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- Will Chrome netbooks really be competitive?
- Acer, which last quarter overtook Dell to become the world's second-largest PC manufacturer, is known as an aggressive company. So it's little surprise that the company's chairman, J.T. Wang, vowed this week that Acer would be first to release a netbook using Google's Chrome OS sometime in the middle of...
- Tags: Google Inc., Acer Inc., Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, John Morris
- Blog posts 2009-12-03
- EFF sues CIA, DOJ, others over Facebook surveillance
- The Electronic Frontier Foundation sued government agencies for allegedly refusing to release information about how they are using social networks in surveillance and investigations. The Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the CIA, the US Department of Defense, Department of Justice and three other government agencies on Tuesday for allegedly refusing...
- Tags: Facebook, CIA, Electronic Frontier Foundation, U.S. Department Of Justice, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, security, lawsuit, EFF, Elinor Mills CNET News
- News items 2009-12-02
- Dell's Throttlegate: Is a defect turning a 2.2GHz CPU into 100MHz?
- Dell = Junk always has always will beJust return it and get another computer from a vendor that does not sell junk. Ie: not Dell.RE: Dell's Throttlegate: Is a defect turning a 2.2GHz CPU into 100MHz?I am glad this was posted! I have had an E6400 since June, and...
- Tags: Notebooks, Processors, Dell Computer Corp., Throttlegate, Is-a, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2009-12-01
- Schiller: App Store isn't broken
- The truth hurtsThe truth is consumer lacks the ability to make good decision regarding the security of their data. We are regularly tricked into click-installing things while surfing the web, download trojans and other malware, give out information over the phone that we shouldn't etc ... and we never...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, approval process, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- Salesforce kicks off Dreamforce, announces Chatter
- Salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics or ACTall three are greatposted October 21, 2009 ?Karleton Helfer was consistently one of our top producers. Karleton received numerous production and achievement awards, and frequently led the business unit in total sales. Karleton took a very strategic approach to the sales process, always researching technology developments,...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Salesforce.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-18
- HP Pavilion Elite owner resorts to lawsuit over 'inherently defective' PC
- My HP Pavilion Elite... / HP quality controlMy HP Pavilion Elite came with an obviously defective, and defectively designed, video card. After about eight months, the video card model was finally recalled.My previous HP desktop computer went for about five years without a problem.HP's quality control is clearly going down...
- Tags: Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows XP, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP Pavilion Elite, HP Pavilion, Linux, Core i7, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., PC
- Discussion threads 2009-11-17
- Microsoft search share continues its slow upward crawl
- The October comScore numbers are in and Microsoft has inched upward for another month with its Bing search engine. Bing's growth came at Yahoo's -- not Google's -- expense, however. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Corp., October comScore Number, Search
- Blog posts 2009-11-16
- Asia-Pacific leaders: no final deal in Copenhagen
- Here Harry, take this tylenol.You're way too excited.The end of US freedomsWelcome to the new world where you are going tobe taxed and wealth transferred to other countries.2010 Vote them out.2012 Vote him out.Here's some better newshttp://www.climatedepot.com/a/3515/Prominent-Russian-Scientist-We-should-fear-a-deep-temperature-drop--not-catastrophic-global-warmingThanks to solar cycles, there's more to fear from COOLING than warming.Harry is such...
- Tags: Government, leader, global warming, rich nation
- Discussion threads 2009-11-16
- Hackers bypass Windows 7 activation
- lol...and double lolwhoever thinks that windows 7 is any better than any previous disaster they created will be dispelled soon.Google will take over and leave MS in the dustGoogle is going to take over and leave the lethargic Windows in PC dust.loverock's mother herei must apologize for my 44 old...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Linux
- Discussion threads 2009-11-16
- Samsung Mythic SGH-A897 (AT&T)
- Even though AT&T launched its live mobile TV service more than a year ago, but few support it-- the last one we saw was the Samsung Eternity, which was released in October 2008. Now it seems that AT&T may be looking to breathe fresh life to the service by releasing...
- Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Telecom & Utilities, NOW IT, phone dialer, Mythic, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., home screen, phone, AT&T Corp.
- Product reviews 2009-11-14
- Address Book Server 30 October (Mac)
- With Address Book Server you can synchronise your Address Book with others on the same network as well as over the internet. Contacts are synchronised with your own instance of Address Book Server. Address Book Server comes in two parts a server and a client. The server should be...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Contacts, Servers, Hardware
- Software downloads 2009-11-14
- Your top Windows 7 questions, answered
- Since Windows 7 launched on October 22, my e-mail inbox has been deluged with questions, comments, and pleas for help. I can't possibly reply to them all personally, so I thought I would answer some of the most interesting questions here. Learn the ins and outs of 64-bit upgrades, how...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, E-mail, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2009-11-12
- Recovery? This week's pink-slip tally tops 5,000 for tech
- Jobless recovery...http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmvtiAvhIOM/Sd3eSXBNXoI/AAAAAAAAAkw/ijffEEeunms/S660/did_i_do_that.JPGNo worries, with our new messiah in office he is telling people he has'saved' the country from going belly up.Meanwhile, China/Russia/Europe want to get rid of the dollar standard since itis ranked 48th in the world.It is a banana republic folk's step rightup and drink some of the socialistkool-aid...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, job
- Discussion threads 2009-11-11
- Is Mozilla's contributions program working?
- It's been just under four months since Mozilla launched its pilot program for contributions, a way for users to donate to add-on developers for their time and effort. It's been just under four months since Mozilla launched its pilot program for contributions, a way for users to donate to...
- Tags: Developer, Mozilla Corp., Mozilla, contributions, Josh Lowenstein CNET News
- News items 2009-11-11
- This is going to blow some fuses among global warming deniers
- RE: This is going to blow some fuses among global warming deniers"The current Pope, a self-proclaimed Christian..."???Is that writing from ignorance of Catholicism, Christianity, both, or taking a swipe at the largest Christian denomination?global waming journalist...afraid to lose a job?when people realize that CO2 caused global warming is a...
- Tags: global warming, global warming denier, NASA, fuse
- Discussion threads 2009-11-09
- Why I'm letting someone else run my Exchange 2010 server
- Why ironic?Given that exchange is the de facto standard in business email/cal having their products working as perfectly as possible with exchange is a must. Not only that, they advertise this functionality. Did you expect it to fail miserably? Your expectations must have been low. Heh.It took yearsNative Exchange support...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, E-mail servers, Groupware, Exchage, download page, Apple iTunes, IBM Corp., server
- Discussion threads 2009-11-09
- Amazon Kindle Wireless Reading Device (U.S. & International Wireless, Latest Generation)
- On October 22, 2009, Amazon discontinued the U.S.-only version of the Kindle and replaced it with the international Kindle model and set the price at $259. This new model--now called the "U.S. and International Kindle"--runs on AT&T's network and can access content on cellular networks inside and outside of the...
- Tags: wireless, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Sprint Communications
- Product reviews 2009-11-07
- U.S. unemployment rate highest in 26 years, at 10.2%
- Misinterpreted numbers..."In October, the number of unemployed persons increased by 558,000 to 15.7 million."That's not 190,000. The 190,000 is non-farm payroll decrease, which doesn't include farm workers or self-employed persons who have hung it up.Maybe we need a NEW "New Deal?"Remember the 3 R's of Franklin Roosevelt's "New Deal?"...
- Tags: Operational accounting, Personal finance, FDR, Common-sense, unemployment rate, New Deal, Obama, Reagan
- Discussion threads 2009-11-06
- U.S. unemployment rate highest in 26 years, at 10.2%
- The unemployment rate in the United States reached a 26-year high of 10.2 percent in October, up from 9.8 percent in September. by Andrew Nusca
- Tags: U.S., Unemployment Rate, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-11-06
- Deck the halls with LED
- Sounds OKSounds like a reasonable idea although the cost of LED lights is quite high ($30?).lehnerus2000$30 for LED lights?We buy sets here for $15... and considering that the power consumption is so much lower that they quite literally pay for themselves in the savings on my electric bill, they're worth...
- Tags: Engineering, light-emitting diode
- Discussion threads 2009-11-03
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