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- Amid ugly job picture, tech related employment holds up
- The U.S. economy lost 62,000 jobs in June for the sixth straight month of employment losses with an unemployment rate of 5.5 percent, but underneath the technology sector is holding up well, according to Labor Department statistics. What a difference a downturn makes. Last...
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- News to know: Searching Silverlight; IE 8; Dell; Google vs. YouTube
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft: Silverlight content searchable, too Ryan Stewart: Brian Goldfarb talks about Silverlight 2 and Deep Zoom with Michael Cot LineRider releases a Silverlight 2 version Microsoft steps up self-policing of its OSI-approved source licenses ...
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- Does True Knowledge see value in distance from the bubble?
- The flurry of attention around yesterday's Microsoft/ Powerset news set me thinking once more about UK-based True Knowledge, which has been compared with Microsoft's latest acquisition. TechCrunch UK's Mike Butcher reported last month that nameless venture capital firms were valuing True Knowledge at about £20million ($40million), and...
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Happy Bubble (exe)
- Control the angle, and shoot! If the bubble come into contact with identically coloured bubbles, forming a group of three or more, those bubbles, and any bubbles hanging only from them, are removed, and points are awarded depending on how many bubbles are removed. As the game proceeds all the...
- Software downloads 2008-07-01
- The Steve Jobs Standard
- Ever since the black turtlenecked one appeared at the Worldwide Developers Conference, there has been no shortage of discussion about the health of Steve Jobs, the worry that he is mortal and who might succeed him.There's the photo by photo rundown of the increasingly thin Jobs. There's the discussion...
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- 2009 Nissan GT-R
- Photo gallery:2009 Nissan GT-R It must be Christmas, because a 2009 Nissan GT-R showed up in our garage. Just like how we spent 1973 transfixed by commercials for the Vertibird Rescue Ship toy, we slathered over every specification sheet and photo of the new GT-R since the concept was shown...
- Product reviews 2008-06-27
- Gates' next act is to step into vaccine controversy
- Gates' next act is to step into vaccine controversyGates Next ACTWhat's surprising about this?Carl Icahn thinks he knows how to run Yahoo!.The medical community has a pretty set way of choosing to adopt generalized treatments, and a lot of consideration goes to cost vs benefit. Bill will have to...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
- Hey, kids! IT isn't boring!
- Hey, kids! IT isn't boring!There is no future in ITThe IT bubble bust around 2000 was only the tip of the ice burg. Today, IT is a mediocre industry that has an ecosystem of incompetent and insufficiently educated people from the "IT Recruiters/HR", the people doing the hiring to the...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
- Samsung SGH-T229 - red (T-Mobile)
- Photo gallery:Samsung SGH-T229If a U.S. carrier offers a basic camera phone these days, chances are that it's from Samsung. Over the past year, particularly during the autumn of 2007, the manufacturer released a deluge of such models, with more than a few landing at T-Mobile. Now we greet the latest...
- Product reviews 2008-06-23
- Bulls in the corn field, beware! Ethanol from corn? Mooooo.
- Those are market bulls of the two-legged sort similar to the ones currently jacking up crude oil futures. The next great investment bubble may focus on the fields of Iowa. Today's Department of Agriculture numbers on the American corn crop (the world's largest) are not encouraging for corn...
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- Thinking about multicore and software
- Informit.com recently ran a fascinating Andrew Binstock interview with Donald Knuth touching on some of the same topics we discuss here - programming methods, the value of open source, and the links between programming and hardware change. I want to get...
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- The search engine conundrum
- The search engine conundrumlove it!Great article. More please...garyAll search engines lack clarityThe simple truth is all text-based search engines lack clarity and reliability.Whenever I search for something, there are literally thousands of ranked results that have nothing to do with what I am doing, and why? Because there...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-06
- Retro Games Pack (zip)
- Retro Game Pack is a collection of classic games that include retro, dressup pacman, asteroids, space invaders, qbert, tetris, sonic, bubble bobble, and frogger, online or off. 100% free download, fast loading games. Instant loading of games and great for all games lovers. Play flash games on your PC desktop...
- Software downloads 2008-06-04
- Jobs or air pollution--is this a false dicotomy?
- It looks like battles over the environment and global warming are likely to be central to the American political system for months, perhaps years, to come. Right now the punditocracy and the lobbyists on both sides are tossing rockets over a bill about global warming. The bill is...
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- How healthy is John McCain?
- How healthy is John McCain?Doesn't matter anyway.The question you should ask is how cranky are his policies and the viewpoints of his vice president. After all that person will step in if John keels over. Besides you should have blogged on his viewpoints on tech to make it related.The problem...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-30
- News to know: Bill Gates & Steve Ballmer; Microsoft's Windows Advisor; Flash Zero Day; Linux vs MSND
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft readies new 'don't blame Windows' tool And Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer @D6 Vista Team blog: Microsoft demonstrates Multi-touch News.com: Gates and Ballmer at D6: The movie News.com: Windows 7 demo at D6:...
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Bubble thinking
- Bubble thinkingVCs lose other peoples moneyDennis,Thanks for the link. I guess I wasn't very clear in my writing...and perhaps not my thinking either.One point I was making is that the bubble is different this time becuase when it bursts it will be professional VCs that get hurt, not individual investors...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-27
- Bubble thinking
- This story from Don Dodge is almost guaranteed to get the bubblehead bar-room investment experts speculating about whether we are in an investment bubble and whether it is in what Don describes as stage two where: Stage Two is more dangerous. Many people agree that we are in a...
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- Nokia N95-3 (North American model) firmware update version 20.2.011 is now available
- I know that Ricky Cadden from the Symbian-Guru.com site has been waiting very anxiously for the Nokia N95-3 North American version to be upgraded to version 20.2.xxx and Nokia stated that the update would be coming in June. According to users on Howard Forums Nokia was able to release...
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- Tra-Verse (zip)
- Tra-Verse is a program designed to help busy people to inject a little bit of the Bible into their day, via Windows system tray pop-up bubbles. Clicking the tray icon will bring up the main window and minimize back to the tray. The 'x' button also minimizes to the tray....
- Software downloads 2008-05-27
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