понедельник, 7 апреля 2008 г.
Microsoft ends its siesta, plays hardball
воскресенье, 6 апреля 2008 г.
Escape from social network frenzy?
With all the talk about social network aggregators over the past few weeks, you'd think they were going to reverse global warming.
Technology blogs have been chirping enthusiastically about "lifestreaming" services like FriendFeed and Socialthing, which claim to provide an answer to growing complaints about "social-networking fatigue." They sort ...
Smartphones will soon turn computing on its head
LAS VEGAS - There's almost as many people buying smartphones as there are people buying laptops, and that trend is about to turn the computing industry on its head.
"We do see that gravitational pull of the single-use device being played out in the market," said Nigel Clifford, CEO ...
суббота, 5 апреля 2008 г.
Don't buy a portable TV this year
Sorry little guy, but your days are numbered.
(Credit: Wal-Mart Stores)
Portable TVs can be great for camping or in case of emergency, but you're probably going to be getting ripped off if you buy one in 2008. That's because almost all portable TVs use standard analog TV signals, and those signals are going to get turned off on February 17, 2009. And even though these TVs are just about obsolete, you can still buy them at places like Target, Wal-mart Stores, and Amazon. Some of the pages have warnings about the impending DTV transition, but some of them don't.
While it is possible that someone will come out with a battery-powered DTV converter--which could work with a portable TV that has inputs--we wouldn't hold our breath. The FCC's DTV FAQ page already explicitly says, "it is not anticipated that battery powered digital-to-analog converter boxes will be produced," ...
пятница, 4 апреля 2008 г.
Intel MID shuns Microsoft, taps Linux
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Intel MID shuns Microsoft, taps Linux --Intel's software initiative for mobile Internet devices is all about Linux. Microsoft is given little more than lip service.
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Ubuntu + Sun = Very good idea--Sun and Ubuntu could make for a very fruitful partnership.
Symantec's revenge--Even after un-installing Symantec software, it still causes problems
Online video production company For Your Imagination raises more cash
For Your Imagination, an online video production company based in New York, announced Friday that it has pulled in an additional $1 million in seed funding from existing investor ConsensusOne Ventures. ConsensusOne, which initially invested $1 million in January 2007, will then help the small company work on a Series ...
четверг, 3 апреля 2008 г.
LiMo Foundation ready with mobile Linux OS
Google's Android may get all the attention, but there's more than one industry consortium working to unify Linux development for mobile phones.
The nonprofit LiMo Foundation plans to announce the launch of LiMo Platform Release 1 at the CTIA show in Las Vegas Monday. Release 1 gives handset ...
Yahoo Mail outages due to maintenance
Some Yahoo Mail users were unable to log in to their e-mail accounts on at least two separate occasions this week due to planned maintenance work, Yahoo says.
On Monday, Yahoo Mail was inaccessible to an unknown number of users as a result of an "unexpected issue" that arose during ...
среда, 2 апреля 2008 г.
Now What? The Aftermath of the Obama Speech
Senator Barack Obama decided to take a risk yesterday. He could have easily denounced his former pastor’s words and the person himself to appease himself to the “on the fence” voter. He could have listened to the pundits that have labeled him a fraud because he preaches about unity, but attends the [...]
Is open source a regulated utility?
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Is open source a regulated utility?--Is open source like a regulated utility, predictable and profitable?
A 'hot' new gadget from Loft in Japan--I was wandering the Loft department store at Shinsaibashi in Osaka, Japan, last week when I found a display surrounding this video. Give it a watch and see if you can tell what it's advertising...
Intel: Small devices with big screens--An Intel scientist discusses a technology that would allow handheld Internet devices to display images wirelessly on big screens.
Amazon puts the squeeze on print-on-demand publishers--Quite a kerfuffle has erupted over news in the last couple of days that Amazon is going to make print-on-demand (POD) publishers use Amazon's own internal printing service if they want to sell their books on the site.
вторник, 1 апреля 2008 г.
Report: New Apple product will give your workouts that magic touch
A peek at an Apple patent filing that seems to indicate the company is working on a 'digital lifestyle' product.
(Credit: AppleInsider)Are you disappointed that your iPhone still hasn't made you sexier in the eyes of potential mates? Hey, don't give up yet. AppleInsider has unearthed ...
Details of AMD's manufacturing plans around the corner
AMD could finally be getting ready to explain how it intends to build chips in the future, almost a year after dropping hints that it would revamp its manufacturing strategy.
Hans Mosesmann, an analyst with Raymond James, believes AMD is about to reveal a new manufacturing strategy that will attempt ...