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The ZunePhone is dead. Long live the ZunePhone: The ZunePhone is dead. Long live the ZunePhoneDon't follow on just plain 'leaks'I saw that too, and as much as all that stuff would be interesting, you can't really rely on these screenshots that could be faked. I mean, the whole UI isn't even consistent looking at all through out...; Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Digital music, Handhelds, Digital media, ELVIS, Zunephone, Long Live, Microsoft Corp., Apple iPhone, phone; Discussion threads 2008-01-09
$1,200 keyboard. Nope, it isn't April 1st!: $1,200 keyboard. Nope, it isn't April 1st!only $1200?is that with VAT included or excluded?BTW, maybe it has some use at the office/house of the future..Man, You Are REALLY Late On This ZDNetI saw this keyboard two years ago on geek.com and slashdot...Next thing you'll know you will report Elvis...; Tags: Keyboards, Games, ELVIS, keyboard, game; Discussion threads 2006-11-30
Microsoft won't go open source: Paul Murphy has a great piece up right now, explaining how Microsoft will open source its network operating system to gain market share in handhelds. Its great strategic thinking. Microsoft will never do it. It will never do it because, as they say, "Elvis has left the building." Elvis...; Tags: ELVIS, open source, Tom Jones; Blog posts 2006-10-12
Is Wikipedia 'knowledge' merely third party hearsay?: Is Wikipedia 'knowledge' merely third party hearsay?Wikipedia isn't true? WAAAAA!Wikipedia isn't [i]intended[/i] to be an infallible fount of truth. It is simply meant to be an information sharing resource with the ability to be updated and edited much more quickly than traditional printed material.As the article even states,...; Tags: Wiki, Wales, Verifiability, Wikipedia, ELVIS, knowledge; Discussion threads 2006-09-12
Making Wikipedia better, Part II: Making Wikipedia better, Part IISure, like I have that much time...Mr. Ratcliffe makes a huge assumption in his article, which is that anyone has the time to actually research these things. Let's look at some of his ideas:* The reader should investigate the change history of an article. Even with...; Tags: Wiki, Strategy, Wikipedia, ELVIS; Discussion threads 2006-01-05

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Apple: Perception is Reality: Apple: Perception is RealityRE: Apple: Perception is RealityAbsolutely, Apple's response will do nothing to allay investors fears and in many cases will accelerate the rumour mill.Apple need to come out a flatly confirm or deny Steve's current health and produce, at the very least, a barebones succession plan to restore...; Tags: Warren Buffet, Apple Inc., Perception IS reality; Discussion threads 2008-07-23
Spammers announce World War III with spam emails packing malicious payloads: Spammers announce World War III with spam emails packing malicious payloadsSorry Nate - have to disagreePlease everyone - do not "spread the word" as Nate says it - I spend more time looking up these e-mails, and then convincing people that the e-mail they got was a hoax than I...; Tags: Spam, ReceiverNet technology, spammer, World War III, spam email, malicious payload, payload; Discussion threads 2008-07-14
Will Mesh take the Web from open source?: The launch of Microsoft's Live Mesh has a lot of people asking what this means for key competitors like Google or Adobe. But what does it mean for open source? After all: Use of Live Mesh is tied to a Windows ID. A...; Tags: Web, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Channel Management, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-04-24
(Images: Is that a rock or a man on Mars?): (Images: Is that a rock or a man on Mars?)Looks like Bigfoot..or whatever that creature loping through the forest was in the opening credits of [i]In Search of[i/]They steal my thoughtsSales of tinfoil are about to go through the roof!Considering it's distance from the rover..It's only a few inches tall!...; Tags: Markings; Discussion threads 2008-01-23
Alliances represent new Microsoft direction: Now that "Elvis has left the building" at Microsoft, you may be wondering what direction it has marked for future growth. In a word, alliances. It's a dicey proposition given that Microsoft is now everywhere in the world of computing. But that's where it's...; Tags: Cerner Corp., Alliance, Microsoft Corp., Games, Game Players, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-01-07
Should open source cheer Gates' swan song?: The Elvis of PC software has left the building. Bill Gates' announcement he will no longer do CES keynotes overshadowed anything else he said, and for good reason. (Picture from Engadget.) Although the venue felt wrong. Gates' milieu was Comdex,...; Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, Bill Gates, Open Source World, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-01-07
Vista and Leopard both make it onto PC World's "Biggest Tech Disappointments of 2007": Well there's a surprise - both Vista and Leopard make it onto PC World's "Biggest Tech Disappointments of 2007." Face it - Elvis is dead and both Vista and Leopard failed to make grab the hearts of users in the way that their makers hoped they would. ...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, PC World, Microsoft Corp., Leopard, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2007-12-17
After the hello, goodbye and thanks: After the hello, goodbye and thanksBest of Luck!ntA modified traditional Irish blessingMay the information superhighway rise up to meet youMay the ACL be always at your backThe powerboost shine warm upon your wiresThe load balancers fall soft upon your last mileAnd until we ping againMay QoS hold your packets in...; Tags: SECURITY, Ryan, buffer-overflow; Discussion threads 2007-12-14
Drawing Hand Screen Saver (exe): This fascinating screen saver is a virtual art lesson. You watch as an artist's hand draws a lifelike Jack O'Lantern on your computer screen. It's as if you are looking over the artist's shoulder. The full version of this screen saver can draw cars (BMW, Viper, Corvette), fine art (Monet,...; Tags: Screensaver; Software downloads 2007-12-05
Radiohead and the search for content business models: Early results are in on Radiohead's experiment in "name your price" music with their album In Rainbows. Most people chose free. These are early returns. A CD's economic lifespan can be two years. Given the millions still being raked-in by Elvis Presley, John Lennon...; Tags: Game, CD, Business Model, Music, Radiohead, Strategy, Management, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-11-06
Ballmer comments reflect deeper problems: Steve Ballmer's latest rant against open source, and Microsoft's internal reaction to it, reflect deep problems within the company. Part of the problem is that, as they say, Elvis has left the building. Elvis in this case is Bill Gates, Ballmer's one-time Harvard classmate, the drop-out whose...; Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Entrepreneurship, Management, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-10-10
To understand SOA, map it without technology: There's been no shortage of confusion around the true meaning of SOA, and plenty of contention around what constitutes "true" SOA versus what people think is SOA. Do legacy apps exposed as services constitute SOA? Do Enterprise Service Buses constitute SOA? Does having a registry and repository constitute SOA? What...; Tags: SOA, Bob, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2007-09-28
Singularity Summit 2007: Memories: Guest post: This weekend I am at the Singularity Summit 2007 in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts. About 800 people showed up to hear about the issues related to a future in which humans won't be the driving force in delivering scientific and technological innovations, eclipsed cognitively...; Tags: Memory, Humanity, Chris Matyszczyk, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-09-08
Internuts: Skype outage caused by wiretapping retrofit for CIA: Fellow VoIP blogger Tom Keating writes that he's been receiving email from "tin-foil hatters" (i.e. wackos) that the Skype sign-in outage is being caused by fallout from a project intended to make all Skype calls interceptible by the CIA and FBI.Tom writes:Tin foil hatters are emailing me to tell...; Tags: CIA, Skype Technologies S.A., Outage, Russell Shaw; Blog posts 2007-08-17
Behind Purdue's computing simulation on the 2001 World Trade Center attack: Behind Purdue's computing simulation on the 2001 World Trade Center attackNIST also did a simulation without the graphicsThe NIST did a simulation of the damage and compared against debris. They took into account a huge amount of information. Turns out that the physical damage just from the...; Tags: WTC, World Trade Center; Discussion threads 2007-06-20