Posted in News, Business, Places, Tech News, Links, General on Jan 31st, 2008
The Federal Communication Commission’s wireless spectrum bidding brought in $2.78 billion Thursday, the first day of a process that could garner between $10 billion and $30 billion. Up for grabs is the 700MHz band, which is eyed for both new commercial wireless services, as well as expanded emergency communications.Although bidding is secret until the conclusion […]
Posted in Business, Politics, News, Tech News, Links, General on Jan 30th, 2008
The Radeon brand has a long and proud history, but for the past year ATi - the graphical wing of AMD - has been playing catch-up, while rival Nvidia has set the pace, consistently bringing more powerful hardware more quickly to market.But AMD isn’t quitting yet. Rather than be left behind, the company has boldly […]
Posted in Business, Politics, News, Places, Links, Tech News, General on Jan 29th, 2008
Palm Inc. has announced it is closing down its retail stores in a bid to streamline its operations and focus its business strategy, although the company will still continue offer direct consumer sales through its Web site and through retail partners. Palm also believes the move will have little to now impact on its enterprise […]
Posted in News, Business, Politics, People, Fun, Links, Tech News, General on Jan 28th, 2008
Cisco has announced an innovative family of data center-class switching platforms, the Cisco Nexus Series, to meet customer demands for next-generation mission-critical data centers. As the data center transitions to a more services-centric model, the network plays a pivotal role in orchestrating virtual IT resources and scaling workloads.The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series was designed with […]
Posted in Business, Politics, News, People, Links, Tech News, General on Jan 26th, 2008
“The broader markets took another beating this week,” said William McKinley, President of Investing Systems. “Even as the market was falling out of bed, Friday’s big winner was up more than 10% in just one trading session.”
The momentum scan that powers the Stock Picker RT produces […]
Posted in Business, Politics, News, Tech News, Links, General on Jan 25th, 2008
Japanese electronics giant Fujitsu Ltd. plans to spin off its semiconductor business into a separate company as part of efforts to reduce costs, news reports said Sunday.It is expected to announce the plan as early as Monday, the Asahi Shimbun and public broadcaster NHK said, quoting unnamed sources.
Under the plan, Fujitsu will separate the semiconductor […]
Posted in Video, News, Business, People, Friends, Links, Tech News, Family, General on Jan 24th, 2008
I found this on the Washington Post, and it can be very useful to a lot of people!
Q: I know that analog TV is going off the air next February and that I can keep using my old analog set with a digital converter box, but I can’t find any at a reasonable price. […]
Posted in News, Business, Politics, Places, People, Links, Tech News, Friends, General on Jan 23rd, 2008
Microsoft Corp. today committed to contribute its UI Automation specification to the Accessibility Interoperability Alliance ( AIA ), a new engineering working group dedicated to making it easier for developers to create software, hardware and Web-based products that are accessible to people with disabilities. The UI Automation specification describes Microsofts latest accessibility framework technology, and […]
Posted in Video, News, Music, Business, Places, People, Tech News, Family, Friends, Fun, General on Jan 22nd, 2008
Google-owned video-sharing site YouTube increased its lead over its rivals in November, attracting 31 percent of 138 million online users regularly watching Internet multimedia, a report said Thursday.
The figure shows YouTube’s continued popularity. In November, the site drew 28 percent of Internet video viewers, according to comScore, which measures online usage.
The Fox-owned MySpace, the No. […]
Posted in News, Business, Politics, Places, People, Links, Tech News, General on Jan 21st, 2008
In my view it does. A company can’t keep their idea to themselves with out expanding, or get money hungry!
Sun, Oracles sometimes best friend, turned into an Oracle competitor this morning when it said it was buying MySQL, the open source database thats part of the famous LAMP stack. Its paying a billion dollars.MySQL was […]