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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

MAKE's open source gift guide

Obviously, the shopping season has started -- after all its Cyber Monday. And retailers want your money. So why not invest in open source projects? With what Phillip Torrone shows on MAKE in his Open source gift guide for the holidays, Im sure youll find ways to put -- very...

Tags: open source, Free Beer, recipe, Leisure, Computers &, Internet

Blog posts 2006-11-27

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Any cap and trade program in Australia seems dead for now

Actually we call it "a massive tax on everything"The pressure we've applied to our elected representatives pushed the opposition leader out and forced this change of policy.The MSM still hasn't recovered from the shock, it goes against their collective belief.Climategate still isn't widely reported in Australia's MSM, but the pressure...

Tags: Leadership, Cap-and-Trade, Abbott, voter

Discussion threads 2009-12-01

Internet: A threat to government or the other way around? (Part 4)

internet and governmentI'm glad I read this, it was interesting. Not as informative as it might have been - I would have liked to see some actual cases and decisions cited - but it raised interesting issues. However, what really struck me is that this article needs a good copy...

Tags: Vertical industries, government, Part 4, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

How we think, and perhaps lie, about the oil supply

Oil is naturally occurring...Scientist do not understand why oil wells that we'pumped dry' are now full of oil.So in other words, it has been proven to manyscientist oil is naturally occurring substance.It is all about greed and money, if people had commonsense and used their brain instead oflistening to politicians...

Tags: oil, Bakken

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

Mac OS 10.6.2 breaks hackintoshes

Author's views please ...... does the ZDNET author of this post care to say:1. Whether the 'hack' in 'hackintosh' is morally acceptable and/or legal?2. Whether there is any merit in Psystar's case that OSX is tied to Apple hardware? i.e. the vendor makes it a condition of purchasing the OS...

Tags: Desktops, Linux, Operating systems, Apple Mac OS, Apple Inc., Mac OS 10.6.2, PC, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

Homers Beer Run 1.0 (Windows)

Homers Beer Run is a game of skill available for free. The head of the Simpson family is trying to save the barrels of beer falling from a building. Help him to catch them and put them in the trunk of his car. Avoid the barrels on fire or you...

Tags: Barrel, Microsoft Windows, NowStat, Homers Beer Run, Games, Keyboards, Personal Technology, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2009-10-25

Snowe and enemies push health reform forward

Of course . . ."But the story is not yet told, and the trolls below will have their day."Of course. Your way is so right and everybody else is so wrong.at this point If they SO against the health reform let them have it there way since they...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care

Discussion threads 2009-10-14

News to know: T-Mobile; Cloud computing; Oracle; HP; Apple

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Andrew Nusca: HP revamps TouchSmart PCs with Windows 7; starts $899; will you ditch your desktop PC, HDTV? HP...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., PC, T-Mobile, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Desktops, Palm Pre, Microsoft Windows, Smart Phones, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-13

Arora 0.10.1 (Mac)

Arora is a lightweight cross-platform web browser. It's free as in free speech and free beer. Arora runs on Linux, embedded Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Windows and any other platforms supported by the Qt toolkit. Arora uses the QtWebKit port of the fully standards-compliant WebKit layout engine. It features...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Engine, Arora, Linux, Embedded Linux, Apple Mac OS X, Operating Systems, UNIX, Apple Mac OS, Open Source, Desktops, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-10-12

FTC targets bloggers for disclosure about perks, freebies

The Federal Trade Commission wants me - the blogger - to inform you - the reader - about any financial ties I might have with the companies or the products I write about, just to make sure there's no conflict of interest there. That's fine. I have...

Tags: FTC, Blogger, Blogging, Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-05

Open source is sold and FOSS is not

I'm confusedAre you advocating breaking the GPL license by selling GPL based products by 'open source' companies?We know NT Selling software is not a violation of the GPLSelling softare is not a violation of the GPL. Not in any way, shape or form. In the words of the...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, F/OSS, GPL, software, open source

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

Before Google Books, we took on-demand publishing to the streets

Different plans for different worlds?What's needed here is for Google to have different business plans/models for different worlds. Clearly a first world business plan like what they have now is not sutiable for the third world. A third world business plan of free as in beer books would not be...

Tags: Google Inc., Third World, public domain, on-demand

Discussion threads 2009-09-18

Microsoft Office Web Apps go to testers: Ten things to know

A TECH PREVIEW with broken bits...Is not a tech preview, its a marketing ploy. Sorry but I ahve to take MS to task on this entire roll out of Office. Its becoming quite clear to testers myself included that MS has a lot of features/functions that are up...

Tags: Microsoft Office, Web application, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-17

Will online education kill the university?

More to Harvard than the ClassesWhile I'm a big proponent of online and hybrid courses, I don't think that the residential college will go away entirely. People go to places like Harvard and Yale not just because they might learn more (and they might, depending on a lot of...

Tags: Harvard, education

Discussion threads 2009-09-16

Open source loves profit

with M$ on the brink....OSS is the only way to make money from software.nah, socialism doesn't workIt doesn't at national level. It ain't in software industry as well.RE: Open source loves profitThe brink of what?re: aboveDo you even know what socialism is? It's not driven by money it must be...

Tags: European Socialists, socialism, socialist, Microsoft Corp., brink, OSS, open source

Discussion threads 2009-09-14

Forget 99 cent smartphone apps, let's be fair to developers too

Price floors don't help anyoneFirst, setting a minimum price is a price floor. Basic microeconomics teaches that this lowers demand and raises supply, generating an inefficient surplus. I don't see how that's good.Second, you seem to imply in this article that $0.99 apps are Apple's fault. They...

Tags: Action Games, developer, cent smartphone app

Discussion threads 2009-08-20

TypoBuzz 2.0 (Windows)

This software will help you with writing articles free of misspelled words. This is free for you to have. There is no obligation to purchase anything at any time. If you are ever looking for the latest technology in beer bottle funneling visit our site at www.bottlebong.us.

Tags: Bottle, Bottlebong, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Software, Management

Software downloads 2009-08-20

Wired has a robot that serves beer

Free beer, and robots. Think about those two concepts for more than a second, and you're already asking when, where, and how many. Imagine a kegerator that looks like an iPhone. And there is high-quality, San Francisco-brewed beer inside. And...

Tags: Wired Inc., Beer, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-08-18

Podcast: Why ZDNet AU loves Linux desktops

Since you ask, noI have long ago left Windows behind when I got tired of running all the spyware/malware/defrag/registry cleaner jobs just to keep it running resonably well. I find that my computer runs better with Linux and i don't have the annoying jobs to run just about every...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux desktop, desktop, podcast, Linux, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-08-14