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- Gallery: Unboxing Chumby One
- The Chumby One is out and I've posted a gallery of photos comparing the new Internet appliance to the original. by Jason D. O'Grady
- Tags: Internet Appliance, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-11-18
- The EFF chimes in on Sun's DRM scheme
- The EFF chimes in on Sun's DRM schemeOne more time, it's not just media!!!Come on Joe, the fact is that systems get hacked all the time, millions of people have had their private information stolen recently. My being in control of my "content" (financial, health, personal, etc.) and letting...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Blogging, Internet appliance, Sun Microsystems Inc., Very few people, digital-rights management, luxury item, Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Discussion threads 2005-08-25
- Icebox Switched to Microsoft Windows CE .NET When Building the Latest Version of its Icebox Kitchen Internet Appliance
- Icebox, LLC switched to Microsoft Windows CE .NET from Wind River VxWorks and OpenTV Device Mosaic when building the latest version of its Icebox kitchen Internet appliance. Windows CE .NET offers powerful development tools that enabled Icebox to build, faster and more cost-effectively, a smart device that delivers fast switching...
- Tags: Wind River Systems Inc., Microsoft Windows CE .NET, Microsoft Corp., Internet Appliance, Icebox, Microsoft Windows CE, Microsoft Windows, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
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- Will Microsoft's Silverlight dampen the appeal of Google's Chrome OS?
- MS is the past Google is the future so NopeGoogle is the old MS, MS is the old IBM. PC_DOS never made it, MS_DOS did. The driving factor was openness and innovation.Today and in the near future, Google has bothToday MS sees profit only and based on thatdrives...
- Tags: Operating systems, Leadership, BOOT UP TIMES, Google Chrome, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Silverlight, Chrome OS, Chrome, operating system
- Discussion threads 2009-11-20
- Inside the Google Chrome OS security model
- The proof will be in implementationAll of these lofty goals are one thing. Making it happen in code is quite another. It sounds like they are just giving a laundry list of what people want them to say. I'm in the "believe it when I see it" camp. Good intentions...
- Tags: security, Google Inc., licence, Google Chrome
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- Google makes Chrome OS open source today
- I like itThe ChromeOS demo looked pretty cool!I'm almost 100% webapp-based already, so I could see myself using a simple, fast & no maintenance OS like that the majority of the time.I like it too, but, for me, I need to compile and run programs locally. I would imagine that...
- Tags: Operating systems, Desktops, open source, Google Inc., Chrome, operating system, ChromeOS
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- Google's Chrome OS: Will you give up desktop apps?
- I won't ntntI can'tI'm not online 24/7. I need local apps, as does everyone else. Say what you want. But network outages happen... Weather by forces of nature or human error, a network will eventually go down. It's only a matter of time. And knowing Google's past GMail outages, I...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Desktops, operating system, desktop, Google Inc., desktop app, netbook, Google Chrome
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- Google Chrome OS announcement
- Just as I thought"All data on Chrome OS is in the cloud""All data stored in the cloud in Google Docs":(YeahThat unfortunately is a deal breaker for me.I'll be sticking to my dual boot Windows 7/Fedora Core setup on my netbook.bad and bad no chrome os for me ......RE: Google Chrome...
- Tags: Operating systems, Google Chrome, Google Inc., Chrome OS, operating system, Chrome
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- Unboxing Chumby One
- Chumby Industries just released the successor to their widget-based Internet appliance, the Chumby One. The $99 device, is essentially a small touchscreen computer that grabs data from your WiFi connection and displays purpose-built widgets in a rotation. by Jason O'Grady
- Tags: Keyboards, Wireless LANs, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Peripherals, Wireless And Mobility, Components, Chumby, One, Internet, Appliance, Widget, WiFi, Jason O'Grady
- Image galleries 2009-11-18
- Google-Microsoft rivalry on with ChromeOS launch
- This will usher in an era of intense competition and innovation, as well aslower prices.This will be good for all concerned. Windows users will get lower prices and faster innovation. The Windows users should be Google's biggest fans here.Chorme OS could get 10% or more of the netbook market. That...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Chrome, operating system
- Discussion threads 2009-11-18
- Open source needs successful champions
- Open Source powers the Internet period!Open_Source powers the ENTIRE Internet withrouters/switches/servers you name it like Microsoft sitting behind caching Linux distroname servers.Now you tell me what does it need now???It is the FUTURE of smart devices, appliancedriven infrastructure, just like VMware using a Linux derived kernel and it is #1...
- Tags: Linux, software cost, Linux Distro, open source, operating system, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- Who's a candidate for Desktop Linux? Your Kids.
- My kids know Linux, OSX, and XP, and will obviously learn Windows 7, butskip Vista, though they will have contact with Vista. My son prefers OSX, my daughter Ubuntu.But, just like every kid should be taught at least two languages at home, they should also learn multiple OSes. Learning multiple...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, desktop Linux, desktop
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- Who's a candidate for Desktop Linux? Your Kids.
- "Hannah Montana Linux" may not be ready to give to your kids yet, but it's an idea that has legs. My partner in crime in the Frugal Tech Show, Ken Hess, who blogs over at Daniweb, recently published his list of Top 10...
- Tags: Desktop, Children, Desktop Linux, Netbook, Content Filtering, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- Android opens doors for Google's next-gen search, ads and tools
- Current problem with Android devicesI am Android fan, but nevertheless my next mobile phone will be HTC HD2 - i.e. Windows device. And the reason: all Andorid devices currently available have relatively small screen size and resolution. I am wandernig why Google doesn't urge on phone makers to offer...
- Tags: INTERNET, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Cellular phones, Smart phones, advertisement, tool, Android Devices, phone, smart phone, Linux, operating system, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-16
- News to know: Google, IBM; AMD; Apple
- 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. Earnings wrap: Sam Diaz: Schmidt: Worst of recession is over; Google is hiring Larry Dignan: IBM...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Mary Jo Foley, Apple Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sam Diaz, IBM Corp., E-books, Desktops, Networking, Personal Technology, Hardware
- Blog posts 2009-10-16
- AMD's Charlie Boswell: With cloud computing, 'follow the money' [interview]
- Andrew, thanks for doing a real interviewThese days, when most bloggers just link to a PR wire story for their source, ZDNet surprises us with an actual interview. An interesting interview to boot! There is still hope for online journalism. Thanks Andrew.RE: AMD's Charlie Boswell: With cloud computing, 'follow the...
- Tags: Data centers, Virtualization, INTERNET, cloud computing, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-11
- Microsoft confirms SMB2 vulnerability, warns of code execution risk
- Feel free to delete this Ryan.ThanksIsn't it about time we stop playing nice andfind these people who create such an endless stream of blank and do a bit of Vlad the Impaler on them? Catch em... give them a fair trial (I want to be certain we publicly impale...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), SECURITY, Microsoft Corp., SMB2, Microsoft Windows Vista, vulnerability, beta
- Discussion threads 2009-09-09
- More Microsoft layoffs, a resignation and other pre-Labor Day tidbits
- Oh pooh...The days are coming to an end for 15G Operating Systems, in case they missed it Appliance driven devices under VMware IS the future.Not some insecure bloated expensive Server versions that require tens of thousands in licenses and still is crippled up by viruses/worms.;)On the plus side,nobody now knows...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, layoff, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Linux, server
- Discussion threads 2009-09-04
- Trend Micro launches enhanced security, tools for tracking Web usage
- It used to be that an IT administrator could warn employees about opening attachments from unknown sources or clicking on links from unknown e-mail senders as the first line of defense against spam, malware and other bad stuff on the Internet. Today, the seedy side of the...
- Tags: Security, Web, Network, Trend Micro Inc., Site, Tool, Social Networking, Internet, Productivity, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-08-31
- Dell: Linux netbook returns a "non-issue"
- Marketing?A Dell exec goes to a Linux convention and says what the community wants to hear. He says, Linux netbook returns are not an issue. What's he gonna say to a linux crowd, "We put your OS on our hardware and people hated it."He's going to throw them...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Linux, netbook, Linux netbook, Dell Computer Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-08-13
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