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Windows-based Eee PC to outsell Linux version - Another blow for Linux

Windows-based Eee PC to outsell Linux version - Another blow for Linux...Like Windows... ignorance continues to perpetuate itself. ]:)I think that eventually people will start to look elsewhere. It's a matter of edumacation! While I am many others have been doing our part to educate the masses, we don't have...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows, PC, stupid tube, edumacation, Linux, tube, advertisement

Discussion threads 2008-03-13

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Adobe Flash for all smartphones ... except iPhone

I agreeI think its funny so many people get mad at their smartphone companies and providers for not making Flash for the phone when A) It is Adobe's responsibility to do that and B) All the security issues you pointed out. I'm not worried about flash on my phone...

Tags: Smart phones, Adobe Systems Inc., Apple iPhone, Flash Movie, smart phone, Adobe Flash, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-05

LED HDTV explosion: Sony, Sharp, LG, JVC introduce new sets

While price is a factor ...... dependability is more important ... I do not mind paying 3k for a TV if it's going to last me 20 years ... I paid $800 for a Panasonic 24 years ago, and it still looks and performs great. I will...

Tags: TVs, Engineering, TV & Home Theater, Monitors & displays, LED HDTV, LED HDTV explosion, light-emitting diode, HDTV, JVC, Sharp Corp., LG Electronics Inc., Sony Corp., TV, LCD

Discussion threads 2009-09-10

Internet Explorer posts largest loss since '08; Firefox, Chrome, Safari gain

This is going to get very bloody and it does not look good for IE. If allMicrosoft has to look forward to is a kick from Windows Seven defaulting to IE to help slow the slide of IE, this does not bode well for MS. Further, if the OEMs start...

Tags: Web browsers, Firefox 3.5.2, Apple Safari, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-09-01

Fix uncovered for mass Zunecide

Fix uncovered for mass ZunecideWell done Microsoft!!I guess they removed the BSOD to when the clock erred out. Anyway it wasn't that bad as we have the typical Microsoft way to fix things, REBOOT.MS needs a solution fastAnd I'm not talking about a technical solution. It's too late for that....

Tags: Microsoft Zune, Apple Inc., Zunecide, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-01-02

Sneak Peek: BlackBerry Storm

Sneak Peek: BlackBerry StormThe true strength of the Storm......is the same as the iPhone: it creates competition. It would be very easy for Apple to rest on its laurels for awhile (and I think in many ways, it has). But the Storm appears to be bringing real competition, unlike many...

Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, Wi-Fi, Digital music, Multitouch, Clerk, Apple iPhone, RIM BlackBerry

Discussion threads 2008-11-18

Microsoft is falling behind in mobile

Microsoft is falling behind in mobileMore piling on Windows MobileWindows Mobile is a great OS that has really matured over the years. It has most of what the other OS's are trying to get already and is holding its own in the market.Between Q2 and Q3 40% MORE...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Operating systems, Handhelds, MS-bashers, mobile, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-11-08

YouTube: Does your video ID system really work?

YouTube: Does your video ID system really work?Repeated Two Times!"Meanwhile, the vice president of business development at The Copyright Clearance Center, Miles McNamee, is even less convinced of the efficacy of YouTube's system, more than a year after it was introduced....Meanwhile, the vice president of business development at The Copyright...

Tags: Corporate communications, YouTube Inc., video, Viacom Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-11-06

Apple notebooks to be fabricated from a solid "brick" of aluminum

Apple notebooks to be fabricated from a solid "brick" of aluminumThat is patentable?This is getting ridiculous. Companies have been fabricating all types of items and enclosures out of "bricks" for years.How is this really unique in any way? Becuase it is a laptop enclosure?Does not sound cheapThis news does not...

Tags: Notebooks, Digital music, Digital media, Machining, Apple Inc., aluminum, laptop computer, notebook

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

How do we address the have-nots?

How do we address the have-nots?It's the NetThe problem is no longer the availability of hardware: many computers are being dumped that can easily be made productive again, by installing a lean Linux on it like Xubuntu. So poor people can have a fine computer for free. That's easy to...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, INTERNET, computer, Internet access

Discussion threads 2008-08-28

12 terabytes of YouTube data

12 terabytes of YouTube dataHorrible loss for ConsumersThis Judge needs to be taught what he has the power to do, and not to do. This is a clear violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act. Not to mention a major privacy issue for all of us that have ever watched...

Tags: Corporate communications, Digital media, Google Inc., YouTube Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-03

Private IE 8 beta 1 test build coming soon

Private IE 8 beta 1 test build coming soonEven though I'm a Microsoft-enthusiasts, I'm not invited by Microsoft.However, I do love to test Internet Explorer 8 when it's available as a public beta.I can't wait to get my hands in it.I feel cheatedThey have deprived me of the chance to...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Linux, Try IE8, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-02-23

Microhoo: Lots of questions and still no new answers

Microhoo: Lots of questions and still no new answersKevin Johnson is a moronKevin Johnson is a moron.Exceedingly FunnyLet me understand this. Someone at MSFT is pushing the value of competition?This comes from one of the most error prone, uninnovative companies in the world! This company cannot even figure...

Tags: Final Answer, YAHMic, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., moron, MSFT

Discussion threads 2008-02-22

Panasonic and Google to launch Internet TVs

Panasonic and Google to launch Internet TVsPanasonic and Google to launch Internet TVsChalk up one more failure for Google. This is doomed right from the start. Similiar ideas have been tossed around before and have failed. Having the Google name on it isn't going to make it...

Tags: TVs, Corporate communications, TV & Home Theater, Google Inc., TV, Internet TV, Panasonic, video, Internet

Discussion threads 2008-01-08

Should a child's first word be "Google"?

Should a child's first word be "Google"?Child language"Nicholas Negroponte, founder of OLPC, was quoted as saying that the first word children speak in villages where they roll out the XO is "Google.""Mr. Negroponte is simply restating something that had already been observed by Enid Blyton. In one of her stories,...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Branding, Google Inc., first word

Discussion threads 2007-11-19

YouTube criticized in Germany over Neo-Nazi clips

YouTube criticized in Germany over Neo-Nazi clipsShades of WagnerThe Ring and all of Wagner's works were banned even in the USA by public outrage owing to Hitler taking a liking to them. Wgner was banned from his homeland for quite sometime because he supported anarchists. The German people got over...

Tags: Neo-Nazi, YouTube Inc., Wagner

Discussion threads 2007-08-27

HP on potentially dangerous laser printer emissions: Our printers no riskier than toasters

HP on potentially dangerous laser printer emissions: Our printers no riskier than toastersGet real, pleaseThere are more things in your house that can cause cancer than a laser printer. Your cell phone can cause tumors, the TV, the monitor on your PC, the list goes on and on. A laser...

Tags: Printers, laser, laser printer, printer, Hewlett-Packard Co., particle

Discussion threads 2007-08-03

Lawmakers fret over digital TV transition

Lawmakers fret over digital TV transitionTrain Wreck ???Thats stupid! people aren't going to die if they can't watch tv. This change doesn't effect cable subscribers anyway.Rise AARP; Save the dot commonsMaria Cantwell is the former Real networks executive now senator. She is likely well aware of the real issue with...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS, Maria Cantwell, Patriots, TV, digital TV transition, MHz Spectrum, digital television, AARP, universal access, spectrum, commons, democracy, WiMAX, Web 2.0

Discussion threads 2007-07-27

Apple's iPhone vulnerable to hackers: report

Apple's iPhone vulnerable to hackers: reportWhere's the beef?Exactly what is the exploit?Design Flaw From The Start - No Java; WiMaxFriday, I concluded that the iPhone would not be enhanced in any way owing to the replacement of WiFi with WiMax and Job's refusal to entertain Java in the browser. In...

Tags: Programming languages, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Apple Inc., job, Apple iPhone, Java, phone, hacker

Discussion threads 2007-07-23

Laptop thief may go to prison for life

Laptop thief may go to prison for lifeRoutine crime. Nothing special.This kind of stuff happens every day all across the country. It's not limited to on-line. The same happens to people who meet in bars, etc.There's also nothing unusual about the "three strikes" law. Most, probably all, states have them....

Tags: laptop computer

Discussion threads 2007-06-29