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'DVD Jon' joins another maverick

'DVD Jon' joins another maverick'DVD Jon' joins another maverickAnother case of how our jobs are being outsource overseas :pThis is great!! More progress on disbanding the music industry.We need to put the control back with the artists. When that happens, there will be more music available at lower prices, and...

Tags: Digital media, DVD-Jon, maverick, CD, music industry, Jon Johansen

Discussion threads 2005-10-19

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DoS vulnerability hits Google's Chrome, crashes with all tabs

DoS vulnerability hits Google's Chrome, crashes with all tabsChrome will have security problems, and they will NOT all of a sudden gainshare. That said, the Google brand is very powerful, and people use it every day to search, and there will be lest resistance to trying Chrome than there was...

Tags: Web browsers, SECURITY, Google Chrome, Chrome, DoS vulnerability, Google Inc., DOS, vulnerability

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Another view: do we spend too much time trying to sell SOA to the business?

Another view: do we spend too much time trying to sell SOA to the business?? What is SOA and Howc can I buy it?That's the problem.The "how" is importantThe "how" has been neglected from day one with SOA. Yes business focus is absolutely necessary as with all IT solutions but...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA

Discussion threads 2008-09-02

Steve Jobs death has been greatly exaggerated

News outlet Bloomberg gave Apple fans and investors a huge scare late yesterday when it accidentally published an incomplete version of Steve Jobs obituary over its wire service. Although the service quickly retracted the release, it's an eerily-fascinating read complete with XXXX marks for the cause and...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Corporate Governance, Venture Capital, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Financing Startups, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-08-28

The role of media in the Internet age

The role of media in the Internet ageThe problem is simple and will never be correctedPrint media is dying because they are not much more than democrat-party house organs and people are tired of listening to "America sucks" stories that constitute their constant non-stop drivel.They'll never fix the problem because...

Tags: Investment, Advertising & Promotion, stock price, stock, problem-I, Internet

Discussion threads 2008-08-27

The role of media in the Internet age

Jon Stewart, host of "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central, a fake news show that has acquired a huge following a group among whom I include myself, is attending the Democratic National Convention in Denver this week. As a result, he had the chance to meet with members of...

Tags: Newspaper, Internet, Media, News, Jon Stewart, Advertising & Promotion, TVs, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-08-27

Hyperic gets on Google's cloud

Hyperic CloudStatus is now available to users of Google AppEngine cloud. The program was already available to users of Amazon's Web Services cloud. Hyperic principal engineer Jon Travis said the integration with Google is even "tighter" than with Amazon, but the two clouds serve different customer...

Tags: Google Inc., Monitoring, Cloud, Hyperic CloudStatus, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-08-20

Want to know what key political players are reading?

This is an interesting idea -- Google's now sharing with the world what is catching attention from presidential candidates and political commentators. Political news isn't hard to find online -- it's basically everywhere. Popular news featured on Google News is often political in nature, and there is certainly...

Tags: Google Inc., News, Blogging, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-08-18

Smart self-service scales

Smart self-service scalesIBM VeggieVisionIBM developed this technology more than a decade ago and sold it to Mettler-Toledo. FYI, IBM still holds the basic patent.http://www.research.ibm.com/ecvg/jhc_proj/veggie.htmlhttp://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US05546475__http://public.mt.com/mailings/uk/images/UC_SVR1.pdf-- Jon

Tags: self-service scale, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-08-18

Sinofsky dishes on Windows 7

The incredibly tight veil of secrecy around Windows 7 is about to lift, at least a little. After months of information lockdown, Microsoft is ready to begin talking about the next version of Windows. The first bits of information come from the very top, with a new blog written by...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, PDC, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-08-14

Court clarifies open source copyright: Key excerpts for the enterprise

Court clarifies open source copyright: Key excerpts for the enterpriseCourt clarifies open source copyright: Key excerpts for the enterpriseHuge break for all the people out there working on projects, only to have their stuff picked up and altered and their credit taken awayAre you kidding?Really Larry?The teaser for this column...

Tags: District Courts, open source copyright, open source, Federal Circuit

Discussion threads 2008-08-14

CBS video: 3D in the operating room

To a surgeon, precision is everything. As CBS News medical correspondent Jon LaPook explains, new fiber optic technology is providing a three-dimensional, lifelike image to aid in operations that include brain surgery.

Tags: 3D, Fiber-optics, CBS Corp., Fiber Optics, Optical Networking, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, News, cbs, imaging, surgery, medicine, doctors, brain, video, graphics

Videos 2008-08-13

Via stops making chipsets for Intel, AMD systems

And then there were three . . . After months of rumors, Taiwan-based Via Technologies has confirmed that it will stop producing chipsets for PCs that use Intel and AMD processors. A company spokesperson told the hardware site Custom PC that the third-party chipset business was on...

Tags: via technologies inc., advanced micro devices inc., intel corp., chipsets, semiconductors, hardware, components, john morris

Blog posts 2008-08-11

The lowdown on Intel's Larrabee

With Siggraph 2008 starting next week and IDF Intel Developer Forum on its heels, Intel is revealing more details of its mysterious Larrabee project. Intel has finally stated unequivocally that its "many-core" architecture will be used in desktop add-in boards for 3D gaming that compete directly with AMD and Nvidia...

Tags: NVidia Corp., Intel Corp., GPU, Larrabee, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-08-05

Intel takes aim at Nvidia, AMD's ATI

Intel is wading into the graphics chip market and its wake could roil Nvidia and AMD's ATI. On Monday, Intel is disclosing details (Intel statement, Techmeme) about Larrabee, a chip that will have stand alone graphics processing and aim for the gaming market. While Nvidia and AMD...

Tags: NVidia Corp., ATI Technologies Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, Intel Corp., Larrabee, Jon Peddie, Semiconductors, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-04

MobileMe drops subscribed calendar syncing

Jon Gruber points a piece the troubling news that you can't sync read-only iCal subscription calendars to your iPhone, as confirmed in Apple knowledgebase article TS1213. What's worse is that Apple took this feature out of their US$99 subscription service, but it's still available when you sync your iPhone (for...

Tags: Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-08-03

Did Apple forget to patch something?

Did Apple forget to patch something?AppleI usually sing the praises of Apple except when they don't live up to the hype or expectations. If they really want to grow their user base, they'd better get with it when it comes to delivering patches in a timely manner. In terms of...

Tags: Domain names, Operating systems, Apple Mac OS X, BIND, Apple Mac OS, Apple Macintosh, DNS, Apple Inc., server

Discussion threads 2008-08-01

Can Apple hope to defeat the "Attack of the Clones"?

Can Apple hope to defeat the "Attack of the Clones"?Apple vs The ClonesThe legal "Phalanx" is only one of several tools that Apple is heating in the furnace of hi-tech to fight the Cloners and maintain their iron grip on quality control of their hardware, which is their major commodity,...

Tags: Operating systems, Apple Inc., hardware

Discussion threads 2008-07-28

If Xen and KVM are free, why do VMware and Microsoft get all of the press?

If Xen and KVM are free, why do VMware and Microsoft get all of the press?Different goals, maybe. Similar imperatives, yes.While the open source community is driven by solving mutual problems and then making the solutions available to everyone, if open source communities hope to make inroads into large organizations,...

Tags: Desktops, Xen, VMware Inc., open-source community, open source, Microsoft Corp., Hyper-V

Discussion threads 2008-07-25

AOL gussies up for potential sale, but who's buying?

AOL gussies up for potential sale, but who's buying?AOL's glory days are far behind.Yes AOL had it's day, but poor service and restrictive behavior relegated it to the dust-bin of history. No-one I know has been on that service for well over a decade, perhaps even longer. Yes...

Tags: America Online Inc., potential sale

Discussion threads 2008-07-25