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Motorola Droid official specifications leaked: 16:9 touchscreen, DVD-quality video, 0.5" thick

Colour me interested!!The only problem is that it is by Motorola and their quality has really been suffering for quite a few years.Other than that, the only other phone that has me as excited is the HTC HD2. There isn't a single phone in the entire world that can hold...

Tags: Smart phones, video, Apple iPhone, Motorola Droid, Motorola Inc., official specification, DVD-quality video, touch screen, specification

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

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Mozilla: Still too dependent on Google for revenue; Can it diversify?

well its in Google best interest ...that mozilla is healthy and and kicking .... anyone claiming monopole they point out that they support Mozilla foundation big time ...Google keep its competition alive they should do more invest in ubuntu ... so they...

Tags: Web browsers, SEARCH, Operational accounting, revenue, Google Inc., Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

The State of 802.11n

With the ratification of 802.11n, wireless LANs are finally coming of age. Though its status as an official IEEE standard is new, the technology is mature and proven. The 802.11n specification is built upon the foundation laid ten years ago by 802.11b and improved in subsequent years with higher speeds,...

Tags: IEEE 802.11n, Meru Networks, 802.11n Specification, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility

White papers 2009-09-01

University uses WiMAX to become dedicated student ISP's

Northern Michigan University NMU has taken a bold step in converting their standard wireless infrastrure to WiMAX, a wireless Internet technology which makes ordinary Wi-Fi look like chalk on slate in comparison. WiMax in a nutshell uses airwave bandwidth beyond that of ordinary wireless networks and covers vast areas....

Tags: Network, Broadband, University Corp., Wireless, Northern Michigan University, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-08-18

CRIKEY! He can swallow whole companies! But not communities.

Boy, what a big beautiful snake he is, mates. He eats multi-billion dollar companies with all their assets, WHOLE. But even big old  Constrictus Siliconvallis cannot squeeze the Open Source community. So, suffice to say, the Sun Microsystems story didn't end the way...

Tags: Oracle Corp., MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc., JCP, Programming Languages, Java, Open Source, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-04-20

11 "Laws of IT Physics"

11 "Laws of IT Physics"Communication is the overriding key factor.The biggest IT failures are a result of not communicating effectively.So do it, communicate clearly and fully. I mean communication in all directions: internal and external and both up-stream and down-stream management. Most importantly, include the people who will be...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-11-17

Developers criticize Nvidia, other holdouts for hindering Linux desktop

Developers criticize Nvidia, other holdouts for hindering Linux desktopInteresting[i]We have repeatedly found them to be detrimental to Linux users, businesses and the greater Linux ecosystem," the letter stated. "Such modules negate the openness, stability, flexibility and maintainability of the Linux development model and shut their users off from the expertise...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Desktops, Linux desktop, Nvida, desktop, EXT, NVidia Corp., Linux, ATI Technologies Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-06-23

Dell's Esser: Green tech is not just about the data center (P.S. It doesn't have to cost a lot more.)

I spoke with Dell's green guru (aka Albert Esser, vice president of power and infrastructure) about two weeks ago, just before I disappeared on vacation. I hadn't gotten around to writing about that conversation yet, but today seems like a pretty good day to do so, what with the company...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Data Center, Green Technology, Power Supply, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-06-05

Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week

Here are CNET Reviews' 10 favorite items from the past week, including Roku's new Netflix player, a travel USB hard drive, and a set of Bluetooth speakers from Nokia.Here''s our weekly roundup of the new products CNET reviewers liked best. 1. Aperion Intimus 5B Harmony SD Black ...

Tags: NetFlix Inc., Performance, RIM BlackBerry, Photograph, Bottom Line, CNET', Price, Smart Phones, Performance Management, Corporate Communications, Handhelds, Games, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing, Hardware, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-05-24

Adobe opens up Flash, but leaves out Google and Apple

In a well timed move today Adobe announced the Open Screen Project and lifted restrictions on the use of Flash related specifications. The initiative is supported by several industry leaders including ARM, Intel, LG, Motorola, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Qualcomm, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Toshiba, and Verizon. Notably absent from the list...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., Macromedia Flash Player, Apple Inc., Flash, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Marketing, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-05-01

UPDATE: $3 billion Census Bureau IT failure

The Census Bureau's $600 million custom-handheld initiative has finally been scrapped. The upshot: the 2010 census will now cost $3 billion more than planned. Guess those pesky handheld computers are a bit too complicated, so it's back to paper and pencil methods.       ...

Tags: Information Technology, Translation, Census Bureau, Strategy, Handhelds, Management, Hardware, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-04-05

'Scandal' over Norway's vote for OOXML

'Scandal' over Norway's vote for OOXMLOh Please!You know what, there are a million things more important than this format issue.At the end of the day, instead of asking or negotiating with MS to submit XLS and DOC to ISO, someone decided thata) Microsoft is evilb) Binary formats are badc) XML...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OPEN SOURCE, OOXML, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format

Discussion threads 2008-03-31

Standards competition and globalization

Standards competition and globalizationIf you ignore the obviousThere are obvious differences between the open standards, de facto or otherwise, that are used by multiple implementations on multiple platforms and the ones that Microsoft proposes and pushes. OOXML Office Open XML claims to be an open standard that allows nearly anyone...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Corp., open standard, globalization

Discussion threads 2008-03-26

Standards competition and globalization

I've been thinking a lot more about globalization and the important role standards have played in "version 3.0" of that process due to my reading of Friedman's book "The World is Flat." In a globalized world, standards are critical, as they are what keeps the digital highways...

Tags: Desktop, Web, HTML, Microsoft Silverlight, HTTP, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Microsoft Corp., Technology, Standards, AJAX Application, AJAX, Quality, Tcp/Ip, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Globalization, Internet, CSS, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Business Operations, Networking, Emerging Technologies, Strategy, Management, Scripting Languages, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-03-26

Will OOXML get the ISO standards nod? It's not a given

While there's still a month left before the final votes are tallied, Microsoft's bid to gain ISO standards approval for its Office Open XML OOXML document format is anything but guaranteed. Friday February 29 marked the end of a week-long ballot-resolution meeting in Geneva, where participants debated...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., ISO, Microsoft Corp., Computerworld, OOXML, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-03-01

openid: The once and future enterprise Single Sign-On?

The decision two weeks ago by Yahoo! to support the burgeoning openid initiative, where users choose their preferred user account provider for logging into other Web sites, was a defining moment for the increasingly popular effort to bring order and sanity to the often confusing world of user identity on...

Tags: Account, Web, Site, Worker, Single Sign-on, Identity, Enterprise, Channel Management, Marketing, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2008-02-04

Testing the Java Card Applet Firewall

This paper discusses the methodology and results of testing the Java Card applet firewall mechanism. The main motivation for this work is the complexity of the firewall. Given the complexity, non-compliance of the cards with respect to the official specification is not unlikely. Firewall implementation faults may lead to serious...

Tags: Card, JavaCard, Smart Cards, Firewalls, Java, Security, Networking, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development

White papers 2007-12-07

Did the W3C acknowledge CDF's potential as an office format (vs ODF) in newly public e-mail?

Last week, after interviewing most of the players involved in a controversy regarding the future of the OpenDocument Format (a controversy mostly rooted in the confusion of two nearly identical but very different acronyms: ODf and ODF), I noted that some of those players -- IBM, the World Wide Web...

Tags: W3C, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, OpenDocument Format, IBM Corp., CDF, Edwards, OOXML, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-12-04

More images and products from supercomputing 2007

The SC07 supercomputing conference was a very interesting show for me this year and it was my first time attending this conference.  Here are some more interesting products that I haven't covered yet all the way from the very high-end to entry-level HPC computers. Sun's 3456-node "petascale" constellation cluster...

Tags: Processor, Blade Server, Blade, Sun Microsystems Inc., Server, Power Supply, Motherboard, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Supercomputing, Tyan, 1U, TST, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, George Ou

Blog posts 2007-11-16

Here's a peek at some of Skype's feature development priorities

A cruise through the Skype Developer Zone website takes us to a view of what Skype calls the "Public platform activities" being prioritized for the fourth quarter of 2007. Loosely translated, "public platform activities" can be taken to mean the initiatives Skype's internal...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Linux, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-09-19