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Mac News: Why Apple Needs Reminding We Don’t All Live In The United StatesOne of the pitfalls of being a huge company is that you become less agile and more prone to slip-ups that perhaps wouldn’t happen if there was more focus, or if it had a better understanding of a the market or territory it is operating in.Read full story => Redmond Pie Technology News: Future Shopping: How Tech…

Mac News: RIM ‘considers’ sale options: Should Apple buy BlackBerry?With poor sales and a desperate hedge on the next-generation QNX-based BlackBerry 10 devices, BlackBerry maker Research in Motion’s is in utter turmoil. The company is struggling to stand up, let alone walk, and its shareholders are pleading for it to change the will.Read full story => ZDnet Technology News: Obama’s big data plans: Lots of cash and lots of open dataThe…

A quick update on my progress in regard to the work on LinguMatic. To recap, the LinguMatic project is my effort to create an “open-source” Business Semantic Thesaurus (BST) to address the interoperability issues between eBiz interchange standards (e.g. UN/EDIFACT, UNTDED/ISO7372 and Core Component Library (CCL) and ERP backends (in-house databases).

Mac News: Ex-Microsoft employees launch new iPad sketch appPaper, a new iPad sketch app, launched last night with quite a bang. That’s not surprising when you consider it has a gorgeous UI, and the fact that many of its creators are ex-Microsoft employees, who once worked on the infamous Courier project.Read full story => iDownloadBlog Technology News: Worksy aims to give companies everything they need to run their business, onlineMeet…

Mac News: Apple approves Taposé app that turns your iPad into a Microsoft Courier concept tabletRemember Microsoft’s Courier tablet project? And a particularly lovely concept video that had been making rounds in the months leading up to the 2010 iPad introduction? We were impressed with Microsoft’s bold take on tablet functionality, calling for a dual-screen device with an innovative interface letting one easily jot down notes, set reminders, glance over…