16-09-2008 » Microsoft Corp.'s $300 million advertising campaign for Windows starring comedian Jerry Seinfeld launched Thursday night with an extra-long television commercial almost entirely devoid of any talk of Windows, Microsoft or anything, really.
(Update: Microsoft explains Seinfeld-Windows TV ad: just a 'teaser')
That was oddly appropriate, considering that Seinfeld's eponymous '90s hit comedy [...]
31-08-2008 » MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexicans will soon be able to pay for small purchases such as restaurant meals and taxi rides using their mobile telephones, the country's banks said.
Telephone operators Telefonica SA and Iusacell are teaming up with big banks such as Citigroup Inc and BBVA to launch the service, [...]
31-08-2008 » Philippe Hanset is wondering about the intersection of the Slingbox and the campuswide wireless LAN at University of Tennessee at Knoxville, where he's senior networking engineer.
A vendor has been industriously selling the Slingbox to incoming students, who set it up in their dorm rooms where they have cable TV service. [...]
31-08-2008 » As Wikipedia grew in popularity, becoming the eighth most visited site on the Web, many companies decided to purchase and build wikis internally to help enable better communication, knowledge sharing, collaboration and project management between employees.
There are several free Web 2.0 offerings which help users who are new to wikis [...]
31-08-2008 » For the past two-plus years, Microsoft Corp. has stood by while Apple Inc.'s "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" TV commercials treated Windows Vista like a punching bag.
But starting next week, Microsoft will fighting back with its own ad, starring funny-man Jerry Seinfeld. And not a moment too soon.
"Microsoft let [...]