It must be summer. These are slow news days, while everyone heads out to the beaches and cottages. For instance, this morning:
- The Register reports half of all European calls will be mobile in 2008. They're raising the alarm for fixed-line carriers. Not exactly surprising, that.
- Microsoft will release Works 9.0 as ad-funded software. Finally. How long has the been speculated about?
- The US House of Representatives has passed a unanimous motion demanding that Canada stop the slaughter of baby seals. I guess now that they've debated Bush into a corner on Iraq, they've run out of other work. Take a vacation, guys.
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
