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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes is an internationally published technology author who has devoted over a decade to helping users get the most from technology -- whether that be by learning to program, building a PC from a pile of parts, or helping them get the most from their new MP3 player or...
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- Has Steve Jobs dropped the iTunes ball?
- Has Steve Jobs been too focused on the iPhone over the past six months and allowed problems to develop over in an established part of Apple's business - iTunes. The New York Times reports today that Universal Music Group has notified Apple that it will not renew its annual contract...
- Tags: Thoughts, Industry, In the news, Gadgets, DRM, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-07-02
- 10 million iPhones = An idea platform for malware
- Let's make a few assumptions. First off, let's assume that Steve Jobs is bang on right and the iPhone will be a massive success. Let's assume that it will be the biggest thing since the iPod. Let's also assume that Steve's right when he says that Apple can shift 10 million...
- Tags: Thoughts, Security, Industry, Gadgets, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-06-11
- Users won't care about iPhone keyboard usability
- Each time I look at something related to the iPhone, I keep coming back to one aspect of the device I don't like - the onscreen keyboard. As much as I think that the glass-topped software-powered keyboard on the iPhone looks cool, I keep coming back the one thing that's important about...
- Tags: Thoughts, Industry, Gadgets, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-06-08
- AACS vs. The bloggers
- The BBC is carrying the story that the AACS Licensing Authority AACSLA plans to fight the bloggers who "crossed the line" and posted the processing key which can be used to break the copy protection on HD-DVDs."It started out as a circumvention effort six to eight weeks ago but we...
- Tags: Thoughts, Legal, Industry, In the news, DRM
- Blog posts 2007-05-04
- $175 OLPC deals blow to open source, guarantees Microsoft's continued dominance
- Yesterday Nicholas Negroponte, former director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab now head of the nonprofit One Laptop Per Child project, gave analysts and journalists an update on the OLPC project. Two big changes were announced - the $100 OLPC is now the $175 OLPC, and...
- Tags: In the news, Industry, Linux, Microsoft, Software, Thoughts
- Blog posts 2007-04-27
- Windows Vista = Windows Me II?
- Is Windows Vista going to be a repeat of the Windows Me marketing and sales disaster that Microsoft experienced back on 2000?Over the past few weeks Ive come across a number of articles on tech sites that are putting Windows Vista and Windows Me in the same sentence. Not...
- Tags: Industry, Marketing, Microsoft, Software, Thoughts, Trends, Vista
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- EMI DRM-free deal -Shortsighted, risky, and possibly irresponsible to the company's shareholders
- DRM Watch has an interesting article which examines EMIs DRM-free music deal with Apple and now Microsoft. Its been interesting over the past few days to watch the reaction from different tech sectors to the EMI/Apple and then the EMI/Microsoft deal to make DRM-free music with less compression available...
- Tags: Thoughts, Industry, DRM, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- Are you ready for DST changes?
- This year sees Daylight Saving Time in many jurisdictions of the United States and Canada move as a result of Energy Policy Act of 2005 from its usual slots of the first Sunday in April and and the last Sunday of October to the second Sunday in March and the...
- Tags: Industry, In the news, Thoughts
- Blog posts 2007-03-05
- Dell - Make Windows optional extra on all your PCs
- Dell doesnt want to go to the cost and hassle of supporting multiple Linux distros. The alternative is simple - make Windows optional extra on all your PCs.Dells IdeaStorm wasnt up for long before it became clear what many people wanted - for Dell to offer Linux on their...
- Tags: Thoughts, Industry, Dell
- Blog posts 2007-03-01
- Why criticize Microsoft for giving away free software? It's the trend nowadays!
- Why is Joe Wilcox Microsoft Watch criticizing Microsoft for giving away free software? Dosent he realize that this is the modern trend?Wilcox seems to be taking a very narrow view of the software market. Yes, Microsoft is giving away a lot of free software nowadays, and it also...
- Tags: Thoughts, Microsoft, Industry
- Blog posts 2007-02-22
- When will we start to see OEMs ship new PCs with Firefox or Opera installed?
- Lets face it, for the average PC user Internet Explorer is such a target for hackers and cyber-criminals that they can really do without it. Why do we still not have PCs targeted at average users that come with Firefox or Opera pre-installed?Im not using this post to overly...
- Tags: Industry, Security, Thoughts
- Blog posts 2007-02-21
- What if Linux does infringe on Microsoft intellectual property?
- There have been a lot of words written about the comments made by Microsofts CEO Steve Ballmer during a Q&A session after his keynote speech at the Professional Association for SQL Server PASS conference in Seattle last week (you know, where he said that Linux used intellectual property patented by...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Linux, Thoughts, Microsoft, Industry
- Blog posts 2006-11-24
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- Defective NVIDIA GPUs present in MacBook Pro
- Apple has now joined the ranks of Dell and HP and admitted that some if its MacBook Pro notebooks have been shipped with defective NVIDIA GPUs. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: NVidia Corp., Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook Pro, GPU, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Apple kicks off Ultracompact USB adapter exchange program
- Back in September Apple announced a recall of the Ultracompact USB power adapter for the iPhone 3G following claims that the metal prongs might break off in the power outlet an present a risk of electrical shock. Well, today is the day that Apple kicks off the exchange program. by...
- Tags: Swap, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Will HTC be the first to launch a WiMAX-enabled mobile phone?
- Fellow Mobile Tech Roundup podcast co-host Kevin Tofel went to the Sprint/XOHM WiMAX launch event in Baltimore this week and wrote up his thoughts. The event was focused mainly on the devices that support the WiMAX network that was launched the week before and as a mobile guy I was...
- Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Phone, Mobile, Radio, Cell Phone, Nokia N810, WiMAX, Advertising & Promotion, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Marketing, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- An interview with Scott Brinker
- It's clearly a week for publishing podcasts. As well as David Provost, whom I mentioned yesterday, I've also just released a podcast with ion interactive's Scott Brinker. Scott has been blogging for a while about the impact that semantic technologies might have upon his area of interest,...
- Tags: Scott Brinker, Podcasts, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Symantec shows Microsoft how to do UAC
- Security company Symantec has released a tool that helps to make Vista's UAC User Account Control feature clearer and less of a pain to use. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Norton Co., Microsoft Corp., Tool, UAC, Productivity, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Symantec shows Microsoft how to do UAC
- Security company Symantec has released a tool that helps to make Vista's UAC User Account Control feature clearer and less of a pain to use. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, uac, vista, norton, microsoft, security
- Image galleries 2008-10-10
- Microsoft: How we'll take on VMware
- The software maker believes it has the tools and the right price point to beat VMware in the battle for the virtualisation market. Microsoft has a three-pronged strategy to beat VMware in the virtualization market, according to the company's senior director for virtualization product management, Zane Adam. ...
- Tags: Hypervisor, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Colin Barker ZDNet.co.uk, virtualization, Microsoft, VMWare
- News items 2008-10-10
- My Awesome IT Job: Director of Rich Media Group at Microsoft
- Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from an IT pro that loves their work. ...
- Tags: Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Rich Media, Strategy, Management, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
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