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Webinar: Save Money With Cloud Computing and Google Apps

Bill Sobel — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:56:11 +0000

I have been a Google apps user and fan for a long time, and I am convinced cloud computing is the way to go.

Enterprise Spotlight: Cloud Computing and Google Apps

This presentation will begin on October 08, 2009 at 11:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time.

Audience members may arrive 15 minutes in advance of this time.

Moving to the cloud and Google Apps yields many benefits: a streamlined IT infrastructure, a platform for innovation and increased employee satisfaction to name but a few + significant cost savings During this webcast, we’ll review a financial framework to help you build a business case for moving to the cloud. We’ll share tips on what other customers have done and take your questions.

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With 3.5 launch, Firefox faces new challengers

Bill Sobel — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:03:12 +0000

image courtesy of Mozilla Corp.

Great story from ZDNet

By Stephen Shankland, CNET News
Posted on ZDNet News: Jun 30, 2009 10:00:06 AM

A funny thing to happened to Firefox on the way to vanquishing Internet Explorer: the Mozilla browser’s success opened the door for a host of its other competitors.

Even as Internet Explorer’s market share has slipped–down a dramatic 8 percentage points to 65.5 percent in about the last year–Firefox programmers face a surprising question: should they be more worried about the programmers in Redmond, Wash., or about those working on Apple’s Safari, Google’s Chrome, and Opera?

Firefox has gained about 3 percentage points to 22.5 percent in market share, according to Net Applications’ statistics since July 2008, and Firefox backer Mozilla doubtless hopes for more gains with Tuesday’s release of Firefox 3.5. But Apple’s Safari and Google’s Chrome each gained 2 percentage points, to 8.4 percent and 1.8 percent, respectively, indicating a growing appetite for alternatives to Internet Explorer that’s not completely met by Firefox. Opera stayed flat at about 0.7 percent.

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Who is Leo Laporte and why is he important?

Bill Sobel — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:02:52 +0000

I have been a fan of Leo Laporte since his breakthrough technology show “The Screen Savers” on ZDTV (later know as TechTV) back in 1998. His current venture TWiT (this week in Tech) is a model for the future of content distribution and well as some of the most interesting and up-to-date stuff about all things technology.

Here is a great story from tvsquad.com

TV 101: Why Leo Laporte represents the future of TV (kinda) – VIDEO

Posted Jan 7th 2009 1:03PM by Jay Black

Man of the future? Or just well-produced nonsense-ary? Seeing as this is the new year and all, I figured today’s column would concentrate on the future. My original plan was to write extensively about what television will become following the detonation of the Yellowstone supervolcano — who’s ready for static?! — but in the spirit of Hope ™, I scratched that in favor of something a bit more positive.

My guess is that the numbers break down this way: 90% of you have no idea at all who Leo Laporte is, 7% kinda sorta remember him from the ill-fated ZDNET cable channel, and 2% of you are TWitTs like me. (The other one percent? Spambots worried about my “girth”).It’s time to get to know Leo, because over the last year he has single-handedly created a brand-new paradigm for how TV is going to be viewed on the net … kinda.

TWiT stands for “This Week in Technology”, the flagship netcast in Laporte’s home-produced media empire. Some of his other shows that you probably haven’t heard of: MacBreak Weekly, Windows Weekly, Munchcast, Security Now!, and Net@Nite.

The entire “network” started life as a series of podcasts and, indeed, that’s where Laporte still gets the majority of his listeners. This year, however, he started TWiT Live, an online “channel” that broadcasts the taping of those podcasts.

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