Tag: nytimes

Smartphone energy management – when will there be an app for that?

Mar 21, 2012

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Tom Raftery

in Technology / Software

I wrote a post last week about mobile endpoint management applications and their potential to extend smartphone battery life. It seems it was a prescient piece given the emergence this week of a study from Purdue University and Microsoft Research showing how energy is used by some smartphone applications [PDF]. The study indicates that many…
Microsoft buys 1.6% of FaceBook for $240m

Oct 25, 2007

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Tom Raftery

in google, Microsoft, social networks

The New York Times is reporting this morning that Microsoft has bought a 1.6% stake in Facebook for $240m, this values the company at $15bn. This values Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s 23 year old founder at $3bn and Accel Partners, the venture capital firm that invested $12.7 million in May 2005 now owns 11 percent of…
Microsoft needs a new strategy for its Windows platform

Oct 23, 2007

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Tom Raftery

in apple, Mac, Microsoft, Vista, Windows

I have Vista installed on this laptop. I haven’t booted up Vista in weeks. Why? Because I installed Ubuntu on another partition and it is so much faster, and more secure (since Microsoft instructed me to remove Norton and then failed to get OneCare to work on this laptop). Many others are eschewing Vista, not…