WebTV, which never quite caught on (I do have one 80-year-old neighbor who doesn’t have a computer and uses it in its currrent incarnation as MSN TV), rears its ugly tube again. Bloomberg reports DirecTV will test allowing subscribers to access computer applications via their televisions. The company (DirecTV) will test the feature with as […]
Show from the HP Tech Forum Expo in Las Vegas – working the videos – Thanks to Simon Calder for the Show Notes Take the Geekazine Podcast Survey Try GoToAssist free for 30 days – No CC needed: GoToAssist.com/techpodcasts. Put Your Financials into order – Edward Jones All Show Notes are also on Delicious Hotline […]
Day 2 started out a little slower – not the expo, but us. We burnt the midnight oil, which with the time zone difference was 2-3 hours later than what we are used to. Nonetheless, we got all the audio and video up for the day. 8:00 AM: Started with a hearty breakfast. Recorded the […]
Copyright is not exactly a tech topic, but it is a topic important to bloggers and techies. Scientific Blogging offers a discussion of the history and interpretation of copyright law in the United States. It can be found here. A nugget: If you use quotations in your work, whether digital or not, it’s worth a […]
My Dell Inspiron 6000 died this yesterday morning. I woke up just in time to watch the display fade to black. Everything else works; I hooked it up to a monitor and am using it right now, but its days a portable are over.
This week we are in Las Vegas for the HP Tech Forum Expo. Andy McCasky did a live stream of the event, but I decided to run the audio of the event as well. The event included: Tom Iannotti, Managing Director and SVP, HP Americas and TSG – Master of Ceremonies Ann Livermore, EVP, TSG, […]
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*This post will be updated several times in the day. Got into Vegas last night at 11 PM. That was 1 AM my time. Went downstairs and checked out the nightly band (they play every Sunday and Monday) at Mandalay Bay. We also profiled the room, including 2 flat screen TV’s. This is what I […]
and turn me on. The Guardian reports that Sainsbury’s, a UK retailer, is opening a store where the checkout will be powered by the parking lot. Story here. Actually, that sounds pretty creative. Here’s a snippet: Follow the link for a picture of one of the “kinetic road plates,” which look for all the world […]
Brought to you by GotoAssist Express – Get your 30 Day free trial Mozilla broke free and created Firefox back in 2004. Since then, they have been growing in browser popularity. Being the major browser in Linux, but also downloadable for Windows and Mac helps a lot. The ability to install Add-ons also makes this […]
A while ago, I theorized that the entertainment industry’s estimates of lost sales due to file sharing were pretty much pulled out of thin air. I commend this column in the Guardian to your attention. The writer believes pretty much the same thing, but he’s done some research. An excerpt:
Facebook is going to allow users to pick user names, starting Friday midnight Apparently, it is cutting into the social lives of persons young enough to still have them. Bloomberg reports Read the story here. It covers a lot more ground than the little teaser I quoted above.
Remember Microsoft Live OneCare? That’s okay. No one else does either. It was Microsoft’s effort to copy what other companies already did better–provide virus protection. Like MS Live Search, it didn’t catch on. Reuters reports that Microsoft is going to try to crack the anti-virus market again. The story is here. An excerpt:
Two assessments of Microsoft’s Bing search engine hit the news this morning. The Guardian reports that a small study of 25 computer users showed that Bing’s search results were not that great, but that Bing users were more likely to look at some of the advertisements. The full story is here. Bloomberg reports that Microsoft’s […]
The new location is cool – Setup a temporary desk while figuring out office – SuperChirp – Heading back to Vegas for the HP Take the Geekazine Podcast Survey Try GoToAssist free for 30 days – No CC needed: GoToAssist.com/techpodcasts. Put Your Financials into order – Edward Jones All Show Notes are also on Delicious […]
So in the move from old to new, all my computer stuff has been packed away. I am working on the new office and in the meantime, I had to set up a temporary workstation. It will be a good alternate work area for getting more work done. Pictured is my 2 laptops – the […]
Brought to you by GotoAssist Express – Get a 30 day free trial. – www.gotoassist.com/techpodcasts. This was a pivitol week on the Yahoo Proxy battle as everything was approved to go. Carl Icahn was given the green light to lobby shareholders and possibly win control to ready for a new Yahoo. The previous week, we […]
What’s the difference between “cloud computing” and “networking”? In the immortal word of Yoghurt in the classic movie, Space Balls, Bruce Schneir writes in the Guardian: And it is nothing new.
The Guardian reports that countries are preparing to cyber-fight back against hack attacks. Read the full story here. An excerpt: According to well-placed sources, work on “strikeback” has already begun in the UK, with the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) and the Metropolitan police’s e-crime unit working to deploy teams. The measures are being adopted […]
The next few weeks are going to be do or die for the Palm Pre. With it’s release of June 6th, we will see if this new phone from Palm is going to be able to stand up to the Apple iPhone. Especially when the new 3.0 version comes out by the end of the […]
Shorter show because still at the old Place. I’ll tell you why – TVazine videos doing well – Weekend in Grand Rapids – Summer of Geekazine Contest going on. Win an Epson Artisan 700. Take the Geekazine Podcast Survey Try GoToAssist free for 30 days – No CC needed: GoToAssist.com/techpodcasts. Put Your Financials into order […]
The New York Times reports that big advances in touch screens are coming. The full story is here. An excerpt: Me, I’ve never liked touch screens and won’t start now, but it does look neat for touch-screen lovers.