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Google plays a hand of Ogre with Apple

'Ogre' is an interesting - if obscure - analogy. But I would suggest that you'd to better to stick with plain old chess.In my view, the AT&T/iPhone team have a better position, if only by virtue of their early start in the market. But, as a belated entry, Android is...

Tags: Google Inc., AT&T Corp., Ogre, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-08

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Shrek Kart for iPhone 1.0.7 (Mobile)

Once Upon a Time... Shrek and his friends are on a quest: To become the Kingdom's Fastest Kart Racer! Race to your own Fairy Tale ending behind the wheel of each character's custom-built kart and try to win Ye Grand Tournament. Explore the sights and secret shortcuts throughout the Kingdom,...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Mode, Gameloft, Bluetooth, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility

Software downloads 2009-10-13

News to know: Windows 7; IBM; Sony; Apple

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. Ed Bott: Measuring Windows 7 performance Dancho Danchev: Click fraud facilitating Bahama botnet steals ad revenue from Google ...

Tags: Sony Corp., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Sony Vaio, Apple Inc., Laptop Computer, IBM Corp., Eaton, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-10-09

Google plays a hand of Ogre with Apple

All Google's pieces taken together don't yet add up to the power of Apple's iPhone. The Ogre still has the power. But Google has the dice. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Google Inc., Apple Inc., Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-10-08

Live Interior 3D Standard 2.2.1 (Mac)

Live Interior 3D Standard is a powerful yet very intuitive interior designing application. Whether you are remodeling, improving or building a new home, Live Interior will assist in visualizing your redesigned apartment way before you actually start the work. Draw CAD like 2D plans, then surf 3D environment to get...

Tags: 3D, Google Inc., Apple Macintosh, 2D, Standard Corp., BeLight Software

Software downloads 2009-09-02

AC3D 6.5.28 (Windows)

See your design ideas come to life with the 3D graphics software AC3D 6 from Inivis Limited, available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Whether you're a complete beginner or an experienced designer, with a need to create imaginary or technically realistic designs, AC3D 6 provides you with versatility,...

Tags: 3D, Microsoft Windows, Inivis

Software downloads 2009-06-19

AMD Istanbul: Field Upgrade Only If Your Hands are Nimble

The newly-launched AMD Opteron 24xx and 84xx server CPUs have six processor cores. Unlike Intel's Nehalem, which requires entirely new and unproven mainboards, systems, chipsets and sockets, the "Istanbul" is based on existing, mature AMD chipsets and uses the existing 1207-pin Socket F, allowing current Quad-Core...

Tags: Istanbul, Quad-core, Server, AMD Opteron, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., CPU, Chip, Nehalem, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-06-01

Could Shrek use a netbook?

The answer, of course, is no. As I mentioned before, I saw Shrek the Musical with my kids last weekend and, although I thoroughly enjoyed it much to my surprise, the big ham-handed ogre could not have effectively used the Acer Aspire One I'm evaluating. No...

Tags: Apple MacBook, Jason Perlow, Teacher, Keyboards, Notebooks, Hardware, Peripherals, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-01-03

PureBasic 4.30 (Windows)

PureBasic is a programming language based on established BASIC rules. The key features of PureBasic are portability (Windows, AmigaOS and Linux are currently fully supported), the production of very fast and highly optimized executables and, of course, the very simple BASIC syntax. PureBasic has been created for the beginner and...

Tags: Syntax, Fantaisie Software, PureBasic, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Programming Languages, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2008-12-16

Google Lively (Gallery: Five virtual worlds you need to know about )

Google Lively (Gallery: Five virtual worlds you need to know about )Huh?...I guess Second Life didn't make the cutRE: Google Lively (Gallery: Five virtual worlds you need to know about )What about Metaplace from MS? (http://metaplace.com/)Ok...So you don't list hipihi, perfect world online, or any the graphically and systematically superior...

Tags: Games, Second Life, Gallery, virtual world, Google Inc., game

Discussion threads 2008-10-23

Google and Sirius XM: Build my "Dream" Handheld

The current rumor-mongering seems to indicate that HTC's "Dream" will soon be making landfall in the US. Based on the initially leaked specs of this device, it still sounds like it doesn't do what I really would want it to do in order to replace by Blackberry 8820. ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., High Tech Computer Corp., Handheld, XM Satellite Radio Inc., Radio, Video, Sirius, Android, Mesh Networking, Advertising & Promotion, Corporate Communications, Networking, Marketing, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-08-24

Kickfire: MySQL data box for the rest of us

Given all the various technology news in the last two weeks, it would have been relatively easy to overlook a press release from a small startup called Kickfire, which produces an appliance to run MySQL applications. Snore. Yet another dime a dozen appliance vendor, which will probably...

Tags: Performance, MySQL, I/O, Kickfire, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-04-28

Does open source need a Micro-cop?

There they go again. Microsoft is playing good cop, bad cop, offering "to promote greater interoperability, opportunity and choice" on the one hand, dismissing efforts to build real standards on the other. Specifically, it provided documentation allowing developers to link with its MS-XAML, an...

Tags: Risk, Microsoft Corp., Choice, Steve Jackson, Games, Corporate Governance, Strategy, Open Source, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-03-25

Will it always be about Microsoft?

Will it always be about Microsoft?Google to become the ogre?Nah, because they're not the Penelope and Rupert obsessed sh*theads that have made it their entire existence to keep people dumbed down with a going nowhere computing paradigm.Google make their money from advertising businesses, not from lies, control and dumbed down...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., software

Discussion threads 2008-03-09

Will it always be about Microsoft?

In a rather heated argument during MIX 08 last week, Miguel de Icaza right made a provocative statement the reporters in the room seem to have glossed over. "There is a feature beyond selling corporate [software] and patents ... it's going to be owning end users." ...

Tags: Web, Microsoft Corp., Wordpress, Movable Type, Channel Management, Blogging, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Marketing, Internet, Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-03-09

Happy New Year from Googling Google!

Happy New Year from Googling Google!Microsoft move overGoogle is the new Ogre, it has extended its tenacles into every aspect of the computer world. Bill Gates built a huge clumsy monster with glaring errors and built a huge cottage industry trying to fix it. We all will...

Tags: Googling Google, Happy New Year, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-01-01

Battle of the Youstrass 1.01 (Windows)

Strategy/RPG hybrid aka Tactical RPG in the tradition of Ogre Battle and Fire Emblem for the Windows platform. Strategy/RPG incorporates RPG elements to the strategic game. So it puts strong emphasis on characters and their developments. But unlike traditional computer RPGs, SRPG is closer to the drama in which a...

Tags: Team, Character, Team DarkLand, Strategy/RPG, Games, Microsoft Windows, Team Management, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Management

Software downloads 2007-08-21

What is Microsoft really gaining from open source FUD?

In all the stories about Microsoft's attack on open source, I have seen little talk about what the company is gaining in all this.I don't think it's money. Despite press reports that companies like Xandros or LG are paying a "Linux tax" to Microsoft, on net dollars don't seem heading...

Tags: Strategy, politics, Patents, Microsoft, management, Legal, IBM, gaming, Development

Blog posts 2007-06-08

Negroponte takes on Intel

Negroponte takes on IntelAll I seen him do was whinethat someone is providing competition. Pfffttt.... He'll live.I understand...I understand Negroponte's point, and I agree that Intel is going after his OLPC project, but at the same time, I can't blame Intel. Intel is in the business of...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, desktop, Negroponte, One Laptop Per Child project, Intel Corp., computer

Discussion threads 2007-05-21

(Images: Which copy of XP is the fake?)

(Images: Which copy of XP is the fake?)Tell us whyIs it because of the red seal?...Can't zoom in on the email to reveal minute details?Patricia Gammagetypical "news"Not very informative, as prior poster pointed out. Between the distance and the shine off the wrapping... There are also two rectangular white...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, OEM, Microsoft Corp., retail version, Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2007-01-22