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How many people does it take to fill Bill Gates' shoes?

In a new video interview posted to Microsoft's Channel 9 Web site on June 23, Chairman Bill Gates adds a third group of folks to the list of those who will be filling his shoes after he leaves Microsoft as a full-time employee this month. Gates told Channel 9's Charles...

Tags: Ray Ozzie, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., DeWitt, Flake, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Web Site Development, Software, Internet, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-06-23

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Google sandbox is open for business

The sandbox in this case is Google Code, which is holding its I/O event at San Francisco's Moscone Center today and tomorrow. For two days Google's best and brightest will strut their stuff before 2,900 of their peers, speaking on five tracks -- AJAX, Web tools, social...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, DeWitt Clinton, App Engine, Channel Management, Productivity, Biotechnology, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-28

Apple to iPhone devs: Keep on developing for Jailbroken iPhones guys!

Fortune's Philip Elmer-DeWitt is reporting that Apple has delivered a mighty slap across the face to many potential iPhone and iPod touch developers and turned what was good PR last week into what could be a PR headache this week. By week's end, almost everyone who had downloaded the...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Fortune, Apple Inc., Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-03-16

Air Force: No! Stop! Blogs bad!

The Air Force has had it with soldiers getting their information from the unsavory world of blogs. The service's Network Operations Center has instituted widespread filtering of the Web, blocking all sites with the letters b-l-o-g in their URLs and filtering out most other sites that qualify as blogs, Wired...

Tags: Wired Inc., Blog, Air Force, Service, Blogging, Security, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-02-29

I got bitten by the Apple Leopard blue screen problem

Wow, talk about dissatisfaction. Here I am spending a rainy Saturday morning looking forward to getting to know Leopard and I am hung up on a blue screen with little to go on but coffee. Fortunately, I have multiple Macs in the house and am writing this...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Disk, Operating System, Disappointment, Apple Inc., FileVault, Desktops, Operating Systems, Hardware, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2007-10-27

iPhone blocks golf shot from hitting man's...you don't want to know where

No, not there, but not all that far away, either. Rather than leave his iPhone in his car, 53-year-old Irwin Koss of DeWitt, New York decided to place the device in his pocket.As iPhoneCentral's Dan Moren notes, that decision could have saved Koss' life. Or at least a great deal of...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-08-20

Governors loved Facebook during election; now their pages gather cobwebs

Governors are fair-weather friends when it comes to social networks like Facebook and MySpace, Stateline.org has found.A tour via the Internet shows that few of the 39 governors who joined the college Facebook craze, in which "friends" link to "friends" on the social networking site, have bothered to update their...

Tags: State &, Local Govt

Blog posts 2007-07-10

Just In: AT&T says they are nearly out of iPhones

Dan got his, but as for everyone else...A few minutes ago, the Reuters news agency carried some quotes to that effect from AT&T spokesperson Mark Siegel."Virtually all of our stores sold out of the iPhone last night," said AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel.While Siegel declined to say how many units were...

Tags: News, Apple

Blog posts 2007-06-30

Report says first iPhone reviews due tonight will criticize keyboard, network

Business 2.0's Apple 2.0 blogger Philip Elmer-DeWitt notes that some of the very few journalists and bloggers given iPhone test access thus far will be able to start posting their reviews starting tonight at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. ET.Philip reports that the reviews will be generally positive, but will note...

Tags: SBC-AT&, T, News, Apple

Blog posts 2007-06-26

The Great Vista/Mac Showdown: Desktop convergence

The Great Vista/Mac Showdown: Desktop convergenceslight correctionNeither OS is particularly evolved from the Xerox Parc work. If you actually compare the original Parc GUI with System 1 for Macintosh, you'll find very few similarities. Apple did take some of Parc's ideas, but the myth that Apple basically bought or stole...

Tags: Desktops, Apple Mac OS X, PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, desktop, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Parc GUI, Microsoft Corp., UI Design, Microsoft Windows Vista, computer

Discussion threads 2007-03-27

Securing OS X 10.4: Tips from the Apple and the NSA

Securing OS X 10.4: Tips from the Apple and the NSAApple Rocks!whooohooo I'm #1!Password Assistant to the rescueArticle states: "Those best practices include all those password usage tips that IT users forget almost daily."Apple's Password Assistant to the rescue. It's available from System Preferences, when you're changing or creating...

Tags: Apple Inc., password, NSA, LaunchServices

Discussion threads 2007-03-22

At edtech conference, envisioning the future

The nation's largest educational technology trade show, the National Education Computing Conference NECC has concluded its run in San Diego. An estimated 17,000 educators, administrators, and executives attended the three day event where empowering students through creative uses of technology was the overarching theme reports eSchool News. The keynote...

Tags: Nicholas Negroponte

Blog posts 2006-07-18

Time to clear out those J2EE boxes

I'm always on the look-out for ways to slash spending on application servers. Here's a new one: utility processing for VM-based applications. Azul Systems says that its "unbound compute" appliances can help clear out racks and racks of servers by diverting Java VM calls to the company's proprietary SMP boxes,...

Tags: Azul Systems

Blog posts 2005-10-19