Posted on December 30th, 2008 by Steve
Two news items caught my attention in the news recently: RadioShack selling a $99 Netbook PC (which ultimately costs over $1,400 when you factor in the 2-year AT&T data contract), and Microsoft recently publishing a patent for a pay-as-you-go home PC.
The price of home computers has dropped significantly. It’s now cheaper than ever to [...]
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Posted on December 23rd, 2008 by Steve
Palm’s troubles represent a familiar theme: how to re-brand a failing company, and turn it back into the success that it once was.
Palm will be getting a much needed injection of cash from Elevation Partners, in the amount of $100 million USD. In details disclosed in a Palm company press release on Monday, Elevation [...]
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Posted on December 22nd, 2008 by Steve
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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Posted on December 18th, 2008 by Steve
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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Posted on December 18th, 2008 by Steve
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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Posted on December 18th, 2008 by Steve
In an article yesterday, InformationWeek named PBWiki their favorite on-demand wiki. I tried out PBWiki myself, and here’s my take on it:
I agree that it takes very little time to get started with a new Wiki. The site is very fast, and generally very easy to use. It only took me about 30 seconds [...]
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Posted on December 17th, 2008 by Steve
Considering the recent Internet Explorer security vulnerability, there are all too many reasons to make sure your installation of Windows is safe and secure (or otherwise switch to MacOS, Linux, or some other *nix).
If switching to an alternate OS isn’t feasible, here are 5 easy ways to make your Windows installations less virus and [...]
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