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Gallery: Toshiba adds style, portability to laptops

Toshiba's Portege R500-S5007V is just .01-inches thicker and weighs less than a MacBook Air. Other new laptops include a gaming model and one with Cell-chip technology. by Andy Smith

Tags: Toshiba Corp., Laptop Computer, Toshiba Portege R500-S5007V, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Andy Smith, Apple MacBook, Toshiba, laptop, solid state hard drive, thin

Image galleries 2008-06-17

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The pain moves up the chain

You hate the price of gasoline if you drive a car in America. Many of us are driving less. Some are even buying more efficient cars. Waiting lists for Smartcar and hybrids are old news. I recently blogged about the mini-fad for golf carts on the...

Tags: Car, Gasoline, Sales Strategy, Taxes, Sales, Financial Planning, Finance, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-09-06

Silicon Valley's gender gap

Silicon Valley's gender gapGet to the point please...I'm sure she has some good things to say, if you can get through all the um's and uh's...found myself saying "get to the point", and "say something already" ...can you tell the guy listening to her is also having a hard...

Tags: Gender and diversity, gender gap

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Microsoft's Ozzie to head another new Microsoft lab

Microsoft's Ozzie to head another new Microsoft labLabs are a great concept but hard to move into the business...Innovation is important for long term competitiveness and the "labs" concept is a good one for providing a dedicated R&D capability. However, I've seen far too many companies including Microsoft have...

Tags: Microsoft Ozzie, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

What went wrong with Joost's desktop client?

The news broke today that Joost, the company which in a lot of ways was on the forefront of rich media, is canning its signature desktop client in favor of a purely web based portal. As a big proponent of desktop applications in general, and especially these hybrid applications which...

Tags: Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-09-05

The Office (2.0): No paper? No problem.

I think I may have been the only person at this week's Office 2.0 conference using - gasp! - a pen and paper. There was no program "book" when I registered - the agenda was online only. And none of the exhibitors handed out press releases on paper - though...

Tags: Document, Microsoft PowerPoint, Appirio, SlideRocket, Digital Signatures, Collaboration, Productivity, Groupware, Fax, Microsoft Office, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Office Suites, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-09-05

The Importance of Dissent

The Importance of Dissentwould be nice...It would be nice if we could "shout from the rooftops" without fear of reprisal. In reality, with most companies, the options are "jump ship" or "keep your mouth shut and do as you're told".It's hard to disagree publicly with your companyI agree with you...

Tags: Drizzle, Mat, open source

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Demo Facebook app creates DoS botnet

Demo Facebook app creates DoS botnetLike Facebook, MySpace Cares?Cost to much to do it the right way.They might have to hire real systems management and security staff.RE: Demo Facebook app creates DoS botnetSod the DoS - look at the cute little picture of the chick!! So cute! I WANT ONE!I...

Tags: Web site development, Web technology, SECURITY, Facebook, botnet, DoS botnet, DOS

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Red Hat draws its line in the virtual sand with Qumranet

Red Hat draws its line in the virtual sand with QumranetKVM is solid and cleanA lot of it is marketing, but the technology is excellent and can dominate the virtual desktop. The issue comes down to VDI already being a cost effective product compared to stand alone desktops and...

Tags: Desktops, desktop, Red Hat Inc., Qumranet, KVM

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

What the fight against cancer really needs

What the fight against cancer really needsSadly this is where a problem existsCuring cancer would be great on the human level. But it doesn't make good business sense for doctors and pharmaceutical companies that rely on patients to make money. Much like many other diseases, it's more profitable to keep...

Tags: cure, pharmaceutical company, patient, government

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Dell repair adventure, conclusion

Dell repair adventure, conclusion"less than optimal or expected"The phrase I have heard for this is "opportunity for improvement." Glad to hear your machine got fixed.Dell serviceDell has no where near the skill level of the old DEC field service reps and probably never will.I have had 3rd parties from...

Tags: Manufacturing, NEXT BEST, outsourced tech, Dell Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Seinfeld becomes McCain

Seinfeld becomes McCainMyth?So, is John McCain's patriotism a myth? Perhaps his leadership abilities? Or maybe it is a myth that John McCain is actually qualified for the job of Commander in Chief?The only myth here relates to you feeling somehow qualified to offer political commentary.dude you really need...

Tags: Taxes, RSS, John McCain, Obama

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Netflix post-mortem: hardware failure and poor transparency

Netflix post-mortem: hardware failure and poor transparencyProbably was Worse than ThoughtThe lack of transparency is probably due to how much of a failure their disaster prepardness really is. It probably failed on many levels. No doubt Netflix doesn't want anyone to know just how ill prepared they really...

Tags: NetFlix Inc., transparency, hardware

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Does SOA matter? (Part 4)

The HMS Titanic had state-of-the-art engines and a top-notch operation below deck. But in the end, the crew had other things on their minds. Geek & Poke's Oliver Widder picked up on my recent post that there is some speculation on whether SOA proponents may be wasting...

Tags: SOA, Geek & Poke, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-09-05

XO sold through Amazon this year...Who cares?

XO sold through Amazon this year...Who cares?Mostly valid points Christopher, but, you should give OLPC more credit fortransforming the market. And, I would like to see more OLPC features in computers like the Dell Mini. I DO want a sunlight readable screen. I DO want a more durable laptop. I...

Tags: One Laptop Per Child project, Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Chrome's JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlight

Experts speaking at Microsoft's TechEd conference in Australia warn that JavaScript will continue to get speedier, making it the biggest rival of Silverlight technology. The biggest rival for Microsoft's next-generation Silverlight web technology will be JavaScript, not Adobe's ubiquitous Flash, according to experts speaking at Microsoft's TechEd conference in...

Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, JavaScript, Chrome, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Suzanne Tindal ZDNet Australia, Silverlight, Microsoft, Adobe, Flash, Google

News items 2008-09-05

End of an era: Dell may dump its factories

End of an era: Dell may dump its factoriesRubbed up the wrong way?"The rub: It’s unclear whether contract equipment manufacturers would want to buy Dell’s manufacturing hubs. Do contract manufacturers really want to take on Dell’s capacity?"Don't CEM's want to take on everyone's capacity ... I mean isn't their model...

Tags: Manufacturing, Notebooks, Dell Computer Corp., End-Of-An-Era

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Should political postings stay or go? A survey.

Should political postings stay or go? A survey.Please Speak FreelyAdmittedly, the subject matter was off-topic but adding the occasional non-relevant opinion is a very human thing to do, certainly not to be chastised, regardless of idealogical objection.Kevin, G-Portal UKhttp://cms.da.gpRE: Should political postings stay or go? A survey.Mitch you have at...

Tags: Blogging, political posting, blogger, survey

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

XO sold through Amazon this year...Who cares?

The One Laptop Per Child OLPC program will begin selling its XO laptop via Amazon this year in a reprise of its Give One Get One (G1G1) program, according to Ars Technica and several other outlets. Although the Ars piece paints this a real boon for OLPC, whose G1G1...

Tags: Developing Country, Amazon.com Inc., One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Super Fdisk Bootable CD (iso)

Super Fdisk Bootable CD is a FREE driven disk partition manager of DOS version. With Super Fdisk, you can quickly and easily create, delete, format partitions on IDE/ATA/SATA/SCSI hard disk drives without destroying data underDOS system. Super Fdisk can be installed on Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003 and Super Fdisk is easy to...

Tags: Disk, PTDD, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-09-05