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Vonage CEO:"shocked" by SunRocket's rapid demise

During yesterday's quarterly conference call with analysts, Vonage founder-chair-interim CEO Jeff Citron was asked what he thought of SunRocket's rapid demise, and how it was handled."I was shocked to see the company go from having capital troubles to not signing up new customers and closing its doors," colleague Maggie Reardon...

Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., Demise, SunRocket, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-08-10

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Ubuntu Karmic Koala launches to mixed reviews

Not released yetKarmic koala hasn't been officially released yet and the bug that this article was talking about has been fixed for the official releaseMultiple hard drives issue already fixedThe problem only affected the 64-bit version of the release candidate, and it has apparently been fixed for the final release.wowwow,...

Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Microsoft Windows, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Karmic Koala, Dana

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

40 years ago the Internet was born - now it devalues everything it touches

you are devaluing your proffesionshame on you.internet is one of the greatest invention in human history.Establishing walled islands on the InternetThe Internet is like a huge river, or better yet, sea, that allows users to move from small island to small island web application, to find the things they care...

Tags: Web site development, e-reader software, e-reader, Internet, Web site

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

HP's kinder, gentler stance toward printer paper

A question and a comment[i]"I am now shoving the paper that I just used to print a press release about the HP program back into my printer so that at least both sides are used."[/i]Question: For 20 years at other employers and home I did that and it worked fine....

Tags: Printers, printer, humidity, Hewlett-Packard Co., laser printer

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

Computers have speed limit as unbreakable as speed of light, say physicists

A pair of physicists have shown that if processors continue to accelerate in accordance to Moore's Law, we'll hit the wall of faster processing in roughly 75 years. The curtain will eventually come down for silicon in today's manufacturing methods once engineers can no longer further shrink...

Tags: Processor, Physicist, Speed, Computer, Moore, Productivity, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-10-15

Alas, Poor Blackberry, I knew him.

verbsjust my opinion but:I brought (s/b took) it with me when I left the house. ...will be happy to bring (s/b take) me on as a new... just my opinion.Just buy a damn phone.Just buy a normal phone, you know, one that makes and receives calls.You tried phoning people...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Handhelds, Smart phones, phone, Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Corp., carrier, RIM BlackBerry

Discussion threads 2009-10-01

Is keeping big media alive good for the future of journalism?

All old media companies need to die off...They are too constrained reliving memories of past glory to change in any meaningful way. What we need are modern 21st century media companies who understand the digital world. If Amazon, Google, or Facebook were to start new media companies, you can bet...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, media, media company, big media, First Amendment

Discussion threads 2009-09-22

Phishers introduce 'Chat-in-the-Middle' fraud tactic

Phishers don't just want to "bank with you", they also want to talk you into revealing the answers to your 'secret' questions, next to more sensitive information that would help them gain access to your online bank account. A new 'Chat-in-the-Middle' fraud tactic was recently discovered by...

Tags: Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-09-16

Microsoft starts warning of support phase-out for older Windows Server releases

Added benefit of "activation" (automatic "kill switch")Neccessary or desirable to reinstall XP or change hardware? Flip the kill switch. No more activation, no more XP or any other later Windows release.Any OS that depends on a remote server is an excercise in futility.You confuse 'support' with 'activation'.There's no indication that...

Tags: Operating systems, Telecom & Utilities, Microsoft Windows Server, server, kill switch, Microsoft Corp., misinformation, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-09-16

Microsoft exec: 'When Windows is executing well, Microsoft is in good shape'

upgrade pathdo you really think that people will rush to their next best buy to make a clean install on their old xp hardware? do you think corporations will want the hassle of clean installs on their xp hardware? never going to happen. windows 7 is a non event in...

Tags: Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., hardware, clean install, new hardware

Discussion threads 2009-09-15

Adobe to acquire Ominture; CEO calls move a 'game-changer'

good moveI did not know tha Adobe has so much cash on hand.This will sped up the demise of M$.RE: Adobe to acquire Ominture; CEO calls move a 'game-changer'Great! Didn't Adobe learn anything from ebay's skype debacle? Non-core or non-organic growth acquisitions signal only one thing to me - that...

Tags: Microsoft Windows NT, Adobe Systems Inc., Ominture, Wendy

Discussion threads 2009-09-15

What would it take for you to switch to Linux?

Secret Service ProtectionI'd consider switching to Linux if I was provided presidential level protection. With all the spyware functionality built into Linux allowing serial killers to track your location, it's simply too dangerous to run Linux. You're literally asking to be killed. Save yourself, pay for your software.Linux - Whom...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, spyware

Discussion threads 2009-09-15

iPhone MMS working for many; two weeks early

Working for me in ATLOS: 3.1.1Carrier Bundle: 5.1But I cheated. Saw a blog posting late last week that had directions on how to get MMS working (w/o jail breaking) using a new carrier file...5.1. However, it didn't work at first. It took about a day to start...

Tags: Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular phones, MMS, iPhone MMS, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-09-14

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

DOJ gives blessing to Oracle-Sun, awaiting EC approval

Yeah but...Sure wish they'd fire McNealy & Schwartz, then it would make it all worthwhile.Michael Murdock, CEOWell I never liked Oracle anyway......good way for Oracle to shoot itself in the foot. :)Did you know that large snakes can misjudge prey and try to eat something too big? Then they literally...

Tags: Linux, Processors, UNIX, Operating systems, Microsoft development tools, U.S. Department of Justice, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-08-20

IE/EU bickering continues ... Mozilla wades in

Small potatoes--I'm waiting to see what the Russian FAS do next monthntOf course they are whining, they can't build a better productBut expecting the EC to grasp that may be too much.What else should they do?I would agree with what Adrian has posted other than:The first paragraph where he generously...

Tags: Web browsers, Web browser, ballot, Microsoft Corp., Mozilla Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-08-20

Panel: too much to lose by moving to generic services and cloud?

Do we put competitive advantage at risk when moving to generic services? Or perhaps the whole scenario of enterprise IT being edged out by the cloud is overblown? Consider the the mainframe, as Dana Gardner recently put it: "In the early 1990s, IT pundits, and my former boss Stewart...

Tags: Data Warehouse, Information Technology, SOA, Cloud, Jim, BBrad, Business Intelligence, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Strategy, Mainframes, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Web Services, Management, Servers, Hardware, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-08-10

Is Bing worth all the money Microsoft is throwing at it? [video]

Is Bing worth all the money Microsoft is throwing at it? [video]Who says they can't do all three?Last Time I looked, Apple is advertising Macs, iPod, and iPhones, while dumping money into Safari, AppleTV, MobileMe, ect.Right now, Windows 7 isn't released yet, is it worth starting the ad campain today?From...

Tags: Corporate communications, Servers, Microsoft Corp., Bing, video

Discussion threads 2009-08-04

HD DVD returns and kicks Blu-ray to the gutter

HD DVD returns and kicks Blu-ray to the gutterWell researchedThe problem with Blu Ray is the royalty aspect of this format.Thousands of dollars just to use their logo on the Jacket Cover and so on.Maybe this chinese will work.So is my HD-DVD player dead or not?In the US that is,...

Tags: HD DVD, DVD, Consumer electronics, HD-DVD

Discussion threads 2009-08-03

Dead Finger Tech: BlackBerry Curve 8900 smartphone and multi-monitor manager DisplayFusion Pro

Our editor, the most delectable Mr. Grober, put forward a suggestion to while away the dreary month of August, a month so intrinsically boring that it rivals that of a newspaper dedicated to the growth patterns of soya bean, to write about a piece of personal technology, which would in...

Tags: Monitor, BlackBerry Curve, Smart Phone, RIM BlackBerry, Wallpaper Adjuster, UltraMon, Handhelds, Monitors & Displays, Smart Phones, Hardware, Components, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-08-01