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- Yahoo Buzz! opens up, let the gaming begin
- Buzz, Yahoo's social news site and "meme tracker", has opened its submission process so that any site on the Web can now be 'buzzed'. Prior to today, only select publishers were allowed into the program, with around 400 sites vying for the top prize of being featured on the Yahoo.com...
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- DEFCON 16: List of tools and stuff released
- Guest editorial by Rob Fuller DEFCON, the 9000+ attendee hacker conference in Vegas has become a sort of hydra conference. It has become more like a global fair than what most people think of conferences; even the badge is highly...
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Maintain an automated networked database? GraphOn wants to sue you
- GraphOn is suing Google for patent infringement and the company appears to be doing a nice imitation of NTP, the company that made its name by suing Research in Motion. GraphOn is going for gold in the patent troll Olympics. In a statement Monday, GraphOn said it...
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Yeah, I needed to fly to San Francisco to see this...
- Yeah, I needed to fly to San Francisco to see this...Hrumph!This gives geeks a bad name. Worse even than ponytails, Van Dyke beards, pocket protectors, geocaching, or one-button mice.OT: languageYou frequently use Yiddish terms oy vey. Do you speak it? I find this almost vanished language interesting, both because of...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-08
- Apple's coming notebook transition
- Apple's coming notebook transitionBarking up the wrong tree?I think it might be something else.I think Hell may have frozen over again.What if this 'transition' is actually Apple making MacOS X available for the general PC public as a purchasable product?Think about it. Everyone said Apple would never use Intel....
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Virgin Mobile Arc
- Photo gallery:Virgin Mobile ArcVirgin Mobile is known for its entry-level phones with catchy names, and the Arc by UTStarcom is no different. The Arc sets itself apart from the rest of Virgin Mobile's lineup with a unique and very appealing curved design. Otherwise, it has a decidedly basic feature set,...
- Product reviews 2008-07-22
- Kids NetLinks (zip)
- Kids NetLinks provides kids and parents the easiest method available for providing the top kids website's shortcuts to kids learning and fun websites with matching custom wallpapers, along with matching selections for updates to I.E. homepage. URLs include Barney, Elmo, Sesame Street, Thomas the Train, and more. Add shortcuts from...
- Software downloads 2008-07-22
- Legg Mason takes Yahoo's side vs. Icahn; Yang takes campaign to home page
- Updated: Yahoo's argument that billionaire investor Carl Icahn is a short-timer with no clear plan to run the company has won over a key investor: Legg Mason. In addition, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang is taking the company's campaign to its home page. In a broadcast to employees...
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Microsoft's search ambitions are its Vietnam
- Microsoft's search ambitions are its VietnamMicrosoft's search ambitions are its VietnamThe simple answer is no. Microsoft has Google envy? Since when? Google has been in constant decline for a couple of years now. Microsoft on the other hand has been growing. Their interest in search is...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- New version of Gmail iGoogle gadget
- Google just released a new version of the Gmail iGoogle gadget that, for the most part, is a fully functioning interface for your Gmail. You can do everything from read, delete, mark as spam, and compose messages right from your homepage. It's remarkably good, and a lot faster...
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Apple extends MobileMe subs after rocky launch
- Apple extends MobileMe subs after rocky launchFabulous......so when can we expect to see all the indignant topics on Apple's release of a sub-standard product which failed to deliver on its launch date? I'm sure we can also expect to see the same level of vituperation as we've come to...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-16
- Microhoo mudslinging: Icahn says Yahoo distorts facts of offer; Microsoft agrees
- The Microhoo saga gets messier by the minute and will probably get worse as we near the Aug. 1 shareholder meeting where Carl Icahn tries to boot Yahoo's board and CEO Jerry Yang. We're back to dueling letters again and the saga is very messy Techmeme. On...
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- Google trying to take privacy seriously
- This week was a very interesting week as far as Google and privacy goes. First, a burglary the same on that affected CNET earlier last month was confirmed to have affected all Google employees hired before December 31, 2005. There's nothing Google could have done about it, but it's...
- Blog posts 2008-07-05
- Hyper-V: The no-brainer virtualization stack for Windows
- Hyper-V: The no-brainer virtualization stack for WindowsWindows.So do you have to run a full version of Windows and then on top of that run Hyper V and then on top of that run your guests? Or can Hyper V be installed bare metal?RE: Hyper-V: The no-brainer virtualization stack for WindowsIt...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- Google launches new iGoogle and artist themes
- Google launches new iGoogle and artist themesNot live for all yetDoesn't look like it's live for me yet, but I'll keep checking. The "artiest" themes are actually "ARTIST" themes, and these have been out for at least a month. :)RE: Google launches new iGoogle and artist themesI've had this...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
- Linguras Standard Dictionary: English - German (exe)
- The Standard Edition contains more than 190.000 keywords (English & German) and over 416.000 entries. Here you will find keywords from all areas of daily life, but also terms from specialist areas, for example: economy, law, and technology are all covered to a certain extent. Translations are possible in both...
- Software downloads 2008-06-20
- Linguras Professional Dictionary: English - German (exe)
- The Professional Edition contains more than 246.000 keywords (English & German) and over 487.000 entries. Along with the keywords of the Standard Edition you will find additional terms in the areas of economy, law, technology, computer, internet, medicine, mathematics, civil engineering and travelling. Translations are possible in both language directions....
- Software downloads 2008-06-20
- Openness
- I've been privileged to be around some amazing people recently, first at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston and now this week at SuperNova, Wharton Business school's conference, which this year explored "how decentralization and pervasive connectivity are changing our world". My take away word of the...
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- Corporate intranets via SaaS are the future but are not without risk
- Earlier this year Forrester Research published its "Top Enterprise Web 2.0 Predictions for 2008." Since oftentimes predictions are made and then forgotten, I thought the halfway point of 2008 would be a good time to check in with Forrester's Jeremiah Owyang, senior analyst covering social computing, a frequent speaker and...
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- SharePoint gets an open-source podcasting add-on
- As part of its ongoing campaign to emphasize SharePoint Server's social-computing capabilities, Microsoft rolled out on June 9 a test version of the Podcast Kit for SharePoint PKS, which it is making available under an open-source license. PKS is built on the Microsoft Silverlight platform and is...
- Blog posts 2008-06-09










