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- Dell Studio 15
- Parsing the intended markets for Dell's ever-shifting in-house brand names requires a bit of tea-leaf reading, although it's been easier of late, with the company stripping down its consumer brands to just the Inspiron and XPS lines. Now the company is adding a new line between the budget Inspiron and...
- Product reviews 2008-06-26
- Indiana Jones swings into theaters on computer-generated rope
- Fans have waited 19 years since the last Indiana Jones movie for this latest installment in the series, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. A lot has changed since then, especially the technology used to make its computer-generated images. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi talks with the computer graphics supervisor for the...
- Videos 2008-05-28
- Adding up Sun's pieces
- Adding up Sun's piecesFocus on the small businessIf Sun wants to monetize their strategy have a separate sales channel focus on the SMB's that don't have deep pockets and entrenched technology and are willing to listen when someone says there is a better cheaper way of doing things.Sun has too...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-22
- MB Tea Leaf Reading (exe)
- MB Tea Leaf Reading is an effective divination tool, which is based on the art of reading the tea leaves. This involves the art or practice of predicting fortune and interpreting the near future from the tea leaves. This is completely free program, and the best part lies in the...
- Software downloads 2008-05-22
- Insects using plants as phones
- A team of Dutch ecologists has found that subterranean and aboveground herbivorous insects use plants to communicate. 'Subterranean insects issue chemical warning signals via the leaves of the plant. This way, aboveground insects are alerted that the plant is already occupied.' This means that by using 'green telephone lines,' the...
- Blog posts 2008-04-27
- Modeling urban road networks
- According to New Scientist, two physicists from France and the U.S. have developed a simple mathematical model which shows how urban road networks evolve. Their model shows that urban street patterns and leaf pattern formation follow similar rules. The researchers validated their theoretical model by analyzing real road networks in...
- Blog posts 2008-04-26
- Turning over a new leaf at Quark
- Turning over a new leaf at QuarkQuark CEO spinNice spin by Quark's CEO on Quark 7.0, 7.01, 7.2, 7.3 and whatever may come next. These releases were much less enhanced functionality and much more bug fixing. Each of the downloads was in excess of 300 Mb. Quark...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-31
- News to know: OOXML; Adobe AIR for Linux; Copyright; Best midrange hardware
- Notable headlines: Paula Rooney: Microsoft's OOXML gets ISO approval ... maybe Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft OOXML standardization bid: The clock is ticking OOXML standard vote down to the wire Christopher Dawson: OOXML vs. ODF - Should Ed Tech care? ...
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- Any former Microsoft execs looking to turn over a new leaf?
- Any former Microsoft execs looking to turn over a new leaf?About rightMS is enormously wealthy, but at the cost of their reputation Hugh Hefner is rich too. OLPC doesn't need that.Enough with the sarcasm, alreadyObviously (regarding Negroponte's previous statements about Microsoft) the quote is simply equating "Microsoft" with "ubiquitous,"...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-07
- Any former Microsoft execs looking to turn over a new leaf?
- Just a brief post that was too hard to resist before I finish prepping for my physics class: According to Ars Technica, the OLPC is seeking a CEO to help the group transition from an academic and philanthropic exercise to a functioning non-profit business. While most...
- Blog posts 2008-03-07
- It's good news, bad news: Microsoft gets its Internet act together
- It's good news, bad news: Microsoft gets its Internet act togetherThey had no choice...Back when Vista was Longhorn, the Microsoft hope was that fat client applications would use Internet protocols to deliver content to the desktop. The problem was that nobody was creating fat client applications anymore. By the time...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-06
- New majority loses nerve on net neutrality
- Now that Democrats have a majority in Congress, they are losing their appetite for direct confrontation with the phone monopolies over network neutrality. HR 5353, introduced by Rep. Edward Markey, carries no enforcement provision on network neutrality, and even carries the co-sponsorship of a neutrality opponent, Rep....
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
- Really odd internet usage risks
- Really odd internet usage risksThat's why......I always push new wireless users to set up security. When I recommend it, they frequently respond by saying that they're not doing anything anyone would really care about, and it's not worth it.After I point out that someone could use their connection to...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-12
- Small outage at Salesforce.com, not many upset
- Compared to the furore that used to greet Salesforce.com outages, yesterday's problems on three of its eight instances — including one of the five North American instances — has aroused little ire [disclosure: Salesforce.com is a client]. eWeek's coverage illustrates how difficult it is to stir up...
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- Pink iPod - Guess Valentine's Day is closer that I'd thought
- Earlier this morning the Apple online store was down and when it came back up my eyes were assaulted by pink. Pink iPods that is. I guess Valentine's Day is a lot closer that I'd thought it was. Apart from the lurid pink color (well, it doesn't...
- Blog posts 2008-01-22
- Why DIDN'T the MacBook Air get the new 45nm CPU?
- Why DIDN'T the MacBook Air get the new 45nm CPU?George Ou thank you for once, for not bashing APPLE. Top 10 thing wrong with MacBook Air[url=http://apcmag.com/7839/macbook_air_top_10_things_wrong_with_it]FYI[/url]Reason #11: It's a dongle.Design Time must have been a killer.The advantage to many PCs are that they work well with Top Down design. ...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-16
- Microsoft softens limits on its Windows Web Server
- Microsoft softens limits on its Windows Web ServerPostgreSQL comes to mindCouple others. This is a step in the right direction, especially getting rid of the CAL's, but I just don't trust MS. It's too little, too late. Perfect example...I have a token Windows box on my home...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-05
- Microsoft adds a new subscription licensing plan for SMBs
- Microsoft adds a new subscription licensing plan for SMBsComing Down Off Their High-HorseMicrosoft offers a Vista two-for dealMicrosoft softens limits on its Windows Web ServerMicrosoft adds a new subscription licensing plan for SMBsMicrosoft and Samba finally come to terms over Windows protocols Microsoft agrees to cooperate with the European UnionMicrosoft...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-05
- The state of Unix (Jun 18/07)
- As most people know Linus Torvalds tore a rant out of Sun last week - here's part of what he said: Here's a cynical prediction but backed up by past behaviour of Sun: - first off: they may be...
- Blog posts 2007-12-26
- Green Tech boon, here comes the money from new U.S. energy law
- Green Tech boon, here comes the money from new U.S. energy lawEthanol = ButanolAnyone know if the non-corn fuel assistance will apply to the production of Butanol which is superior to ethanol in use and would need less capital expenditure to create a plant processing lignocellulosic feedstocks than producing...
- Discussion threads 2007-12-19
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