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Boo hoo: Pickens took a loss on Yahoo

Boo hoo: Pickens took a loss on YahooKatie CouricListen to Ms. Couric;s interview of Mr. Pickens and listen carefully to the questions. It is obvious that Katie Couric doesn't "get it". Her political agenda shows clearly throughout this interview. Mr. Pickens, for whatever reasons of his own, was pitching his...

Tags: INTERNET, Financial accounting, Yang, Pickens, Yahoo! Inc., Boo Hoo

Discussion threads 2008-07-29

Hotmail slip improves members' memory

Hotmail slip improves members' memoryGoogle already has done the same thing!Once again, Microsoft is behind google. Google did the exact same thing as a marketing ploy brilliant but now it looks like Microsoft is just once again imitating true innovation.Boo hoo....Is it not natural to copy or imitate actions...

Tags: E-mail providers, Google Inc., Boo Hoo, Microsoft Corp., MSN Hotmail

Discussion threads 2004-07-22

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(A PDC peek at a Microsoft server container (photos))

Free cooling?Can this contain take advantage of the ambient temperature during the winter? And are their freeze protection measures? RE: (A PDC peek at a Microsoft server container photos)Blooty Marvelous i want that woone !And like mobile phone and microwave and sat base/earth stations i am guessing...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Server, PDC, photograph, server

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Oracle giving EU a hard time over Sun buy

Oh my, must not up set the crazy EU.Pfttt....A small question why EU can stop or affect a deal inside usa ..... or is the deal is global ....Also we EU dont fork MYSQL into something purely EU ... and tell Oracle to go to hell. If the...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Oracle Corp., MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Apple releases iTunes 9.0.2, kills Palm Pre sync ... again

Round up the executive and throw them in jailApple's behavior is simply unacceptable.Palm... Shakes HeadNote to Palm: Make a Front end that uses the iTunes DB or quit trying to keep hacking. It is REALLY stupid. A) You will never keep ahead of this.B) Even if you keep fixing it,...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Smart phones, Apple Inc., Palm Inc., Apple iTunes, Palm Pre

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

Linux kernel dev team grows, Torvalds drops off the chart

The future is appliance/deviceThe future is Linux based Appliances along with Linux based devices, the days of having 20G Windows Operating Systems to do email are over.Considering all drivers are considered a part of the kernelthat's not a lot at all. Very few of those lines of code wind up...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux kernel, team, Linux, lines of code

Discussion threads 2009-08-21

U.S. national broadband strategy: Funding is the elephant in the room

we don't need big governmentThe broadband has to be build by private businesses and everyone needs to pay to get it.The government should only provide incentives like tax cuts that are deficit neutral.And of courseAnd of course ZDNet is still pushing the crazy idea that broadband everywhere is inevitable. Somehow,...

Tags: Network technology, Broadband Internet, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Highways, broadband, broadband over power line, U.S. national broadband strategy, U.S. National

Discussion threads 2009-08-14

Government is killing Silicon Valley innovation

Who cares?'m tired of this struggle for capitalism, I'm off to Galt's Gulch.Wah, wah, wah!Americans like Franklin, Westinghouse, Whitny, Kilby, didn't need fake "incentives"!Massengill Satchel"I don?t want to come across as a crying venture capitalist " but..............Sickening. Self-centered VC story. Complaining about access to talent, h1b's etc. No mention of...

Tags: Leadership, Strategy, Regulations, innovation, H1B, government

Discussion threads 2009-08-07

HD DVD returns and kicks Blu-ray to the gutter

Just when Blu-ray thought it had clear sailing, a tempest has risen in the East: China Blue Hi-definition Disk CBHD. Toshiba has licensed its HD DVD to them and it will be the unit world leader in HD optical technology in just 12 months. Why? The Times...

Tags: HD-DVD, Blu-ray, China Blue Hi-definition Disk, Government, Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Vertical Industries, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-08-03

Apple/AT&T/iPhone - Everything that's wrong with the cellphone industry wrapped up in a single package

Apple/AT&T/iPhone - Everything that's wrong with the cellphone industry wrapped up in a single packageWhy Adrian...apparently you aren't a glassy-eyed Apple fanboi Anytime you post anything even mildly critical of Windows, Bing, or anything MS the usual suspects come out in force and try to paint you as a rapid...

Tags: Cellular phones, Smart phones, cellphone industry, Apple iPhone, cell phone, handset, single package

Discussion threads 2009-07-28

Microsoft to Europe: No Windows 7 upgrades for you!

Microsoft to Europe: No Windows 7 upgrades for you!Here in the US it IS a problem.The US Government convicted MS of the same misdeeds as the EU - only Bush came into power and the punishments were back-heeled - remember the 95% share of the browser market Netscape had?Because they...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, Web browsers, Microsoft Corp., Windows 7 Upgrade, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-06-25

Running Microsoft Security Essentials

Running Microsoft Security EssentialsI suspect "primitive" was the pointMS has to be able to defend this to the EU. By pointing out that this is meant to be a very basic package and that 3rd party AV vendors can show that, for money, they offer a better product, then everyone...

Tags: Performance management, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, Running Microsoft Security Essentials, Running, MSE, performance

Discussion threads 2009-06-24

Microsoft is as troubled as the rest of us

Microsoft is as troubled as the rest of usYou can make money from open-souceBut you have to be making COMPLETE products, not just doing piecemeal pieces of applications and software packages.Unfortunately, you have to either be a big name Microsoft to do that, or have a lot of time on...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Corp., open source

Discussion threads 2009-03-25

The biggest threat to social networking: Idiots

Warning: This is a Friday rant that's slightly off the beaten path, but I'm having a bad social networking week.  Perhaps I'm feeling a bit antisocial, but this social networking thing has been quite annoying of late. First, there's the Google Latitude announcement where the big benefit...

Tags: Network, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-06

The biggest threat to social networking: Idiots

Warning: This is a Friday rant that's slightly off the beaten path, but I'm having a bad social networking week. Perhaps I'm feeling a bit antisocial, but this social networking thing has been quite annoying of late. First, there's the Google Latitude announcement where the big benefit...

Tags: Network, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-06

iPhone 2.2 update is out

iPhone 2.2 update is outPhone manufacturer releases firmware, tech blogs go crazy!*Yawn*You do realise that all the other major manufacturers release firmware which fixes bugs and adds features too, right?Only they and the tech press don't make a big fuss out of it and, equally amusingly, the products generally don't...

Tags: Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular phones, Apple iPhone, voice, MMS, Apple Inc., iPhone 2.2 update-i

Discussion threads 2008-11-21

Official Gmail Themes are beautiful

Official Gmail Themes are beautifulRE: Official Gmail Themes are beautifulAs usual, this new feature is not enabled for google apps users.I noticed that earlier today. The new default is the best, and looks great.This is what is great about web applications! You get constant refreshes and improvements.RE: Official Gmail Themes...

Tags: E-mail providers, cloud computing, Official Gmail Themes, Google Gmail

Discussion threads 2008-11-19

No judicial notice for Wikipedia

No judicial notice for WikipediaThe court found correctlyWikipedia is an organized rumor mill; its contents are emphatically not evidence, as useful as they may be otherwise.The Anti Wikipedia Resourcehttp://www.populartechnology.net/2008/11/anti-wikipedia-resource.htmlAnyone who thinks Wikipedia could ever be used in a court of law is a computer illiterate.You mean like the old entry...

Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia

Discussion threads 2008-11-13

Does anyone expect Apple's ads to be truthful?

Does anyone expect Apple's ads to be truthful?Microsoft needs to drop Crispin Porter.Their ads, at least the Burger King and Microsoft ones, are horrible. For $300 million I expect significantly better. As it is drop $300 million in my lap and I will produce better marketing. And I have no...

Tags: Apple Ads, advertisement, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-10-30

Transcript: PDC08 Keynote â€" Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson

Todd Bishop, TechFlash; Ed Bott, ZDNet;  Kip Kniskern, Liveside; Rafael Rivera, Within Windows; Paul Thurrott, Windows Supersite; and Tom Warren, Neowin; and Long Zheng, Istartedsomething â€" and yours truly--did a group blog of the first PDC keynote. Here's the live blog transcript (speakers: Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava,...

Tags: Keynote, Ed Bott, Mary Jo Foley, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Service, App, Liveside, Neowin.net, Tom Riley, Signal God, Paul, MJ, Azure, Z, Red Dog, Download Link, Saruhan, Bluehoo, MOS, SSDS, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2008-10-27