Monday, April 21, 2008

What's new in week 17, 2008

Monday, 2008-04-21, Copenhagen

Are solution providers being phased out due to the economy? According to a recent news, that IBM solution providers in UK has diminished from 10-12 big ones into 2 to 3 left in the market, it looks like that the market is decreasing for the VARs. Well, you can also vision that as consolidation in the techonomy (technology-economy) market. In a down period of economy, consolidation is a good idea for small IT fishes to survive under the wings of bigger ones. As we will surely witness, those small fishes will come out again in a even higher amount when the economy growth is coming back.

Wednesday, 2008-04-23, Copenhagen

It seems that Microsoft is serious about the next generation of web (web 2.0). And one of the most brilliant ideas that MS thinks for web 2.0 is mesh-up. In the Web 2.0 conference, MS is launching its Live Mesh Synchronization solution to the developers that are targeting next generation of IT applications.

Free music! Yes, for Nokia customers. Nokia had a deal with Sony BMG so that all buyers of Nokia’s certain music phones will be able to download the music for free for the next 12-month. And these users are welcome to keep the music. It seems that media products, such as songs, music, video shows, have the trend to be free for public and of course, there are commercial meanings behind the trends. Can we see a better future for P2P media-sharing tools? I would agree.

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