June 30, 2008
BoomTown / Kara Swisher
Apparently, according to Yahoo, Microsoft is as clever and deceptive as the buff and gun-toting Angelina Jolie in the new film "Wanted."
BoomTown will get to that later. But with Yahoo shares hovering close to $20 a share, Microsoft has certainly got to be thrilled that the sweetened search ad deal it is currently preparing--including forking over about $10 billion for one-third of the company--is getting cheaper by the minute.
June 30, 2008
All Things Digital / John Paczkowski
In a 2004 email to Steve Jobs, RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser asked the Apple CEO to consider a “tactical alliance” with his company. License us your Fairplay digital-rights management system, allow our customers to play their digital music collections on the iPod, wrote Glaser, and we’ll make the iPod our primary device for the RealNetworks store and for RealPlayer software.
July 2, 2008
Engadget / Ryan Block
Filed under: Storage, Networking
Looks like Data Robotics just started up their Drobo Developer Community (DDC) and SDK program, kicking off on their eventual goal to let users develop their own apps and servers for their Drobo storage device.
June 30, 2008
Web Strategy by Jeremiah / jeremiah_owyang
I’m in the unique position that I get to speak to enterprise brands, white label vendors, and now CMS vendors on a regular basis, here’s what I’m seeing:
It’s now quarter 3, and I start research on the big report, the Forrester Wave (learn about the reports) on the Community Platforms (White Label Social Networks) the [.
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July 3, 2008
PSPSPS / Al W
Despite an apparent unwillingness from developers, Sony is making bold promises about the rollout of the brand new PS3 Trophy system. Eric Lempel, Director of PlayStation Network Operations has told GameSpy it's working hard to persuade developers to take up the opportunity.
July 2, 2008
All Things Digital / John Paczkowski
Microsoft is moving desktop computing to the cloud, but if you want to come along, you’ve got to change planes at Circuit City.
July 2, 2008
ZDNet News - Front Door
The latest high trafficked web site to fall victim into the continuing waves of massive SQL injection attacks courtesy of copycats and the ASProx botnet, is Sony's PlayStation U.S site according to a recent post at SophosLabs's blog : "Researchers at IT security firm Sophos have warned lovers of.
July 2, 2008
All Things Digital / John Paczkowski
Much as Yahoo would like to believe otherwise, Microsoft’s not done with the company yet. It's circled back for another run at Yahoo and, if it’s successful, it will seize Yahoo’s search business and sell the rest of the company off for parts.
June 30, 2008
Shiny Shiny / LucyHedges
It's time to whip out those piano playing skills. Note: this only applies to iPhone owners, all other handset owners prepare to experience melancholic feelings and perhaps even a bit of jealousy. This is because your phone will never be able to host Apple's Piano simulator software - iAno or Pianist as it is more recently known.
July 1, 2008
silicon.com : News / editorial@silicon.com (Julian Goldsmith)
Kaspersky package available to two million online punters
July 3, 2008
Boing Boing Gadgets / John Brownlee
Apple has filed a patent for a new multi-touch gesture language that will allows us program gestures into our computers. Similar to the zoom and rotate gestures currently programmed into the iPhone and MacBook multi-touch touchpads, the new patent describes a Sign Language for touch screens, which uses a minimum of twenty five chords, thirty one combinations and thirteen different motions to tell the OS what it is you want to do.
July 2, 2008
VoIP
Business Intelligence Network's Ron Powell recently conducted an interview with the Chief Technical Officer of Composite Software, David Besemer. During this interview, Besemer explained how Composite Discovery delivers quicker time to answer for business users and reduces the overload for IT professionals.
July 2, 2008
contentSutra.com / VCCircle
Mumbai-based Ideacts Innovations, a web-based advertising platform, has recieved $5 million funding from Sequoia Capital India. Sequoia Capital India's senior advisor R.Ramaraj and operating partner Mohit Bhatnagar have joined the board.
June 30, 2008
VoIP
Dash Navigation, an Internet-connected automotive GPS device, became the first GPS provider to wirelessly update customers' device software over-the-air without requiring them to separately purchase and install upgrades via a PC or DVD download.
June 30, 2008
VoIP
6WIND, specializing in network software solutions, announced a new solution suitable for mid-range applications. This will include 2 to 4 cores for the provision of high L2/L3 performance for pure Linux systems.
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July 5, 2008
Pocket PC Hints and Tips / Frank (noreply@blogger.com)
July 5, 2008
MSDN Blogs / jesusher
Recientemente se ejecuto una serie de webcast de Introducción a la Arquitectura de Software organizado por el equipo de Arquitectura de Microsoft Latino América. Te invito a que los revises y opines que te parecieron.
July 4, 2008
BlackBerry Cool / Simon Sage
Vlingo's had a bumpy start, but maybe there's hope yet.
July 4, 2008
ASP.NET Weblogs / andrewstopford
Jeff Attwood has a post on possibily the greatest man in the computing age, Alan Turing. As Jeff states during WW2 Alan helped break the enigma code and went on to become one of the fore-fathers of AI.
July 4, 2008
DS Fanboy / Candace Savino
Filed under: Another Week in ...
Oh, Japanese gamers, how we love you -- after all, only you would buy 150,000 copies of Derby Stallion in one week. Such sales were enough to put this DS horse racing sim into first place, above Band Brothers DX and even the Wii's Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World.
July 4, 2008
Tactical Gamer / Mr_Fighter_99
Why do video card makers (eg: ATI and nVidia) have to use big numbers for their cards? (eg: ATI's are 4850 and 4870, etc. are a couple. nVidia's are like 7600, 8600, 9600, etc.)
Can't we just go back to the old days of nVidia GeForce 1, 2, 3, 4, and so on and so forth.
July 4, 2008
Tech Blog / Chris Nuttall
A week before the release of the new iPhone, comes the lower-key launch today of Openmoko’s Neo FreeRunner open-source phone.
The FreeRunner is more targeted towards the mass-market consumer than its predecessor the Neo1973, a handset that only caused excitement in the Linux community.
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