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- Vringo for Android beta (Mobile)
- Vringo is the next-generation ringtone. With its award-winning video ringtone application, Vringo takes a sledgehammer to the traditional call signature, transforming the basic act of making and receiving mobile phone calls into a highly visual, social experience. By installing Vringo's application, which is compatible with more than 200 handsets, users...
- Software downloads 2009-10-02
- Asus Eee PC spotted running Android, Qualcomm CPU
- Asus Eee PC spotted running Android, Qualcomm CPUNiceEncode and decode 720p video, embedded GPS and cell modem. Can't wait to see what will be coming in the next few years. Time for the big pushIf ever there was a time for chipmakers to break the market away from the x86...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-01
- The Macintosh turns 25 (and how it was almost a Bicycle)
- Tomorrow, 24 January 2009, is the 25th anniversary of the Macintosh. On that fateful day in 1984 Apple released a little toaster of a personal computer that went on to become the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a graphical user interface. The embedded video...
- Blog posts 2009-01-23
- Vringo Mobile Application (Java) 2.0 (Mobile)
- Vringo is the next-generation ringtone. With its award-winning video ringtone application, Vringo takes a sledgehammer to the traditional call signature, transforming the basic act of making and receiving mobile phone calls into a highly visual, social experience. By installing Vringo's application, which is compatible with more than 200 handsets, users...
- Software downloads 2009-01-14
- Report: Chinese hack into White House network
- Report: Chinese hack into White House networkI'm not surprised.The first thing Bush's aids did was to switch everything over to Microsoft "solutions". Serves us right. I hope they found some good juicy stuff and put it up on the Internet.RE: Report: Chinese hack into White House networkand sometimes...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-07
- Surviving a lightning strike: Shock and awe
- Swaddled in air-conditioned comfort, sipping a Diet Coke I hardly noticed the late afternoon thunderstorm that blew in last Friday. They're a common occurrence in central North Carolina in the summer time; so I continued with my work secure in my technological web. In the background I could hear the...
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- A slim API for OOXML
- One of things that originally made me want more information about Microsoft Office document formats was the need to harvest data from documents uploaded to web sites, as well as to generate Excel spreadsheets that served as mini-applications for data entry by people in the field. This need occurred to me...
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
- Is the boom in kiddie porn a Net effect or is 'victimless' behavior unduly punished?
- The Internet was one termed a "cult machine" and that may appear to be the case with child pornography. It was almost snuffed out in the domain of mail order and adult book shops but with the Internet it is a huge, sprawling blight on society, seemingly ever-growing. According to...
- Blog posts 2007-12-17
- Office Live Workspace narrows Google App gap while playing to MS-Office's strengths
- Office Live Workspace narrows Google App gap while playing to MS-Office's strengthsWhat do I think?Microsoft,Microsoft,rah,rah,rah.Microsoft is the bestest software maker around.Microsoft,Microsoft,rah,rah,rah.Useless - still requires MS OfficeYou need Office on your local machine and you can only exploit all of the features if you are using Outlook and its screen sharing...
- Discussion threads 2007-12-10
- Leopard and Vista - Has the photocopying gone too far?
- Leopard and Vista - Has the photocopying gone too far?You have no standing...I have long used both platforms. On my latest "XPerience" with a **new** HP notebook with XP Pro/SP2 constantly updated, I could not just close the cover and pack it up (but I can on my 3-year-old+...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-30
- Don't give up on Vista
- Don't give up on VistaBut... but... but... Apple is a hardware company!At least that is what the zealots tell us. So why is Apple going after Vista? It would be like Ford telling you not to drink Pepsi! Unless... the zealots... gasp... were wrong?!?!One more thingAs bad as Vista may...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-21
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- nullFDISKFdisk will zero out the drive but there are means of recovering data from drives that have been erased that way. All it takes is time and money.Fdisk won't cut itSorry there but even using fdisk and a reformat will not make the data unrecoverable. You actually need to...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-12
- Bricked iPhone users sought for class-action suit against Apple: what do you think?
- Bricked iPhone users sought for class-action suit against Apple: what do you think?It's not the warranty they should contest...They need to find out if Apple intentionaly iBricked their phones. If they did, that's malicious property damage.Apple is Facist, Apple is Communist, Apple is BAD !It is one thing to...
- Discussion threads 2007-10-01
- Dreaming up a new defence contractor
- Dreaming up a new defence contractorPattern recognition fails when the pattern is changed.Streamers can confuse some tracking missiles.Suppose something similar here, a way to "blur" the surface signal. That could be a disguise, could be used to send the hunters in the wrong direction.A surface pattern isn't inherent in...
- Discussion threads 2007-05-22
- Eric Raymond's boot to Red Hat's head
- Many years ago, I was on the receiving end of Mr. Raymonds annoyance. Suffice to say, he is as brutally direct as a sledgehammer to the chest. That appears still to be the case, at least if his very public rejection of Red Hat is any indication. He sent his...
- Blog posts 2007-02-22
- FBI lost hundreds of laptops, weapons since 2002
- FBI lost hundreds of laptops, weapons since 2002Friggin Botched InquiriesYou know, if the FBI really was concerned about this, they'd hold their people accountable for it. However, like all government agencies, they are past masters at a$$-covering. Personally, if you lose your gun, short of having the entire...
- Discussion threads 2007-02-15
- Viacom's sledgehammer cracks User-Generated Content too
- Viacom's sledgehammer cracks User-Generated Content tooWhy even try to deal with Youtube?It is beyond me why anyone that uploads legit content would ever want to upload it to Youtube. Revver splits any potential revenue with you, and you have a wide variety of tools to spread your works. Granted, I...
- Discussion threads 2007-02-05
- Viacom's sledgehammer cracks User-Generated Content too
- When Viacom sent 100,000 DMCA take-down notices to YouTube, the words "sledgehammer" and "nut" came to mind. How could the company have trawled through the millions of videos hosted on YouTube, and picked out only the ones that infringed their copyright? Well, they didnt. Instead it appears that they simply...
- Blog posts 2007-02-05
- AOL goes digging for spammer's gold
- AOL goes digging for spammer's goldfirst thing I ever liked from AOLGood for them for making the spammers look stupid in a public way.AOL goes digging for spammer's goldAOL ain't no gold digger but they don't go for broke broke!Oh come on, if I didn't say it someone else would...
- Discussion threads 2006-08-16
- Most in industry letting Gates go quietly
- Most in industry letting Gates go quietlyHow does it make you feel?Bill how does it feel to have so little respect and admiration in the IT industry?A sad legacy, but you do have your money.Liar LiarWell, from a steadily accumulated knowledge on the workings of Gates over his years since...
- Discussion threads 2006-06-15
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