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UK gives blessing to open source

UK gives blessing to open sourceHmmm, the UK is part of the EU isn't it?So, the UK, Germany, and France all now say Monti boy was wrong and there is true competition. Imagine that, leave the market alone and it does what it's supposed to....Good business desktops.I think some...

Tags: Servers, Digital music, Web browsers, Microsoft Corp., open source, viable competition, EU Case

Discussion threads 2004-10-28

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VMworld is bringing out the vendors

VMworld is bringing out the vendorsVMAs it once was sed.."veri interestingting"..Seriously.. There is a lot of talk about VMware lately and all of it competition..Hope that you do a follow-up article...Sleep well..Puppa

Tags: VMworld

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Microsoft builds $300M cathedral to Bill Gates, hires Jerry Seinfeld as Pope

Microsoft builds $300M cathedral to Bill Gates, hires Jerry Seinfeld as PopeThat's what I thoughtThe ad was about nothing except of course Bill. It is unclear why this ad was made.Who in the world is this "journalist"?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Ratcliffe"I see you baby ...... shakin that ass -shakin that ass."http://www.brandrepublic.com/bulletins/digital/article/548871/publicis-dialog-puns-ass-shaking-new-renault-viral/RE: Microsoft builds $300M...

Tags: Wiki, Blogging, ass, Jerry Seinfeld, Microsoft Corp., Wikipedia, Bill Gates, advertisement

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Mainstream media writes Windows obit

Mainstream media writes Windows obitMS should have never...killed off XP. Especially when such a huge segment of the market is tired of being forced fed what they do not want.This article makes a good point about users beginning to realize that as long as they can hit the web rather...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), LIKE IT, Microsoft Windows, Hewlett-Packard Co., mainstream media, Windows obit, Microsoft Windows Vista, obit, Microsoft Corp., operating system

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Mainstream media writes Windows obit

Wow, a tough day for Windows. BusinessWeek reports that HP, the world's biggest PC company, is so troubled by Vista's 'tepid reception' and Apple's resurgence that it is developing its own operating system. Meanwhile a New York Times columnist writes on his blog that Windows is "already...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Mainstream Media, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-09-05

2011, A News Odyssey: Digg-ing Meets Up With Digging

The crossover is close. The Internet is poised to overtake the newspaper industry in total size as an advertising medium. And the question is whether it can also overtake it as a news medium. Says here, the year will be 2011. That is likely to be when...

Tags: Revenue, Advertisement, Internet Advertising, News, Governor, Internet, Operational Accounting, Finance, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-09-05

The Importance of Dissent

The Importance of Dissentwould be nice...It would be nice if we could "shout from the rooftops" without fear of reprisal. In reality, with most companies, the options are "jump ship" or "keep your mouth shut and do as you're told".It's hard to disagree publicly with your companyI agree with you...

Tags: Drizzle, Mat, open source

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Chrome's JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlight

Chrome's JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlightis Flash chopped liver?I don't get it... Flash is ubiquitous.. it's on almost every PC out there and has a huge developer base behind it, yet these people are implying Silverlight is THE platform to beat. What does Silverlight have that Flash doesn't (besides a...

Tags: Scripting languages, Adobe RIA, SWF, Chrome, WebKit RiA, Microsoft Silverlight, JavaScript, WebKit, Microsoft Office, SVG, Adobe Systems Inc., developer, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Nokia: Our market share will slip over weak demand

Nokia said Friday that its mobile device market share will slip in the third quarter from the second quarter "due to weaker consumer confidence in multiple markets." The company also said it refused to be lured into a price war. Nokia (all resources, reviews and blogs) said...

Tags: Nokia Corp., Mobile, Mobile Device, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Cablevision blankets Long Island with Wi-Fi

Cablevision Systems, one of the biggest cable providers in the New York City metro area, announced that it's completed the first stage of a massive Wi-Fi network project called Optimum WiFi that will eventually cover the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut tri-state area. The company says that its wireless networking equipment now...

Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-09-04

First Microsoft make-over ad airs: $300 million well spent?

First Microsoft make-over ad airs: $300 million well spent?Hmmm ....Could be worse ....Homer: [narrating a TV commercial] Are you tired of having your hands cut off by snowblowers? And the inevitable heart attacks that come with shoveling snow?Maybe......they should hire the company that does the Mac commercials....

Tags: humour, advertisement, Seinfeld, Microsoft Corp., ad air

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

IE8's "best" feature broken: stick with Firefox

The plug-ins, the add-ons, the "download and use with" programs. So many people have been on about the "porn mode" InPrivate feature, the coloured tabs and the accelerator features, but what seems to be missing from the blogosphere is the entire gallery of additional software for the product. ...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, IE8, Internet Explorer 8, Web Browsers, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Chrome's new EULA drops wide-ranging claims to user content

Chrome's new EULA drops wide-ranging claims to user contentChrome's new EULA drops wide-ranging claims to user contentIt was no mistake. This was very intentional. Does Google really think the public is that stupid? They wanted to retain all rights to YOUR property! And you wouldn't get anything...

Tags: legalese, Chrome, EULA, wide-ranging claim, Google Inc., new EULA, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

Dell's Mini packs Ubuntu, XP

Dell's Mini packs Ubuntu, XPAt this point you may as well wait for integrated 3GPrices are coming down so fast, plus these things are perfect for carrying around everywhere no matter where you go. Plus the 3G providers will probably subsidize them anyway.That's exactly the netbook I want!I only hope...

Tags: Operating systems, Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows XP, Ubuntu, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

Chrome, IE8, and longer term thinking

Google's recent release of their "Chrome" browser beta was, I think, driven by their perception that the disruption IE8 is about to create in the marketplace spells opportunity for Google. It's nice to see competition at work, but their entire strategy is, I think, reactive rather than proactive and not...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Microsoft Windows Vista, IE8, Sun Solaris, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Linux, Channel Management, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Microsoft Windows, Marketing, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Sony Vaio JS190J (silver)

Finally, a Windows-based all-in-one earns our admiration. We've seen new all-in-one PCs from Hewlett-Packard and Averatec this year, and Apple also refreshed its popular iMac. None of them deliver as much in the way of features and performance as Sony's new, $1,499 Vaio JS190J. A full-size desktop processor helps make...

Tags: Desktops, Blu-ray, Vaio JS190J, Sony Vaio, Sony Corp.

Product reviews 2008-09-03

Logitech tries to take network music player mainstream with Squeezebox Boom

In the press release announcing the new Squeezebox Boom, Robin Selden, vice president and general manager of Logitech's Streaming Media business unit, says that "[t]he network music player will be the CD player of the 21st century." That may be true—eventually—but at $299.99, the Boom probably...

Tags: Audio, Streaming Audio, Network, Logitech, Music Player, Network Music Player, Media Players, Web Technology, Digital Music, Digital Media, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-09-03

A virus in our genes, think about that....

A virus in our genes, think about that....Not bad...You were doing good until about halfway through the post, when you might as well have pulled out your Barack Hussein Obama flag and waved it from the rooftops.Your gallop off into politics ruined what would otherwise have been a good read.RE:...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Obama, gene, virus, Creationists, Natural Selection, Sarah Palin

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Chrome and why Gates was right to be paranoid

Chrome and why Gates was right to be paranoidGo on Google, kill them off once and for alllet's rid the world of these sloppy fat liars and have technology once again !!!!RE: Chrome and why Gates was right to be paranoidThe browser came about because IE 8 really scared the...

Tags: Web browsers, Chrome, Google Inc., Web browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Five reasons why Chrome will crash and burn

Google dipped its mighty toe into the increasingly crowded world of internet browsers today with the announcement of its open source offering, Chrome. After all the polished promises of a streamlined new way to tame the web, the blogosphere was ready to predict Chrome would inspire everything from the...

Tags: Google Inc., Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Chrome, Web Browsers, Internet, Google, browser, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Firefox, Nick Heath, silicon.com

News items 2008-09-03