Obama picks RIAA’s favorite lawyer for top Justice post
January 6, 2009
The Recording Industry of America’s favorite courtroom lawyer, who has sued individual file swappers in multiple federal courts, is President-elect Barack Obama’s choice for a top Justice Department position.
Motorola Goes Green, Rugged, Touchy-Feely
January 6, 2009
The 2009 Consumer Electronics Show promises plenty in the gadget department, as usual, and Motorola unveiled three new handsets on Tuesday that it hopes will capture the imagination of attendees. The device maker introduced the environmentally friendly Moto W233 Renew, the MotoSurf A3100 touch tablet and the rugged Tundra VA76r. While CES will not officially open until Thursday, with the announcement of these three new handsets handsets Motorola has signaled which market segment baskets it will place its eggs for 2009, said Ramon Llamas, an analyst at IDC.
What is Open Source?
January 6, 2009
I’m often asked to elaborate on what exactly ‘Open Source’ really is. It’s easy for those of us involved in the software industry to expect everyone to understand the terms that we use on a daily basis and sometimes, it’s great to have someone stop us and say “explain this to me”.
Rumor: Unibody 17-inch MacBook Pro in the works
January 4, 2009
Apple also expected to announce a makeover for the Mac Mini, possibly has early as this week’s Macworld Expo.
A Modest Blogging Proposal
January 4, 2009
It all started with a simple question from Forrester Research analyst Jeremiah Owyang late in the afternoon on Friday, Dec. 12. A few days earlier, blogger Chris Brogan had written about his decision to accept 0 from Kmart to find out what’s cool to buy at the discount retailer and then write about it. Owyang posted a question to his readers on microblogging site Twitter, asking whether it’s OK for brands to approach bloggers in that manner. With that began one of the most vociferous recent debates in the blogosphere.
Video Analytics Solutions For Retail Operations
January 2, 2009
A growing trend in retail outlets is the use of video analytics software. This intelligent software offers a number of solutions for retail operations, include: reducing shrinkage, increasing safety, improving customer service, ensuring proper compliance with employee procedures and much more. These various solutions can also be tailored to work in specific retail situations.
Wikimedia Foundation raises $6.2 million for Wikipedia
January 2, 2009
Foundation reaches goal of raising more than million to sustain Wikipedia. The money will be used to maintain and grow the foundation’s technical infrastructure.
Traditional Journalists Look Warily Toward 2009
January 2, 2009
I’m writing this on Tuesday evening Pacific Time, Dec. 30, 2008. It will be published early Friday morning, Jan. 2. So right now I can’t tell you if I was able to keep my first New Year’s resolution: to use the extra “leap second” we all got just before midnight New Year’s Eve in a wise, productive and clever fashion. The additional tick of the clock came courtesy of the earth slowly putting the brakes on its rotation. Blame the UK’s Royal Observatory, proprietors of Greenwich Mean Time, for stretching out the Economic Year of Living Dangerously.
5 predictions for 2009
December 31, 2008
Will Steve Jobs announcement his retirement in 2009? Will Windows 7 launch? Don Reisinger looks ahead to 2009.
What is a Virtual Server?
December 31, 2008
There are many types of servers; everything from email servers, web servers and proxy servers to wow private server and backup servers. Virtual Servers are a hybrid of a dedicated server; one that is stand-alone and is usually used for one high traffic website, and a shared hosting type where many websites are hosted on one platform. In essence it is a single machine or server that ‘pretends’ to be many by having the ability to run various operating systems and separate server software and configurations for each of many different sites but sharing the hardware resources such as processor, memory and hard drives.
