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- Vaporware
- Software that is not yet in production, but the announced delivery date has long since passed. At times, software vendors are criticized for intentionally producing vaporware in order to...
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- More vaporware from OLPC - Here comes XO 2.0
- More vaporware from OLPC - Here comes XO 2.0Possibly the deal isbeing made with Fisher-Price for manufacture and distribution. It certainly looks cheap and cheesy from the picture, with a color scheme reminding me of angry fruit salad.delusions of grandeurThe more I see and hear out of Negroponte's operation the...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child project, Here comes XO 2.0, More Vaporware, Negroponte
- Discussion threads 2008-05-20
- Will Microsoft pit 'Milan' multi-touch against Apple's iPhone?
- Will Microsoft pit 'Milan' multi-touch against Apple's iPhone?M$ realeases more vaporwareGate$ needs his 2 minutes of fame to tell us about new M$ vaporware.Nothing more, just strugulling to stay relevant!The usual MOWe have it too!!! Let's state our vision of the future after someone else states theirs or has actually...
- Tags: Keyboards, Advertising & Promotion, vaporware, Microsoft Corp., Apple iPhone, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-29
- Beyond AMD's Barcelona hype - the fine print
- Beyond AMD's Barcelona hype - the fine printapples to applesGeorge,As I'm sure you know, the metric used in IT is performance/watt. So if you really want to compare ...Barcelona TDP 95WX355 (Clovertown 2.66 GHz) TDP 120WX5365 (Clovertown 3.0 GHz) TDP 150W?So as you also probably know (if you don't...
- Tags: Processors, Semiconductors, vaporware, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-25
- Apple turning to FUD?
- Apple turning to FUD?... and a FUD for every season[i]FUD worked when the market was not moving at the pace it does today.[/i]FUD and vaporware worked well then, but they work even better now.The rapid pace of current development at least in some quarters means that instead of holding off...
- Tags: Federal government, NOW HERE, FUD, vaporware, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-01-10
- Microsoft licenses new way to make friends
- Microsoft licenses new way to make friendsGood one ZDNetFormer MS employee paid to use MS R&D tech in new start-up. Great article ZDNet and the third in a series.Let's see what others are covering, hmm maybe this one is newsworthy:"Blog Post: Google received 47-49% of the search market in March,...
- Tags: Research & Development, Operating systems, UNIX, Microsoft Corp., vaporware, Wallop
- Discussion threads 2006-04-25
- Intel strikes back with next-generation chips
- Intel strikes back with next-generation chipsThe Empire strikes back !AMD brought 64bits in 2003, a big bust after all the 'gotta have 64bits' hype. What AMD needs to do now is turn up the hype around Hyptertransport and Integrated Mem controller. It seems this will not be enough to...
- Tags: Processors, vaporware, chip, Intel Corp., processor, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-02-17
- Microsoft's top 10 hurdles for 2006
- Microsoft's top 10 hurdles for 2006really>>They failed everywhere, and are going down quickly.Then how come their profit increased and they had an increase in server sales and announced today that they would increase their dividendNow let's talk about Novell Suse and SGI, where are they going?>>By the time they'll release...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), OPEN SOURCE, Linux Geek, Linux, vaporware, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, LINUX IS, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2005-12-15
- Longhorn Server on tap
- Longhorn Server on tapfrom the mouth of redmond:'"Fresh eyes on code are one of the best ways to do security reviews," he said.'-wait... isn't that one of the principles of open source? to get more fresh eyes on the source for a more secure/stable code? nah.. that will...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Servers, Microsoft Windows Server Longhorn, Microsoft Corp., vaporware, Microsoft Longhorn, server
- Discussion threads 2003-10-28
- Longhorn: Hurry up and wait
- Longhorn: Hurry up and waitwhere's the news?um... was there anything in this that hasn't really been mentioned recently on zdnet?No news hereJust more obligatory daily M$ praise to keep the advertising dollars coming in.All in all, quite boring verbiage for more vaporware.THIS IS PERFECT TIMING!Now all the lemmings will never...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Linux, Operating systems, .NET, OPEN SOURCE, vaporware, Microsoft Longhorn, See Vaporware, Linux 2.6, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2003-10-28
- Microsoft steers developers to Longhorn
- Microsoft steers developers to LonghornDevelopers, Developers, DevelopersI got four words for ya:ILOVETHISCOMPANYYaaaaahin other words:"These developers are on the bleeding edge"in other words: m$ blood thirsty for more"Security concerns continue to hound the software giant. Last week, the company said that anxiety over vulnerabilities in its software contributed to a larger-than-expected...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, developer, Microsoft Longhorn, vaporware, Microsoft Corp., software
- Discussion threads 2003-10-27
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- Please tell me an actual Apple netbook is on the way
- I've said it several times before: I want a netbook. An Asus Eee would be great, the HP MiniNote is a bit pricey but looks very slick, Dell's proposed netbook is still vaporware but worthy of excitement, and I'm still waiting for US OEMs to pick up on the...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Productivity, Notebooks, Apple Mac OS X, Keyboards, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Peripherals, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Hands on with the XO Sugar OS
- Haven't heard much from these guys lately. This is me, not caring, while I'm on vacation. However, is the lack of news after their vaporware announcement of the next gen XO a sign of impending doom? I'll read what you think when I get back. For...
- Tags: Operating System, Kid, Linux, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- First impressions of the HP iPAQ 910 Business Manager
- It has been quite a while since HP announced the new iPAQ 900 series back in September 2007 and I was beginning to wonder if the device would end up being vaporware. I was just sent an evaluation HP iPAQ 910 device to check out for a couple of weeks...
- Tags: Device, Hewlett-Packard Co., iPAQ 910, Display, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Microsoft Windows, GPS, Operating Systems, Marketing, Hardware, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Microsoft: Silverlight 1.0 breaks with Firefox 3
- Microsoft: Silverlight 1.0 breaks with Firefox 3It seems odd that if it's a Firefox...problem that it would be fixed by a Silverlight update.M$ is trying to break firefoxsame old story: M$ releases an update that screws third parties.MS bad code, MS fix exists but not released?!According to the bug report,...
- Tags: Web browsers, Nigel, Reading, Obviously Microsoft, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Silverlight 1.0
- Discussion threads 2008-06-17
- Will the sun power your future iPhone?
- Will the sun power your future iPhone?Yes!!That's "Thinking Different"All devices?Give me a small panel that I can put onto any device that charges via mini-USB (not Apple devices though, they have their own connectors. Suckers). Better yet, just start putting this on everything-- it needn't be under the...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Solar Powered, Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2008-05-28
- Tension emerges between SOA and mashup camps
- Tension emerges between SOA and mashup campsUI components are not normally considered services"...they can actually create services on their own."UI components, including composite applications or mashups, are not typically "services." They may be service clients but typically services do *not* provide a user interface.The SOA/Mashup Tension is GOODJackBe agrees that...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, JackBe, SOA, mashup
- Discussion threads 2008-05-27
- Windows 7 to have support for Virtual Hard Disks
- Windows 7 to have support for Virtual Hard DisksVHD stands from...vaporware HD.It's a just a new marketing ploy meant to keep M$ relevant.But which SKUs will have that support?I found out the hard way that different Vista SKUs give you different disk capabilities when I tried to span two hard...
- Tags: Operating systems, PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows 7, VHD, Microsoft Windows, Virtual Hard Disk, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-05-23
- How much do you need to know about Windows 7 today?
- How much do you need to know about Windows 7 today?You would think they learned.By the mistakes of ALL products they have released in the last year plus. It appears they are headed down a path of further customer complaints about a product that if they would just ask what...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Windows 7 today, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Longhorn, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-05-22
- News to know: Hactivists; XO-2 laptop; HP; Virtualization
- Notable headlines: Dancho Danchev: Pro-Serbian hacktivists attacking Albanian web sites Over 1.5 million pages affected by the recent SQL injection attacks DoS Attacks Using SQL Wildcards Revealed Ryan Naraine: Secunia finds 'highly critical' Foxit Reader Flaw Are you wary of...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Hewlett-Packard Co., Virtualization, Network, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Sales Strategy, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Sales Force Management, Sales, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- More vaporware from OLPC - Here comes XO 2.0
- I'll believe it when I see it. The blogosphere has offered plenty of reports today on OLPC's latest announcement, a new version of the XO laptop unveiled today at MIT's Media Lab. It certainly looks like a good idea: take two 16:9 aspect ratio touchscreens, hook them together...
- Tags: Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
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