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OLPC spawns another non-OLPC

OLPC spawns another non-OLPCThe Main Issue For OLPC "Wannabes"Between Intel's offering and ASUS' offering, there are now two OLPC "wannabes" on the market. The question remains; do these computers actually do what the OLPC laptop was designed to do?Are they rugged enough to handle the bumps and jars that will...

Tags: hand-crank, One Laptop Per Child project

Discussion threads 2007-06-07

Tools for the ultimate high-tech survival kit

Tools for the ultimate high-tech survival kitHigh tech is the way to go...These kits were designed to give the user the ability to make rational, possibly life saving decisions without having to spend time or energy thinking about your most basic needs of food, water, continuous light and communication. Other...

Tags: Nanotechnology, Engineering, Channel management, High Tech, hand-crank, survival kit, Katrina

Discussion threads 2005-09-30

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Wall Street: MSFT should buy Yahoo, consider RIM

A Wall Street investor has suggested that the stars may be aligned just right for Microsoft to make another run at Yahoo, this time for $22 per share. Investment fund Mithras Capital, which owns more than 1.9 million shares, or 0.14 percent, of Yahoo, said Microsoft has a window of...

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Financial Accounting, Search, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Finance, Marketing, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Bureaucracy and open source: Do they mix?

Another high-profile departure from Sun, this time MySQL's David Axmark is taking wing -- citing a dislike for working in a large organization: I have thought about my role at Sun and decided that I am better off in smaller organisations. I HATE all the rules that I need...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Open Source, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2008-10-09

New MacBooks and MacBook Pros: $800 and Mini-DVI (updated)

More details are emerging on the new MacBooks, due to be announced on Tuesday. Inquisitr received word that price lists provided to some Apple retailers in the United States include an SKU for an $800 notebook computer – a first for the Cupertino company. Apple retail...

Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple MacBook Pro, Upside, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Is Microsoft's fatal flaw the computer?

I was browsing on webmagazine Salon when I came across an interesting review written by Scott Rosenberg of the book "Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know" by Randall Stross. (The title of the article is, "Google's Vulcan death grip." Boy am I a sucker.) ...

Tags: Google Inc., Flaw, Microsoft Corp., Computer, Productivity, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Poker Potjie Free Hand Range and Odds Calculator (exe)

Poker Potjie is a free texas hold em poker software calculator tool. It is used for analyzing the hand ranges of your opponents to predict and gain a better understanding of what they are likely to be holding in different situations. Poker Potjie is a free, interactive, and user friendly...

Tags: Equity, Tool, Poker Potjie Software, Productivity, Investment, Financial Services, Finance

Software downloads 2008-10-09

Core i7 sensitive to RAM voltages over 1.65V

Core i7 sensitive to RAM voltages over 1.65VOf course people will!People will do it anyway thinking it won't happen to them...because we all know that these things happen only to others. And when the CPU makes a funny smell and suddenly the computer is like a big powerless door...

Tags: Memory, Manufacturing, TVs, TV & Home Theater, TripleII, RAM

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Windows Strata = Microsoft's layered cloud OS

Windows Strata = Microsoft's layered cloud OSThe cloud providers fully support the platform the provide. On the otherhand, try to get help from MS for problems with your application hosted on Rackspace. It will be a LONG wait.And, end users have to pick their poison. No matter which platform they...

Tags: Operating systems, Windows Strata, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, operating system

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

C'mon, Vista really isn't that bad

Picture the scene. A small country pub in Canterbury, a warm, autumn evening, surrounded by friends drinking and smoking in the beer garden; relaxing after a difficult, hard day at work. The birds are singing, the breeze is light and feathering our very souls. This is heaven....

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows Meeting Space, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Zune 3.0

Photo gallery:Zune 3.0 softwareIn order for Microsoft's Zune MP3 player to compete against Apple's iPod, Microsoft not only had to create a great MP3 player; it also had to create a solid software client to compete against iTunes. In doing so,it's created an attractive, full-featured digital-media jukebox that some users...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Media players, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Zune

Product reviews 2008-10-07

Samsung Sway SCH-U650 (Verizon Wireless)

It's clear that Samsung loves two things: slim slider phones and midrange camera phones with a flip design. Indeed, we've seen a deluge of such models over the last few years, with the latest in the slider camp being the Samsung SCH-U650 for Verizon Wireless. Also called the Sway, (why,...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Verizon Wireless, keypad button, display, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung Sway, phone

Product reviews 2008-10-07

The HP-MySpace deal: Who needs this most? Not MySpace users.

HP and MySpace are partnering to "unlock the content of MySpace" by giving users the tools to print their pictures. You know, like to a printer. Hopefully, wink wink an HP printer. On the surface, this sounds like a good plan. There are billions of images that...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Photograph, Image, MySpace, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Google is your friend

Google is your friendThe underlying principles should determinewho is a freind, or who is not.There is nothing wrong with being a [b]for profit[/b] company, which is what Google is. It would be an entirely different issue should they hide their EULA agreements, or who they deal with, or what they...

Tags: Channel management, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

Does the Semantic Web matter?

Does the Semantic Web matter?Semantic Web does matter, but ...Hi Paul,I agree to your post, Semantic Web does matter. Unquestionably, the Web is moving towards a stage that machines may understand our humans better and better. It is the future. In order to reach the future, one thing we must...

Tags: Semantic Web, business intelligence, Imindi, Web

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

Does the Semantic Web matter?

My business card reads 'Technology Evangelist,' and this is a blog about the Semantic Web. So that should be an unequivocal 'Yes!' then, right? However, it's frequently worthwhile to revisit and question presumptions, beliefs and 'truths,' and the Semantic Web that dominates so much of my working...

Tags: Web, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Can two AMDs be better than one?

Can two AMDs be better than one?They should never have bought ATIATI was content with competing with NVIDIA, and if market conditions had let them fail at it, so be it. What we're seeing now is the failure of 2 companies, not just one.ExpensiveThe cash infusion may have been...

Tags: Research & Development, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

Samsung SCH-U430 (Verizon Wireless)

Photo gallery:Samsung SCH-U430If you're looking for a basic flip phone with a VGA camera, you can always count on Samsung to deliver. Indeed, the company pumps them out by the dozen and the Samsung SCH-U430 is the latest of the batch. Sporting a simple, compact design and minimal features, the...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Verizon Wireless, Samsung SCH-U430, phone, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Product reviews 2008-10-06

Iomega ScreenPlay TV Link - digital AV player

There's little doubt that TV is moving more toward an on-demand model powered by content that's pulled from the Internet rather than traditional broadcast sources. But products that pull in video from networked PCs and various online sources--everything from the Roku Netflix Player to Apple TV to the Xbox 360--still...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Flash memory, TV, TV Link, ScreenPlay TV Link, USB, Iomega Corp.

Product reviews 2008-10-06

The color that shall not be named. AMD's Vertal downplays green credentials, plays up efficiency arguments

I realize Advanced Micro Devices has some news in the offing this week that likely will supersede the urgency of this blog's content, but I wanted to recount some high points from a conversation I had about two weeks ago with Larry Vertal, the company's senior strategist when it comes...

Tags: Energy Efficiency, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Larry Vertal, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-06