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- ROFLthing 2008
- Have you ever been to an internet culture conference? Earlier this year, Harvard senior Tim Hwang threw one in Cambridge, Mass., and it was a massive success. This time, Hwang wanted to have a smaller get together in San Francisco to chat about memes. Welcome to ROFLthing...
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Video: Can Psystar take a bite out of Apple?
- ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks with Senior Editor Sam Diaz about the brewing suit-countersuit situation between Apple and Psystar. In an effort to quash the sale of Psystar's cheap Mac OS-running computers and preserve its carefully crafted image and reputation, Apple sued the Miami-based company. Now Psystar has lobbed back...
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- News to know: Dell; Comcast's cap; Yahoo Mash RIP; Google Apps
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Dell: Turnaround interuptus as share grab hurts net, margins Google, Mozilla extend search box deal Jason Hiner: Sprint unveils location-based 'geobrowsing' on...
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Android Market is Google's competitor to the Apple iPhone store
- I was sent a link to the Android Community site this morning that led to the Android Developers blog post on the upcoming Android Market that looks to rival the Apple iPhone store for Android-powered devices. They decided to call it a market rather than a store to try to...
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Windows 7 pricing thoughts - Is Windows too expensive?
- Windows 7 pricing thoughts - Is Windows too expensive?It is an apt comparison>Your Ubunutu/Vista comparison doesn't pass the common sense test. Think about what you can get with Ubuntu-- Compiz Fusion for eye candy, drive encryption, MythTV DVR app, OpenOffice.org, ect. You have to get Ultimate Windows to get all...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Windows 7 pricing thoughts - Is Windows too expensive?
- I'm really hoping that Steven Sinofsky will kick off a discussion about Windows 7 pricing over on the Engineering Windows 7 blog sometime soon. I'm not holding my breath because the chances of seeing an open debate on pricing is highly unlikely, but I can dream, can't I? by Adrian...
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Google, Mozilla extend search box deal
- That little Google search box in the upper right part of your Firefox browser will be sticking around through 2011, according to Mozilla. Mitchell Baker, Chairwoman of the Mozilla Foundation or Chief Lizard Wrangler depending on what you prefer, said in a blog post that Google has...
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Why does Safari stink?
- Why does Safari stink?Safari on iPhone is even worseSafari on a Mac should work at least as well as Firefox. but on the iPhone it crashes regularly or locks up the iPhone. And it appears Apple's licensing is designed to preclude any competition:"Apple's software requirements for the device are too...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Windows 7 must avoid the marketing trap that Vista stumbled into
- I've been following the Engineering Windows 7 blog closely and I've come to the conclusion that while Steven Sinofsky is a man of many words, those words don't say an awful lot. However, the other day Sinofsky did say something quite interesting. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- IDC: 2Q Server units up; Price war looms; IBM keeps market share lead
- IDC: 2Q Server units up; Price war looms; IBM keeps market share leadWhat about number of units?Looks like these "market share" figures are based on revenue, right? Don't you have any info on units installed? A cheaper alternative will always show a lower revenue share; a free alternative will show...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- SaaS market will 'collapse' in two years
- SaaS market will 'collapse' in two yearsHe doesn't get itSo to summarize Debes (who comes off a little like Vinny from da mob or a coke dealer - his words, not mine):(1) SaaS and Cloud computing as a delivery vehicle has been tried before and therefore will fail (like all...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Guns n Roses leaker faces prison time
- How he got ahold of them, he's not saying but LA blogger Kevin Cogill did get ahold and posted unreleased songs from a new Guns n Roses album, Chinese Democracy. Cogill awoke Wednesday to find five FBI agents hauling his ass into a federal district court, charged for...
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Are gamers doping during tournaments?
- It's not typical Toybox fare, but it made me wonder just what kind of "toys" people are keeping in their toyboxes these days. A fascinating recent Gameplayer interview chronicles some tokin' and smokin' at the World Cyber Games in Germany, with the Tournament Director's full knowledge: ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Steve Jobs death has been greatly exaggerated
- Steve Jobs death has been greatly exaggeratedNormal operating procedureAll major news organizations have prewritten obits for prominent people, with those notes about who to contact for comment in the event of that person's death.This is done so as to avoid inaccuracies that often pop up when the news media has...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- What's in IE 8 for enterprise users?
- What's in IE 8 for enterprise users?The biggest thing in IE8 for the enterprise: continued compatibilityproblems and continued foot dragging on the standards front. Also very slow JavaScript. Much slower than the already released version of FireFox, Opera, and Safari. Pretty sad . . . .RE: What's in IE 8...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- News to know: IE 8; iPhone password locks; SOA; Palm Treo Pro reviews
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: IE 8 Beta 2 ready for download Ed Bott: Internet Explorer 8 gets a massive makeover Gallery: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Resurrecting E-voting
- Resurrecting E-votingDifficulty of subverting voting machinesIt seems to me that any system can be tampered with to render the vote dishonest. However, some configurations make such tampering very hard while others are much easier to subvert. You should talk about the relative difficulty and not whether or not...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Codename of the day: Nitrogen
- Codename of the day: NitrogenCodeword - "Infection"Can't think why ZDnet aren't trumpeting Microsoft's latest embarassing achievement -Wonder if the US army's robots will be running 'Hasta La Vista'?http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7583805.stmNasa has confirmed that laptops carried to the ISS in July were infected with a Windows virus known as Gammima.AG.The worm was...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- How do we address the have-nots?
- How do we address the have-nots?It's the NetThe problem is no longer the availability of hardware: many computers are being dumped that can easily be made productive again, by installing a lean Linux on it like Xubuntu. So poor people can have a fine computer for free. That's easy to...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tr/downloads/home/dl_access_return_record.pdf
- If you get interrupted while working on a record in an Access form, finding your way back to it can be time-consuming. Here are two ways to bookmark the current record so that you can hop straight to it when you reopen the form.This download is also available as an...
- Download resources 2008-08-28
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