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- White Space devices pass key technical test
- White space devices -- which take advantage of used portions of the television spectrum -- have passed the "burden of proof" stage, the FCC says. They work, and they don't interfere with TV or wireless mics. If we actually get wireless net on white space spectrum, it will have...
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- ebay beats Q3, adjusts guidance for Q4, FY08
- eBay reported third quarter earnings today, beating Wall Street's expectations with revenues of $2.12 billion, up $228 million from the third quarter of 2007. It reported non-GAAP profits of $592 million, or 46 cents per share. GAAP profits were $492 million, or 38 cents per share. Analysts had been expecting...
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- The final debate: Don't expect Obama and McCain to spar over net neutrality
- When John McCain and Barack Obama take the stage tonight for the final debate before the election, I expect to hear plenty about the economy, domestic issues and foreign policy. What I don't expect to hear about is net neutrality, wireless spectrum or broadband. In tech circles,...
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Open source and the bottom line
- It has been a hard decade for software billionaires and the next decade will be just as hard. Because the open source genie is not going back into the lamp. But net-net, the world is much better for it. The bottom line is in the eye of the beholder. by...
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- News to know: Gartner, Firefox 3.1, Apple notebook event, Intel
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Hiner: Gartner: Top 10 technologies to watch over the next three years Larry Dignan: IT's challenges: The end of device charging; ROI; Super programmers ...
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- The Future looks very Cloudy
- I've just attended the one day, highly-focused executive 'Cloud Summit' conference. The Cloud—used to describe everything from internet-based computing utilities to Software as a Service — was examined and its future impact explored within the highly appropriate venue of the Silicon Valley Computer History Museum. ...
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Intel barely beats for Q3
- Intel reported net income of $2 billion, or 35 cents per share, for the third quarter, up from $1.8 billion and 30 cents a year ago. Revenue was $10.2 billion for its third quarter, up 1 percent over the same quarter a year ago. statement Analysts had expected the company...
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Jobs: “Blu-ray is just a bag of hurtâ€�
- Jobs: “Blu-ray is just a bag of hurtâ€�I get the feeling that Apple is worried thatif they placed a Blu-Ray disc into the unit that it would cut down on rentals thru iTunes.In that case it would appear that Blu-Ray has little need of Apple.Care to back that up?[i]I get...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- Gartner: The Net killed media; Financial services, healthcare next
- Gartner: The Net killed media; Financial services, healthcare nextSooo?This means we can find affordable health care? Doctors who will actually take the time to examine us? Doctors who actually know what is wrong with us? Rather than those who simply listen to our symptoms and hand us a bunch of...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- Digging into the Silverlight 2 announcement
- Digging into the Silverlight 2 announcementEclipseRyan - I guess the point with the Eclipse stuff is to appeal to Java developers who don't want to step out of Eclipse to do RIA development, much the same approach Adobe took with Flex.RE: Digging into the Silverlight 2 announcementHey Ryan,I totally agree...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- Gartner: The Net killed media; Financial services, healthcare next
- The Internet has killed the basic economics of the media industry and healthcare and the financial services industry may be next. That's the message from one of Gartner's so-called "maverick" presentations where analysts go out on a limb. Mark Stahlman and Michael McGuire did the presentation at...
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Still pushing the obvious: Sun Ray
- Still pushing the obvious: Sun RayGreat for the environment to!Lasting up to 20 years and pulling 8-10 watts ( inc. network overhead ) reduces materials energy and waste... And once you buy more than IRO 50, cheaper purchase price, running costs, support maintenance updates and no upgrades...So why would any...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- OK, now OpenOffice is definitely good enough
- OK, now OpenOffice is definitely good enoughSadly, it falls short of my needsI have a spreadsheet that works beautifully in Excel. It's unbelievably slow for OpenOffice Calc. 12 minutes to open, each drop down takes 2 minutes to register.No scripts, just formulas.RE: OK, now OpenOffice is definitely good...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-13
- And Windows 7 is to be called ... Windows 7
- And Windows 7 is to be called ... Windows 7And this new naming scheme will last.......until next time, when they'll abandon yet another naming scheme and decide to call the new version something stupid, like "Windows Supercalafragalisticexpialodocius", or "Windows ∞"So, it's official....Vista II will be called Windows 7. Hmmmmmm....That's...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-13
- CEOs freak out; IT preps a do-over
- CEOs freak out; IT preps a do-overMy perception of CEOsMy perception of CEOs:1. Company makes a profit, CEO gets a pay raise and a bonus.2. Company loses money, CEO fires people and still gets a pay raise and a bonus.3. Company files for bankruptcy, CEO gets a severance package for...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-13
- Does the credit crunch represent a silver lining for open source?
- Does the credit crunch represent a silver lining for open source?I've gotten the same questionsRecently, I've gotten a lot of questions regarding both open-source software, but more importantly extending the life of existing hardware. Most people are trying to squeeze as much life out of their hardware as possible, whether...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-13
- 9/11 suspects get laptop, no Net
- 9/11 suspects get laptop, no NetWhy not just Crayolas & paper?nt12 hours of battery life?Man, I'd just about kill to get 12 hours of battery in my laptop.Oh wait... Looks like this guy already did just that.RE: 9/11 suspects get laptop, no NetHell, that's a lot more than I'd do...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-13
- Silverlight 2: Google Chrome support, yes; iPhone, no
- Silverlight 2: Google Chrome support, yes; iPhone, noThe choose their words carefully. Like "has access to" a computer withSilverlight. They might lead you to think that one in four computers has Silverlight installed. But, NO, that just means one in four persons has access somewhere, somehow, to Silverlight, though possibly...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-13
- 9/11 suspects get laptop, no Net
- Al Qaeda leader Khalid Sheik Mohammed gets a laptop and 12 hours of battery time a day, but no Internet. That's what a military judge ruled last week, according to the Miami Herald. The issue in the 9/11 trail of Mohammed and his coconspirators is what resources they...
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- The candidates on tech
- Wired has the obligatory candidates-on-tech piece today. They look at five key tech issues – broadband, H1B, green tech, net neutrality and spectrum – although TechPresident notes the list is not comprehensive and conceivably is biased towards Obama. Here's the breakdown. Broadband. McCain: D....
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
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