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• A cross-platform version of SQL Server?

  I have just had an interesting off-line conversation with SQL Server MVP Chuck Boyce about Google Gears . If you read the blurb: Google Gears (BETA) is an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality and Read More... Posted 17 August 2007 19:04 by jamie.thomson | 1 Comments Filed under: SQL Server, Microsoft, google, Silverlight, Photosynth, Google Gears, SQL Server CE

• Mobile search clients reviewed

  One month ago I published a review of Google Maps for Mobile and Windows Live Search for Mobile which you can read here . Today Gear Digest have published their own, much more detailed, comparison of the two as well as Yahoo's similar offering. Unlike Read More... Posted 27 July 2007 00:12 by jamie.thomson | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows Live, Microsoft, live maps, google maps, google, yahoo pipes, gmm, wls

• Mobile Maps

  Google have created quite a stir with their Google Maps for Mobile tool (my colleague Keni Barwick has talked about it here ) but did you know that Microsoft have had a very similar tool called Windows Live Search for Mobile available for alot longer? Read More... Posted 26 June 2007 06:15 by jamie.thomson | 5 Comments Filed under: Windows Live, Microsoft, live maps, google maps, google, gmm, wls

• Brand value on the internet

  Blog king Robert Scoble recently posted a mildly critical opinion of Live Maps in comparison to Google Maps . That isn't what got my attention though and isn't why I'm posting this. The discussion in the comments section got round to brand Read More... Posted 21 April 2007 18:05 by jamie.thomson | 5 Comments Filed under: Windows Live, Microsoft, Flickr, live maps, google maps, google, twitter, youtube