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- MacBook Air tear-down: Look inside but don't touch?
- MacBook Air tear-down: Look inside but don't touch?Don't Mess Around With SlimIt's a new world. I'd no sooner open my Air than I would my Rolex. Anyway, this is a computer. When the next version of the OS is released, I'll probably lust after the newest computer...
- Tags: Engineering, Notebooks, MacBook Air, screw, MacBook Air tear-down, tear-down, Apple MacBook, battery
- Discussion threads 2008-02-01
- Photos: Cracking open the Wii
- A step-by-step summary of TechRepublic's project to take apart the Wii. Caution: This will seriously void your warranty.After a week of trying, I finally got my hands on a Nintendo Wii. After taking it for a test drive, I began the painstaking and somewhat frustrating disassembly process. I started by...
- Tags: Game players, optical drive, photograph, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo GameCube, GameCube controller, Nintendo Co. Ltd., Nintendo GameBoy, screw, memory card, antennae, heatsink, USB port, plate, GPU, cable, console, CPU, manufacturing, board, chip, hardware
- Image galleries 2007-08-27
- Friday Rant - Screw that!
- Friday Rant - Screw that!Don't be so sure it is the company trying to save money.At least not the brand name company you bought from. It is no secret that everyone from Apple to Sony is having their product manufactured in China by third party OEMs. Unfortunately what...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Branding, PC, screw, fastener
- Discussion threads 2007-08-03
- Friday Rant - Screw that!
- It's a fact of life that every company is looking for ways to cut costs in order to increase profit margins. One quick and easy way for companies to do this is to supply (and if the company is in the business of building PCs, fit) the cheapest and nastiest fasteners...
- Tags: Screw, Head, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2007-08-03
- Has Microsoft gone soft?
- Has Microsoft gone soft?One thing you forget, Microsoft likes IP hurdles for other people.So for them, even if the patents and other IP are very very questionable, why help open source by getting a court decision invalidating it. Better to validate the IP by paying a huge settlement. Thus hurting...
- Tags: Network technology, Litigation, screw, Microsoft Corp., IP
- Discussion threads 2004-04-30
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- Yahoo: Microhoo, Icahn drama cost us $22 million; Economy soft
- Yahoo: Microhoo, Icahn drama cost us $22 million; Economy softYahoo and M$hostile takeovers cost money. I like the way Yahoo told Microsoft to shove off. Too bad nobody else wants to. M$ did it twice, Ballmer scwed up, and the second try was by another billionaire who has so much...
- Tags: Professional development, Yahoo! Inc., Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- Nikon AF-S DX VR 18-200mm f3.5-5.6G IF-ED
- One of the blessings of an SLR can also be a curse: having to choose which lenses to carry, which means finding the right balance between weight and bulk, and having the focal lengths you need. The Nikon AF-S DX VR 18-200mm f3.5-5.6 G IF ED lens offers Nikon shooters...
- Tags: Nikon Corp.
- Product reviews 2008-07-21
- 'Rogue admin' thought he was protecting network and city
- Paul Venezia at PC World has an exclusive insider account on Terry Childs, the rogue network admin who locked everyone out of the city's network. The story in essence is Childs is an extreme control freak who built and maintained an extremely complex network, perhaps...
- Tags: Administrator, Network, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-20
- Yahoo rejects latest Microsoft-Icahn proposal; Calls Microsoft 'erratic'
- Yahoo rejects latest Microsoft-Icahn proposal; Calls Microsoft 'erratic'What is the fascination with bringing up Vista in......just about every blog forum? This blog had nothing to do with Vista yet here you are whining about it. Why?It has to do with eyeballs and marketing.In the search market, Yahoo is number 2...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Icahn
- Discussion threads 2008-07-13
- Trademarks and open source monopoly
- Trademarks and open source monopolyTrademark protections.[i][b]So here’s my question. When I can freely distribute, change, and fork an open source product, does trademark law sometimes contradict the open source concept? Does it not reach far enough, or does it go too far? [/b][/i]I'd say it's just about right.The problem with...
- Tags: open source, brand
- Discussion threads 2008-07-10
- Your flat screen TV could be killing the planet, read all about it
- Your flat screen TV could be killing the planet, read all about itI hope so,otherwise, how are the dinosaurs going to make a comeback?RE: Your flat screen TV could be killing the planet, read all about itHmm... Everything seems to "kill" the planet nowadays. While I do believe that we...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, flat screen, TV
- Discussion threads 2008-07-09
- NVIDIA stock ... Good buy or goodbye?
- NVIDIA stock ... Good buy or goodbye?They said that of Applethose many years ago. Thankfully, I held onto my stock which is doing quite well.I have a feeling that Nvidia will recover over time as well.I will remain loyal to nVidia.Of course, I only use desktops but I've found their...
- Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, NVidia Corp., stock
- Discussion threads 2008-07-09
- Did open source make Green go at VMWare?
- Did open source make Green go at VMWare?No such thing as a free lunch....While I don't lay all the blame on open source, I do blame open source for many of the problems with VMWare’s business model. It is very difficult to plan when you have “free” products in the...
- Tags: open source, VMware Inc., programmer
- Discussion threads 2008-07-08
- NVIDIA: Let's spread the blame far and wide
- NVIDIA: Let's spread the blame far and widePublically?"Well, since then the company’s stock has taken a serious battering, and the company doesn’t seem to be willing to talk about the problems with its GPUs publically."Publically is not a word. Publicly is.That aside, Nvidea is playing the blame game and not...
- Tags: NVidia Corp., GPU, blame, supplier
- Discussion threads 2008-07-08
- Study: Offshore outsourcing dings customer satisfaction; Taking back office offshore ok
- A trio of professors working with the national Quality Research Center at the University of Michigan finds that offshore outsourcing hurts customer service ratings, but farming out back office operations has a limited impact. The working paper, conducted by the University of Michigan as well as Nasscom,...
- Tags: Offshore, Customer Service, Offshore Outsourcing, Customer Satisfaction, Back-office, Offshoring, Outsourcing, Product Marketing, Operational Accounting, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Marketing, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Nothing stealthy about this Windows Update update
- Nothing stealthy about this Windows Update updateStill got it wrong?!?!What part of "check for updates but let me decide" do they not understand???If the people at MS are feeling so benevolentwhy not have the programmers pop up a box when the update occurs, sort of hand holding for the wary.If...
- Tags: Operating systems, Opting-Out, Microsoft Windows Update, Microsoft Windows, proper warning
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- Apple caught neglecting iPhone security
- Apple caught neglecting iPhone securityApple doesn't really care.I believe that Apple puts security of its products at the bottom of the list, with cool design at the top. All this stuff just proves me right, that sure they have a neat casing and a touch screen, but underneath it...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, security, iPhone security
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- BlueAnt Z9i (black)
- One of BlueAnt's most popular Bluetooth headsets last year was the BlueAnt Z9, which we rated highly as having excellent sound quality, and many of you agreed. But BlueAnt wasn't happy just resting on its laurels; indeed, it has come up with an upgrade to the Z9, and the headset...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, BlueAnt Z9i, BlueAnt Z9, BlueAnt, phone
- Product reviews 2008-07-02
- Guest post: An ode to the humble spreadsheet
- Guest blog: Bob Warfield has founded three startups, run R&D at Borland, developed software for Callidus and Oracle and created tools for Rational/Pure Atria. He currently works for SaaS customer service company Helpstream. He is responsible for Quattro Pro, the Borland spreadsheet, and is the inventor of the notebook tabs...
- Tags: Spreadsheet, Productivity, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Linux's dirty little secret
- Linux's dirty little secretNice commercial! How much did it cost you?Strange, you publish it under the heading of "Dirty Little Secret"."Upload, design and build dynamic multimedia training courses. We charge a small fee to deliver the courses to the students online. For a few dollars per student, you...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Ubuntu, package manager
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
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