Palm’s troubles represent a familiar theme: how to re-brand a failing company, and turn it back into the success that it once was.
Palm will be getting a much needed injection of cash from Elevation Partners, in the amount of $100 million USD.  In details disclosed in a Palm company press release on Monday, Elevation [...]

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As was fairly widely reported, Windows XP will be getting an extra 4 months to live.  The previous cutoff date for computer manufacturers to pre-load systems with Windows XP was Jan. 31st, 2009.  That date has now been extended by Microsoft to May 30th, 2009.  This means you’ll still be able to purchase a [...]

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A few months back, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison went on an impromptu rant in front of Wall Street Journal reporters talking about Cloud Computing.  His basic theme was that Cloud Computing is just a buzzword for everything that people have already been doing for the last decade or so with the Internet.  Some people [...]

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Are you a Product Manager looking for work who loves web software and also happens to use Twitter?  And do you just happen to have some brilliant idea on how Twitter might monetize their services?  You might be in luck, because Twitter is now looking for their very first Product Manager:
As Twitter’s first product [...]

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Six Apart’s Moveable Type blogging platform is  getting a new social networking add-on, called Motion, which will become generally available in early 2009.  Motion is currently in Beta today, and can be downloaded explicitly for non-production use.  Details on how the new platform will work are a little sparse, but according to the official company [...]

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I asked Google this question earlier this week: who is using JRuby for large scale projects?  Here’s the list I got:

Oracle Mix – built by Oracle’s AppLabs folks, it is primarily a demonstration site to show what kind of social concepts Oracle is thinking about.  Oracle Mix was used at 2008’s OpenWorld, which hosted [...]

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As I was sitting in the cafe eating lunch today, I reflected on my career and the things I’ve learned.  There are three things that popped into my head that seemed universally true.
1.) It pays to be humble.  There is always someone that knows more than you do.  If you step up to a [...]

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