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Microsoft Xbox legend J Allard gets back in the game, joining Intellivision for new console launch

GeekWire

Allard has been leading a Seattle-based startup called Project 529 , a mobile registration database system that works to curb bicycle theft. The 2001 release of the Xbox ushered Microsoft into the video game console space and now Allard will try again with Amico. ” The Intellivision Amico video game console.

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Windows turns 35: a visual history

The Verge

Microsoft had already created its low-cost PC DOS operating system for IBM PCs, and was firmly positioned as a software company. PC manufacturers flocked to Windows, and the operating system attracted support from important software companies. Windows XP (2001). With Windows 1.0, Where it all began: Windows 1.0

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Lawyer who helped Netscape in Microsoft antitrust lawsuit is representing Epic in its battle with Apple

GeekWire

On the legal team for Epic Games is Christine Varney , the lawyer who represented Netscape in its antitrust suit against Microsoft in 2001. Apple lawsuit could prove to be a massive pivot point for mobile gaming. . “The current App Store system caters to developers with the most money to spend,” he said in a statement.

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Stop using your phone number to log in

Vox

But even before the iPhone changed the mobile game, there were concerns over using phone numbers as identifiers. Back in 2001 when I worked at Vodafone, we saw this problem coming,” said Marc Rogers, who is now chief security officer at the cybersecurity firm Q-Net Security. It’s even happened on WhatsApp before.

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Strategic positioning in the flow economy: 3 action steps

Trends in the Living Networks

Below is an excerpt from my book Living Networks that describes how to develop effective strategies in what I call the “flow economy&# of information of ideas, where today almost all value resides. Standards are the very basis of this mobile connectivity. Create the capabilities you require, by internal development and hiring.

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Ready…Set…Start Your Containers

CIO Business Intelligence

Many developers faced difficulties porting applications developed for a particular computing environment decades ago. Consequently, operating system distributions and underlying infrastructure configurations are abstracted from application programs, allowing them to run correctly and identically regardless of the environment.

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Xbox architects share stories from the console’s early days and discuss the future of gaming

GeekWire

On Halo and Xbox Live: Ross credits Halo 2, and the synergy of its developer Bungie working with the Xbox team, for propelling Xbox Live into its prominent role on the Xbox platform. Look at mobile games right now, more than half of mobile gamers are women. “That kind of means that this term ‘gamer’ goes away.

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