Recent events surrounding the Microsoft hostile takeover of Yahoo has saddened me greatly. We are about to lose a great company with a great ethic. Yahoo’s lack lustier performance over the last 5-8 years has placed it in a very fragile position. A position companies like Microsoft will not fail to take advantage of. Either [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Microsoft'
Microsoft’s kiss of death for Yahoo
February 12th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Microsoft
Adobe’s plan for world domination
January 31st, 2008 · 2 Comments
This week I was lucky to have a Flex evangelist from Adobe, Daniel Dura, come to my town of Melbourne to tote the Adobe line. Of course, being a “digital media head” I drilled him on all the questions I could think of that would give me a peek into the future directions of Adobe. [...]
Tags: Adobe · Apple · DRM · flash · flex · IPTV · Microsoft · Standards
Post Macworld Analysis
January 21st, 2008 · No Comments
My most popular post on my blog has been “AppleTV will be a new beginning at MacWorld“. It has now been a week since Macworld ended. I decided to wait a little and watch the ripple effect of Steve Jobs’ announcements. I personally felt the Keynote was very disappointing, but after getting over the HYPE [...]
Tags: Apple · DRM · google · IPTV · Microsoft
It’s all happening in Digital Media
January 10th, 2008 · No Comments
This year is shaping up to be the year that Video heads online. Every second major news release from CES was connected with vendors of digital media products offering new capabilities or distributors doing deals. I was also very surprised to see much of my “Predictions for digital media for 2008” post had materialised by [...]
Tags: google · IPTV · Microsoft · Uncategorized
Predictions for digital media for 2008
January 5th, 2008 · 9 Comments
Predictions appear to be a big blog topic this New Year. I have decided to pick a particular topic to predict about and it’s what I mainly blog about. Technologies that will change the way we watch long form visual media. I appear to be a little late with my predictions, as video on the [...]
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