A Tiny Bit More on Ray Ozzie’s New Start-up, Cocomo

The Lotus Notes creator and Groove founder is hiring for his latest project, an effort that pairs him with some old colleagues. However, Ozzie is remaining tight-lipped on just what he is up to.
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RealNetworks' Rob Glaser Talks About Giving the Internet a Voice and, Yes, Woolly Mammoths!

Rob Glaser called BoomTown when he landed in Washington, D.C., only a few hours after he announced Wednesday he was stepping down as longtime CEO of RealNetworks…Although execs come and go in various and sundry ways–you simply have to give Glaser credit for his pioneering work in bringing both audio and video to the Web.
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BoomTown's 1998 Rob Glaser Profile: A Web Pioneer Does a Delicate Dance With Microsoft

BoomTown did an interview last night with outgoing RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser after the announcement yesterday of his departure from the company he founded and led for 16 years. That will be posted later today, but here is a profile I wrote about Glaser when I was covering the Internet for The Wall Street Journal. It’s from Feb. 12, 1998, and focuses on Glaser’s decidedly complicated relationship with his former employer, Microsoft.
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IBM Adds to "Cloud" Facilities

International Business Machines Corp. opened one new data center and unveiled plans for another and a research laboratory in Pacific Rim countries, reflecting its growing business in cloud computing, in which applications remotely run on shared computers. IBM said it will build an 80 million New Zealand dollar (US$57 million) data center in Auckland, New Zealand, that will be completed in 2010.

SAP, the "S" is for "Sack"

SAP, the “S” is for “Sack”

You Know, That Domestic Wiretapping Operation Might Come in Handy Here

So that “technical issue” that caused 5 million to 10 million White House emails to disappear from its archives? A botched migration from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange. Seems even the blame for the current administration’s failure to obey the Presidential Records Act can be laid on Microsoft (MSFT). In written testimony to the House [...]