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Friday Challenge: What's your take on OS/browser market share trends?

Firefox is taking over...With Firefox the days of vendor lock-in withIE required are over, like banking sites theyare cross-platform as they should be.I use CentOS/Fedora/RHEL and use I am able todo all of my job functions and use any applicationI want without the fear of security holes andthreats from a...

Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, COMPANIES, Other Countries, Web browser, Friday Challenge, operating system, Mozilla Firefox, browser market share, security hole, security, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

British watchdog backs down over Wikipedia image of nude girl

British watchdog backs down over Wikipedia image of nude girlUhh, that is child pornold or new album art, that's still child pornOther countries are affected tooNot only UK is affected. Many countries use the blacklist supplied by IWF.See a sales presentation about CleanFeed/NetClean:http://www.slideshare.net/flyingpotato/netclean-whitebox-by-practeo-presentationMake all children wear bhurka's until the age...

Tags: Wiki, Other Countries, British watchdog, child pornography, watchdog, Wikipedia

Discussion threads 2008-12-09

Thanks to BitTorrrent, Net neutrality debate reignites

Thanks to BitTorrrent, Net neutrality debate reignitesWrong title for article...BitTorrent is not doing anything wrong, it is the Cable/Phone Companies causing the problemsFreedom for a few. Police State for the people. People are cattle. Happy?It's time to define the masters and figure out where is the richest man in this...

Tags: bandwidth, BitTorrrent, Net Neutrality, BitTorrent

Discussion threads 2007-11-02

New Net taxes could arrive in November

New Net taxes could arrive in NovemberPaying More For Crappy SpeedsLook at Europe, where 10MB connection speeds are a joke....But as usual, we'll shell out the taxes and not protest at all...after all, our taxes are going towards winning the war in Iraq, not towards securing our borders and advancing...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Strategy, New Net tax, tax, government

Discussion threads 2007-09-14

10.6 mln VOIP users in the US

10.6 mln VOIP users in the USFREE VOIP (PC2Phone) NOW AVAILABLE AND GROWING WORLD-WIDEAdCalls, Inc., an Orange County California hybrid (VOIP / Internet Advertising Company is offering totally FREE VOIP (PC2Phone) to the millions of Internet users World-Wide.Utilizing its patent pending business process, calls are subsidized by Advertising. ...

Tags: Telephony, INTERNET, Other Countries, PC2Phone, AdCalls Inc., FREE VoIP, VoIP, VoIP Users, AdCalls Dialer

Discussion threads 2007-04-15

Open Source and the Law

Open Source and the LawLinux protects Microsoft...... from other competition. If a company, say Apple, decided to compete with Microsoft in mass market desktop operating systems, wouldn't Linux be an impediment?Would a company considering whether to compete with Microsoft prefer that Linux exist or not exist?You're right about Linux...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Other Countries, Linux, Microsoft Corp., IP, Microsoft Windows, patent, Windows World, Apple Inc., open source

Discussion threads 2006-08-25

Security experts lift lid on Chinese hack attacks

Security experts lift lid on Chinese hack attackscounter-hacking.. criminal or patriotic??one side could protest that these people are not affiliated with the government, or if they are where is the proof, and that we should just defend military systems with a tail in between the legs.on the other side, counter...

Tags: Hacking, Broadband Internet, security, Chinese Hack Attacks, Other Countries

Discussion threads 2005-11-23

Verizon sends me rebuttal to charges by Wireless Philadelphia's Neff

Verizon sends me rebuttal to charges by Wireless Philadelphia's NeffWe're blowing it.I hope Philly gets Earthlink on the scene and more cities follow. We have no real competition in this country. We're, what, 16th globally for high-speed access? Other countries are blowing us away in connection speed...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Telecom & Utilities, Free trade, Other Countries, taxpayer, Verizon Communications Inc., Comcast Corp., Neff

Discussion threads 2005-10-19

Gates: Get U.S schools in order

Gates: Get U.S schools in orderSpicoli: Get LOST Uncle Gates!Sorry my poor child, but you can't have your vake and eat it too. You can't keep whining about the "economic disadvantages" looming on the horizon for America while simultaneously helping to bring them about..or was it another Gates that was...

Tags: Investment, Other Countries, Bill G, U.S school, inovation, U.S

Discussion threads 2005-05-02

Whither the Thinkpad?

Whither the Thinkpad?lets just hope the new company continues the qualityof IBM thinkpadsOpen your mind Open your eyes ..this world is changingAs 7 years Thinkpad'user from model 770 to T42, I have the same concerns about the future of ThInkpod ..oh no Thinkpad. As a Chinese , I am pround...

Tags: Notebooks, Desktops, Other Countries, IBM Corp., thinkpad, FireWire, IBM ThinkPad

Discussion threads 2005-03-03

China leads in worldwide DSL market

China leads in worldwide DSL marketHope it works better than their China made productsIf anyone remembers anything about China made merchandise it is all JUNK!Look at the Tools they make on to clothing electronics ect. All garbage.China leads?I think China leads in the following:Bird FluSARS VirusUnknown new diseases spreading like...

Tags: Modems, Network technology, Broadband Internet, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Access is Access, Other Countries, DSL, cable, cable modem, modem, broadband, CHINA IS

Discussion threads 2004-03-08

Additional Resources

Inside the Google Chrome OS security model

The proof will be in implementationAll of these lofty goals are one thing. Making it happen in code is quite another. It sounds like they are just giving a laundry list of what people want them to say. I'm in the "believe it when I see it" camp. Good intentions...

Tags: security, Google Inc., licence, Google Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

FCC wants public comment on digital democracy - voting online

Online Voting - Destroying the integrity and fabric of democracy.On-line voting without safe guards against vote selling and guarantee that each vote was registered in private invalidates the intent and meaning of "one person, one vote."It's bad enough that this hole currently exists with the current mail-in voting process.RE: FCC...

Tags: Federal government, digital democracy, public comment, FCC

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Reid promises 60 on Saturday

promises, promises, promisesHe will not get his 60 on Saturday. There are enough senators with the backbone to avoid what will be an economic catastrophe for our nation.Obama created phantom jobsSomeone did bother looking into the jobs Obama claimed to save / create and found this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1t3zZBhJ7wBlog not about Obama or...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, Reid

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Coin Flip Premium for iPhone 1.1.1 (Mobile)

Coin Flip Premium for iPhone is a fun coin flip program to let you select from 150+ coins to try your luck. Circulating coins, all fifty state coins, eight presidential coins, all in your pocket. Together with coins from other 14 countries including UK, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Austria,...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Coin, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-19

AT&T loses lawsuit over Verizon's map commercial

Ha! Take THAT Such a silly waste of the court's time. If they finally lose, I hope they are made to pay treble court costs just as a lesson in frivolous lawsuits clogging the courts. That would send a much needed messageThat if a corporation is going to...

Tags: Cellular phones, AT&T Corp., GSM, CDMA, Apple iPhone, Verizon Communications Inc., W-CDMA

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Netbook/notebook reliability study shows that technology breaks ...

Cheaply made partsWell, look at the parts they all are stampedwith 'Made in CHINA'...Quantity over Quality.People are now geared towards a Wal_Mart mentality they do not want to pay for quality and they do NOT care where it is made.Therefore, you will see a lower standard of living because the...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Notebooks, Policies and procedures, notebook, netbook, accident, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Selling customer information leads to prosecution

What's the big deal?Isn't this how everyone does it? My boss would routinely buy millions of data records from companies to conduct email campaigns.Ah, but in Great BritainThey have made it TOTALLY illegal to sell data records. You cannot do stuff like this period over there, and I applaud...

Tags: Asset management, INTERNET, Big Deal, asset, customer information

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Microsoft may have blown opportunities, but all hope is not lost

Time to let it goThe erosion has started, it cannot be stopped and the longer you try to hold on to something that fleecing away the more you lose.Game over.Android wins.:)Blown OpportunitiesThis reminds me of MS failing to see the internet coming and allowing Netscape to dominate the market. They...

Tags: Operating systems, Mobile operating systems, Handhelds, Wireless and Mobility, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Mobile, mobile, phone, Windows Monopoly

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Cap and trade controversial in Australia

This is what happened:An Australian researcher who was critical of mainstream theories got censored.The new Inquisition: dare to raise your voice against the enviro-whackos and they get all angry.CEC FAILs againCEC claims: [i]"An Australian researcher who was critical of mainstream theories got censored."[/i]He wasn't censored for disagreeing with the global...

Tags: theory, CEC, global warming, Cap-and-Trade, carbon dioxide, tax

Discussion threads 2009-11-17