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7-Eleven Readies Bank Services A second-stage pilot program passed a milestone this month, paving the way for the 7-Eleven convenience store powerhouse to begin rolling out Vcom financial services kiosks in its 5,300 U.S. stores. 6:36:32 PM  comment
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InfoWorld CTO Zone 6:30:32 PM comment
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The coming mobile revolution will require newsrooms to undergo a sea change in strategic thinking. |
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BT Cellnet selects IBM for 3G back-end 3:54:14 PM comment
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ZapThink: "So, what happened to Sun? How did they fall from Java industry leader to Web Services also-ran? And what can they do to get back into the battle?"  [Scripting News]3:53:36 PM comment
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Kevin Werbach: "Web services, Weblogs and WiFi are the new WWW." In a few months I think Kevin will add outliners and OPML to his list.  [Scripting News]3:36:45 PM comment
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General Motors partners with EDS and Microsoft for .Net deployment 12:15:23 PM comment
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Desktop webservices and composite applications. One of the most exciting aspects of desktop webservices is that I can build pages on my desktop that automatically aggregate data from across the web and from webservice enabled corporate applications. This is effectively a personal portal that could include search (Google) of the Web/LAN/desktop, financial info from a place like Yahoo finance, corporate sales data, corporate financial data, corporate inventory data, news (RSS), and even data from peer web services (data entered or auto-aggregated by co-workers in a structured format -- contact lists, bookmarks, calendar entries, spreadsheets, etc.). Better yet, I have complete control over the presentation of that data. With a little programming effort, I can incorporate business rules (with tools that can be automated for me) that do things for me based on that data. I could also attach a post button to all the data I collect so its easy for me to share it with co-workers via my weblog. It puts me in control. This is the ultimate composite application. A borg that consumes all others. I don't want to learn or interact with hundreds of different websites or application specific clients. I want it all on my desktop, running in my browser, where I can modify, manipulate, and publish it. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] |
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In a Portable World, QWERTY Still Rules. Vendors look for better mobile input ideas [allNetDevices Wireless News] 12:13:36 PM comment
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Hotspot Program Lends PDAs to Travelers. Swedish operator trying to gauge interest [allNetDevices Wireless News] 12:09:38 PM comment
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Conspiracy to create 'Cisco of China'. Lucent trade secrets case extended [The Register] This is scary stuff. I was talking to a friend last year, who is very high up in Nortel about a visit he made to China. Government spies stole his laptop and detained/questioned him for a week -- all in an attempt to rip off trade secrets. They returned his laptop and passport and let him leave after things escalated. Very aggressive. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] 12:00:48 PM comment
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Yahoo finance is a great webapp. It gets more traffic than all the other financial sites combined (CBS marketwatch, CNBC, etc.). It's so good (or at least it was), that most of the brokers on Wall Street use it instead of their internal systems. However, it is (like most of Yahoo's services) so full of ads now it's almost unusable. The solution? A fee-based webservice feed for all the data Yahoo has collected. A desktop webapp that allows me to customize my views of financial data. A post button for charts, news, and other data so I can send them with annotation to my weblog. New tools that lets me analyze the data I get to spot trends. The ability to integrate other feeds that I pay for to build a composite app that does more than Yahoo's. How many people would use something like this if it cost $50 a year? I know I would. That's a hell of a lot more money than Yahoo is making on me currently. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] 11:57:35 AM comment
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