“We had a situation where an employee sent a communication via e-mail that was inconsistent with our corporate policy,” said Microsoft’s Tom Robertson. “That communication had no impact on the final vote.” It seems that this Microsoft employee offered extended market subsidies and other help to cover the cost for the partner to join the [...]
Reports are that Apple is now the third largest seller of retail laptops in the US, with 17.6% of the market according to NPD. Only HP and Toshiba have larger shares. Apple laptops are now outselling Dell, Gateway, and Lenovo. This is good news for two reasons. First, it signifies that consumers may be looking [...]
Polaris IP is a company that doesn’t seem to have any products, but does hold US Patent No. 6,411,947. This patent covers systems that “comprise interpreting electronic messages with rule base and case base knowledge engines”. They are suing Google, Yahoo!, Amazon, A9, Borders, AOL, and IAC in a Texas court for infringing on this [...]
It seems when Sweden’s Working Group for deciding their vote on the OOXML standard being adopted met there were a large number of previously unseen attendees. The Swedish Standards Institute appears to be fine with people showing up and voting despite not being party to the talks leading up to the vote as long as [...]
Sun’s new UltraSPARC T2 processor is several things. Sure, it’s a beast with 8 cores supporting 8 threads each. It has integrated dual 10GbE networking, 8 crypto units, PCIe, and can be run as 64 separate domains. Where does it really shine? Power consumption. More specifically, it’s lack of power consumption. Sun may be at [...]
Taiwan-based Acer is making a bid to purchase US-based Gateway for a reported $710M. Since Acer is only marginally behind Lenovo (even after Lenovo’s acquisition of IBM’s PC division in 2005), this should put them at number three. They would still be well behind HP and Dell. Apparently this will also put a stop to [...]
In another example of companies trying to weed out the 20% of users who chew up 80% of their usage, Comcast is appears to be terminating users who exceed some undisclosed bandwidth limit. This realization follows closely on the heels of the news that Sprint has been dropping customers who make excessive calls to their customer support.
Untangle tested public trials of ten anti-virus products, subjecting them to twenty-five viruses including some submitted by audience members at LinuxWorld. Some of the results were a little surprising.
It looks like the Beryl project will be re-merging into the plugins part of Compiz. Compiz is an OpenGL 3D desktop that was originally developed by Dave Reveman at Novell. In my opinion this will be a good thing for both projects. By combining efforts the will be able to improve on an already outstanding [...]
First, let’s define what I mean when I say “version control software”. What I’m talking about is software that keeps all of our documents for us, allows us to check them out, make changes, then check them back in. When we check a document back in it should remember the changes from one version to the next and allow us to pull out a copy of the document at any stage. That’s a very high-level explanation, but it will certainly do for our purposes today.