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iPhone 3GS overheating linked to battery

iPhone 3GS owners have been reporting problems with some units overheating and becoming too hot to touch. The handsets are getting so warm that the white plastic cases are discoloring to a brownish/pink as seen in the picture above from Ben on the French site Le...

Tags: Software, Apple iPhone, Battery, Inquirer, Engineering, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-06-30

Foxconn may have contract to manufacture Apple netbook

The Inquirer is reporting that none other than Foxconn Electronics may be manufacturing a netbook for Apple. According to the piece Digitimes and several Russian hardware sites are quoting Chinese-language site Commercial Times, which in turn is...

Tags: Apple Inc., Netbook, Inquirer, Foxconn Electronics, Details, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-04-20

Linux pioneer moves from Red Hat to Intel

Linux pioneer moves from Red Hat to IntelThe inquirer? A joke? No ABM punches pulled by the blogger here.The statements of "glee" over total speculation about intel "dropping" MS and the links to bloggers who could never be termed anything more than gossip bloggers and who have no...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Blogging, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Red Hat Inc., Linux based OSe, inquirer, Intel Corp., Linux, Microsoft Windows Vista, blogger, Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-01-05

Are NVIDIA G92s and G94s failing prematurely too?

The Inquirer is reporting that in addition to the NVIDIA G84 and G86 GPUs being bad and failing due to thermal issues, the G92s and G94s are also affected. If you haven't been following the story, the short version, up till now, is that all G84 and G86 chips...

Tags: NVidia Corp., Chip, GPU, Inquirer, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-08-12

Intel stays behind the curve ... again

Intel’s decision to continue using Windows XP instead of migrating to Windows Vista is being spun as a stunning rebuke to Microsoft and a rejection of Windows Vista. Except that there’s nothing new here. The same thing happened in 2002, when Windows XP was shiny and new. Corporations like Intel...

Tags: Operating System, Microsoft Windows Vista, Intel Corp., Inquirer, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-06-26

OLPC ready to scrap Linux??

The Inquirer says so. OLPC, the educational project which purportedly aims to provide small, cheap laptops for kids has, since its inception, been running its home-made Sugar application, run on Linux, but on Tuesday, OLPC chairman and founder, Nicholas Negroponte, told AP that this was...

Tags: Software, Open Source, One Laptop Per Child Project, Inquirer, Tools & Techniques, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-04-23

Is expecting a Vista system to support XP asking too much?

The Inquirer runs a story with the provocative title HP screws Presario buyers. The story, by Charlie Demerjian, charts his attempts to get HP to supply drivers for a Windows Vista-based HP/Compaq Presario. Is he just bashing Vista for the heck of it and expecting too much of HP...

Tags: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Charlie Demerjian, Hardware, Hewlett-Packard Co., Inquirer, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, Vista

Blog posts 2007-05-07

A wake for Exchange 5.5

In the category of "I'm not makingthis up", The Inquirer reports on a wake which Microsoft held forExchange 5.5:Nothing wrong with wakes, but this timeMicrosoft is celebrating the death of Exchange Server 5.5, an eight yearold product which the executives described as a "she".Gee,where was...

Tags: Exchange

Blog posts 2005-12-02

Additional Resources

February 2013 - The date when Firefox could pass Internet Explorer

RE: February 2013 - The date when Firefox could pass Internet ExplorerThat does assume that everything remains constant, which it won't. If someone creates a new browser that could disrupt it, or when either company releases a new version of their browser that is also going to throw things...

Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

TD Bank botches IT system consolidation; Customer havoc ensues

If you're a TD Bank customer and your balances are a mess here's the reason: IT issues are wreaking havoc on the bank. TD Bank, formerly Commerce Bank, told customers that balances, credits and debits may be inaccurate due to computer glitches. The problems...

Tags: Bank, Commerce Bank N.A., Information Technology, Consolidation, Balance, Computer, TD Bank, Productivity, Financial Services, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-02

ATI debuts Radeon HD 5870 with 'most powerful processor ever created'

Mad Mike Magee 35th of 50 TOP Britons in IT & 5870 Diagram:Thomas Stewart Von Drashek Pat Moorhead: MUCH TO THE CHAGRIN of Nvidia, AMD/ATI today launched its RV870 architecture with the highly anticipated Radeon HD 5850 and HD 5870 graphics cards.We could spend a whole day writing about...

Tags: processor, ATI Technologies Inc., card, Radeon HD 5870, Radeon HD, NVidia Corp., Radeon

Discussion threads 2009-09-23

Why social networking tools will go enterprise: All your employees are using them

Sure, Facebook is fun.....Facebook and other social networking sites are lots of fun but they are also amazing productivity killers. Most enterprises will end up blocking social sites at work so they don't have to fire their employees for wasting all their time and money.At home, people can still while...

Tags: Social Networking tool, social networking, social networking tool, tool

Discussion threads 2009-08-25

Google vs. Bing: The global battle

Huh, just 67.5%??I thought it would have been like 80-90% by now.Mr Dignan uses flawed statistics, the market is actually much more skewedAccording to Hitwise, who claims to have bigger and more unbiased samples, was Google's market share up at impressive 74%, i.e. ~14 times bigger than Bing, 4.5 times...

Tags: Google Inc., Bing, global battle

Discussion threads 2009-08-25

Microsoft's Bing invaded by pharmaceutical scammers

quote"This implies serious security holes in Microsoft?s advertising program"All I can vision here is Homer Simpson slapping forehead and saying "Doh!!"Who'd ever thought, Microsoft and Security holes, who knew. Glad I don't use Bing."Fraud" - Just "Bring it"RE: Microsoft's Bing invaded by pharmaceutical scammersSo the exploit has been found, Microsoft...

Tags: SEARCH, ABMers, Microsoft Corp., Bing, Google Inc., advertisement

Discussion threads 2009-08-07

News to know: Microsoft; Motorola; BIOS 'rootkit'

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. Ryan Naraine: Researchers find insecure BIOS 'rootkit' pre-loaded in laptops Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting 2009: Mary...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Researcher, Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Motorola Inc., Rootkits, Microsoft Windows 7, BIOS, Microsoft Windows, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Hardware, Components, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-07-31

Apple makes big bucks profit per iPhone 3G S

Apple makes big bucks profit per iPhone 3G SYou forgot a componentApple Logo = $421.04Medialets Sunspider Tests: iPhone 3GS 3x faster than Pre, 5x faster than G1In Medialets controlled tests on Javascript execution using Sunspider test suit provided by Webkit it found that the iPhone 3GS was significantly faster than...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Handhelds, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, iPhone 3G S, big buck, Apple iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, phone

Discussion threads 2009-06-25

Behavioral Data: Valuing Customers. Then Avoiding Them.

There’s little question that just about every profit-making company out there would like to know exactly what you’re doing on the Web, all the time. And that there’s a clear profitable market to be had in data that captures your “behavior” on the Internet. ...

Tags: Customer, Channel Management, Retail, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-06-05

U.S. Army servers breached by Turkish hackers

U.S. Army servers breached by Turkish hackers A question that puzzles meWhy on Earth is an US Army's Ammunition Plant and an US Army Corps of Engineers running insecure software from M$, more precisely Microsoft SQL Server?Presumably there are many other critical US institutions running dangerous software from M$. The...

Tags: Databases, SECURITY, Servers, server, SQL injection, Turkish Hackers, SQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Corp., vulnerability, U.S. Army

Discussion threads 2009-06-01

Mysterious virus strikes FBI

Mysterious virus strikes FBICan you please explain ...... what the FBI is doing wrong?thx^o^It's started!ye has just started another nonsense session and as usual it promises to be long, very looooooong.Malware that results from social engineeringDoesn't normally mass-infect computers in a single location. Odds are very good this is a...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Federal government, Operating systems, UNIX, Viruses and worms, virus, Linux, FBI, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-05-22

Microsoft to issue bonds: Will it go shopping?

Microsoft to issue bonds: Will it go shopping?more likelyM$ has run out of cash and is going belly up.Ballmer is just trying to prolong the life of the beast before this new Enron will be exposed.It is to pay for this.http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1137267/eu-software-makers-responsible-codeSoftware finally to be held accountable. This will be costly...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, NoAxe, Microsoft Corp., Linux, bond, General Motors Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-05-11