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Cellphones to detect dirty bombs?

Cellphones to detect dirty bombs?If not on the phonesThen on the base stations, especially in cities and by roads. Fill in important gaps with some permanently sited, dedicated detector phones, i.e. phone plus device, only used for monitoring. Hidden (e.g. from vandals). Powered by solar or mains or very long...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, dirty bomb, bomb, phone, cell phone

Discussion threads 2008-01-23

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Tech giants may face dollar daze

Tech giants may face dollar dazeMerchants of chaos strike againand they can't resist putting a negative spin on ANY news, even items that are contradictory. So, when the dollar declines, it's bad. When the dollar stops declining, it's bad.Journalists must be some amazingly depressive people to be around.The most important...

Tags: Operational accounting, Tech Giants

Discussion threads 2008-08-26

Microsoft to roll out more granular 'porn mode' with IE 8

Microsoft to roll out more granular 'porn mode' with IE 8Sex is a shameful thing?You can look at Internet porn all day and night and not libido.There's no libido there.Is this human nature to see naked as unnatural,dirty or even wrong?Or is it that you don't want your significant other...

Tags: Web browsers, porn mode, IE 8, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-08-25

Is SOA an elixir or real fix for 'medieval' data practices?

Is SOA an elixir or real fix for 'medieval' data practices?All about the dataI can't agree more with Ash. The data is a pivotal piece of an SOA (most IT approaches, really), and is often under-served by SOA initiatives and projects. Data is diverse, duplicated, dispersed, dirty, and...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA, elixir, service-Oriented

Discussion threads 2008-08-25

Google and Sirius XM: Build my "Dream" Handheld

The current rumor-mongering seems to indicate that HTC's "Dream" will soon be making landfall in the US. Based on the initially leaked specs of this device, it still sounds like it doesn't do what I really would want it to do in order to replace by Blackberry 8820. ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., High Tech Computer Corp., Handheld, XM Satellite Radio Inc., Radio, Video, Sirius, Android, Mesh Networking, Advertising & Promotion, Corporate Communications, Networking, Marketing, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-08-24

The Waltham Pact: Where are the tangibles?

  This week, Microsoft renewed their union with Novell, to the tune of an additional 100 million dollars in commitment to buy more SUSE Linux support certificates that it can sell to its customers. Dang, Ballmer, for that kind of cash, you can get your vows renewed...

Tags: Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp., Linux, Open Source, OpenOffice, UNIX, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Office Suites, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-08-20

It's official: OOXML is a standard

It's official: OOXML is a standardA right decisionYou can only FUD so much.Now......we get to see who's going to implement it and how much of it will be implemented. Note that if multiple vendors are using the same MS-Windows API to support OOXML, they're not creating independent implementations of...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Fast Tracking, Office Open XML, oXML, OSI, Microsoft Corp., open source

Discussion threads 2008-08-15

(Images: Where particles, physics theories collide)

(Images: Where particles, physics theories collide)Mini black holesThis thing can create micro black holes, btw they will never find the elemental particle, for that you need something a little bigger. Just the diameter of our Milk Way (from Hawlking's estimated).Maybe...I think the mini black holes are a [i]theoretcal[/i] possibility,...

Tags: black hole, particle, physics theory

Discussion threads 2008-08-15

It's 1,100 systems and counting for open-source refurbishment advocates

It's 1,100 systems and counting for open-source refurbishment advocatesIs the monopoly{s} fretting?!"The Installfest was “manned” by volunteers from the Linux and open source communities.""Why Microsoft and Intel tried to kill the XO $100 laptop""Microsoft, makers of most of the computer software in the world, tried to kill it with words,...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Semiconductors, open-source refurbishment advocate, open source, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-08-14

Timebomb in VMware's ESX 3.5 and ESXi 3.5 (Update 2)

Timebomb in VMware's ESX 3.5 and ESXi 3.5 (Update 2)test what?so you are supposed to test EVERY day of every month of every year to see if there is a time bomb? if a customer put beta software in production without consent of the company then it is their...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, IP storage, VMware Inc., ESXi 3.5, TIMEBOMB, VMware ESX 3.5, software, time bomb, Update 2, beta, VMWare ESX

Discussion threads 2008-08-14

News to know: Open source court victory; Surveillance; SAP; VMware

Notable headlines: Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Police Surveillance: Go Snoop, Yourself Olympics Victor: NBC, Over YouTube Lessig blog: Huge and important news: free licenses upheld NYT: Ruling Is a Victory for Supporters of Free Software Adrian Kingsley-Hughes:...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Open Source, SAP AG, Apple Inc., VMware Inc., Defcon, 3G, Notebooks, Wireless, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2008-08-14

AmiAmi Kart (exe)

Join the championship in AmiAmi Kart. Choose from 7 cute characters and race at high speed on the tracks, including mcdonald's farm, valcia snowland, mountain ali, playama highland, makuba desert and tropical sea.Winning the championship can unlock the hidden character and the special race.Players can collect missile and bomb that...

Tags: Character, AmigoGames, Security

Software downloads 2008-08-14

VMware blames stray code for 'time bomb' hiccup

VMware blames stray code for 'time bomb' hiccupWell..I wonder how much money this cost them? I was almost about to buy hosting using that, but decided against it. Thank God, I hate legal battles.RE: VMware blames stray code for 'time bomb' hiccupSerious mistake! Fire your entire QA team.RE: VMware blames...

Tags: VMware Inc., QA

Discussion threads 2008-08-13

VMware blames stray code for 'time bomb' hiccup

VMware boss Paul Maritz is blaming "a piece of code" mistakenly left in the final release of ESX for the time-bomb hiccup that crippled virtual machines around the world. In a message posted online, Maritz said the glitch caused a license expiration hiccup that caused virtual machines...

Tags: VMware Inc., Desktop Virtualization, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-08-13

Exclusive: A robot with a biological brain

Exclusive: A robot with a biological brainThe begining of the Cylon race? nt:(probably meant "you're" funnyDoesnt' change my opinion at all.Well, if this isn't the most immoral thing ever...it's gotta be kinda close.Cool but. could open a can of worms later...Did anyone else get a chill up the back of...

Tags: Robots, biological brain, robot

Discussion threads 2008-08-13

JDA acquires i2: Oh how the world has changed

Catching up on other news, I see that i2, one of the dot bomb mavens has succumbed to acquisition pressure at a 12.5% premium to its share price. JDA is the lucky (or is it plucky?) acquirer of this once fascinating supply chain/demand planning provider, scooping up i2 for $346...

Tags: I2 Technologies Inc., JDA, Maintenance Revenue, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Operational Accounting, Sarbanes-Oxley, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-08-13

Did the big boys really kill OLPC?

The UK's Timesonline is running a story today showing us that, despite internal strife, questionable morals and ideals, and now, the inclusion of Windows XP on a computer that was supposed to embody all that was good in open source, OLPC remains a media darling. The article...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, Negroponte, Productivity, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-08-11

Georgia turns to Google's Blogger amid Russia onslaught

Georgia turns to Google's Blogger amid Russia onslaughtwhat a bsis it really journalism when just copy and paste somebody else's BS?RE: Georgia turns to Google's Blogger amid Russia onslaughtRussia is doing an amasing job in protecting the people in he break away regions.RE: Georgia turns to Google's Blogger amid Russia...

Tags: Government, Recruitment & Selection, Blogger, Georgian, extremist, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-08-11

MacBook Pro graphics chips failing prematurely

MacBook Pro graphics chips failing prematurelyImagine thatntWouldn't this imply that ....... Apple is using the same faulty parts as Dell and HP and not the superior parts that Laff and others claim?How can this be?Just yesterday we were being told how Apple used better quality parts in their systems.Though since...

Tags: Notebooks, Semiconductors, Video cards, chip, Apple MacBook Pro, graphics, graphics chip, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook

Discussion threads 2008-08-08

Jump the connection revisited (Cracking Open the IBM PC Jr.)

Jump the connection revisited (Cracking Open the IBM PC Jr.)Here is a modern solutionSimply gut the JR and put an Intel Mac mini inside it.You will then have a modern computer that can run the superior MacOS X or the malware sucking Windows.IBM PC Jr.The IBM PC Jr. was...

Tags: Desktops, IBM PC, Cracking Open, PC, IBM Corp., computer

Discussion threads 2008-08-07