It’s Friday and it is time for a “Weekly Review”. I have been digging around this morning with regards to Microsoft as I have read (and heard) that they are going to start a subscription program for software in the near future and I wanted to know more so out to Microsoft I went. So far I have not been successful at documenting the software rental story but I did find a number of other good things; Microsoft Startup Center for Small Business, Microsoft Hosted Services – which I found very fascinating with regards to what they will do for small businesses, and then Microsoft Unified Communications which links you to the power of software (Microsoft’s) to have a complete communications program. Interestingly this is aimed at small as well as larger business.
In my travels at Medgadget this morning I discovered a computer being used/promoted within the medical field that drew my attention. This looks like it could be used by anyone traveling that has to deal with clients/customers and be able to research their account information. It really did look quite handy. Link here; Motion C5 Mobile Clinical Assistant Gets New Features.
From Reuters’ News Service a note about an acquisition that could be quite interesting; Ask.com closes acquisition of Dictionary.com. That is if you use dictionary and thesaurus tools that are web based. If you are using Microsoft Office applications these tools are built in however if you are using some of the Cloud services you may have the dictionary but need the thesaurus. Sometimes I think a thesaurus is as important as a dictionary in writing to get my point across.
I found the Microsoft rental software story on a podcast by John C Dvorak on “tech5” (“the most important 5 minutes of your day”) and then followed that with a Google search to Slashdot which led to a Yahoo article; “Microsoft to sell Office, One Care for $70 a year”. Whew, just doing due diligence, however I have not been able to locate it at Microsoft or at Circuit City which the article references.
One last note here (as I finish my Starbucks coffee) is that there is now a site, http://www.flightmemory.com/ that has the following description from it’s web site: Flight Memory enables you to easily keep track of where you have flown and then easily produce maps showing your flight routes. This was found via a link from WebWare which is a blog with other great links. This is something I have always thought about as I fly. I see things on the ground and would like to know where they were precisely. I will look further into this.
*Please note Starbucks does not pay for any promotional reference to it’s name. In fact neither does anyone else mentioned herein, darn.
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