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Mobius Amsterdam 2007: Windows Mobile present and future, welcome to the HTC MAGIC Labs

Introductions: Today was the first full day of discussions and presentations at the Mobius 2007 event in Amsterdam following last night's evening reception. John Starkweather started off the day by laying out the ground rules for the event where most everything was completely open and we were invited to interact...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Chipset, Chipsets, Components, Device, Handhelds, Hardware, High Tech Computer Corp., MAGIC Labs, Marketing, Matthew Miller, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Mobius, Operating Systems, Photograph, Qualcomm Inc., Semiconductors, Social Computing, Software, Sony Reader

Blog posts 2007-11-29

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Brickbats over bricks

Some more input from CalStar on their pending entry into the building materials market. I had asked about who set the standards for what is a "brick." The answer from CalStar: "ASTM is not the gatekeeper for new products - national and local building codes are....

Tags: Brick, Standards, CalStar, ASTM, Ash Brick, Quality, Business Operations, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-21

News to know: Clearwire; Google Caffeine; innovation; Office and Nokia; VMWare; Windows 7

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Clearwire bets on fourth quarter WiMax tipping point Garett Rogers: Google to Caffeinate search results ...

Tags: Innovation, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Google Android, Nokia Corp., Clearwire Corp., Andrew Nusca, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Windows, VMware Inc., Matthew Miller, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Mobile Operating Systems, Data Centers, Smart Phones, Virtualization, Microsoft Office, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Office Suites, Software

Blog posts 2009-08-12

Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Aug/Sep 08

Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Aug/Sep 089800 GTX?At $200 dollars, I think that the 9800 GTX is finally able to be considered for the mid-range level card. I was surprised by nVidia and their recent price drops, but after purchasing two of these cards, I have been pleased.Linux...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Hardware 2.0, SoundBlaster X-Fi, Linux, Lol, hardware

Discussion threads 2008-07-25

News to know: Google; Microsoft; eBay; SAP; Apple

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Google’s second quarter: What to expect   Deb Perelman: The Techie Hall of Shame Phil Wainewright: How much is a unit of cloud computing? Joe McKendrick: Seven SOA experts explain how to 'just do it' Robin...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., SAP AG, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., eBay Inc., Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Security, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2008-07-17

Time for LiMo and Android to stop talking

Ed Burnette has a great piece out today in Dev Connection about Google's choice of Apache as the main license for its Android phone. Some pieces will use Eclipse, some GPL V.2, and there will likely be some proprietary bits as well, he writes. That's nice. ...

Tags: Phone, LiMo Foundation, Mobile, Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-06-02

REST: Reducing Effort in Script-based Testing

The narrow but very important problem: Test scripts used for version 1.0 of an application will probably break when applied to version 2.0 of that application. Testers try to edit old test scripts so that they won't need to create new ones from scratch, but the process is slow, tedious...

Tags: GUI, Ed Gottsman

Blog posts 2008-05-14

Should storage virtualization always be part of a virtual processing environment?

John Joseph, VP of Marketing of Dell EqualLogic Storage, and I had a short, but interesting dicussion about the place virtual storage should have in a well designed virtualized environment. If one is attempting to abstract functions away from the underlying physical platform, it simply makes sense to do the...

Tags: Storage Virtualization, Dell Computer Corp., Environment, EqualLogic, Storage System, Storage, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-03-05

Tension Labs EAP03 Audio Processor

The Tension Labs EAP03 ($179) is a personal headphone amplifier intended for hi-fidelity audio enthusiasts looking to get the best performance from high-end in-ear headphones. DesignMeasuring 3.25 inches by 2 inches by 0.5 inches, the Tension Labs EAP03 has the look and feel of a knock-off iPod Mini constructed by...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Tension Labs EAP03

Product reviews 2008-02-15

College Opportunity and Affordability Act passes...Napster anyone?

College Opportunity and Affordability Act passes...Napster anyone?That would work, but ...I don't believe the communications infrastructure was upgraded with single service accounts in mind when Universities decided to network on campus housing.Now of course with WiMax just around the corner you can completely skip the process of upgrading any on...

Tags: SSH, Napster Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-02-08

Mobius Amsterdam 2007: Windows Mobile present and future, welcome to the HTC MAGIC Labs

Mobius Amsterdam 2007: Windows Mobile present and future, welcome to the HTC MAGIC LabsConsidering AT&T JUST Released Windows Mobile 6 To HTC 8525They should let us have 7 for free also...

Tags: Operating systems, Handhelds, High Tech Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobius Amsterdam 2007, Mobius, Microsoft Windows, mobile

Discussion threads 2007-11-30

News to know: Google's malware issue; Dell; Facebook Beacon; Zoho

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Dell hopes to generate 'product lust' following mixed earnings bag. Joshua Greenbaum: Dell Buys the SaaS Platform Salesforce.com Wishes it Had. Ryan Naraine: FBI crackdown nabs 8 botnet herders. Google SEO poisoning: The saga may continue. Google looking...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Mobile, Malware, Health Care, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Microsoft Windows, 3G, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Vertical Industries, Operating Systems, Benefits, Software, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Security, Enterprise Software, Human Resources

Blog posts 2007-11-29

Everything you've read about Vista DRM is wrong (Part 1)

Last month, I wrote about the FUD surrounding Windows Vista and DRM. The FUDmaster is Peter Gutmann, a New Zealand researcher who wrote a paper last December that made a series of outrageous and inflammatory claims about Windows Vista. Since then, Gutmann has expanded the paper to more than four...

Tags: Monitor, Digital-rights Management, Driver, Microsoft Windows Vista, Video, Microsoft Corp., FUDmaster, Peter Gutmann, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Corporate Communications, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2007-09-16

1:1 computing...Can it be justified?

1:1 computing...Can it be justified?The Price of PrivilegeIt's interesting to consider the world in which these prep school students will eventually emerge. They will have had the experience of having a personal computer and personal unlimited access to tech resources and the Internet throughout their formative years. They will take...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Notebooks, laptop computer, computer

Discussion threads 2007-08-14

Microsoft hopes 'Milan' table PC has magic touch

Microsoft hopes 'Milan' table PC has magic touchWay coolI think we have a winner. Now, why are there no pics in a story that's begging for them?I wonder...[i]"Our legal team feels really good about our IP situation," Thompson said.[/i]Since this is basically the same thing you see in malls, etc....

Tags: Leadership, Strategy, Microsoft Corp., PC, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-05-30

Harvard Business Review: 20 top ideas that challenge what you know

The Harvard Business Review has a list of top 20 "Breakthrough Ideas for 2007." Some interesting, ideas here that are counter-culture in that they challenge accepted thinking in many different areas. Siobhan Ford from HBR says that the list is free to read for all of February and that the...

Tags: Disruptive, Emerging Hotbed

Blog posts 2007-02-05

IBM gives chips a cooling rinse

IBM gives chips a cooling rinseplasma not magmaif a chip got as hot as the surface of the sun, you'd have a mini nuclear fireball in your computer that would probably destroy your whole office.I find this awfully hard to buy..."IBM estimates that some chips may have energy densities equivalent...

Tags: Semiconductors, transistor, chip, IBM Corp., CPU

Discussion threads 2006-10-26

Cooltreads and Optimization

Cooltreads and OptimizationAppropriate nameWith the Tx000 servers using such new "radical" architecture, it makes a ton of sense to have a dedicated community site for performance. This should be Sun's biggest selling point - speed - but you need to alter your "thinking" about programming.I would be interested to find...

Tags: Mainframes, Development tools, Servers, Processors, Sun Microsystems Inc., compiler, T2000, PC, mainframe, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-09-12

Belkin PureAV HDMI Interface 3-to-1 Video Switch

Its name may be a convoluted mouthful, but the PureAV HDMI Interface 3-to-1 Video Switch by Belkin is designed to perform just one task: toggle between three HDMI audio/video sources. It may sound like a somewhat mundane mission for a $200 device, but it's also a critical function that's missing...

Tags: video, HDMI, Belkin Corp., switcher

Product reviews 2006-08-22

Pantech DM-P100

There is a new kid on the MVNO block, and this one has arrived with white gloves, red pants, and yellow shoes. The Walt Disney Company, which brought you theme parks, beloved animated films, and merchandising as we know it, is now bringing Mickey Mouse to the mobile world. Disney...

Tags: telephone, Pantech DM-P100, Disney Corp., Disney Mobile, Pantech, display, mobile marketing

Product reviews 2006-07-21