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NY State Senator: hang up and cross. Do you agree?: I am usually not one to advocate governmental regulation of personal behavior.That said, I fully endorse the move of New York State Sen. Carl Kruger (D-Brooklyn), and shown at right- to introduce legislation today banning the practice of pedestrians looking down and dealing with their iPod, cell phone, BlackBerry,...; Tags: General, Regulatory, Carl Kruger, Theyre; Blog posts 2007-02-07
Alaska commits to a laptop for every middle schooler: Students at Wendler Middle School in Alaska are busily typing away on their new laptops - and teachers and administrators are hoping that access to the technology will help them learn more and have fun while they are cruising the Internet, reports the Anchorage Daily News. The verdict...; Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer, Theyre; Blog posts 2007-01-03
CA university system mulls mandatory tech testing: The popular wisdom is that kids entering college are text-messaging, wiki-savvy, MySpace-connected, videoblogging geeks who run technological circles around their parents and professors. The truth, colleges are finding out, is a little different. So different, in fact, that the California State University is considering a mandatory assessment test on technological...; Tags: SEARCH, Computer Associates International Inc., Internet, CSU, Theyre; Blog posts 2006-12-25

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Live!Doc Personal Edition (exe): Live!Doc is a innovative tool that provides automatic tracking of the life and evolution of your most important documents, both in your local network and in your personal PC. Thanks to its integration and close collaboration with Windows operating system, Live!Doc is able to: Automatically backup all the modifications done...; Tags: Document, Live!Doc, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Backups, Productivity, Software; Software downloads 2008-03-28
ExpanDrive (dmg): ExpanDrive lets you transparently access, open, edit and save files from within all your favorite programs TextMate, Photoshop, Acorn, Terminal and even Finder. No need to load a separate client to transfer files. Access remote files over SSH/SFTP from directly within Finder as easily as if theyre on an USB...; Tags: File, Magnetk, Productivity, Microsoft Office, Databases, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management; Software downloads 2008-03-19

Investors cheer as Toshiba nears HD DVD surrender: Investors cheer as Toshiba nears HD DVD surrenderHurray, Sony wonand I don't trust them as one non-customer, me, has to say, but let them buy Sony's UMD, rootkits, exploding batteries, CD price fixing and general over pricing. It good to see the format war end long enough to focus...; Tags: HD DVD, Consumer electronics, Blu-ray, Digital rights management (DRM), Memory, HD-DVD, SD card, Blueray, Toshiba Corp., DVD, Sony Corp., Blu-ray disc; Discussion threads 2008-02-18
nVIDIA+to+acquire+AGEIA+Technologies: nVIDIA+to+acquire+AGEIA+TechnologiesI don't think you quite get itGood article about "what happens to AMD, NVidia, etc if this acquisition..." but, seriously, questioning the direction of physics and dependency on Microsoft to make it happen? This tells me you don;t quite the significance of physics in gaming.I'll boil...; Tags: Games, Video cards, DirectX 10, DirectX, game, card, video card, NVidia Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-02-05
Microsoft may borrow money for Yahoo deal: Microsoft may borrow money for Yahoo dealA foolish course of actions...MS is surprisingly foolish to go after a too-overpriced company liaison / buyout with so much money at stake, so much so that they have to strongly consider borrowing it... A financial and economic disaster likely in the making, unless...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-02-05
Microsoft-Yahoo the mother of all clusterbombs: Microsoft-Yahoo the mother of all clusterbombsMicrosoft-Yahoo the mother of all clusterbombsI can see the buy out having a lot of good value. Yahoo Answers and Yahoo Finance have been very strong for the company. Everyone knows the Yahoo name. Microsoft has Live services. Microsoft has a...; Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Backups, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., clusterbomb; Discussion threads 2008-02-01
Animation Workshop (exe): Build professional banners, advertisements and other commercial animation in minutes, with an impressively short learning curve. Animation Workshop handles the elements of its animations as objects, eliminating the need to understand how animation files are structured. Animation Workshop will assemble your animations from still images, text and other animations, Animation...; Tags: Animation, Animation Workshop; Software downloads 2007-10-24
South Korea lets Microsoft drop antitrust appeal: South Korea lets Microsoft drop antitrust appealwell well could it be possible that ms have learnsadly the amount of money is a bit too low its pocket changeRE: South Korea lets Microsoft drop antitrust appealSouth Korea is the software pirate of the Far East and should clean up their...; Tags: Corporate law, PRODUCTIVITY, vista, Microsoft Corp., antitrust, computer; Discussion threads 2007-10-17
CIA, FBI computers used for Wikipedia edits: CIA, FBI computers used for Wikipedia editsI'm wondering where M$ edits track to?willing to take a bet?I'm not paying these guys to edit wikipediaAs a taxpayer, I think they need to concentrate on their jobs.So what??Those are the people I'd expect to actually know a bit more about those topics....; Tags: computer, FBI, Wikipedia, Wiki, harassment, government employee, CIA; Discussion threads 2007-08-17
Crazy purchase - Death magnet!: Crazy purchase - Death magnet!Magnets from hard drivesAre pretty darn strong. We use them in our shop for door stops. The doors are those huge steel doors that weight a ton, and the magnets, fastened securely on the ground onto the little bumpers that stop the door from opening too...; Tags: magnet; Discussion threads 2007-08-16
EU charges Intel with anticompetitive behavior: EU charges Intel with anticompetitive behaviorI Bet this goes globalthats what amd needs a few more research facilities. and a billion dollars of intels money to do it. right?Theyre both fine chips.Sounds familiar to me . . ."The commission claims that Intel provided massive rebates to computer makers...; Tags: Semiconductors, Financial services, Intel Corp., chip, Barkleys bank, bank; Discussion threads 2007-07-30
Still no cure for what ails Yahoo: Still no cure for what ails YahooTime For Another Round of Microhoo'sI think Yahoo has some outstanding properties: flickr, answers, delicious and a great search engine. Unfortunately they can't seem to sell ads, so may indeed be swallowed up by microsoft.Sign of the TimesIt might be a sign of the...; Tags: E-mail, Spam, Financial accounting, investment community, Only good thing, investor, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc.; Discussion threads 2007-07-17
Meez Avatar (widget): Add some fun to your desktop with a 3D avatar digital persona that animates and shows off your personal style. At Meez.com, you can create a highly customized avatar in minutes. Meez gives you loads of options for creating an avatar that is unique to you, including hairstyles, clothing, accessories...; Tags: Avatar; Software downloads 2007-06-15
Novell to detail Microsoft patent pact: Novell to detail Microsoft patent pactReason is obvious...Novell did this to stay alive. They, and the rest of the Open Source world, are well aware that Microsoft owns patents to everything in the computing world. Microsoft all but invented the GUI so by transitive thinking, anyone who develops a GUI...; Tags: Free Software Foundation, Microsoft Corp., Novell Inc., patent; Discussion threads 2007-05-23
Is Tweetr the first mainstream Apollo application?: Tweetr, the Twitter client from John Ballinger that is built on Apollo hit a unique and fun milestone today; it officially got the same status as Twitterific. For those that dont use Twitter, Ill back up. When you update Twitter, it shows whether you updated from the web or from...; Tags: Apollo, Rich Internet Applications; Blog posts 2007-05-15
Cancer therapy without side-effects?: Most of you know at least one person who has been affected by cancer and treated by chemotherapy, suffering from side-effects such as hair loss or nausea. This is because chemotherapy attacks both healthy and unhealthy cells in the whole body. Now, Australian researchers are using nanotechnology to offer chemotherapy...; Tags: Health &, Medicine, Nanotechnology, Science &, Nature; Blog posts 2007-05-14
Google (Off) Base: Google Analytics Webmaster Guidelines: Google Analytics: Should Google be minding YOUR Web business? I underscored last week upon Googles release of Google Analytics V2 amidst much hype and hoopla.Google has long laid down the Google SERP ranking law in its Webmaster Quality Guidelines, saying it aims to wipe out "deceptive or manipulative behavior."A core...; Tags: Advertising, Google, Google Software Applications, Metrics, Search Advertising; Blog posts 2007-05-14