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- Google hijacks Internet Explorer with Chrome Frame
- IE is already up to the speed... and the plugin enabling it is SilverLight."Hello XAML, and byebye HTML garbage." So says M$.That's sarcasm, right?If not, you know very well that Idiot Exploiter is far more obsolete than any other actively maintained browser. Just like windows.Microsoft will send out and update.Microsoft...
- Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Chrome, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Web browser
- Discussion threads 2009-09-22
- We're ready for digital TV, Mr. President. No more delays, please.
- A new poll, conducted by the National Association of Broadcasters, found that 82 percent of Americans who receive over-the-air broadcast signals have already taken steps to prepare themselves for the switch to digital television. But that's not the big number that caught my eye in the NAB's press release. ...
- Tags: Digital Television, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-02-05
- DTV delay bill clears Congress
- Reset those countdown clocks. The deadline for the nation's switch to digital TV has been extended to June 12 - assuming, of course, that President Obama signs legislation that was passed in the Senate last week and today in the House of Representatives. The president has already...
- Tags: U.S. Congress, Delay, Digital Television, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Service Management, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-02-04
- DTV delay bill fails in House. It's time to let it go, Washington
- Legislation to delay the nation's switch to all-digital television for four more months hit a roadblock today in the House of Representatives, according to a Reuters report. Earlier this week, the Senate passed its version of the bill and I said then that a delay is unnecessary. ...
- Tags: Digital Television, TVs, Government, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-01-28
- News to know: IE 8; TI; VMware; Cloud computing
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily . For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage Christopher Dawson: Convertible Classmate, take 2 Jason Perlow: Linux dead at hands of Windows 7? Horse puckey! ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Apple Macintosh, Cloud Computing, Phone, Texas Instruments Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Windows, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Data Centers, E-mail, Wiki, Linux, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Online Communications, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-01-27
- Senate OKs unnecessary delay to digital TV switch
- Every night for the past couple of months, the weather person on one of my local TV news programs has been counting down the days to the nation's switch to digital television. I can almost say it in my sleep: In February 17, the old analog signals will turn off...
- Tags: Delay, Digital Television, U.S. Senate, House, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-01-26
- XenCare Startup Blaster 1.0.1 (Windows)
- A computer system starts running slower and start-up time takes longer over time as user downloads and installs new programs on the system over extended period of time. Even though all of those programs are valid, they might cause start-up program list grow unnecessarily with non critical applications. Operating systems...
- Tags: Start-up, Blaster Worm, XenCare Software, StartupBlaster, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2008-10-29
- The myth of Windows "Workstation" 2008
- The myth of Windows "Workstation" 2008If you want a better Windows experience...switch to Linux/KDE. Sorry I just couldn't resist. I don't really believe that. I do believe if you want a better Windows experience run XP or even W2k. No matter how much I experience Vista it...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, workstation
- Discussion threads 2008-07-16
- Venezuela - and possibly Denmark - file appeals of OOXML
- Venezuela - and possibly Denmark - file appeals of OOXMLSo let me get this straight....... during an investigation of irregularities in the vote they are allowing an appeal after the dealine. Priceless!Glad to see it.When a company can't even implement their own creation that speaks for itself.No surprise on...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), ISO standards, Process improvement, Venezuelan Government, ISO, Office Open XML, OpenDocument Format, irregularity
- Discussion threads 2008-06-02
- Fixing Windows Vista, Part 4: Get smart about services
- Fixing Windows Vista, Part 4: Get smart about servicesHave you benchmarked the performance differences ...... that you see when you disable Superfetch, Windows Defender and Windows Search? Last time I benchmarked a system with and without Windows Defender I saw no difference (outside of statistical 'noise').I'm not saying that...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Printers, Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows Defender, Fixing Windows Vista, Get Smart, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-05-19
- The purloined benchmark
- Last Wednesday I challenged Windows proponents to demonstrate a metric not based on market share which when fairly applied showed an advantage for Windows over Unix. Nobody took me up on it, but frequent contributor "ShadeTree" suggested that Windows would win with metrics based...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Performance, Memory, Server, Larry Pedigo, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- Painful lesson in OLPC mesh networking for Mongolians
- The Mongolians have had a painful lesson on mesh networking according to the OLPC current events webpage. Broadcast storms in the overly dense mesh environment along with excessive mDNS broadcast traffic seem to have crippled the Gobi desert experiment. Here's an excerpt: We have painfully discovered the limitations of...
- Tags: Network, Radio, Access Point, One Laptop Per Child Project, Mesh Networking, Wireless, Networking, George Ou
- Blog posts 2008-01-30
- BlackBerry patent app addresses "battery slump" monitoring, management issues
- A new BlackBerry patent application published just yesterday would improve the ability of BlackBerry devices to read voltage levels. The patent app is entitled System and Method for Managing Battery Slump. As we often do when discussing patents, let's read the Abstract...
- Tags: ADC Telecommunications Inc., Signal, Battery, Monitoring, Trigger, RIM BlackBerry, Transmission, Patent App, Abstract, PA, Battery Voltage, ADC 600, Engineering, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-01-18
- BlackBerry Patent app proposes Low memory manager for "graceful shutdown"
- When one of our devices crashes or shuts down because of memory issues, one of the last words we would ever use to describe the circumstances is "graceful." Yes, but graceful is indeed part of the title of a just-published BlackBerry Patent application...
- Tags: Message, Application, Operating System, Memory, RIM BlackBerry, Exception, Computer, BlackBerry Patent App, Memory Manager, Abstract, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
- Vista deactivates me for upgrading motherboard firmware
- Vista deactivates me for upgrading motherboard firmwareBe careful of flashing through Windows ...... no jokes about the above statement please :-)Seriously though, be careful. I don't know about MSI because it's been a while since I've handled a board, but ASUS has a Windows-based flash that's dangerous to use....
- Tags: Corporate governance, Operating systems, Nothing, MSI, BIOS, Microsoft Windows, board, Linspire, motherboard firmware, motherboard, Microsoft Windows Vista, firmware
- Discussion threads 2007-12-24
- Report: One-third of businesses to begin Vista deployments by mid-2008
- Report: One-third of businesses to begin Vista deployments by mid-2008This is expectedLarge scale migration of business to next release of Windows takes place after SP1. And the fanfare of MS bashers won't go far.Too optimistic.Nothing is certain about this. Everyone will make their own decisions for their own reasons. But,...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), hardware, Microsoft Windows Vista, wide-scale rollout
- Discussion threads 2007-11-13
- The future of net discrimination, brought to you by Comcast
- Imagine a busy intersection at rush hour. All the cars are moving slowly, but making progress. Everyone will eventually get home but it might take a while. To relieve the problem the city could build more or bigger roads but that's expensive. Meanwhile, along comes an ambulance that needs to...
- Tags: Comcast Corp., P2P, Taxi, Ambulance, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2007-10-24
- Will big business lead push for universal health care?
- Will big business lead push for universal health care?The Health Care ProblemThe problem with health care in America was caused by the government. See http://www.inteliorg.com/Be afraid ... be VERY afraid.Yikes — if you want a blueprint for destroying the United States, this article lays it out quite neatly.Nationalized health care,...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, Human Resources
- Discussion threads 2007-09-25
- Microsoft to sync its future Windows client and server fixes and updates
- Microsoft to sync its future Windows client and server fixes and updatesDoes this mean we get to wait even LONGER for fixes?It's bad enough as it is.OH NOES!!I bet Skype is trembling in their knees at this announcement. ;)Vista SP2 will equal Server 2008 SP2There will be no Server...
- Tags: Servers, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Corp., NT-kernel, server, future Windows client, Microsoft Windows Vista, kernel
- Discussion threads 2007-09-06
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