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- Vodafone: We're not buying Verizon
- Vodafone: We're not buying Verizongood idea, but....well, the spinning off of the FIOS and other parts of verizon from the wireless seems ok on paper. but I see several problems from that happening: 1st problem: the local and internet service would eventually have to be sold to someone, and the...
- Tags: Cellular phones, Telecom & Utilities, incompatibility, Verizon Communications Inc., Voda, Vodafone Group Plc.
- Discussion threads 2007-07-16
- Does open source make business decisions political?
- Does open source make business decisions political?ThisFirst off we talking about a 'public' service here. The BBC is funded by public money political and is being accused of not fulfilling its charter for equal access for all political. Whilst the BBC needs to get 'best value' they must service the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Government, Microsoft Corp., British Broadcasting Corp., incumbent, business decision, incompatibility
- Discussion threads 2007-07-16
- Warning for 64-bit Windows users: No iPhone support for you
- As Engadget reported over the weekend, the iPhone is incompatible with the 64-bit flavors of Windows XP and Windows Vista.Apple's iPhone specs page doesn't mention the incompatibility; it says that the iPhone will work with Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, Enterprise, or Ultimate Edition; or Windows XP Home or Professional...
- Tags: Windows XP, Windows client, Vista, Telecommunications, Apple, App Compatibility
- Blog posts 2007-07-02
- Tragedy: Commercial developer reports 35% of coding time spent on IE/FireFox incompatibilities
- Tragedy: Commercial developer reports 35% of coding time spent on IE/FireFox incompatibilitiesThroat count[i]But in the case of IE vs. FireFox not to mention Safari and Opera, there are four separate throats to go after.[/i]Safari (and Konqeror, the origin of Safari's KHTML) and Opera are pretty easy to lump in with...
- Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera Software, Apple Safari, incompatibility, tragedy, Web browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7
- Discussion threads 2007-06-19
- Microsoft trying to make Vista iPod-friendly
- Microsoft trying to make Vista iPod-friendlyWait you're telling me . . .You're telling me they keep "fix"ing it and it's still broken?Apple's jobiTunes is Apple's software product. It is, or was, incompatible with Vista because of the way it is written. Apple had ample time and clear guidelines to fix...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), incompatibility, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Apple iTunes, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2007-03-27
- Web 2.0 reality check: Incompatibility
- Web 2.0 reality check: IncompatibilityA webOS standardIt's the natural approach, that you create a framework for web2 apps which becomes a standard.In reality a web OS, which neatly reconnects to your earlier posts, and since we speak of dataformats here, probably xml based.Microsoft has suggested some possible approaches to cut'n...
- Tags: RSS, Channel management, Web browsers, incompatibility, Web, reality check, Microsoft Corp., Web 2.0
- Discussion threads 2006-05-03
- Web 2.0 reality check: Incompatibility
- In my previous post about ThinkFree, a Web Office product, a couple of ZDNet commenters pointed out that one problem with ThinkFree is that it requires a Java download. Wrote mrichardson under the heading Strike one...: "Thought that I would explore the "brave new world" of web...
- Tags: Web
- Blog posts 2006-05-03
- Sun, Red Hat gird for traditional OS battle
- Sun, Red Hat gird for traditional OS battleLock-in under a new guiseWhat Sun fails to mention is that Red Hat provides the source code to their enterprise version so that others can and have compiled it into binary distributions. So even if Red Hat went belly-up, others could take...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Sun Microsystems Inc., Red Hat Inc., incompatibility, Linux
- Discussion threads 2004-06-10
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- Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC, phone space
- Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC, phone spaceMicrosoft Store in the works...My rep told me Microsoft is looking into significant retail space in higher end upscale shopping malls. In the mock-up of the store, boxes of Vista and Office 2007 were kept under lock and key. Customers will be...
- Tags: Desktops, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., PC phone, PC, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- RSP Encrypt OCX (zip)
- ActiveX OCX to encrypt files and strings with a very fast implementation of AES 256 bits and standard RC4. Fixed incompatibility with Windows Vista. Fixed incompatibility with Win XP SP2, minor bugs fixed. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: RSP Software, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Network Security, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Operating Systems, Software, Networking, Enterprise Software
- Software downloads 2008-07-08
- How to make sweet lemonade out of sour Vista lemons
- How to make sweet lemonade out of sour Vista lemonsWhen you're locked in to a proprietary...solution you have no where else to go. It's just a matter of when do you break the cycle. With the killing of XP, I would say this would be a great time.If you upgrade...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, Vista lemon, Microsoft Corp., lemon, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- How to make sweet lemonade out of sour Vista lemons
- In a previous article I talked about some of the ways Microsoft might be able to learn from its mistakes with Windows Vista and deliver a winner with Windows 7. I also hit pretty close to home with a number of readers when I talked about the real world problems...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Why you'll have a long wait for Microsoft's next OS
- Why you'll have a long wait for Microsoft's next OSPerhapsbecause I said best bitsThe next OS from Microsoftshould employ the best bits of what is available, whether they are Microsoft ideas or not - most of the best ones have not been. For example, it should at the very least...
- Tags: Operating systems, operating system, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- SlideShare: user communication failure
- While Enterprise 2.0 applications can be useful, hassles sometimes abound. In this case, I innocently tried to upload a simple file to SlideShare, only to learn things aren't always straightforward.After attempting to upload the file, I received an error message stating in part: There's a big chance this is...
- Tags: Object-oriented Programming, File, SlideShare, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-06-29
- Nokia Symbian deal winners and losers
- Nokia Symbian deal winners and losersNokia Symbian - What's in a name?Heads up! It looks like Nokia's product naming consultants did not do their homework for similar names with other mental images and associations. Check out www.sybian.com. Or, how about the Symbionese Liberation Party that kidnapped Patty...
- Tags: Linux, Advertising & Promotion, Operating systems, Cellular phones, Nokia Corp., Symbian Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- Thinking about multicore and software
- Informit.com recently ran a fascinating Andrew Binstock interview with Donald Knuth touching on some of the same topics we discuss here - programming methods, the value of open source, and the links between programming and hardware change. I want to get...
- Tags: Software, Job, T2, Multi-core, Hardware, Multi-threading, Tim Bray, Open Source, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- Xerox: Gel ink will be the future
- There may come a day when we're buying a tube of ink gel for our printers. Xerox on Thursday said it is previewing what it calls a "cured gel ink technology" that prints on plastic and foil. Xerox's plan is to take digital printers to the packaging...
- Tags: Xerox Corp., Paper, Image Quality, Inkjet Printer, Ink, Gel, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Mozilla "Download Day" - Are you in or out?
- Mozilla "Download Day" - Are you in or out?I secondThe attempt is lame but I think that once it enters the world's book of records, it might attract some new users out of curiosity. It is a marketing stunt that might work.Me, I'll wait for Ubuntu's automagic update as well.Ditto....
- Tags: Public relations, Web browsers, Mozilla Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-29
- More on the Vista DVD playback issue
- More on the Vista DVD playback issueDid you tryreading your dvd with a software that does not support DRM of any form and does not rely on windows infrastructure, like VLC ?DId you try other DRM compatible software, like PowerDVD or the like ?To me this sound like a poor...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Digital rights management (DRM), Consumer electronics, Microsoft Windows Vista, DVD, Vista DVD playback issue, playback issue, Vista DVD, digital-rights management, HDCP
- Discussion threads 2008-05-15
- Microsoft not pulling XP SP3 again (so far)
- Microsoft isn't halting Windows XP Service Pack SP 3 distribution -- so far, at least -- in spite of endless-reboot problems reported by AMD-based PC customers, a company spokeswoman said on May 9. Reports of the reboot problem are cropping up on Microsoft forums and other sites...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
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