| Microsoft prepares to take Office online
In addition to Google's effort, which, as of earlier this month, also includes presentation software, IBM has announced its free Lotus Symphony productivity software, which prompted 100,000 downloads in its first week of availability. Adobe, meanwhile, on Monday is expected to announce it has acquired Virtual Ubiquity, a start-up that has built a web-based word processor, called "Buzzword", using Adobe's Flash and AIR technologies. Adobe is also introducing a service, code-named "Share", that allows people to share and store documents via the web. A blend of online services and traditional software
For Microsoft, Office Live Workspace is also the next step in what the company touts as its "software plus services" strategy, essentially the notion that online services can serve as a complement to locally run software, but not necessarily fully replace software running on a consumer's own desktop machine or on a businesses server.
Something to Take to Heart
I just recently gotten back from the tournament in Miami, Oklahoma and just got done with one of the hardest practices of my life. But, I think I am good enough to write a blog. Something to Take to Heart Tonight, after practice, I saw this little blonde headed boy that I see around town constantly. You wanna know where I see him everytime? On the basketball court. The kid, being about as mature as you can be at his age. He is probably a 2nd grader, and he walks around town as if he was 15. Something is noticable though everytime I see him. First of all, I have yet to ever see his parents. Secondly, he doesen't seem to be the most lucky kid when it comes to who has the money and who doesen't. Living in a poor family as a kid, I know how that can be. But, everytime I see him around the court, he doesen't normally say a word to me but he will give me a little head nod.
Trolley Dance attracts thousands of visitors
A VIDEO featuring elderly people dancing with trolleys in the market place of a North-East town has become an internet phenomenon. Since it was posted on video website YouTube, the dance featuring members of Growing Older Living in Darlington (Gold) has attracted tens of thousands of viewers. The four minute film was shot by video artist Anton Hecht in Darlington market place. Over 50,000 people have watched it on YouTube and it has also featured on the website of a national newspaper. The performers dance a series of routines set to Dvorak's New World Symphony. It was organised with the help of Darlington Borough Council and Darlington Partnership with funding from Northern Film and Media. .
Between the Lines
Between the Lines Latest Post | Last 10 Posts | Archives What happens to WiMax with Sprint on the ropes? Posted in: General Wired & Wireless Telecommunications Broadband Sprint Nextel had a net loss of $29.5 billion, suspended its dividend and drew down its credit line for "financial flexibility." Meanwhile, Sprint has jumped into the wireless price war fray with its own $99.99 a month all-you-can-eat wireless plan. Sprint's woes wouldn't be a big deal if the company wasn't a key cog in the effort to bring WiMax to market. Simply put, one of WiMax's biggest champions is limping along so badly (Techmeme) that you have to wonder if the company can help push services mainstream. Let's face it: Motorola, Intel and Samsung can push WiMax all they want and even throw billions behind the effort, but you need a carrier to hook people up.
Conversations With the Deaf
Cheering splashed from Downtowns street corners and blended into one sound. The owners of scattered ahwas, local coffee shops, were calling out orders, already sensing the sweet taste of profits. Even Cairos omnipresent street vendors had abandoned their usual posts and collected around streetside TV sets to shout encouragement to their favorite players. One place remained quiet. On 26 of July Street, five stories up, 20 people gathered around a television, Zamalek supporters in a small cluster on one side of the room, Ahly supporters, by far the bigger group, on the other side. The fans waved in chopping motions through the heavy smoke in the air, their excitement at every goal punctuated with a moan, a jump and rapid sign language. .
Butter under lock and key as prices soar
Australian bakeries are the latest in a long line of victims of increased global demand for dairy products and the country's long-running drought -- with the all-important ingredient butter becoming harder to find and more expensive. Nickl, who owns the Gumnut Patisserie in the Southern Highlands southwest of Sydney, said he orders butter every week from three different suppliers "and (we) just hope and take whatever arrives". "It's a commodity that's incredibly hard to get," he said. "You'll go for weeks and weeks with a specific supplier not being able to give me any." Nickl said he noticed the butter shortage begin to bite in June 2007, just as the country was praying for rain to end the worst drought in living memory. Nailed from every angleSince the beginning of last year, the price of butter has tripled, he said.
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