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Leon Meijer — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:53:26 GMT

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The Shift Happens, now you know

Leon Meijer — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:22:26 GMT

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KPN bids to buy Getronics

Leon Meijer — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:38:25 GMT

The dutch telecom company KPN has made a €6.25 a share cash offer to take over the IT services group Getronics. Thats 766 million euros ($1.1 billion).

And today KPN announched that they already bought 10 percent of the shares.

Actually, the colors green (KPN), blue (Getronics) and pink (PinkRoccade) look beautiful together! :-)

Facts about the Microsoft revenue

Leon Meijer — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:53:09 GMT

Microsoft made a nice $4.93 billion on revenue of $14.4 billion in one quarter. That is a profit of 34.24%. Lots of companies are jealous.

It takes Microsoft only about...

10 hours or so (yes, hours!) to exceed Red Hat's (NYSE: RHT - News) quarterly net income of $20.5 million.

four days to exceed Research In Motion's (NasdaqGS: RIMM) quarterly net income of $187.9 million.

four days to exceed Starbucks' (NasdaqGS: SBUX) quarterly net income of $205 million.

one week to exceed Nike's (NYSE: NKE - News) quarterly net income of $350.8 million.

two weeks to exceed McDonalds' (NYSE: MCD - News) quarterly net income of $762 million.

two weeks to exceed Apple's (NasdaqGS: AAPL) quarterly net income of $770 million.

18 days to exceed Google's (NasdaqGS: GOOG) quarterly net income of $1 billion.

23 days to exceed Coca-Cola's (NYSE: KO - News) quarterly net income of $1.26 billion.

five weeks to exceed IBM's (NYSE: IBM - News) quarterly net income of $1.85 billion.

10 weeks to exceed Wal-Mart's (NYSE: WMT - News) quarterly net income of $3.9 billion.

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Revolutionizing UI: Microsoft Surface

Leon Meijer — Wed, 30 May 2007 09:25:15 GMT

Microsoft showed its forthcoming product that revolutionizes the way humans interact with software and hardware. I recently saw videos of 3D interfaces like the BumpTop 3D Desktop Prototype and the demo done by Jeff Han. Now Microsoft shows their version of it.

Check out this super cool Microsoft website: www.microsoft.com/surface and/or watch this awesome video from On10.net. I remember that Bill Gates showed this technology earlier at the CES (January 2006). That time, this technology was called TouchLight. It seems that its now rebranded to Microsoft Surface.

Surface works only with special equipment. The screen is made of holographic glass which displays images from the projector underneath. Two cameras aimed at the glass triangulate objects on it. And the good news for software developers: the software is written in Windows Presentation Foundation. This defenitly shows the great potential of WPF.

Microsoft's partners release products based on this technology by the end of the year. Now we have to wait until this technology becomes cheaper. The projector, glass, cameras, pc and software are expensive, at least $ 5000.

Flying to Bangalore... delayed... medical problems

Leon Meijer — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:46:19 GMT

I am currently in an Air France Airbus A340 airplane. Everything went fine this morning, my colleagues picked me up from home, we travelled to the Schiphol Airport, checked in and took the airplane from Amsterdam to Paris . I'm really excited to go!

The Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris has very strict security checks. We had to wait for a long time in the queue. The security offers checked my handbagage for almost everything lol.... my laptop was even tested for nuclear stuff. When everything was ok we got into the airplane, where I still am lol. The plane was already moving until somebody from the cabin crew got a medical problem. I don't know whats happening now... we'll have to see. Unfortunatly.

I hope that I can write my next article from my hotel (www.presidenthotel.in) in Bangalore, India.

Check the photos here (i upload some pics already!): http://www.flickr.com/photos/leonmeijer/sets/72157600104405126/

Going to the CeBIT tomorrow!

Leon Meijer — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:12:25 GMT

Tomorrow (Saturday) I will go to the CeBIT, together with Marvin. The CeBIT is one of the largest technology fairs in the world and is being held in Hannover, Germany from 18th - 24th March.

In Hannover, we'll meet Mathieu, Jorrit, Maarten, Thijs and Hilco, colleagues of mine. I will visit the booths of Wibu, MindTree, Adapt and Logitech for sure and hope to see many many more! The last 2 years, I visited the CeBIT with Lennert and stayed 2 days which was already too short. This year I will go 1 day, because I need to be back on Sunday for Dave's birthday.

I will write about my impressions and new cool products!