randyholloway's Favorites
- Real name:
- Randy Holloway
- Member since:
- April 9, 2005
I'm a blogger working for Microsoft in St. Louis. I serve as a technical strategy advisor for a few global customers based in Missouri. I'm interested in software development, the Windows OS (server and client), social software and many other topics.
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Scobleizer
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Facebook? Up 10%. Twitter? Up 16%. FriendFeed? Flat
http://scobleizer.com/2009/07/09/facebook-up-10-twitter-up-1...I’m largely seen as FriendFeed’s #1 cheerleader and customer #1. But it isn’t catching on . Rackspace’s President, Lew Moorman, and I have been having an interesting debate. He even wrote up his thesis : that FriendFeed should just become a great Twitter client to become relevant. I have got to be honest: it’s worse than that
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Engadget
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webOS 1.1 rumored to be on the way to Pres shortly, sounds boring so far
http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/09/webos-1-1-rumored-to-be-o...If you were hoping for more system sound configurability, better notification control, or an equalizer in the music player (heck, we'll settle for bass and treble), your wait might be nowhere close to over -- but the good news is that it appears there's some sort of update on the way for Pres in the field that's significant enough to justify a 0
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Scobleizer
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Europe no longer matters to lead position in mobile
http://scobleizer.com/2009/07/09/europe-no-longer-matters-to...When I first started visiting Europe about 15 years ago Europeans used to love taunting me with their wonderful new phones that were, back then, years ahead of the devices we’d get in the United States. It was a point of regional pride that even though Silicon Valley and Microsoft had thoroughly run away with the technology industry that Europe
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Engadget
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Silverlight 3 out of beta, joins forces with your GPU for HD streaming
http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/09/silverlight-3-out-of-beta...A day earlier than expected, Microsoft has launched its third edition of Silverlight and its SDK. As Ars Technica notes, some of the bigger improvements on the user side are GPU hardware acceleration and new codec support including H.264, AAC, and MPEG-4. If you're looking to give it a spin, there's a Smooth Streaming demo available that,
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Ask Engadget: What's the best nettop out there now?
http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/09/ask-engadget-whats-the-be...We know you've got questions, and if you're brave enough to ask the world for answers, here's the outlet to do so. This week's Ask Engadget question is coming to us from Jamison, who can't seem to settle on a minuscule new desktop to handle email, web browsing and the occasional Skype call. "All of these new nettops have me intrigued
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Sprint mandating WiFi on future smartphones, WLAN-lovin' BlackBerry Tour coming next year
http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/09/sprint-mandating-wifi-on-...By the time Sprint gets around to releasing the 9630 Tour with WiFi, due out sometime early next year, we think most everyone'll have moved on to any one of the numerous BlackBerry devices likely to hit in the interim. What's more important in this FierceWireless report is that Sprint's requiring WiFi "in all its major devices going forward"
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Google CEO Schmidt avoids the dog food, captures memories with BlackBerry
http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/09/google-ceo-schmidt-avoids...Investment firm Allen & Co's Sun Valley, Idaho media summit is a place for the world's wealthiest and most influential decision-makers to chill out, enjoy a couple double Macallans on the rocks, and talk shop. It might even be a rare opportunity to escape to the comfort of a competitor's product -- a guilty pleasure you wouldn't dream of
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Engadget HD pays a visit to Dolby Labs, discovers all the secrets of digital audio
http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/09/engadget-hd-pays-a-visit-...Have you ever wondered what the differences between Dolby Digital Plus, Pro Logic and TrueHD were? Still trying to get your head around the evolution of digital surround sound in the past ten years? Yeah, you're not the only one so the crew over at Engadget HD made the long haul to Dolby Laboratories to learn everything there is to know about
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Video: Life-sized Gundam's back, looking deadlier than ever
http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/09/video-life-sized-gundams-...Man, remember that wicked awesome 59 foot tall Gundam they erected in Tokyo? Well, those pictures we saw a month ago were cool, but they're nothing compared to the splendor of the thing lit-up like a futuristic, killer Christmas tree. So hit the read link for some more kick-ass pics of the thing, but not before you peep the video after the break
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Rogers rolls out 50Mbps DOCSIS 3.0 service, 802.11n router
http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/09/rogers-rolls-out-50mbps-d...Well, it looks like Canadians no longer need to be envious of some of the speedy internet options available south of the border, as Rogers has just announced the roll-out of its own DOCSIS 3.0-based service that matches the likes of Comcast's offering. As you might expect, however, coverage is limited to the Greater Toronto Area to begin with,
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