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HP Officejet Pro L7680 All-in-One

Do Not Buy HP Office Jet Pro L7680 All-In-OneThis machine is garbage and HP does not have any answers when things don't work right; they cannot even look up a simple error code on the display - they do not know what it means.Here is dialog between HP's snyder and...

Tags: Printers, Hewlett-Packard Co., printer, Jon Smith

Discussion threads 2009-08-27

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Judge freezes assets of massive spam ring

The Federal Trade Commission won a huge antispam victory in court yesterday, with a federal courts in Chicago's order to freeze the assets of a botnet spam group generally known as HerbalKing. The group used botnets to spread its poison around the globe. Just one botnet...

Tags: Asset, FTC, Spam, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-15

McCain's campaign team has no Facebook chops

You have to admire the chutzpah of the idea of convincing voters that they should vote for a candidate through an arcade game rip-off of Space Invaders, because it's simply ludicrous coming from a candidate who has declared he doesn't even know how to "use a computer." Aaron Jacobs-Smith of...

Tags: Facebook, Team, John McCain, McCain, Jacobs-Smith, Games, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-07-01

Here's what other bloggers are saying about Vonage's toils and snares

Ive been dialing around to some other blogs that cover VoIP, and gathering up reactions to the turnover in Vonages executive suite and what it means to the company.Opinions are varied, but the consensus seems to be that Mike Snyders departure represents the will of founder-Chairman Jeff Citron to right...

Tags: Vonage, General

Blog posts 2007-04-12

Blu-ray disc lurches to 50GB

Blu-ray disc lurches to 50GBI'll wait for decent material to be released before upgrading...and as new technologies are geared toward new releases, I'll be waiting a while.(pretty effects are nice, but without solid storylines and characters not wallowing in puerile soap opera, effects are pointless.)How much "stuff" do we really...

Tags: Consumer electronics, disc, movie, DVD, storage, Blu-ray disc

Discussion threads 2006-10-09

Apple wins Beatles battle

Apple wins Beatles battleI don't know about the better lawyers thing.How stupid would that be if every technology company out there except Apple Computers could and would/will take advantage of this new use of technology to make money and Apple would have too sit on the sidelines because Apple Corps...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Eden, Apple Inc., Beatles, Ohhhh

Discussion threads 2006-05-08

Backer of ISP snooping slams industry

Backer of ISP snooping slams industryfunny[i]"Diana DeGette, a Colorado Democrat, said at a House of Representatives hearing that new laws were necessary to thwart child pornographers and other Internet predators."[/i]And why weren't these congress crooks concerned for the past 10 or so years? Why the sudden interest in data retention...

Tags: 9/11 commission, slams industry

Discussion threads 2006-05-03

Salesforce.com faces up to integration challenge

In my top five predictions for SaaS last week, I singled out integration with installed software as this year's "major obstacle to enterprise adoption of on-demand applications". This is the reverse of the mashup challenge faced by Microsoft and other established vendors, who must open up their on-premises...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., on-demand

Blog posts 2006-03-31

It's Windows vs. Windows as Microsoft battles piracy

It's Windows vs. Windows as Microsoft battles piracySince alternatives are free, there is no excuse for pirating.If you like Windows and want to use it, then buy it. If not, then select an alternative. There are quite a few, and many of them are free.So to address the question in...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-02-03

Gartner: What's Hot, What's Not

There's plenty of Web services and SOA action taking place in Orlando this week, thanks to Gartner's Application Integration and Web Services Summit, with attendance topping more than 1,000. TechTarget's Jon Panker quotes David Smith, vice president and Gartner fellow, with the rundown on "What's Hot, and What's Not" for...

Tags: HoT, Gartner Inc.

Blog posts 2004-11-16