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I’m not fans of Iphone or any other brand phone. Just wondering what’s make Iphone more than any other phone.

Let’s take an example do the comparison between Iphone and Blackberry Bold; you can see the comparison here

Or let’s have a look into Blackberry 9500 or known as Blackberry thunder; you can see the picture and details here or comparison with Google’s Android Mobile Phone

Most of the mobile phones are currently supporting 3G Network; most of them playing music, videos, have camera, WLAN capability, etc and all of them are same as IPhone. I can’t really see the differences and it doesn’t make sense if people buying IPhone just for a simple reason.

Google unveils a new Social Networking product; called Lively or another name is “virtual experience”.

This product allows you to create an avatar, virtual room (you create your own room), invite friends to your room and do thing that you’ve always dreamed of.

This “Lively” will be in a competition with another product called “Second Life”.

The most interesting part within Lively; that you can put your picture on the wall in your own private room, or you can streaming youtube on your virtual PC in the “Lively”. And you also can put your private room attached to your facebook. With lively; you can now give more emotional than your messenger. It can now give emotional feelings displayed on your avatar face.

The other good thing about Lively; this product is FREE; and yes, it will give a hard-time for “Second Live”. And on the same day; “Second Live” is also announced that it had worked with IBM to figure out on how to teleport from one virtual world to another.

Probably in the future; we are going to see that “Lively”, “Second Live” and “Habbo” are in the same virtual world together running the greatest business on Social Networking virtually. Only time will tell.

Source here

Vole announcing the software’s business expansion to be available as a service on the internet.

This idea comes as most people worldwide use program online instead of buying a packaged (CD) and install it on machine. This will make sure that their machine will keep in the top performance instead of installing thousands of softwares.

The move has been made so that Microsoft can compete with any other companies that offering same service (Google is one of them) in delivering SaaS (Software as a Service).

Customers and partners are expecting to see this options (choices and flexibility) on all Microsoft software and server products.

This service will be available for public in the second half of this year; or you can register at www.mosbeta.com for beta.

The new service being tested include Exchange Server and office Sharepoint handling tasks like calendars, emails, online conferencing, etc.

 Just another competition; between Microsoft (with MOS) and Google (With Google Docs)

More details here

Australia’s Rudd Goverment considering three-strikes policy against internet users who download song(s) illegally. Targets are people who downloading music(s) and film(s) illegally. ISPs (Internet Service Providers) might be legally required to take action on users who accessing these materials (pirated material).

The related industry (music or film) estimates approximately 1 billion songs traded illegally by Australian last year.

Three-Strikes: first; a warning will be issued to the users who using P2P technology to share files (music). Second; To lead the offender’s internet access being suspended. Third; cancel the offender’s internet access.

The three-strikes above will be conduct with National Internet Industry Association Chief Executive; Peter Corones this week.

Mr. Corones said “ISPs are NOT the enforcers of copyright; they are just a provider of Internet connectivity for customers; No more than that”

More details here.

Texas Instrument and Qualcomm showed off their prototype at the world’s largest mobile conference loaded with Google’s Android software.

Andoid software is a free system and can be developed by any developer. The system was launched November 2007 and being developed by an alliance of more than 3o companies including Google.

Google has lined up about 30 phone, chip and software companies to help developing Android systems.

More details here; it looks like Google will have their own brand phone (G-Phone).

Here are some screenshot coming from Vista SP1 and Windows Home Server Screenshot

It will be nice to have the home edition of Vista and Home Server running together.
Windows Vista SP1 Screenshot here

Windows Home Server Screenshot here

Anyone has tried combination between both of them? If you do; can you please share it with us? what problems that have arisen? Any interesting features? Any issue?

Currently, Microsoft (or call it Vole) has planned to stop the life support on XP in June 2008, eventhough the OS itself is not dead yet and probably better with the Service Pack 3.

Company (Burton Group) has issued an open warning to Vole to NOT switch off Windows XP at least until 2009. Microsoft should at least give us a time to have the original products (XP) and the new product (Vista) running side by side for a couple of years. With this, it will give us a time and as well as chance to do a migration properly and setup correctly.

This issue also attracts around 75000 companies from around the world to sign an online petition to keep Windows XP alive. (source here) or personally if you want to sign the petition as well; you can find it here

An IT analyst also added that it would not suprise everyone if Microsoft extend the cut-off date for XP if the number of XP customers who compalins are increasing.

More details here.

Microsoft’s offer on $31-pershare offer has been rejected.

Executives in Yahoo has determined that the $31 dollar offer “massively undervalues” Yahoo. Yahoo plans to send the letter on Monday to Microsoft.

According to source here; Yahoo will be unlikely considering any offer below $40 per share. To me; it is more like business negotiation instead of full rejection of Microsoft.

No news whether Microsoft willing to pay additional $9+ / share that will cost more than $12 billion.

More details here and here.

The current news here says that Yahoo announce a new software into their email system.

Yahoo’s new Zimbra Collaboration Suite (5.0) allowing users to read their email from Microsoft Outlook alongside with Yahoo Mail or Google Mail or Zimbra’s own branded mail. (What an interesting feature).

In effect; with an upgrade from Zimbra; it will let users to read their work and personal email side by side on their monitor screen. (Do you think it will affect staff’s performance by allowing user’s to read their personal email on the same time with work email?)

On the other side; Google has implemented a new security feature from Postini to get the Google Apps more usefull for today’s business. Google apps is a suite of software that can be said as Microsoft Office’s competitor.

Yahoo together with Zimbra; and Google together with Postini; these merging between companies really put Microsoft in a very hard situation. Just another reason why Microsoft made a $45 billion unsolicited bid for Yahoo.

 More details here.

Today; the big G (Google) start marketing new tools for email protection from Spam and other problems.

The technology built from Postini; an Internet Titan based in California which bought by Google for $US625 million.

The software itself (protecting, filtering, encrypting and archiving email) is compatible with MS Exchange, Lotus Notes and Novel Groupwise; an all in one software.

The subscription will cost from $US3 a year / user; which is good enough for any kind business. The Premium subscription will cost around $US25 per year for 1 user.

“A complexity, threats; compliance requirement; IT Department is struggling to get the resources to keep up”; now all of them can be taken care by Google

It is a pretty impressive offer from Google. More details click here