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Don't Buy DSL From This Man (If You Can Help It)
Ed Whitacre is CEO of SBC, the huge local telecom monopoly which is about to swallow AT&T. The excitement of the progeny buying the former parent may be going to his head. Business Week published an...
Can Hollywood Evade the Death Eaters?
BY all outward appearances, Warner Brothers Entertainment should be having one of its best years ever. For the 21st year in a row, it is expected to show a profit, propelled by a string of television...
Google Video Downloader - Final version
How to download? — Search videos in Google: — Paste the link from Google and get the REAL link now: — Some essential Google Video search tips: — When you search Google Video, the triangle icon ...
My wishlist for the Tablet PC world
1) The things I want to see in Tablet PC applications right now include (in no particular order): — · Native ink support in Acrobat Reader. And every other application too, of course, but A...
Emacs OS Xplosion
OS X has been with us for a few years now, and Emacs has been coming along slowly and surely. We must have hit some sort of a tipping point, and there are a whole lot of people working on the problem...
Why I Love Seattle Geeks
Spotty Wifi aside, Seattle Mind Camp has been a hoot. The people I've been meeting in Seattle are revved up and turned on by the technology and the changing culture. — I've sat through some amazing...
PayPal names names as IRS chases tax evaders
PayPal, the internet money-transfer arm of eBay, is to disclose the identity of customers who use the service to evade paying US taxes. — The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is demanding records of c...
Gateway Chronicle: First impressions
I've now had a couple of days with the new Gateway convertible to build some first impressions and I must say the experience has been overwhelmingly positive. James and I just finished recording this...
Notes from Mind Camp
Microsoft's Alex Barnett at Seattle Mind Camp. Click image for photo gallery from the event. — Hanging out in an empty office building this weekend, I heard about the latest ways to use online news...
Seattle Mind Camp was AWESOME
I just got home from Seattle Mind Camp... the event was absolutely awesome. Everyone who attended is already eager to do it again. I met a lot of people, learned a lot, and had a lot of fun. — Her...
TiVo and Yahoo deal in the works?
A little birdie dropped me a note that looks legit and sounds trustworthy, but I can't back it up so I'm posting this as a rumor (that I have a strong hunch is real). — It looks like there's an impe...
14-inch OLED displays through inkjet printing
So Cambridge Display announced back in August that they've developed a technology to "print" an OLED display using fairly traditional inkjet technology, well now they've successfully printed up some 1...
Microsoft's AntiSpyware Rebranded 'Windows Defender'
Microsoft Corp.'s Windows AntiSpyware technology has been renamed "Windows Defender" and has been expanded to detect and remove rootkits, keystroke loggers and other forms of malware. — The revamped...
Ubuntu Conference Affirms Commitment to Kubuntu and KDE
The Ubuntu Below Zero conference is in full momentum this week and Kubuntu has been prominent throughout. In his opening remarks at the start of the conference Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth announ...
A Journey to the Center of Yahoo
I HAVE never known how to think about Yahoo. I often turn to it for movie listings and driving maps. I have joined numerous Yahoo-based discussion groups, in which I read and occasionally write mess...
Microsoft's Other OS
Microsoft Research has developed a prototype of a microkernel operating system, code-named 'Singularity.' Its most surprising feature: It has nothing to do with Windows. — Contrary to popular opinio...
The Future of Media (aka Please Take My RSS Feed)
I have seen the future of media and it looks like this: — Mashed Up Blog Posts at tech.memeorandum — Mashed Up Funny Videos at delicious — Mashed Up Playlists at webjay — Here is the future of...
Calling all geeks; this camp's for you
What: The inaugural Seattle Mind Camp, scheduled to run Saturday-Sunday — An all-nighter: Mind Camp is a free conference for techies and entrepreneurs that runs for 24 hours straight. The event is ...
23 eerie parallels between Xbox 360 and the Sega Dreamcast.
Ever since the first details of the Xbox 360 hit the web, gamers have drawn comparisons to Sega's ill-fated (yet still highly regarded) Dreamcast console. There are the obvious examples - the timing ...
Microsoft to Offer 100,000 Books Free Online
Firm Says It Won't Skirt Copyrights in Project With British Library — Microsoft Corp. struck a deal yesterday with the British Library to scan 100,000 books from its vast collection and make them fr...
Freeware of the Moment- OneNote Daily Journal PowerToy
I stay in OneNote all day and anything that makes the powerful program even more useful is great. Any utility that does that and is free just makes my day. It also makes my Freeware of the Moment li...
Don't blame the online mappers
reporter's notebook For the record, the guys who create those often-vexing online maps would like you to know it's not their fault. — Or so they say. On a recent sunny Thursday morning, I went dire...