http://www.mayorscupballoonrace.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:58:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In a week in which Microsoft admitted that sales of PCs are sluggish, might it be possible that Apple's lawyers will be taking advantage of happy hour on Friday night? With a sip of the finest chardonnay, of course. However, according to AdAge Microsoft has actually made changes to one of the ... http://www.mayorscupballoonrace.com/index.php/2010/09/04/apple-forces-microsoft-to-change-laptop-hunter-ad/ Adding to its SD-card-based AVCCAM series--not to be confused with its P2-card-based and seriously more expensive P2HD series, which includes the AG-HVX200A--the AG-HMC40 joins the AG-HMC150 and its shoulder-mount cousin, the HMC70 in the ranks of Panasonic's pro AVCHD camcorders. The AG-HMC40 is slated to ship in August for $3,195. Smaller and ... http://www.mayorscupballoonrace.com/index.php/2010/08/31/panasonics-latest-pro-avchd-camcorder/ The acquisition is designed to enable the combined company to become a one-stop shop, providing open-source products and services to quickly develop, test, deploy, and run enterprise applications using Apache Software Foundation projects and SpringSource's Spring Portfolio. Interface21, which now goes by SpringSource, is looking to add a little bounce ... http://www.mayorscupballoonrace.com/index.php/2010/08/24/open-source-toolmaker-acquires-covalent/ On Friday, photo host Flickr introduced a slight tweak to the way users are able to geotag their photos. Clicking on the "add to your map" option on the right side of any photo now pops up a mini Yahoo Map with an address finder. Previously, users were required to go ... http://www.mayorscupballoonrace.com/index.php/2010/08/21/geotagging-in-flickr-now-faster-simpler/ 2008 is the year of the solid state drive. That's what Sun Microsystems believes as reliability finally measures up to the rigorous requirements of server storage and the cost per gigabyte plunges. On Wednesday, Sun announced that it is preparing to introduce solid-state drive (SSD) technology that "will completely change how ... http://www.mayorscupballoonrace.com/index.php/2010/08/21/sun-2008-tipping-point-for-solid-state-drives/ commentary As the founder and program chair for the Open Source Business Conference, I know what a business conference looks like. And as a regular attendee of the excellent O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON), I know what a great developer event looks like, too. But this year's inaugural LinuxCon, put on by ... http://www.mayorscupballoonrace.com/index.php/2010/08/21/linuxcon-promises-to-bridge-developer-and-business/ Fujifilm FinePix Z20fd (Credit: Fujifilm) Sometimes, it's simply too hard to resist quoting the press release: Fujifilm "today unveiled the FinePix Z20fd, a new ultraglam digital camera packed with useful features that let you face it, beam it, blog it, and now roll it with a new MPEG-4 movie-recording mode for ... http://www.mayorscupballoonrace.com/index.php/2010/08/21/fujifilms-camera-for-the-crazed/ commentary InfoWorld just released an excellent "roundtable" series on open source with a range of open-source thought leaders (including me) weighing in on the future of open source, competition for open source, and whether all the open-source infighting actually does more good than harm. On competition with proprietary software companies, I suggested ... http://www.mayorscupballoonrace.com/index.php/2010/08/21/commercial-interests-and-open-source-oil-and-wate/ Watching the Microsoft-Yahoo show? Here are two figures to watch in the coming weeks: $1.32 billion and 11 cents. Yahoo is projected to generate $1.32 billion in revenue and earn 11 cents a share for the first quarter, according to analysts' estimates collected by Thomson Financial. Anything less than that when the company ... http://www.mayorscupballoonrace.com/index.php/2010/08/21/exit-stage-left-for-microsofts-yahoo-bid/ Every so often, I wonder if Silicon Valley is all it's cracked up to be. Sure, the confluence of venture capital, universities, and lawyers make it a veritable petri dish for the formation of technology companies, but there are a lot of other great places for innovation, right? Well, if ... http://www.mayorscupballoonrace.com/index.php/2010/08/21/silicon-valley-the-true-tech-mecca/