31 Jul 2010
I’m certainly one of them. But after catching up on Battlestar Galactica and watching the same five episodes of The Office over and over again to memorize Dwight Schrute’s lines, I’m left wanting more.
Putting Sportscenter on Hulu seems like the logical next step for the video streaming service. Except, of course, that Sportscenter is broadcast [...]
29 Jul 2010
As the Qplayer plays this Sigur Ros video from YouTube, I can conduct a search for a friend's band, and add songs from their MySpace to my playlist. The only drawback: search results appear in a separate window.
A quick recap: the Qbox Web site lets you conduct searches for artists across MySpace, Bebo, and [...]
29 Jul 2010
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Jabber)
Indeed, the real news centers around Cisco’s growing battle with Microsoft over collaboration, as Larry Dignan points out over at ZDNet. Open source? That’s just necessary plumbing, apparently. Indeed, even Jabber hardly mentions open source throughout its Web site, preferring instead to focus on “open standards.”
This is appropriate, since Jabber has never been [...]
29 Jul 2010
Enough proof that server virtualization is starting to change everything (or at least an awful lot) about the data center?
More memory in servers is all the rage. That’s because there’s a fairly strong correlation between how much work a processor is doing and how much memory it needs to store the associated data and [...]
29 Jul 2010
“Today is the day Reddit fully becomes a platform for building link sharing sites,” a post on the company blog explained. Technically, developers could already do this. But now the site is making it easier for them to do so, and letting them customize the design of the voting system to fit their own sites; [...]
29 Jul 2010
The move follows the largest one-day point decline ever for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, a drop of 777.68 points or almost 7 percent. Microsoft shares, which had held to a less-than-5-percent drop for much of the day Monday, closed at $25.01, down $2.39 or more than 8.7 percent.
Congressional leaders of both parties proceeded to [...]
29 Jul 2010
Parent company Dell vowed on Tuesday to pour more resources into the game PC unit and invest in “product development, design, and engineering.”
New DDR3 memory is also becoming more of a factor. DDR3 memory is offered in two Alienware platforms. “It is the highest-performing memory now on the market. But I’m not so sure [...]
29 Jul 2010
“We are reorganizing the protest, sending text messages with minute-by-minute updates on where the torches are,” said a member of protest organizer SF Team Tibet. “People are using their cell phones, BlackBerrys, and PDAs. We are also updating media though our phones, sending pictures.”
Chasing the torch through S.F.: Click above image to [...]
27 Jul 2010
But a new feature, being introduced today, takes Oosah to a whole different place: It lets you drag images between your PC and online accounts, such as Flickr and Facebook, or even directly between your online accounts, avoiding your PC and your Oosah storage allotment. That’s not just new and cool, it’s very useful. [...]
23 Jul 2010
Perhaps most surprising among the data was the assumption of audio or visual feedback among all three groups. McDiarmid said that the use of contact-less credit cards is impersonal; often there is no confirmation of a transaction, such as you had when a clerk handed your card back at the end of the purchase. “Customers [...]