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| | | November 2009 - Posts -
Numerous reports are emerging that Microsoft and media mogul, Rupert Murdoch, are in discussions about removing News Corporation indexes from Google and making its news content exclusively available on Microsoft's Bing. FT.com was the first to report the clandestine meeting, but as more details emerge it appears that this may be the first big threat to Google's dominance of the internet. This follows from my previous blog that Murdoch was keen to charge for his companies news content and... -
In what has to be a first, a Microsoft official blamed the testing of a connection to its central billing system as the cause of a recent three hour plus 'unplanned outage' of its SQL Azure service, currently in pre-beta testing. Of course, it is very early days for the Azure SaaS product set and only those in early test mode were affected but it strikes me as being the first time I've heard of a service outage caused by a billing system. Has anybody else seen or heard of such a thing... -
If anyone doubted my previous blog regarding Rupert Murdoch's claim that people would be willing to pay for online news content, the New York Times reports the following. Americans, it turns out, are willing to pay for their online news, but less so than people in many other Western countries, according to a new study by the Boston Consulting Group. Among regular Internet users in the United States, 48 percent said in the survey, conducted in October, that they would pay to read news online,... -
Rupert Murdoch is not a man to be ignored. His recent proclamation that good internet content will need to be paid for may have drawn howls from the critics but he makes good sense. So what has Rupert's stance got to do with us, you may well ask? Speaking from personal experience, I can assure you that when this man sets his sights on something he achieves it. Back in 1985, yes 1985, he had the foresight to cobble together a string of small bleeding-edge technology companies, mine included, to... -
Microsoft has announced price cuts for some of its cloud offerings including Microsoft-hosted Exchange and its suite of business services marketed as the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS). Microsoft is cutting its Exchange Online pricing by a whopping 50% from $10 to $5 per user per month. It also is cutting the price of the BPOS bundle, which includes SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, Communications Online and Live Meeting — from $15 to $ 10 per user per month. It is also is refunding... -
Some time ago I blogged about service providers that were charging customers a fee to process cheque (check) payments by mail and over the counter and how it would irk customers used to paying their bills that way. It seems Telstra got the message loud and clear from its customers and is removing the charge. Telstra CEO David Thodey today announced the company will drop a A$2.20 'administration fee' for bill payments made over-the-counter or by mail after listening to feedback from customers...
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