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- Lifehacker are gods: the ideal student solutions
- As you can imagine with universities breaking up for the summer, it's been a slow news week. I subscribe to Lifehacker on my list of favourites (as well as many others as you'd imagine) because it has some mindblowingly good tricks, tips and technology news. I would like to show...
- Tags: IM, Music, Lifehacker, SonaFM, Linux, Instant Messaging, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Online Communications, Office Suites, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-06-25
- Views from VMware's Analyst Day
- Yesterday I attended a VMware analyst briefing in good ol' Beantown, a.k.a. Boston, Massachusetts. Having had the opportunity to speak with the executives of well over 120 companies offering something in the realm of virtualization technology, I came to the event with a fairly neutral viewpoint. Although I was ready...
- Tags: VMware Inc., Data Centers, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Storage, Strategy, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- Yahoo's Google ad deal: Savior or mistake?
- Yahoo's Google ad deal: Savior or mistake?Well, it IS heart warming to know that there will be more competition nowthat the deal fell through. This is nothing but good for consumers.WD - MS has shed loads of dumb consumer money. Why not use it to build ...... something useful rather...
- Tags: Financial accounting, advertisement, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-12
- News to know: NASA hack; Netbooks; Green IT
- Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Debunking yet another bogus malware study Dancho Danchev: Phoenix Mars Lander's mission site hacked Robin Harris: Mac Time Machine: backup for the rest of us? Christopher Dawson: Waiting for the right netbooks ...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., NASA, Hewlett-Packard Co., Green IT, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Corporate Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- 2008 Lexus GS 460
- Photo gallery:2008 Lexus GS 460The 2008 Lexus GS 460 works as a good example of powertrain engineering, where Lexus took its existing GS model and dropped in the engine and transmission that it launched in the 2007 LS 460. We were very impressed with this powertrain in the LS for...
- Tags: Lexus GS 460, GS 460, Laguna Seca, lap, suspension
- Product reviews 2008-05-27
- How much do you need to know about Windows 7 today?
- My colleague Mary Jo Foley has her ear to the ground in Redmond, and when it comes to Windows 7 she's hearing ... nothing. Under new Windows boss Steven Sinofsky, she notes, the information lockdown is nearly airtight, and some customers are starting to complain: I'm hearing increasing dissatisfaction...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Sinofsky, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- Windows 7: The information lockdown continues
- When is Microsoft finally going to start sharing information on Windows 7? After all, if the Redmondians stick to their own oft-quoted ship target of 2010 for the operating system, that is just two years away. For developers two years isn't a whole lot of time when...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- News to know: Facebook; OpenOffice; Firefox; RIM
- Notable headlines: Paula Rooney: Firefox 3 RC1 code complete, due in late May Joe McKendrick: Is anyone ready to process a trillion events per day? Tom Foremski: Informatica is on the block say senior sources Michael Krigsman: Hosted...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Facebook, OpenOffice, Research In Motion Ltd., Mozilla Firefox, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Microsoft Windows XP, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Wall Street: Too much sway over the tech sector?
- Every technology company has three main constituencies: Employees, customers and shareholders. Does that last category overwhelm the first two? Should it? These questions are worth asking--at least when it comes to putting technology companies in context. Vinnie Mirchandani and I had this back and forth about Wall...
- Tags: Shareholder, Technology Company, Wall, Vinnie, Construction, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- HP Pavilion dv2700t Special Edition
- Hewlett-Packard's 14-inch HP Pavilion dv2700t Special Edition offers an upscale design and feature set in a laptop with a price that starts less than $1,000, including Altec Lansing stereo speakers, a remote control, and an HDMI port. Our review unit clocked in at $1,394 and added a TV tuner, dedicated...
- Tags: Desktops, Notebooks, Processors, dv2700t, Special Edition, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP Pavilion
- Product reviews 2008-05-02
- Judge decisively rejects RIAA legal theory
- Judge decisively rejects RIAA legal theoryNiceOK so if I buy a CD and let strangers walk in my house and listen to them I'm infringing on copyright! hahahaha!This judge probablydissented just to get his name in the paper. Because hundreds of other judges have upheld the theory, because it's pretty...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), Copyright-Infringement, theory, legal theory, RIAA, music
- Discussion threads 2008-04-30
- Opera's latest browser beta worth the download
- Opera's latest browser beta worth the downloadAs a staunch advocate of Opera, I'd obviously say its the best, but......you will run into problems with some web pages.That said, the number of problem sites is reducing, and the security record of Opera is enough to keep me away from both IE...
- Tags: Web browsers, Opera Software, latest browser beta worth, browser beta worth
- Discussion threads 2008-04-25
- Invincible ignorance and the Pirate's Bay
- Invincible ignorance and the Pirate's BayAgree in fullI'll also make the audacious claim that if one really thinks that software/recordings/books should be free, the right thing to do is to follow Richard Stallman's example by producing one's own freely sharable items and encouraging others to do likewise. Pirating copyrighted...
- Tags: piracy, software
- Discussion threads 2008-04-04
- Promises, promises: A look at Waste Management's case against SAP
- Waste Management's lawsuit against SAP for a "complete failure" of a $100 million software implementation boils down to promises. What did SAP promise Waste Management? And how much responsibility does Waste Management bear for believing those promises? As background, news surfaced last week that Waste Management filed...
- Tags: Software, SAP AG, Waste Management, Tools & Techniques, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-01
- Mozilla CEO blasts Apple for distributing Safari 3.1 for Window on its iTunes update site
- Mozilla CEO blasts Apple for distributing Safari 3.1 for Window on its iTunes update siteHate to say it...but if you have iTunes you have to have QuickTime, iTunes won't run without it. But you can have QuickTime without iTunes, just make sure you select the right download.And to be fair...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, window, Firefox beta, Apple Safari, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Mozilla Corp., Safari 3.1, Apple QuickTime
- Discussion threads 2008-03-21
- Here's why Apple needs an "all you can eat" iTunes
- Here's why Apple needs an "all you can eat" iTunesThe problem with iTunes......is it doesn't have EVERYTHING. As an older user (late-30s), sometimes I want to hear some 80s songs or an obscure title here and there. The iTunes collection is just not complete. There is too...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Rhapsody-to-Go, iTunes collection, Apple iPod, music, FM-radio, Apple iTunes, Apple Inc., iPod Clone
- Discussion threads 2008-03-19
- The tyranny of the majority
- The tyranny of the majorityHi Paul, too true.What OS you use should be driven by the requirements specification matched to the particular strengths and weaknesses of each potential solution... not dogma.All operating systems have differing capabilities, and until someone produces something akin to HAL-9000 or Star Trek's LCARS no one...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, UNIX, tyranny
- Discussion threads 2008-03-17
- A plethora of PaaS options
- A plethora of PaaS optionsApple and Oranges Compliment One AnotherGreat piece that gets beneath the oversimplification that often 'clouds' the discussion. ISV needs are definitely different than the enterprise. We are big fans of several platforms including Force.com (http://www.appirio.com/blog/2008/02/may-force.php) and Amazon Web Services. In fact Appirio has...
- Tags: IT System, PaaS, PaaS option, plethora, Phil
- Discussion threads 2008-03-06
- Better products or just better marketing?
- Oregon State University is reporting a significant increase in Mac usage among its faculty, according to MacNN. While the article focuses on OSU, there seems to be a growing trend to look someplace other than Vista when purchasing new computers. Water-cooler conversations with other faculty at my high...
- Tags: Marketing, Apple Macintosh, Oregon State University, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., PC Ad, Desktops, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-02-27
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