Apple’s next OS Snow Leopard to support Microsoft Exchange

01.08.2009
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The by far most read post on my blog is my post on migrating mail archives from Microsoft Outlook to Apple Mail. I’ve had numerous discussions with to-be-switchers about what was going to happen to their mail archives and future email. Because not all of them have followed Apple’s announcements and not all have made [...]

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Google Wave Open Source Components Available

29.07.2009
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From the Google Wave Developer Blog: To kickoff Federation Day, we open sourced two components: 1) the Operational Transform (OT) code and the underlying wave model, and 2) a basic client/server prototype that uses the wave protocol. The OT code is the heart and soul of the collaborative experience in Google Wave and we plan [...]

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Adobe surfing the Google Wave?

24.07.2009
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Through their labs Adobe has launched a new service called Adobe Wave. Adobe Wave is a client application (based on Air) that will keep you informed about updates to subscribed services. The subscriptions are handled by a service by Adobe. With Adobe Wave, get all of your notifications through a single application. You don’t have [...]

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Dropbox: Document Management and Online Backup for the Rest of Us

23.07.2009
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I’ve been trying dozens of online storage and backup services in the last couple of years. I also have some experience with (Enterprise) Content and Document Management and have an understanding of the benefits and challenges with cloud based and SaaS services. So here comes dropbox. Dropbox are quite successful in revolutionizing the way people [...]

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Too smart: MacBook Pro and iPhone Headphones

10.07.2009
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When Apple introduced the unibody MacBook Pros in 2008 I stumbled across a neat feature that I forgot about until today – I did not have the MacBook to test it: MacBooks work with your iPhone headphones including the microphone and the button. If you click the button on your iPhone headphones, iTunes pauses. Click [...]

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Is GPS tracking a seasonal (summer) business?

04.07.2009
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The leading example for a seasonal business is the retail business that earns a large percentage of its annual profits during the holiday shopping season. American Demographics magazine had an interesting study of seasonal businesses (“The Seasons of Business”, Wilson, Richenda, May 1992) listing all the predictable events that can influence sales in every month [...]

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John Quelch with interesting figures on the Advertising-Supported Internet

02.07.2009

John Quelch, on of the experts profiled in Conversations with Marketing Masters, has an interesting post on How to Value the Advertising-Supported Internet on hbr.org. According to his post, the Internet employs 1.2 million people directly to conduct advertising and commerce, build and maintain the infrastructure, and facilitate its use. Each Internet job supports approximately [...]

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Report by Harris Interactive on the impact of Online Social Media on Purchasing Decisions

26.06.2009

Online social media, meaning social networking and all 2.0 style platforms following the principles of the architecture of participation are growing rapidly and get a ton of interest across industries. The understanding is, that these compelling interaction communities are the new access to consumer behavior and thus need to be leveraged for marketing and sales [...]

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Sattelegg

14.06.2009

Nice Sunday morning tour. Finally we got to do the Sattelegg. Weather was fabulous.

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GPSies Top 25 Navigation App in German AppStore

11.06.2009
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GPSies is the 17th most popular navigation application in the German app store. Thank you all for the great reviews and the lots of downloads. Some of the reviews from Germany here: “Super Apps – funktioniert und einfache Bedienung” – 5 Stars Habe das Programm heute probiert, 50 km Radtour (Stadt und freies Feld) hatte [...]

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