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MO may change constitution to post sex offender data

After the Missouri Supreme Court required the removal of the states sex offender registry, lawmakers are anxious to put the list back online, The Kansas City Star reports. A bipartisan Senate proposal would change the state constitution, which prevents civil laws from being applied “retrospectively.” The restriction doesnt exist...

Tags: Jason Crowell, registry law, constitution

Blog posts 2007-03-12

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News to know: Windows 7; Patch preview; Office 2.0; Dell

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Critical WMP, MS Office bugs on Patch Tuesday swat list Dancho Danchev:Malware and spam attacks exploiting Picasa and ImageShack Mary Jo Foley:...

Tags: Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Comcast Corp., Microsoft Corp., Office 2.0, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Red Hat draws its line in the virtual sand with Qumranet

The caves of Qumran, located in in the highly disputed region of the West Bank that sits between Israel and Jordan and is populated by both Palestinians and Jews, is where the famous Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. The scrolls are said by many Judaic scholars...

Tags: Hypervisor, Red Hat Inc., Virtual Desktop, Qumranet, Open Source KVM, Virtualization, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Is this Tuesday's 4G nano?

This picture just cropped up on MacRumors of a screen cover for the 4G nano.It comes from Alibaba, a B2B marketplace via Zollotech. Who cares about the screen protector frankly, look at the photo. It looks like it could be the real. It's much clearer...

Tags: 4G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Super Tuesday: Nike Pro, iTunes unlimited, Sirius, NFL?

With Tuesday's iPod event beginning to take shape, a couple of Super Tuesday rumors slipped through the cracks in my fortune teller piece yesterday. 1. TUAW thinks that we may see an updated Nike+ rig (Nike Pro?) for the runners out there. Since the original Nike+ kit...

Tags: Nike Inc., NFL, Sirius, Apple iTunes, TUAW, Digital Music, Satellite Radio, Digital Media, Digital Rights Management (DRM), GPS, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Security, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Leaked in iTunes 8.0: Genius

It may have gotten lost in the end of yesterday's particularly long-winded fortune teller piece, but the Oracle of Cupertino, ahem Kevin Rose, posted a pretty convincing-looking snippit of a document proclaiming to be "What's new in iTunes 8." It goes like this: iTunes 8 includes...

Tags: TV, Apple iTunes, Music, Genius, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Video: Does Green IT matter for business?

You've probably run across "Green IT" at industry trade shows and in the media. Although the concept is a little vague, Green IT is making its influence felt across the IT landscape. This episode of Jason Hiner's Sanity Savers for IT executives explains what green IT is, why it's important,...

Tags: Green IT, Video, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-04

News to know: Oracle's Fusion guru quits; Dell; Windows 7 boot times

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Dennis Howlett: Breaking: Oracle's Andersen gone, where now for Fusion and vertical plays? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: New dual/quad core CPUs enter Intel price list, AMD drops prices ...

Tags: Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Oracle Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Portals, Operating Systems, Cellular Phones, Software, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-04

On stupid mascots and closed source browser plugins

Everyone's been harping on Google this week with the release of Chrome, so I thought I would be different -- today I'm going to give Adobe some love. Because I bet they feel left out. Adobe's Flash and Acrobat Reader plugins are some...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Web Browser Plug-in, Adobe Acrobat, Web Browser, Plug-in, Flash, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-09-03

Handicapping Apple's September 9 event (updated)

Now that it's official that Apple will be holding a special "Let's Rock" media event in San Francisco on Tuesday let's take a look under the curtain to see what announcements may be in store from Cupertino. It's pretty apparent that new iPods are in the offing,...

Tags: Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Kevin Rose, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-09-03

Google Chrome: The five best new features

Google launched the first beta version of its Chrome Web browser on Tuesday after two years of development. We immediately started kicking the tires and put together a photo gallery and a quick list of the five best new features you'll find in Google Chrome. by Jason Hiner

Tags: Google Inc., Window, Web Browser, Google Chrome, Web Browsers, Construction, Internet, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2008-09-03

News to know: Google Chrome; WinMobile's future; WiFi's big success; VMware

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: First look at Google Chrome One day after Google inadvertently discloses the impending release of Chrome, we get to see the browser first-hand. See my gallery tour...

Tags: Google Inc., VMware Inc., Wi-Fi, Virtualization, Web Browsers, Sales Strategy, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Internet, Sales, Storage, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-03

What's Chrome for? Ain't it obvious?

What's Chrome for? Ain't it obvious?Really?"I think we all know what the answer is, but we’re afraid to say it — Google is taking an entry directly from the Microsoft playbook: Embrace and Extend."Really? By basing it on open source projects? ;-)Google is going after the platform, the same way...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, Web browsers, Desktops, Chrome, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-02

What's Chrome for? Ain't it obvious?

So during lunchtime today I got to play with Chrome a bit. It's got a nice clean implementation, and it's fast. Sure, it doesn't do everything that either Firefox or Internet Explorer does yet, but hey, it's a beta. I like it. The...

Tags: Google Inc., Mozilla Firefox, Web Browser, Chrome, Web Browsers, Internet, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-09-02

Apple: "Let's Rock" on September 9

Bloomberg is reporting that Apple has sent out media invitations for a special event next week. An invitation for the Sept. 9 event in San Francisco, sent to media today, is entitled "Let's Rock'' and shows a silhouetted dancer holding an iPod,...

Tags: Event, Apple Inc., Media Players, Corporate Communications, Digital Music, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-09-02

Google's new Chrome browser based on WebKit (updated 3x)

One of the biggest tech news story coming out of the Labor Day holiday here in the U.S. is that Google is going to be releasing an open source operating system in the form of a Web browser. Google's new Web browser – Named "Chrome" – is...

Tags: Google Inc., Open Source, Web Browser, Web Browsers, Internet, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-09-02

8 million iPhones sold; 10m by end of September

According to a piece at Fortune's Apple 2.0 blog Apple has sold 8 million iPhones to date. But that's not an official stat from Apple, it's an approximation based on collected International Mobile Equipment Identity IMEI numbers. A joint project of AFB and Investor Village's AAPL Sanity...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., 3G, Corporate Governance, Engineering, Blogging, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Internet, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-09-02

What's on Obama's iPod?

On 15 August I posted a piece about what's on Michael Phelps' iPod (spoiler: lots of hip hop). Over the weekend I came across a piece in thew September issue of Macworld magazine about What's on Obama's iPod. The story which quotes The Examiner article offline says...

Tags: Apple iPod, Obama, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-09-02

News to know: Google Chrome; CAPTCHA breaking; StatusHQ

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Google to launch browser to target IE; Is Firefox a target or tag-team partner? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Is Google Chrome an IE/Firefox/Opera/Safari killer? Ryan Naraine: Google Chrome, the security...

Tags: CAPTCHA, Google Inc., Web Browser, Web Browsers, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Linux, Internet, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-02

The Technological and Economic impact of a New Cold War

  Cummings of the Daily Express, 24 August 1953, "Back to Where it all Started" The events of the last several weeks surrounding Russia's invasion of Georgia and its recognition of the rogue provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia have threatened to...

Tags: Russia, Russian, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-09-01