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Microsoft creates GWT clone

Microsoft creates GWT cloneThe "clone" strategy..~ "If Volta had been released two years ago.. ..Microsoft is playing catch-up with Google and Adobe" ~They are, and it'll most likely be an uphill battle, too as those two giants focus on newer and progressively more powerful versions.Bill Burkehttp://wirelessspeech.blogspot.comMS: Start late, catch-up, over...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., GWT, Playing Catch-Up

Discussion threads 2007-12-08

Playing catch-up with Google

Playing catch-up with GooglePlaying catch-up with GooglePlaying catch up with Google? More like Google is trying to play catch up with the rest of the world. That company has no vision or direction. They are taking everyone for a ride on the short term until their ad revenue...

Tags: Playing Catch-Up, Google Inc., Steve Ballmer

Discussion threads 2006-11-21

Additional Resources

Suit over baby vid with Prince song goes forward

Everybody agrees. Stephanie Lenz' video of her young son with Prince's "Let's Go Crazy" playing in the background was a fair use of a copyrighted work. But Universal submitted a DMCA takedown notice on the video and YouTube took it down for a month until Lenz was able to get...

Tags: Use, DMCA, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-21

The new Intel gets open source mojo with SpikeSource

This is important for open source businesses, because once they jump through the hoops your wares are on a level playing field with the big boys, and enterprises are told to trust you. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Intel Corp., Open Source Player, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-08-21

Apple faces suit over iPhone. Is it still worth the switch?

I walked into an AT&T Wireless store earlier today, eyed the iPhone and picked up some brochures on pricing plans. I've been thinking that the problems with the new iPhone can't last forever - and yet, here's another black eye for Apple and the iPhone. An Alabama woman has filed...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Pricing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-08-20

Life without the Internet: Zapped off the grid

In my last article I described what it feels like to have your house struck by lightning. Luckily there were no injuries or structural damage thanks for your kind words in the comments, but our gadgets and other electronics inside the house weren't so lucky. This is their tale. ...

Tags: Game, Phone, Router, TiVo Inc., Grid, Cable, Cable Guy, Internet, Telecom & Utilities, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-08-20

Technology: where on the scale from cure to curse?

I'm old enough to remember the many apocalyptic scenarios conjured up by nuclear weapons and the Cold War. From Alas, Babylon to "The Day After", from Godzilla himself, the second half of the Twentieth Century was repeatedly haunted by vivid imaginings of the post-nuclear world, or its ending....

Tags: Bee, Clean Technology, NRDC, Purdue, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-08-20

Open source and innovation as maintenance models

Following my piece on a proposed model for enterprise applications maintenance, two fresh posts, one from Matt Aslett at 451.com and another from Leigh Cauldwell offer alternative ideas around how the present conundrum might be solved. Matt offers the open source position arguing that:  This would appear to be...

Tags: Innovation, Leigh Cauldwell, Matt, Savio Rodrigues, Open Source, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-08-20

IE 8 to get 'porn mode'?

IE 8 to get 'porn mode'?Double-edged swordsSeveral years ago, our company implemented very stringent usage rules on our IT assets, including Internet access. And the IT department installed "monitoring tools" aka spyware to keep an eye on the rank-and-file.The result? A number of employees got fired for surfing porn, trading...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer, monitoring, cookie, porn mode

Discussion threads 2008-08-19

HP ultraportables get new Intel chips, 80GB SSD

HP has added three new ultraportables to its laptop lineup. All three have 12.1-inch wide-screen displays. Two of them, a 3.2-pound model with a built-in optical drive and a convertible tablet, are part of the new EliteBook line targeted at business users. The third is an HP Compaq model designed...

Tags: Hard Drive, Hewlett-Packard Co., Battery, Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel Corp., Chip, 2230s, Engineering, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-08-19

IDF Opening Keynote: Are you listening, Washington?

IDF Opening Keynote: Are you listening, Washington?PURE BS!Look, I KNOW several people with advanced degrees in the sciences and math. Guess what? They have been laid off and replaced with offshoring and H1-B workers.Tech companies like Intel want to point the finger? Fine, hand them a mirror...We...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, job, Barrett, education, IT IS

Discussion threads 2008-08-19

PitchEngine revs up public beta, puts the social in PR

PitchEngine revs up public beta, puts the social in PRMaybe I'm misunderstanding.......but I don't think that "pitches" are what journalists and bloggers are looking for. Informed commentary yes; reliable information on the company's plans and policies, yes; official positions on news items involving the company, yes; pitches, no (that's...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, PR Practitioners, PitchEngine, public relations, bad apple, public beta

Discussion threads 2008-08-19

China busts hacking ring, managed to penetrate ten government databases

China busts hacking ring, managed to penetrate ten government databasesChinese hackers bustedWell, at least we know now that it's not just other countries that they work on. and "however, as in many other countries there seems to be a lack of political awareness on how severe the situation has...

Tags: Government, Chinese Government, hacking, government database, Chinese Hackers

Discussion threads 2008-08-19

Insignia NS-BRDVD

Pundits debate whether Blu-ray will be as successful as DVD, but they're relatively united on one issue: the prices of the players need to drop before the format takes off. The Insignia NS-BRDVD is part of a new breed of bargain players we've seen this year, and its $300 list...

Tags: Consumer electronics, playback control, Insignia NS-BRDVD

Product reviews 2008-08-18

iHome iP47BR (black)

SDI Technologies has released some of the better affordably priced clock radios in recent years under its iHome brand, but the iHC5S wasn't among them. It wasn't for the lack of trying, however. The 2007 product did double duty as a clock radio and a Bluetooth speaker/speakerphone. In other words,...

Tags: Wi-Fi, SDI Technologies, iHome iP47BR, iHC5S, Bluetooth, phone, iP47

Product reviews 2008-08-18

More info on USB 3.0 emerges

More info on USB 3.0 emerges4.8Gbps Huh?Not too shabby, now only if I can think of a consumer computer peripheral that can utilize that speed. With the other bottle necks in data storage devices such as hard drives I think there is a need to improve those data...

Tags: NOW IT, USB, USB 3.0, More Info

Discussion threads 2008-08-18

10 reasons to love Silverlight and 10 reasons to hate it

10 reasons to love Silverlight and 10 reasons to hate itRE: really bad storyIt is a slow news day for me. But I thought it was one of the better breakdowns I'd seen and I'm also fishing for .NET/Mac hints.=Ryanreally bad storymust be a slow news day... they blog about...

Tags: Microsoft development tools, Blogging, Microsoft Silverlight, Expression Blend

Discussion threads 2008-08-18

Searching by color to nibble away at Google.

I have to admit that I raised an eyebrow when I read the L.A. Times piece about "Black Google." No, it wasn't talking about the color of the screen (though I have written about a black screen search engine being green.) Instead, it was talking about the racial color of...

Tags: Google Inc., Search Engine, Times, Search, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-08-18

Will the HTC Dream be an iPhone killer?

Will the HTC Dream be an iPhone killer?By itself, the HTC will not kill much of anything, but, we might see thesame effect that limited the Mac to an niche. Android phones will be available from lots of different vendors, and carriers.RE: Will the HTC Dream be an iPhone killer?[i]Do...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, High Tech Computer Corp., iPhone-killer, Apple iPhone, killer, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-08-18

Don't downgrade me to XP!

Don't downgrade me to XP!except thatVista won't with our printers, or our scanners, or our cameras, or much of our vital s/w.It isn't logical to buy all new and then have vista be slower than tar on a winters day on the machines it's put on.Don't downgrade me to XP:...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2008-08-18