http://www.jingtaitour.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:38:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en JBoss never should have happened, as Bob Pasker once wrote. BEA ceded the field of battle to JBoss by fixating on IBM: While BEA was looking "up" at its biggest competitor IBM, JBoss was busily undercutting BEA at the bottom end....JBoss launched an innovator's dilemma attack against BEA, not with ... http://www.jingtaitour.com/index.php/2010/09/04/the-two-horse-application-server-race-ibm-and-red/ After having played around with the latest Windows Mobile 6 software on a demo AT&T Tilt, I still find the software unnecessarily complicated. From my perspective, it's not the marketing of Windows Mobile that needs work. It's the software. Todd Peters, who has also worked at Intel, joined Microsoft on ... http://www.jingtaitour.com/index.php/2010/08/29/microsoft-aims-to-add-easy-button-to-windows-mob/ Before the vote, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Sylvestre Reyes (D-Texas), said the measure gives telephone companies the ability to present otherwise-classified evidence, one-on-one with a judge, that could show they deserve such immunity. "If they did nothing wrong, as they have said, then they will be immune from any lawsuit," ... http://www.jingtaitour.com/index.php/2010/08/24/house-votes-213-197-to-reject-retroactive-telecom/ commentary I've seen a lot of noise over the past year about which presidential candidate would be best for open source, most recently this blog post in TechRepublic suggesting that Barack Obama would be better for open source. I don't mean to burst anyone's bubble, but anyone looking to the U.S. presidency ... http://www.jingtaitour.com/index.php/2010/08/24/open-source-for-president-get-real/ UPDATE (3:50 p.m.):To include eBay response. According to a copy of the lawsuit, filed Tuesday in California Superior Court in San Francisco, Craigslist accuses eBay of unfair competition, misappropriation of proprietary information, false advertising, and breach of fiduciary duty. Craigslist has asked the court to force eBay to surrender its ... http://www.jingtaitour.com/index.php/2010/08/24/craigslist-files-lawsuit-against-ebay-claims-unfa/ TorrentSpy helps users locate BitTorrent files, and since BiTorrent is a technology favored by those sharing digital files illegally, the site was known as an important tool for pirates. But the company argued that it never hosted any unauthorized content and shouldn't be held responsible for the actions of ... http://www.jingtaitour.com/index.php/2010/08/24/torrentspy-to-appeal-whopper-legal-judgment/ Yahoo has rejected Microsoft's acquisition bid, saying it undervalues the company. The $31-a-share price at the time the bid is now worth $28.62 because of a drop in Microsoft's share price. Yahoo and Time Warner have held talks on a deal designed to thwart Microsoft's bid for Yahoo, according ... http://www.jingtaitour.com/index.php/2010/08/24/yahoo-time-warner-reportedly-discuss-deal-to-thwa/ You write in the book about the success of the low-budget Web TV show, The Burg. Does that success create more opportunity for people working outside the mainstream system? Howe: Absolutely. We're seeing the emergence of a different kind of complex ecosystem where some shows have the very highest ... http://www.jingtaitour.com/index.php/2010/08/24/qa-jeff-howe-on-crowdsourcing/ The ThinkPad W700 will begin shipping September 2. We'll be catching a close-up look at the laptop at Siggraph on Tuesday and will post photos later in the week. The ThinkPad W700's case also incorporates VGA, DisplayPort, and Dual Link DVI-D connections to support larger external displays. Hard-drive options go up ... http://www.jingtaitour.com/index.php/2010/08/24/lenovo-set-to-announce-thinkpad-w700/ Still, at the core, the Bebo acquisition is all about the advertising. It comes at a time when AOL is still struggling to make the transition to a leader in online advertising after amassing nearly $1 billion worth in acquisitions--Tacoda, Buy.at, Quigo, and AdTech, to name a few--into its Platform-A ... http://www.jingtaitour.com/index.php/2010/08/24/aol-buys-social-network-bebo-for-850-million/