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Blackboard Buys Mobile Messaging Company Saf-T-Net For $33 Million

Blackboard, a company that designs an education software for school groups, has acquired mobile messaging provider Saf-T-Net for $33 million. Saf-T-Net develops AlertNow, which is a mobile messaging technology aimed to the K-12 marketplace.
AlertNow’s technology delivers voice, e-mail and emergency SMS messages at a rate up to 2.5 million per hour to parents, students and [...]

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Mon, March 8 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

EU Opens Antitrust Investigation Into Google. Microsoft’s Fingerprints Are Everywhere.

The European Union has opened an antitrust investigation into Google to look into claims made by three European-based Internet companies. Not surprisingly, this key part of the investigation is said to be about search, which is dominated by Google is most of the EU markets. The Telegraph and WSJ have more details.
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Tue, February 23 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

The iPad Is Step 1 In The Future Of Computing. This Is Step 2 (Or 3).

In 2008, I attended a meeting in Madrid, Spain that featured the coolest demonstration I had ever seen. The problem was that I wasn’t allowed to talk about what I had seen because the company was still in stealth-mode. More importantly, several governments, including the U.S. government were still exploring various parts of the technology [...]

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Tue, February 16 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments