As was fairly widely reported, Windows XP will be getting an extra 4 months to live.  The previous cutoff date for computer manufacturers to pre-load systems with Windows XP was Jan. 31st, 2009.  That date has now been extended by Microsoft to May 30th, 2009.  This means you’ll still be able to purchase a [...]

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The good news (depending on how you look at it, exactly) is that the RIAA has announced that it will no longer issue blanket lawsuits against individual file sharers.  Instead, at least in the US market, the RIAA plans to issue a series of notices to your ISP.  After each notice, it would be [...]

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I nearly missed this last week, but Toshiba announced plans to build a 512GB 2.5 inch SSD, with sequential read and write speeds at a blazing 200 MB/s.
Mass production will begin in the second quarter of 2009.
According to the company press release:
Toshiba and many market analysts expect SSDs to begin to gain significant traction [...]

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A few months back, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison went on an impromptu rant in front of Wall Street Journal reporters talking about Cloud Computing.  His basic theme was that Cloud Computing is just a buzzword for everything that people have already been doing for the last decade or so with the Internet.  Some people [...]

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One of the things I’ve been thinking about lately is how companies might approach adopting more SaaS (software as a service).  Specifically: what’s the motivating factor to make the jump from on-site hosted solutions all the way to SaaS delivery (skipping the Cloud Computing bump in-between), and which IT services in particular are easier [...]

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Yes, it turns out that Firefox has critical security bugs, too.  Microsoft Internet Explorer is not alone in dealing with security problems.  But at least the Mozilla Foundation is generally good about reacting to them swiftly.
In case you haven’t noticed Firefox telling you that you need to update to 3.0.5, you probably should do [...]

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Chris Bucchere, founder and CEO of bdg, the company behind the conference social networking solution The Social Collective gave me the scoop on their upcoming Facebook Connect integration.
The Social Collective is bdg’s first SaaS offering: a Ruby on Rails-based social networking application for conferences that allows attendees to mix and mingle online before, during [...]

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