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Nerd news site woos IT execs

Nerd news site woos IT execsSlashdot: News for turds, stuff that splatters.Oh yeah, and BSD is dead. ;)More like Trashdot"As part of the revamp, OSTG will work to lure new mainstream readers. "We're going to do some aggressive outreach to build traffic,""I hope that aggressive outreach includes getting rid of...

Tags: information technology, Nerd news site, Nerd, news site, Trashdot

Discussion threads 2004-07-29

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Nielsen: Average Apple.com visit lasts 74 minutes

Nielsen: Average Apple.com visit lasts 74 minutesApp Store / iTunesI'm willing to bet that "apple.com" includes the iTunes and App Store areas.I know Apple.com is a great looking site, but over an hour per visit? Come on.RE: Nielsen: Average Apple.com visit lasts 74 minutesGreat questions, what exactly are the people...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Apple Inc., roach, Nielsen

Discussion threads 2009-07-01

GPL v3 due Friday -- don't trip over the lawyers at the Apple Store

GPL v3 due Friday -- don't trip over the lawyers at the Apple StoreUmmm..."So all those lawyers at Microsoft can kill two birds with one off-campus trip. They can buy their Apple iPhone they can afford one, connect to their iTunes on their Windows laptops, set it up on WiFi...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Digital video, Servers, Novell Inc., Dana, Apple Inc., GPL, GPL V3, Apple iPhone, Apple Store, server

Discussion threads 2007-06-29

Web video battle royale: Adobe vs. Microsoft

Web video battle royale: Adobe vs. MicrosoftActually Microsoft's Achille's heelFlash is cross-platform, Windows Media player is not. Silverlight presumably will not be either. This is likely to hurt takeup considerably.Flash will winMicrosoft by sticking everything under the sun into Windows has bloated their OS way beyond necessity. Also, Microsoft hasn't...

Tags: Digital music, 64-bit, Operating systems, Digital media, Media players, Web, Microsoft Corp., Adobe Systems Inc., Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere, Apple QuickTime, operating system, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2007-04-16

Source: Beta of Windows Vista due Wednesday

Source: Beta of Windows Vista due WednesdayBig deal!Another crappy OS. My company has no plans of getting burned again by another virii/spyware magnet. 2000 and XP was the final straw.Big day for me tomorrow...After years of high hopes and dreams, my rep will finally deliver me Beta 1...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, daddy, Microsoft Windows, Cha-ching, Microsoft Windows Vista, rep, 32-bit

Discussion threads 2005-07-26

Microsoft warns of a score of security flaws

Microsoft warns of a score of security flawsEnough is enough already!nuff saidJust isn't their week, is it? ntMSFT Users: Assume The Position!Holy crap, 20 new vulnerabilities. It's bad enough you pay a lot of money for an OS, then you pay and pay for anti-virus software, spyware remover,...

Tags: Patches, Web browsers, Viruses and worms, Microsoft Corp., patch management, flaw, Microsoft Internet Explorer, security flaw, security

Discussion threads 2004-10-12