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- 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
- Browser rivals to register official complaints about Microsoft's ballot screen proposal
- Opera"Browser rivals to register official complaints about Microsoft's ballot screen proposal". . . and by "browser rivals" you really mean Opera, who has been whimpering and whining the whole time. A browser that barely appears on anybody's charts, but still retains a cult following.I think Microsoft is improving with IE7...
- Tags: Web browsers, ballot screen, Web browser, Opera Software ASA, ballot screen proposal, Microsoft Corp., official complaint
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- Revisiting the Motorola Droid on Verizon [Q&A]
- Why the hate for drag and drop?Almost every review I have read faults the Droid because you can't auto-sync music:"(You can dump your music on a microSD card and pop it in, but it?s a copy-paste files affair, not a ?load my music? integrated experience.)"The Droid ships with a 16...
- Tags: Smart phones, Motorola Droid, Droid, Apple iPhone, Revisiting, music, Verizon Communications Inc., Motorola Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- Was Windows 7 totally your idea?
- W7: Whose ideas?It is pretty clear that Apple and Microsoft "borrow" from each other. I don't think that's a problem, all competitors "borrow" each others' ideas and the consumer wins.What is clear, though, is that Microsoft did listen to alot of people but it wasn't those people that use...
- Tags: Desktops, Crispin, Microsoft Corp., PC, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- Google Wave: Begging for a classrom
- Using Wave to interconnect academic institutionsI think, the first large-scale Wave deployment should be used to interconnect all academic institutions around the world.This would be attractive because:1. younger generations are very adaptable, to new technology.2. there is a great deal of collaboration, in the academic world.3. technical glitches are likely...
- Tags: Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Google Inc., classrom, IRC
- Discussion threads 2009-10-13
- IT security defenses misdirected
- In My Humble Experience...The biggest problem that I have, isn't viruses or phishing. Most people run at least basic AV protection on their machines. My problem is the users themselves.I run a pretty tight setup at the school where I work. Active directory with group policies, Symantec Endpoint Protection, a...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, IT security, information technology, network, security, Internet
- Discussion threads 2009-09-15
- 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
- AMD's Charlie Boswell: With cloud computing, 'follow the money' [interview]
- Cloud computing can't possibly handle streaming a first-person shooter or a feature-length film, can it? Ask AMD's Charlie Boswell, and he'll not only tell you it's possible, but he'll nearly leap with excitement about it. Boswell, AMD's director of digital...
- Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Cloud, GPU, OTOY, Fusion Render Cloud, Jules, Games, Cloud Computing, Internet, Virtualization, Personal Technology, Hardware, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-09-11
- Give me one good reason not to just move them all to Linux
- RE: Give me one good reason not to just move them all to LinuxAs a roaming tech helper and trainer, I completely concur. Over the past few years, I have moved quite a few of my clients to Mac or Linux and they couldn't be happier. And lately, the infestation...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Linux, malware
- Discussion threads 2009-09-09
- How desktop virtualization will end IT client hardware maintenance (and kill off Best Buy's Geek Squad)
- Blah, ha ha ha haOh yeah, I can just see my son playing Garry's Mod on a virtual desktop. Blah, ha, ha, ha.... Yeah, right.Oh, oh, and I can just see virtualizing several thousand clients, all churning their spreadsheets, personal databases, e-mail, web browsers, compilers, graphics programs.There's a reason...
- Tags: Rootkits, PRODUCTIVITY, Virtualization, Desktops, Best Buy Co. Inc., Geek Squad, rootkit, desktop virtualization, computer, desktop, information technology
- Discussion threads 2009-08-28
- Making the tablet computer "classroom-ready"
- With all the recent conjecture about the rumored Apple tablet (nee "iPad") I found this email particularly interesting. Confessions of a teacher, parent and wanna-be tech geek by John H. Julian I've taught since 1980 and the people to get involved...
- Tags: Teacher, Computer, Tablet Computer, Personal Information, Tablets, Notebooks, Productivity, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-08-16
- Poll: What's your dead-finger tech?
- Tech does not need to be "dead finger" to be successfulI mean I could get along just fine without my G1 phone or my netbook as long as I had my laptop and a regular cell phone. But that does not mean I would go back to that. My G1...
- Tags: PDAs, Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Telecom & Utilities, Handhelds, Desktops, dead finger, phone, netbook, PDA
- Discussion threads 2009-08-07
- Rupert Murdoch's grand subscription plan: Much ado over minimal revenue?
- Rupert Murdoch's grand subscription plan: Much ado over minimal revenue?Won't workThe only way News will get their revenue offset is if 'the pipe' is charged; in other words ISPs get charged and pass along the cost to you in the form of an increase surcharge on your broadband account.When a...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Operational accounting, grand subscription plan, minimal revenue, News Corp., Much Ado, subscription plan, Rupert Murdoch, revenue
- Discussion threads 2009-08-06
- A Linux credit card
- A Linux credit cardHmmmI don't think CCs are open source - not even a little :)RE: A Linux credit cardIf I didn't already have two affinity cards, I'd get this one. Can only support so many worthy causes :(will M$ rush with a windoze credit card?Just imagine the M$...
- Tags: Sales channel, Financial services, UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, UMB, Affinity Cards, credit card, Linux credit card, Linux, affinity card
- Discussion threads 2009-07-31
- LG 42LH50
- Photo gallery: LG LH50 series If the Internet is the future of television, then LG's LH50 series hails from the day after tomorrow. This flat-panel LCD is the first to offer Netflix streaming, which allows instant, free-to-subscribers access to an all-you-can watch menu of thousands of movies and...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Monitors & displays, LG LH50, LG Electronics Inc., NetFlix Inc., Yahoo Widget
- Product reviews 2009-07-24
- LG 47LH50
- Photo gallery: LG LH50 series If the Internet is the future of television, then LG's LH50 series hails from the day after tomorrow. This flat-panel LCD is the first to offer Netflix streaming, which allows instant, free-to-subscribers access to an all-you-can watch menu of thousands of movies and...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Monitors & displays, LG LH50, LG Electronics Inc., NetFlix Inc., Yahoo Widget
- Product reviews 2009-07-24
- Who's to blame for unsecured WiFi connections?
- Who's to blame for unsecured WiFi connections?I've been saying this for a while.[i]When it comes to trade-offs between security and convenience, convenience always wins.[/i]security = 1 / convenienceRE: Who's to blame for unsecured WiFi connections?I can't believe that you're endorsing having the police in any country "wardriving" around to detect...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, Wireless and Mobility, LANs, Wi-Fi, WLAN, router, Wi-Fi connection
- Discussion threads 2009-07-23
- Another "death of the PC post" - but I think it's true
- Another "death of the PC post" - but I think it's trueThe PC as originally designed is already dead...... we just changed the meaning. When PC were first designed, they were stand-alone entities. Now if you were to ask 100 random PC users if they are connected to the internet,...
- Tags: Desktops, Corporate communications, PC, video
- Discussion threads 2009-07-16
- While I'm away..."How I'd use Classmate PCs in the States (and why I really want a UMPC now)"
- Here's a blast from the past...This was originally posted back in 2007. Classmates and 1:1 have come a long ways, haven't they? While the United States and other established markets are not the target for Intel’s Classmate PC, I sincerely hope they bring something like this...
- Tags: Intel Classmate PC, PC, Ultramobile PC, Classroom, Laptop Computer, Computer, Classmate, Productivity, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-07-14
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