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Now that the government’s plans for the digital TV transition are finally in place, it’s time for the second wave — the panic! — to begin.
Since the cutover date (Feb. 17,2009) is just under two years away, it makes sense that now is the perfect time to start rolling out the “nobody knows what’s going [...]

As web workers, most of us are steeped in Web 2.0 throughout our working day (never mind that we can’t agree on what “Web 2.0″ means). Many of us have embraced online applications from Google, Yahoo, and elsewhere to do the bulk of our work, and we rely on a mishmash of social media sites [...]

After buying TellMe Networks for over $800 million, Microsoft seems to be ready to open its check book again. The Wall Street Journal (via Bloomberg) reporting that Microsoft is in talks to buy ad-serving network, DoubleClick. Microsoft’s interest in this company is basically driven by Redmond-based software giant’s desire to compete with Google: at any [...]

The massive online video boom is putting strain on the optical infrastructure, prompting researchers and equipment makers to come up with ways to transmit more data at higher speeds over the existing networks. The target everyone seems to have in their cross hair is 100 gigabits per second - at least when it comes [...]

The latest browser wars - Internet Explorer versus Firefox - that were so far limited to the desktop are going mobile. Today, Microsoft announced a new mobile browser called Deepfish as a technology preview. The news of this new Microsoft Mobile browser follows the release of Minimo 0.2, a mobile browser (that uses Mozilla technologies) [...]

Shai Agassi, president of SAP’s product and technology group is leaving the company, reports WSJ, to pursue other interests in climate change and alternative energy. Of course, it could be that it is easier to solve world’s problems than fix SAP. (Hat tip, Mr.Z!)