Monday, August 18, 2008
FCC Greenlights First Ad-droid Phone
The HTC Dream, the first handset based on Google’s Android mobile platform, has been given the Federal Communications Commission seal of approval. With that last hurdle cleared, the device is ready for market–though it looks like it may now arrive a bit later than expected.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Schmidt to Cuban: Only a Moron Would Worry About YouTube
Entrepreneur Mark Cuban once said “only a moron would buy YouTube,” the implication being that Google was exactly that for purchasing the popular video site. And some would say it is. To date, the company has seen little but accusations of copyright infringement, litigation and skyrocketing legal fees from its investment.
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Microsoft: We’re Taking Software Off the Desktop and Moving It to … Circuit City
Microsoft is moving desktop computing to the cloud, but if you want to come along, you’ve got to change planes at Circuit City.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
A Million Here, a Million There–Pretty Soon You’re Talking About a Lot of iPhones
Apple’s oft-stated goal of selling 10 million iPhones in 2008 apparently doesn’t mean that it hopes to sell 10 million phones within this calendar year. Apparently, it means that it hopes to sell 15 million or more. Because according to FBR Capital Market’s latest Apple supply-chain checks, the company has substantially increased 2008 build volumes for the device.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Firefox 3: 6.5 7 Million Downloads and Counting …
Looks like Firefox 3 Download Day will be one for the record books after all. Though its servers were initially overwhelmed by the volume of download requests yesterday, Mozilla soon had the Firefox 3 download site humming along nicely. Within five hours it had broken Firefox 2’s single-day record of 1.6 million downloads and by 5 a.m. PDT today–18 hours into its world record attempt–it had already blown the doors off the 5 million mark it had set for itself with 6,424,790 downloads.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Pull Those Engineers Off OS X 10.6 and Put Them on the Clock Radio …
Good thing Forrester doesn’t run Apple, because if it did the company would be well on its way to insolvency. In an astonishingly unimaginative report called “The Future of Apple Inc.,” Forrester attempts to divine the products Apple will be peddling 5 years from now.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Microsoft Announces Live Mess
Microsoft’s chief software architect Ray Ozzie has finally published the sequel to “The Internet Services Disruption,” the 2005 potboiler of a memo that charted Microsoft’s (MSFT) better-late-than-never software-as-a-service strategy. It’s called, intriguingly, “Services Strategy Update April 2008” and it describes in numbing detail Live Mesh, Microsoft’s ambitiously late entry into a rapidly growing cloud-computing market.
Live [...]
Monday, April 14, 2008
Apple C&D Incoming in 5…4…3…2
A brassy little outfit called Psystar is getting a lot of attention today for peddling Leopard-compatible desktops. These “OpenMacs,” as the company’s named them, run on Intel (INTC) chips and feature 2GB of memory, a DVD drive and whatnot. They’re built from PC parts and, if you’d like, Psystar will even outfit them with [...]
Acer Awarded 3rd Place in Westminster PC Show 
Acer leapfrogged over Lenovo to officially claim the No. 3 position in the desktop PC market this morning when the European Commission approved its acquisition of Dutch computer maker Packard Bell. In a statement, the EC said the deal “would not significantly impede effective competition. “The commission’s examination showed that the proposed merger would entail horizontal overlaps for desktops and laptops, both for professionals and consumers,” it said. “However, the market would remain competitive post-merger in all segments of the PC sector, with established alternative suppliers such as Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens, Toshiba, Sony and Lenovo.”
Friday, December 21, 2007
The Good News Is Our New CEO Is Great at Maximizing Profitability. The Bad News Is Our Paychecks Now Have Layovers in Chicago.
Matthew Szulik, Red Hat’s wisecracking chief executive officer, is stepping down after nearly a decade on the job. He’ll remain with the company as chairman of the board, but Jim Whitehurst, a former Delta chief operating officer (yes, an airline exec), will take on the CEO role.
‘Cloud Computing.’ That’s Cloud as in ‘Cloud of Fantasy,’ Right?
The long-term shift toward Web-based software is apparently taking a bit longer than expected. According to a new survey from research outfit NPD, 73% of PC users have never tried a Web-based office productivity suite. And of those who have, only a paltry 0.5% have been impressed enough to abandon their desktop office applications.
“The [...]
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
300+ New Features! That’s Not an OS … It’s a Space Station
Like Jaguar, Panther and Tiger before it, Leopard will be “the best upgrade to Mac OS X that Apple’s ever released.” This according to CEO Steve Jobs, who today said Leopard will arrive at market Oct. 26, as expected.
Priced at $129 for a single-user license, Leopard offers some 300 new features–“Even Leopard innovations have innovations,” [...]
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- Godzilla’s Food, Exercise, and Dream Diary
12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size.
11:37 AM: Exercise: “Taxi Stomp” (alternating legs, for 30 blocks). Calories burned: 148,900,183. - Scenes From An Alternate Universe Where The Beatles Accepted Lorne Michaels’ Generous Offer
1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
- The Golden Age of Video
Best video mashup ever.
- I’m not dead yet
A Facebook Memorial
- Pulp Fiction Audio Mix
Wow.
- A world without the Internet
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
- Google Wave Cinema: Pulp Fiction
Excellent.
- Dead Fly Art
Flughumor!
- Happy Birthday Monty Python …
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
- ‘You are being shagged by a rare parrot’
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
