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- BlackBerry Curve 8520 marks consumer, business power play for RIM [hands-on review]
- The first thought that springs from your mind when you pick up the RIM BlackBerry Curve 8520 is, "You know, I could get the hang of this." That's what Research in Motion, BlackBerry's maker, is hoping. The new Curve...
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., BlackBerry Curve, RIM BlackBerry, Curve 8520, Lithium-cell Battery, Multimedia Menu, Handhelds, Hardware, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-08-06
- Are we responsible for content filtering at home?
- Are we responsible for content filtering at home?Why?Sorry guys, but sending kids home with school-issued laptops is just *ASKING* for trouble. Seriously, do you guys not have enough headaches? Between supporting software issues (patches, viruses, and updates w/o losing kids' work), filtering internet, kids doing anything-but-work on them, and replacing...
- Tags: Content management, content filtering, OpenDNS
- Discussion threads 2009-03-19
- A future so bright Tux needs shades
- A future so bright Tux needs shadesThe end of aggravationI agree. I'm sure the same can also be said about OS X, but for me, Ubuntu has made my computing life a pleasure again. Windows is just too much work and aggravation.RE: A future so bright Tux needs shadesAh- okay,...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Linux, GNU/Linux, bright Tux, Tux
- Discussion threads 2008-11-26
- Harnessing a multicore future
- Harnessing a multicore futureThe Java Response?It is certainly going to be interesting to see how the Java community responds to the need to abstract away the complexities of parallel processing from programmers. If the community doesn't do it right, developers will be jumping ship like crazy to .Net.The desktopYour 10th...
- Tags: Processors, Games, CPU, multi-core, desktop, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-11-03
- Is Chrome a security risk?
- Is Chrome a security risk?My scary experience with chromeI am the kind of guy who would even use IE without fear because I know how to stay away/get out of trouble.So I downloaded chrome after reading all the hyped stories and this is what happened to me in the first...
- Tags: Web browsers, Chrome, security risk, security, Mozilla Firefox
- Discussion threads 2008-09-25
- Wordcamp 2008
- In the quiet flats of University of California San Francisco Mission Bay campus, bloggers, thinkers, journalists, developers, and inventors melt together for a full day of lectures and learning. The goal of Wordcamp 2008 is to figure out the future of publishing on the web. ...
- Tags: Open Source, Blog, Wordpress, Plug-in, Automattic, Wordcamp, Mullenweg 3:00, BuddyPress, Discovery Channel, Al Upton, ChickSpeak, ScholarPress, Netconcepts, Post Title, Akismet, Virality, Diso, Compliment Spam, Monotone, Prologue, GigaOm Daily, Gigalogue, Comments Screen, Blogging, Internet, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-16
- The astounding $14million Ethernet extender
- I was helping a friend find a good price on a powerline Ethernet extender like the one I bought a few months ago, and stumbled upon this bargain: Luckily I found one cheaper here: When I...
- Tags: Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- So about that Microsoft licensing
- So about that Microsoft licensingpenny wise and pound foolishIts not about giving $20K to Redmond. Its about users/teachers being productive and getting the work done so that they have more time to focus on the students.Saving $100 for a licence over the life of the software is nothing. Office is...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., software
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- HDMI survival guide for home theater
- There's a lot of money to be made in the HDMI cabling and switch aftermarket and unfortunately that means a lot of consumers are getting tricked in to paying outrageous prices. I've spent quite a bit of time helping my friends set up their home theaters recently and I thought...
- Tags: Home Theater, HDMI, Cable, HDMI Splitter, DVI, HDCP, George Ou
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- The MacBook's mysterious WiFi dropout problem is still unsolved
- Despite Apple's recent spate of Airport updates, complaints on discussion boards keep climbing over long-standing problems with MacBooks and MacBook Pros holding their WiFi connection. While the WiFi technology chain is complex and problems can be transient, Apple is taking a quality-assurance beating on this issue. Several...
- Tags: Router, Network, Problem, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Wi-Fi, Wireless, Wireless LANs, Routers & Switches, Networking, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- Standards and pragmatism in web browsers
- Recently, Microsoft declared that true "standards mode" in IE 8.0 will be the default, indicating that it will try to render all pages marked with the proper DOCTYPE according to the more rigorous (and ACID2-compliant) HTML rendering rules of the improved standards mode in IE 8.0. This is in contrast...
- Tags: Web, HTML, Spec, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Standards, Standards Mode, Joel Spolsky, Web Browsers, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- Fewer patches != safer OS
- Fewer patches != safer OSMathematicsReported bugfixes:Bugs in program*[External rate of discovery*fix rate for external bugs+Internal rate of discovery*fix rate for internal bugs*reporting rate for internal fixes]Quality is only the first term. How much the others modulate the results isn't directly observable.In principle, the bug count can be estimated based...
- Tags: Patches, Operating systems, PC-infrastructure, safer OS, security, Fewer Patches, patch management, operating system
- Discussion threads 2007-12-13
- The state of Enterprise 2.0
- Industry analysts, CIOs, and business leaders around the world are continuing to try to read the industry tea leaves in 2007 when it comes to the subject of Enterprise 2.0, the increasingly popular discussion of using Web 2.0 platforms in the workplace. The primary topic of interest? Whether Enterprise...
- Tags: McAfee Inc., Social Bookmarking, Enterprise 2.0, Worker, FLATNESSES, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2007-10-22
- Everything you've read about Vista DRM is wrong (Part 3)
- This is the final installment in my series debunking Peter Gutmann's widely read and undeservedly cited paper on Vista content protection. (If you missed Part 1 and Part 2, go read them before you dive into this conclusion.) Today, I want to deal head-on with one of the most...
- Tags: Paper, HDMI, PC, Digital-rights Management, Output, NVidia Corp., Codec, Microsoft Windows Vista, Video, Microsoft Corp., Hardware, 1080p, Peter Gutmann, HD, Laptop Magazine, DVI, D-CINEMA, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2007-09-20
- Back to school? Make sure you get Office 2007
- Back to school? Make sure you get Office 2007Office 2007 for others (Mac, etc.)The agreement with Apple was that Microsoft would continue to develop alongside the development for Windows versions, not to maintain parity, but in alternating years of release.Thus, the Mac version is ahead of the Windows version...
- Tags: Word processors, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Word 2007, Microsoft Corp., equation editor, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office 2007
- Discussion threads 2007-07-29
- A bumper crop of new mashup platforms
- While application developers tend to roll their eyes at the concept of end-user mashups, they remain one of the more promising new trends in software development this year. And while it's certainly true it's early days yet for mashups, the tools that enable them remaining rather limited, seems to...
- Tags: Wikis, Widgets, Web services, Web as Platform, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web 2.0, Two-Way Web, The Long Tail, SOA, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SaaS, RSS, Right To Remix, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Products, Open APIs, Mashups, JSON, Governance, Global SOA, Gadgets, Enterprise Wikis, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, Encouraging Unintended Uses, Design Patterns, Customer Self-Service, Cost-effective scalability, Business Models, Ajax
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- Facebook and MySpace are like chalk 'n' cheese
- Facebook and MySpace are like chalk 'n' cheeseGood articleThanks for the Facebook article. I agree that Myspace is a mess compared to facebook. I have a myspace page but getting rid of it for facebook. First, Myspace draws this strange teenager crowd made up of 'look at how cool...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., MySpace, Facebook
- Discussion threads 2007-06-21
- Apple invites Windows users on Safari
- Apple invites Windows users on SafariApple invites Windows users on SafariI'm willing to give it a try. Like I said in the other article, I thought there were some rendering issues with it but I don't know. Also needs some add-ons to really drag me away from Firefox.This will...
- Tags: Web browsers, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Windows, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-06-11
- Google: Microsoft IIS 'twice as often' serving malware
- Google: Microsoft IIS 'twice as often' serving malwareWhy would this be a surprise?The vast majority of malware on the internet is targeting the porous security model of Microsoft Windows products. So why wouldn't it follow that the majority of servers dishing up the dirt would also be running IIS?Missing...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Web servers, Servers, OPEN SOURCE, malware, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft IIS Server, server
- Discussion threads 2007-06-06
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