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Microsoft seeks to lure mobile developers with un-Apple-like perks

Microsoft seeks to lure mobile developers with un-Apple-like perksApp storeThe WM store is a nice to have feature, but it doesn't matter for me since WM allows users to load their own apps directly unlike the tight control Apple has over app distribution. The store would be useful for discovering...

Tags: Smart phones, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, WinMo, law suit, un-Apple-like perk, un-Apple-like, Microsoft Corp., mobile developer, mobile, perk

Discussion threads 2009-03-11

More Snake Oil: LifeLock spokesperson's stolen id leads to law suits

More Snake Oil: LifeLock spokesperson's stolen id leads to law suitsThanks for the story.I was interested in this kind of service. I already have an opt out with all the credit unions, but following the links, I found out that as of Jan 1, 2008, I can, in Texas,...

Tags: LifeLock, Snake Oil, law suit

Discussion threads 2008-05-22

Microsoft lands Viacom as ad partner

Microsoft lands Viacom as ad partnerI see law suits everywhere.Ok, so if MS has an exclusive right with Viacom and someone puts Viacom content on YouTube giving Google free content to sell ads against I see law suits coming hot and heavy...Wow, and does anybody know if IBM or Apple...

Tags: Business structures, advertisement, Microsoft-lands Viacom, ad partner, law suit, partnership

Discussion threads 2007-12-19

YouTube copyright lawsuits mount: Who needs Google?

YouTube copyright lawsuits mount: Who needs Google?No innocents in DMCA disputesThere isn't anyone who's invoked the DMCA that has acted in good faith. Not Lexmark, not the garage door opener company, not Walmart when it goes after penny pincher web sites when they publish its prices, not the copyright...

Tags: Digital media, law suit, Now IT, YouTube Inc., DMCA, Viacom Inc., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-05-15

Study: Open-source databases going mainstream

Study: Open-source databases going mainstreamPack up Oracle, M$OSS will obsolete your sorry greedy asses. Then we can fianlly get on to real computing instead of being strung along by greedy POS criminals..Will never happen...This will never happen if I can help it. I cannot fathom ANYONE would look at open...

Tags: Databases, Benefits, open source, law suit, MySQL, patent, lawsuit

Discussion threads 2004-03-08

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Best Buy adds $197 HP laptop to Black Friday lineup

I hate agreeing with linuxbut alas I must do it this time :( He's right, this is some cheap hardware. Intel celeron? Who uses that anymore? I guess its good for kids, but any power user will not want this laptop. I'm holding out for a...

Tags: Notebooks, Processors, Black Friday lineup, laptop computer, Intel Celeron, Best Buy Co. Inc., Black Friday, HP Laptop, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

Is it OK to use OEM Windows on your own PC? Don't ask Microsoft

RE: Is it OK to use OEM Windows on your own PC? Don't ask MicrosoftI built my current desktop in July and purchased/installed an OEM version of Vista Home Premium. I also took advantage of Microsoft's free upgrade to Windows 7 Home Premium which I installed on the same PC....

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Desktops, Operating systems, cost difference, Microsoft Corp., OEM, Is it OK, Microsoft Windows, PC

Discussion threads 2009-11-15

Apple nukes Psystar

Why is this legal?What I want to know is *why* is it legal for Apple to say "OSX can only run on hardware we provide"? Wouldn't that constitute a monopoly on OSX since they stifle competition and someone else can't provide OSX software systems? Isn't that the literal...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Operating systems, Apple Inc., Psystar, hardware, OSX, software

Discussion threads 2009-11-15

Microsoft Patents Sudo - So Sudo me!

i do think that it time for some rule and regulation .and some major MS legal bashing . anti-trust Adrian this is shameless self promotionYou would not even have this if a reader had not given it to you. Means nothing but what youre getting out of it, HITS....

Tags: Idiocy, patent, Microsoft Corp., Adrian

Discussion threads 2009-11-12

Survey: cloud interest grows triple-fold; cost may not be main factor

buble bust...anyone learns from 2000 and so IT burst?Current interest in private cloudsHi Joean interesting piece, and thanks for the link to my post? This current enthusiasm for private Clouds is also interesting? and I am left wondering how long it will continue.It's presumably a mix of security concerns (real...

Tags: Marketing research, cloud computing, survey

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Could diabetes fight the obesity epidemic?

Nice one, Dana.When are you going to write something relevant - like IT - on this site?There is no IT in this blog. Just pointing out the obvious.When will you learn to use google?This is among the worst medically releated post you have written. And please stop quoting the...

Tags: Exenatide, diabetes, GLP-1, secretion

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

The T-Mobile-Microsoft Sidekick data disaster: Poor IT management going mainstream

Always have local copies of your dataThe above is why it is a bad idea to put your fate in someone else's hands when you have a choice. By default, keep your data processing and data stores local, and then use cloud services when they suit you. All these kiddies...

Tags: Federal government, Advertising & Promotion, Recruitment & Selection, agency, FDA, job

Discussion threads 2009-10-11

More schools using SocMed: are we asking for trouble?

Ownership? Right, until the cr*p hits the fan...I've been there. Everyone is completely on board until a risk becomes a law suit then suddenly all I see of the "Owners" are buttholes and elbows as they scramble for cover. Immediately afterwards the finger pointing begins with most...

Tags: SocMed, instructor

Discussion threads 2009-09-30

The Android-Cyanogen kerfluffle

The Day that Android Died.The applications that he was distributing sort of were applications that were already on the users phone.But in order to install the new rom you need to erase all and start from fresh, there is no easy way to leave them untouched on the phone, so...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Google Inc., operating system

Discussion threads 2009-09-29

Does social media reward whining?

The worm is turningIt's taken a while, but it's clear the social media world is waking up to the fact that companies using Twitter as a back-door customer service channel staffed by PR personnel isn't a sustainable practice.I think it's great that PR people I am one are using social...

Tags: Public relations, Twitter Inc., social media

Discussion threads 2009-09-24

When HIPAA and Twitter collide: Can you blab away your privacy rights?

Absolutely notThe most the hospital should do is cite HIPAA and promise a private resolution. That is all they need to do in public. If they do resolve the problem to satisfaction, most people who are willing to complain about a health problem in public would acknowledge that in public....

Tags: Regulatory compliance, HEALTHCARE, Regulations, Twitter Inc., hospital, HIPAA, patient

Discussion threads 2009-09-15

Veoh wins copyright suit, brightening YouTube's future

Let us hope that this ruling is, indeed,taken 'very seriously' - it certainly deserves to be !...HenriRE: Veoh wins copyright suit, brightening YouTube's futurei think it's a win for everyone. you can go to the library and check these things out anyway. where's the crime?only if your selling there material...

Tags: Veoh, YouTube Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-15

Authors Guild calls Amazon 'hypocritical'

Explain yourself."I take issue with the idea that Google?s rights here are nonexclusive, but on this one I?ll just let their words stand."Don't throw a jab like this and walk away. If you take issue then explain the issue. Or do you even know what you are talking about. Have...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Kettle

Discussion threads 2009-09-07

Oh sure...4 days in and Gmail goes down

RE: Oh sure...4 days in and Gmail goes downMy office lost it primary and secondary links to our data farm. We spent the morning without access to our email exchange.The servers are off site for security and redundancy reasons. We are in a location that has all sort...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), E-mail providers, cloud computing, Google Inc., Internet Service Provider, Google Gmail, outage, e-mail

Discussion threads 2009-09-01

Works of Herbert George Wells. Huge collection. FREE Author's biography & stories in the trial 10.2 (Mobile)

Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any poem from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Features Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases Make bookmarks, notes, highlights Searchable and interlinked. Access the e-book anytime, anywhere...

Tags: Mobile, Biology, MobileReference

Software downloads 2009-09-01