SBC DotNet Weblog

HP ousts CEO Carly Fiorina [Reuters].

Not many remember what Compaq did with DEC. My heart goes out to the Hewlett family.
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ComputerWorld reports that Windows 2003 64b Server is closer to release. I am eagerly waiting for this one..
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The new Connecticut .NET Developers Group is now on the roll! We have been having .NET-related events since last October and now have a new website rolled out. I have to thank the MIGANG.ORG for DNN insights. My thanks also to the CTDOTNET guys in putting our new DNN site together – Doug Haynes, Carl Franklin, Arthur Dzhelali, Aaron Junod & Jay McAnally.

For Feb 22nd, we have Chris Bowen (Sr Architect Monster.com) presenting on Agile Development & Unit Testing with Visual Studio .NET 2005. Details at our site..
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Google Maps is now online!
(still beta though)
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Feb 7th issue of my favorite newspaper, the Financial Times (FT - subscription required) had an article on bloggers in corporate America. Scoble is quoted - "It's the new world and you want to be part of the conversation".
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SMS to Skype is here [link via Robin Good].
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I have been using GMail lately (giving out accounts as well) and I know it's not fashionable any more. I have also manged to get into Orkut. Orkut is a Social Network that's by invitation-only and its network is predominantly based out of Brazil (not quite sure why but would like to know). I got in touch with Alex Schoch, a Brazilian Groove Space friend of mine. Initially, Orkut's system was excruciatingly slow but it's only very recently it has improved acceptably. Both, GMail and Orkut are run by Google - it will be interesting to see how far they will take it.
I am not particularly fascinated by Social Networks but find the technology behind it very interesting. John Dvorak is quite skeptical about it also
(not that it says much).
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