works,” Dave told me.”What does it do?” I asked.
“Nothing! It needs a keyboard. I’ll get one,” Dave told me.
Dave came back with one of our SWTPC keyboards and wired it in after studying the schematic.
“Don’t work,” he told me. “Better call ‘em.”
So I called the number listed in the paperwork and asked for Steve.
“Which one?” the young man at the other end asked.
“The fast talker,” I told him.
“Oh, Steve Jobs. Wait a minute.”
Steve came on the line, and I told him the keyboard didn’t work.
“What kind of keyboard did you use? Southwest? Nah, they won’t work. I’ll send a good one and some software tomorrow.”
“Wait.” I told him I didn’t need it FedExed next day, I could wait. But too late, he was gone.
http://digg.com/apple/Hi_Steve_Jobs_Here_The_First_Apple_Tech_Support_Call_Ever#
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The Future of SQL in a SaaS world: Announcing Zoho Cl...
There are in particular 3 things that stand out about Zoho CloudSQL:
It’s the first technology that allows customers to interact with their data on the cloud, from another cloud application or from an on-premises one through real SQL.
It supports multiple SQL dialects. We support all the major (and even some not so major) ones: ANSI, Oracle, SQL Server, IBM DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Informix.
With our JDBC/ODBC drivers, developers can access data in the cloud just as easily as if it were stored in a local database.
