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Microsoft provides workaround for IE 6-Patch standoff

Microsoft provides workaround for IE 6-Patch standoffSwitch Browsers, or Switch to Linux?>Average bear would probably switch browsersAgreed, but this shouldn't be the first indication that MS products aren't designed with you in mind -- they're designed to lock you into more MS products.Get away from all of it; get into...

Tags: web browsers, k-meleon, microsoft internet explorer, ie 6-patch standoff, microsoft provides workaround, ie 6-patch, microsoft corp., microsoft provides, microsoft internet explorer 6, microsoft internet explorer 7, standoff, registry

Discussion threads 2007-12-19

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Scrabble-Scrabulous standoff spells L-A-W-S-U-I-T

Scrabble-Scrabulous standoff spells L-A-W-S-U-I-TWHAT???So they let the app slide for two years until they launch their own competing version that proves to be a fraction as popular, THEN they go after these guys cuz their own app can't cut it?I call bullspit!If it was a rights infringement, they should have...

Tags: games, scrabble-scrabulous, facebook, patent, game

Discussion threads 2008-07-25

Scrabble-Scrabulous standoff spells L-A-W-S-U-I-T

Hasbro said it has filed suit in the Southern District of New York against Rajat Agarwalla, Jayant Agarwalla, and RJ Softwares, better known as the creators of the popular Facebook application Scrabulous. It was only a matter of time before the Scrabble-Scrabulous feud came to a head, and that...

Tags: facebook, hasbro inc., games, intellectual property, personal technology, research & development, business operations, lawsuit, scrabulous, hasbro, tom magrino, gamespot

News items 2008-07-25

Viacom, Google cut deal on user data

Compromise in the standoff over YouTube user data in the Viacom v. Google suit. Negotiators for the two companies have forged a deal in which Google hands over the data but without personally identifying information, Reuters reports. "We have reached agreement with Viacom and the class-action group,"...

Tags: google inc., personally identifiable information, youtube inc., user data, viacom inc., richard koman

Blog posts 2008-07-15

Adobe: We're emulating Flash for the iPhone

Another quarter and another hope that Adobe's Flash will someday make an appearance on Apple's iPhone. On Adobe's second quarter conference call, CEO Shantanu Narayen was asked about the 3G iPhone and whether Flash will be on the device. Here's what Narayen had to say following Adobe's...

Tags: apple iphone, adobe systems inc., apple inc., flash, 3g, cellular phones, consumer electronics, personal technology, larry dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-17

Yahoo, Microsoft in talks; Media pawns abound

Have you ever felt used? Betrayed? Used as a pawn in a silly negotiation game? If you're in the media your answer in the last few days is a decided yes. The New York Times is reporting that Yahoo and Microsoft are actually talking merger now....

Tags: merger, yahoo! inc., media, microsoft corp., journal, mergers & acquisitions, advertising & promotion, investment, finance, marketing, larry dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-02

VistA dieing of starvation and neglect

The Veterans Administration VA is starving its world-class VistA medical records software to death. At a time when organizations around the world are switching from proprietary to open source models of support, an agency which created such a model from scratch is going the other way. ...

Tags: electronic health record, microsoft windows vista, u.s. department of defense, veterans administration, microsoft windows vista (longhorn), e-health, operating systems, microsoft windows, software, healthcare, dana blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-04-23

Yahoo goes nuclear vs. Microsoft: Inks limited Google ad deal; Microsoft fires back

Update: Yahoo hit that big red button that could nuke any potential merger with Microsoft or at least raise the price: An ad deal with Google. As first reported in The Wall Street Journal, Yahoo has launched plans to carry search advertising from Google. The move is...

Tags: google inc., advertisement, yahoo! inc., microsoft corp., search, larry dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-09

News to know: IE 8; 50W dual-core PC; Oracle; NetSuite; Dell snafu

Notable headlines: George Ou: Hitting 50W peak on a dual-core desktop computer Mary Jo Foley: Internal Microsoft IE 8 build passes the Acid standards test. MSDN blog. Opera: Acid or no, its Microsoft antitrust complaint goes forward Adrian Kingsley Hughes: First...

Tags: google inc., facebook, larry dignan, dell computer corp., dual-core, oracle corp., pc, netsuite inc., health care, microsoft internet explorer, microsoft corp., openoffice, keyboards, e-health, business structures, vertical industries, healthcare, benefits, processors, office suites, software, hardware, peripherals, finance, enterprise software, human resources, semiconductors, components

Blog posts 2007-12-20

Microsoft provides workaround for IE 6-Patch standoff

Microsoft has provided a workaround for those who saw their IE 6 on XP nuked by the software giant's latest batch of patches. This issue emerged last week almost immediately after the patches landed. The problem: Microsoft's patches nuked IE (I suppose that's one way to boost...

Tags: service pack 2, microsoft internet explorer 6, microsoft internet explorer, microsoft corp., microsoft windows xp service pack 2, web browsers, patches, security, internet, larry dignan

Blog posts 2007-12-19

News to know: RealPlayer flaw; Wireless speakers; Ubuntu installation; Amazon's EC2

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: IE users beware: RealPlayer zero-day flaw under attack. Mozilla plugs 10 more Firefox holes. Heather Clancy: Green business backlash: We could see this coming. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Ubuntu 7.10 - Installation walk-through. Gallery. Christopher Dawson: Microsoft matters less...

Tags: ubuntu, google inc., vonage holdings corp., speaker, at&t corp., amazon.com inc., microsoft corp., realnetworks realplayer, wireless, flaw, purchasing & procurement, microsoft windows, digital music, business operations, operating systems, software, personal technology, larry dignan

Blog posts 2007-10-22

The RIAA versus us: a file-sharing standoff

The RIAA versus us: a file-sharing standoffSelf eating watermellonWhile I agree wholeheartedly that making a copy of a friends CD or giving a friend a copy of a CD is, I hate to do it, as wrong as the RIAA says. The out of print argument, can't comment, but...

Tags: peer to peer (p2p), riaa, cd, file-sharing

Discussion threads 2007-10-19

The RIAA versus us: a file-sharing standoff

After reading through hundreds of comments to last week's digital media ethics poll, I've come to the realization that my readers are much more rational and reasonable than the entertainment industry. Overall, I see plenty of common sense in those responses, including a clear respect for property rights and an...

Tags: cd, riaa, music industry, friend, file-sharing, music, ok, ed bott

Blog posts 2007-10-19

Digital media ethics: it's personal

The voting in my digital media ethics poll is now closed, and I'm sorting through the fascinating results, which I'm going to respond to in a series of posts. To kick things off, I want to talk about the one issue where there's practically no disagreement. Look at the response...

Tags: digital media, cd, riaa, ethics, copy, music, ed bott

Blog posts 2007-10-17

Microsoft's virtualization hypervisor needs Red Hat support, too

Microsoft and Novell announced today the opening of a 2,500 square foot lab in Cambridge, Mass. where engineers from both companies will code and test interoperability of their respective virtualization technologies. The news comes a day after Microsoft announced imminent availability of the first test version...

Tags: novell inc., linux, hypervisor, virtualization, red hat inc., open source, citrix systems inc., xen, microsoft corp., xensource inc., dana, viridian apis microsoft, paula rooney

Blog posts 2007-09-12

Getting your new Unix server

Getting your new Unix serverthere is another flavor of Unix for the desktopone that has the best GUI in the world, that is UNIX 3 certified and that can be deployed even in cell phones it's called Mac OS X (10.5) Leopard...if a company really wanted to run the whole...

Tags: operating systems, servers, reality check, microsoft windows server, unix, server, microsoft windows, unix server, linux

Discussion threads 2007-08-01

Enterprise search: Why it's a crisis and why Googzilla will strike

Enterprise search is a mess and technology managers--as well as the vendors selling them stuff--are to blame. In the end, Google will take over the enterprise. Those were just some of the takeaways from Stephen Arnold, managing director at ArnoldIT.com. Arnold spoke at the Enterprise Search Summit in New York....

Tags: general, google, it management, search, semantic web, software infrastructure

Blog posts 2007-05-16

EU cautioned on any Microsoft break-up

EU cautioned on any Microsoft break-upIt's already happeningChanging Microsoft's behaviour, that is. And the approach being taken is the most effective one - make Microsoft, in its current incarnation, irrelevant. Shifting politics makes the courts unreliable. The open source movement and changing technology will do and are doing what the...

Tags: corporate law, microsoft corp.

Discussion threads 2007-05-08

50 ways to kill an asteroid

It is almost certain that a big asteroid will one day land on Earth and provoke a huge catastrophe. This is why hundreds of scientists have attended the Planetary Defense Conference 2007, held this week in Washington, D.C., to try to develop plans to protect the Earth from such an...

Tags: space &, aerospace, science &, nature, engineering &, innovation

Blog posts 2007-03-08

Ballmer repeats threats against Linux

Ballmer repeats threats against LinuxThe following made me think of you![url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFAJDbV9Vfs&mode=related&search=]Mac Spoof: Security[/url] and [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-L-0s-7-Z0&mode=related&search=]Mac Spoof: Upgrading[/url].let's bring him in ladies and gentlemen......the DOYAN of FUD..... MR STEVE BALLMERRRR!!! and his sidekick... Loverock Davidsooonnnnn!!! Give him a hand ladies and gentlemen!!However...Neither you, or apparently Ballmer has thought of the fact...

Tags: unix, open source, microsoft corp., linux, steve ballmer

Discussion threads 2007-02-20