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- Yahoo: What happens if Google deal doesn't go through?
- Yahoo's search advertising deal with Google, which is expected to increase the company's ability to monetize its Web pages, has been delayed to give the Department of Justice more time to evaluate it. This Google-Yahoo partnership has raised hackles from Microsoft as well as others, but the larger question is...
- Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Creative Digital Wireless Gaming Headset HS-1200 - headset
- With so many PC accessories cutting their cords, it's no surprise to see wireless headsets joining the party. To that end, Creative has released the HS-1200 Digital Wireless Gaming Headset. As the name suggests, the unit is targeted at PC gamers who play games that allow you to use voice...
- Tags: headset, HS-1200s, microphone
- Product reviews 2008-08-21
- When Google disowns you
- When Google disowns youThis is a real danger in general with the "Cloud"PaaS, SaaS,Cloud, or call it what you want, this is only one of the major problems that can creep up when you pass your data and applications on to a third party service provider. You put your business...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Storage Encryption, Long-Term Data Usability, NameSecure, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-06
- Is this the New Apple?
- PowerPage podcaster Youngmoo Kim relays his experience with trying to get an iPhone 3G and on being an "IRU" Individual Responsible User. Apple just doesn't want me to have an iPhone 3G. After a few half-hearted attempts bailing at the sight of long lines, I spent about two hours...
- Tags: 3G, Apple Inc., Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, IRU, jason D. O'Grady, Personal Technology, Wireless, Apple iPhone
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- iPhone 3G sold out nationwide; 4 week wait
- iPhone 3G sold out nationwide; 4 week waitAT&T?Thanks for the link. Does AT&T still has inventory? On a store by store basis?RE: iPhone 3G sold out nationwide; 4 week waitI placed a special order last week. I wonder if this is going to delay that. I was really...
- Tags: Cellular phones, Apple marketing, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., 3G, phone, AT&T Corp., Apple iPhone 3G
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- Music in the park
- Music in the parkThe New City that Never SleepsI hear ya on this one Dan... but to no avail cramped spaces have a lot of noise in general. I've never been able to get a room even on the top floor at the best hotels in San Francisco where...
- Tags: Dan
- Discussion threads 2008-07-11
- Moving house: diary of a dial-up user (part 1)
- Here at ZDNet, we all get on most of the time and I'm lucky to be working with some absolutely lovely people. Behind the scenes, we have a discussion group, and I've been bitching about my lack of Internet the last week or so. My editor-in-chief, Larry, asked me a...
- Tags: House, Phone, Broadband, Phone Line, British Telecommunications, Cable, Tiscali, Telecom & Utilities, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
- VMWare: Time to Pay the Open Source Piper
- VMWare: Time to Pay the Open Source PiperOn the other hand ...... if all the hypervisors and their attendant management suites become free ... then will I choose to serve:1. Basic software via increasingly powerful cloud computing or open source freebies (e.g. Firefox, Open Office)2. MyCompanysSoftware via *IX (I have...
- Tags: Operating systems, value-add, VMware Inc., open source, Hyper-V
- Discussion threads 2008-07-09
- Microsoft's never-ending pursuit of Yahoo: More awkward than an 8th grade dance
- Microsoft still has the hots for Yahoo and now wants to enlist partners to win the target's search business. Yes, folks the Microhoo saga continues and boy are these two crazy kids awkward. According to The Wall Street Journal, Microsoft is still trying to airlift the search...
- Tags: Jerry Yang, Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Search, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Improving Windows Vista's reliability
- Improving Windows Vista's reliabilityThank you AKH...... for telling the Vista bashing universer what the rest of us already knew. The naysayers bleat loud and long about how much Vista "suxors" but the rest of us just keep on using it, crash free and stable.Yep, it does "just work."One flaw...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, Improving Windows Vista, operating system, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- Herb does not ease ADHD
- Herb does not ease ADHD[b] I'm sorry, is thie WebMD?[/b]Not to be mean, but What does this have to do with technology?Perhaps you ment to write this somewhere else? A personal blog?Do you guys get paid a flat fee or by the word?...Been saying this all along and have seen...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, St. John, ADHD, health care
- Discussion threads 2008-06-11
- Fixing Windows Vista, Part 5: Faster, smarter search
- Fixing Windows Vista, Part 5: Faster, smarter searchagreei have to agree Vista search is excellent and extremely fast. I have been using version 3 and up on my XP machine at work and it always trumps other search indexers like Google Desktop. This is one example of MS doing a...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Backups, Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows Vista, smarter search, Fixing Windows Vista, Part 5, Microsoft Windows XP, mobile
- Discussion threads 2008-06-05
- Reaction to Yahoo's Microsoft-inspired poison pill: 'That's nuts'
- Yahoo's poison pill--adopted by the company to thwart a Microsoft takeover--was deemed "nuts" by outside consulting firm Compensia. That nugget was the big takeaway from an unsealed complaint Techmeme and PDF of suit by Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann, a Michigan lawfirm suing Yahoo on behalf of...
- Tags: Poison Pill, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Tale, Corporate Governance, Benefits, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Human Resources, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- Should Sugar be put out to pasture?
- Should Sugar be put out to pasture?Does someone wanna . . .tell me how, if you have a grand total of "2" people voting, you can get 150%???? . . . .Methinks that the survey script isn't working right (yet/again . . .) . . .RE: Should Sugar be put...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating systems, Sugar, pasture
- Discussion threads 2008-05-19
- Why do Macs need so much fixing?
- Why do Macs need so much fixing?My point exactly ntntI guess we're both the luckiest people in the world.All of my systems (Windows, OS X, Linux, and Solaris) work fine. No muss, no fuss, no problems. It's good to be me.Come come nowRoss2000: [i]Am I the luckiest guy in the...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Macs need, Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2008-05-09
- Microsoft appeals $1.4 billion EU fine
- On May 9, Microsoft asked a European court to overturn a $1.4 billion fine imposed by the European Commission for Microsoft's alleged failure to comply with an antitrust ruling against the company. The fine (originally tallied at about $1.3 billion) -- on top of the $1.2 billion...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Corporate Law, Operating Systems, Sales Force Management, Servers, Software, Business Operations, Sales, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- Minimizing XP SP3 woes
- Minimizing XP SP3 woesWhat did you expect......it to be as easy as apt-get ? ;]:)RE: Minimizing XP SP3 woesThats a lot of work to install a service packThemes are a problem.If your theme has replaced the logon screen the one with the animated vertical bars you have to remove...
- Tags: Firewalls, Microsoft Windows XP, XP SP3, Minimizing XP SP3 woe, Minimizing XP SP3, firewall
- Discussion threads 2008-05-09
- Able-mind Speed Reading (exe)
- Do you wish you could read 5x faster? There are plenty of really good books on your shelves? There exist tens of interesting Web sites? To what avail is all this knowledge if you do not have time to get acquainted with it? Reading speed is not just something you...
- Tags: Speed, Brontes Processing, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Strategy, Internet, Marketing, Management
- Software downloads 2008-05-09
- Vista Hands On
- Vista Hands OnManage Wireless Networks priority display issueHello,I am having an odd issue connected to the Manage Wireless Networks folder.Here is what I think has happened. I forced all folders to be the same using the Tools>Folder Options>View Tab>Apply to all folders. At the time I had everything sorted...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Manage Wireless Network, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-04-26
- Leopard mauls podcaster (updated 2x)
- For weeks I've been bedeviled by an audio bug on my MacBook Pro. The symptoms include poor audio quality by recipients of a Skype call using a USB microphone. While that may sound like an obscure bug, it affects one particular vertical market the hardest – podcasters. ...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Bug, Skype Technologies S.A., USB, Podcasts, Microphone, Internet
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
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