Posted in News, Business, People, Friends, Tech News, General on Apr 30th, 2007
The QuickTime bug revealed at CanSecWest last week turns out to affect everything that’s Java-enabled and that has QuickTime installed, including IE 6 and IE 7 on Vista, browsers that were originally thought to be safe due to sandboxing techniques. Researchers are urging all users of QuickTime–and that means you, if you have iTunes installed–to […]
Posted in Business, Politics, News, Places, Tech News, People, General on Apr 27th, 2007
Google Inc., No. 2 in China’s Web search market, is giving its local managers more autonomy and investing more in China in an effort to make up for its late entry and take the lead in the industry, CEO Eric Schmidt said Friday.
“We are catching up. Our investment is working and we will eventually be […]
Posted in Business, Politics, News, Places, Tech News, People, General on Apr 27th, 2007
Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it will build on existing efforts to bridge the digital divide worldwide and announced several new ventures, including a $3 software package for governments that subsidize student computers.
The software maker said it will sell a Student Innovation Suite, which includes Windows XP Starter Edition and Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007, […]
Posted in wp-fix, wp-adds, People, News, Fun, Friends, Links, Tech News, Family, General on Apr 26th, 2007
OK… I’m testing out a plugin, to see how it works…. so let me know what you think of it. I’m crossing my fingers right now.
How is it? In case you are wondering which plug-in it is, I am using Thumbnail Viewer 1.1.
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Posted in Business, Politics, News, Friends, Tech News, General on Apr 26th, 2007
High-flying computer vendor Dell Incorporated has today announced that it is to introduce a new SanDisk 1.8 flash-based solid-state drive (SSD) to its existing Latitude D420 ultra-mobile and D620 ATG semi-rugged notebook hardware.
The move to integrate the 32GB SanDisk SSD into its mobile line-up marks Dell as one of the very first computer manufacturers to […]
Posted in News, Business, People, Family, Tech News, General on Apr 26th, 2007
The security flaw used to breach a MacBook in a hack-a-Mac competition last week also affects Internet Explorer on Windows PCs, according to TippingPoint.
Initially, the flaw was thought to be exploitable only through Apple’s Safari and Mozilla’s Firefox Web browsers on both Macs and Windows PCs. Researchers at TippingPoint have now determined that the bug, […]
Posted in News, Business, Places, People, Tech News, Friends, General on Apr 26th, 2007
Adobe Systems plans to open-source Flex, its development framework for building Flash and Apollo-based applications.
The company on Wednesday is expected to announce the move, which will start when it releases a beta of the next version of Flex, code-named Moxie, in June.
By the time Adobe releases the final version of Moxie, which will be called […]
Posted in Politics, Business, News, Tech News, General on Apr 24th, 2007
IBM has released beta software to let applications written for Linux on servers with x86 processors run in Big Blue’s System p machines built with its own Power processors.
The software, called System p Application Virtual Environment (AVE) and announced Monday, is based on the QuickTransit software from start-up Transitive, which translates the software instructions for […]
Posted in News, Business, Politics, People, Friends, Links, Tech News, General on Apr 24th, 2007
Tim OReilly graciously bestowed a Bloggers Code of Conduct upon the blogosphere earlier this month. In 2004, he christened Web 2.0 for the world.
Tim OReilly has helped publish many a tech how-to manual. But, has he really written the definitive book on Web 2.0?
OReilly Media touts many a claim to fame:
Creator of the first commercial […]
I was watching some videos tonight, and I found a great YOUNG guitarist. It just reminded me of when I was young and in a band (played the bass and keyboard).
While I heard him playing I thought he was teriffic; and at the same time I started to laugh… man did we stink when we […]