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Mac OS Snow Leopard: Great news for Windows 7

I still say Mac is the best multi-boot PCIn my dream situation, I've got a home server created from a Mac Pro. The native Mac OS X would run, with Parallels running instances of Windows and Ubuntu and whatever else I need. I would stream all the media...

Tags: Desktops, Keyboards, Operating systems, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard, Microsoft Windows 7, GREAT NEWS, Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS, Apple Inc., keyboard

Discussion threads 2009-08-27

Oracle-Sun: an enterprise catastrophe

Oracle-Sun: an enterprise catastropheonly M$ sees it as a catastropheHaving a serious and rich contender for Linux, Office, sql & .net gives Balmer cold sweats.Everyone else is happy, may be except IBM.Your right DennisOracle is REALLY GOOD at making a profit. Ellison is a forward thinker, he was the first...

Tags: Linux, Databases, Programming languages, OPEN SOURCE, Oracle Corp., GREAT NEWS, Microsoft Corp., analysis, database, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-04-20

Great news for Microsoft: Zunes stolen!

Great news for Microsoft: Zunes stolen!What do you think of this?http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=388038Seems like Microsoft are trying to improve Zune.The Zune is pretty coolMy wife and I each have a Zune 80GB and they are pretty cool. The Zune software is very slick and simple to use and the Zune Pass...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Microsoft Corp., Zune Software, Microsoft Zune, GREAT News, Apple iPod

Discussion threads 2008-03-05

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Toshiba Satellite T135-S1309

Sometimes, it takes a good retail excursion to find a deal that isn't otherwise possible. Case in point: the Toshiba T135. While we have already reviewed two different versions of Toshiba's Windows 7 entry to the thin-and-light laptop landscape, we were pleasantly surprised by this retail-only configuration. This is not...

Tags: Notebooks, Microsoft Windows 7, Processors, Toshiba Corp., Toshiba Satellite

Product reviews 2009-11-06

Pre-Copenhagen climate talks end in Barcelona

Who could he be talking about?How about the 57% of people in America who don't buy carbon emissions causing global warming?Looks like the other "vested interests" needs to step up their re-education regime, er, I mean, need to do more "raising awareness."Lies told to control populationOh yeah, look at Al...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Kevin Rudd

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

The Enterprise 2.0 Value Propositions Agenda

Time is Money: Where's the Beef? The now biannual US 'Enterprise 2.0' conference is a wrap, but disappointingly there is still little business understanding of what the term means or what the value propositions and benefits are. The general 2.0 suffix is well understood by technology...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, E2.0, Susan Scrupski, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-05

Windows 7's default UAC bypassed by 8 out of 10 malware samples

RE: Windows 7's default UAC bypassed by 8 out of 10 malware samplesyawnWho can I trust *now*....Even Ed Bott said '7' was more secure!The Windows Infect Season is not over yet.. Nothing's changed.... That people even USE Windows these days is quite remarkable.... It must be the power of habit...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, malware, UAC, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Toshiba Satellite A505-S6980

You can't argue with a large-screen, value-priced laptop when it delivers good performance, and looks nice to boot. We appreciated the Toshiba Satellite A505-S6960 when we reviewed it in our 2009 back-to-school retail roundup, liking its affordability, large screen, strong battery life, and excellent-sounding speakers. Just a few months later,...

Tags: Keyboards, Microsoft Windows 7, Notebooks, Processors, Toshiba Corp., keyboard, laptop computer, Toshiba Satellite

Product reviews 2009-11-04

The long and winding road to MSN's reinvention as a social hub

MSN, why bother?I remember what a turd-fest the original MSN was. When I got my DSL from Qwest a few years back, MSN was the service provider. So my last peek at MSN was in June 2007 and I never went back there -- it was still a crap-fest. How...

Tags: MSN

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

IronKey reveals new, ultra-secure D200 USB flash drives

Another bad designIf I can lose the cap and damage the connector, it's not secure. Why would anybody make a flash drive with a separate cap any more? I'll continue to wait for a secure drive with a good physical design that operates reliably with NO software installation on host...

Tags: Flash memory, IronKey, D200 USB flash drive, USB flash drive

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Disney, Asus launch 'Netpal' netbook for kids

Disney Netpal Netbook - Top Christmas GiftI think the Disney laptop will be a great gift for this xmas. I was not surprised when I found the Asus netpal netbook as one of the top christmas gifts. The good news is that is more affordable today. I found a good...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Disney Corp., netbook, NetPal, ASUS

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

LG 60PS80

Photo gallery: LG PS80 seriesWhen it was announced at CES 2009, the LG PS80 series of plasma TVs earned one of our three nominations for Best of CES in the TV category. We've already reviewed the other two sets--Panasonic's G10 plasmas and Vizio's VF551XVT LED-based LCD--and both scored...

Tags: TVs, Monitors & displays, LG Electronics Inc., LG PS80

Product reviews 2009-11-02

LG 50PS80

Photo gallery: LG PS80 seriesWhen it was announced at CES 2009, the LG PS80 series of plasma TVs earned one of our three nominations for Best of CES in the TV category. We've already reviewed the other two sets--Panasonic's G10 plasmas and Vizio's VF551XVT LED-based LCD--and both scored...

Tags: TVs, Monitors & displays, LG Electronics Inc., LG PS80

Product reviews 2009-11-02

Wordpress picks up college newspapers with CoPress

Wrong URLThe Copress website is wrong, it points to copress.com but the correct is copress.org.Great post, anyway.No official "deal" with WordPressTo clarify, CoPress has no official "deal" or partnership with WordPress. We've adopted the platform because of its features, ease of use, and flexibility, and thinks it performs wonderfully for...

Tags: CoPress, Wordpress

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Obamicans rebranding NHIN-Connect as the Health Internet

Having health records moved nationwide under a set of open, accessible standards is also great news for Personal Health Record PHR systems like Microsoft HealthVault and Google Health, which may soon have a single set of open standards every proprietary system is writing to. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-11-02

Net Neutrality: You own the Internet - make sure it becomes Law

how to get from there to herewhile net neutrality makes a lot of sense to most people, how can we make sure that it becomes law. Our open source government democracy is decidedly NOT neutral, and the same interests that would take away our rights on the internet, are the...

Tags: Net Neutrality, Internet, government

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Top Five HDTVs

Whatever the size of your wallet, every living room should have a respectable television set. Good news: HDTVs are cheaper, bigger and better than ever. Here are my top five picks for this year. Splurge: Samsung UNB8500 Series ...

Tags: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., HDTV, Video, 1080p, TVs, Corporate Communications, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-11-01

Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Laptop computers

This year the laptop list was a tough assignment for several reasons. First, the emergence of a new class of ultra-thin laptops--spawned by lower-cost processors from Intel and AMD--has made things more complicated. Second, there's a fresh crop of Windows 7 laptops, and...

Tags: Processor, Hard Drive, Performance, Apple MacBook, Memory, Graphics, Laptop Computer, Netbook, Computer, Intel Corp., Compaq Computer Corp., Compaq CQ61z, Timeline 1810T, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows 7, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, John Morris

Blog posts 2009-11-01

What's the hurry? You can still see Miami from the plane.

Add another choiceHarry, you need to add another choice on your survey."If the climate [b]IS[/b] warming, it is part of a natural cycle and has very little to do with mankind's actions, and there is very little that we can do to affect it."another choice being added--Harry FullerFuller, why the...

Tags: launch-pad, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-10-31

Making a foundation a real solution to the mySQL mess

Sounds good. Too good?This sounds like a great solution to a problem that is probably costing Oracle, destroying what little credibility Sun has as a brand, while ensuring that every website on the planet virtually retains access to a free, secure and efficient database. If we don't do something, the...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Dana, MySQL, Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-30