Apple A Threat To Windows Vista. Re Write Confirmed
The marketing director of a key Microsoft partner has confirmed that key elements of Windows Vista are currently being re written. — Mr Raymond Vardanega, the Marketing Director, of Acer Australia h...
The Democratization of Expertise
ProfB has an interesting post on the wisdom of crowds versus the wisdom of experts. One of the intriguing aspects of the Internet has been the democratization of authority. Thirty years ago, if you ...
MIX06 Session Recordings
The MIX06 conference in Las Vegas is over, and it was an outstanding event. Feedback has been almost universally positive, and attendees are encouraging us to do this again. MIX06 was a smaller, mor...
Exclusive Interview with PlentyOfFish.com creator and owner, Markus Frind
As I reported a few days ago, Markus Frind, the owner of the free dating site PlentyOfFish.com has been pulling in $10,000 a day from Adsense. What is even more remarkable is that he is single handed...
S & P 500 chairman admits he market timed the Google addition:
EDIT: Their chairman, or Standard and Poor's itself, is a monumental liar. When they announced the addition in the press release they said that "price was not a consideration in our decision."
Easy DivX to Xbox 360 Streaming with MCE Video Encoder
Until now, in order to play your DivX encoded copies of The Matrix on your Xbox360, you had to resort to a "hack", which was functional, but required you to be somewhat computer savvy to get it runnin...
Leopard to include VMWare-like virtualisation software?
Reliable sources informed MacosXrumors that Apple is developing virtualisation software that could be added to Apple's next major release of Mac OS X, Leopard. The technology will allow users to crea...
Fans put satellite radio on cellphones, draws fire
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fans of U.S. satellite radio have been waiting eagerly for nearly a year to get XM or Sirius on to their cell phones. — But as the two satellite radio providers carefully ponder...
Of Intel Macs and Red Herrings
Scott Byer at Adobe put up a very nice post about the switch to intel and some of the growing pains many of us are going through. While I've added my own comments to Scott's piece, a number of my col...
Announcing Internet Explorer Feedback
Many customers have asked us about having a better way to enter IE bugs. It is asked "Why don't you have Bugzilla like Firefox or other groups do?" We haven't always had a good answer except it is s...
New data transmission record - 60 DVDs per second
March 24, 2006 As the world's internet traffic grows relentlessly, faster data transmission will logically become crucial. To enable telecommunications networks to cope with the phenomenal surge in d...
Tux goes retail: How open source is faring in big box retail stores
Free open source software is making slow in-roads into the world of big box retail. This article is the first of a series of two Mad Penguin™ articles which take a detailed look inside the world of r...
Vast.com and Its Ilk Please Some, Annoy Others
Vast.com may be the latest classified ad aggregator to hit the market, but the service is raising some familiar concerns. — Like its competitors, the firm insists it is simply scouring the Web for r...
The Quandary
We find ourselves in a bit of pickle: either (a) our definition of podcasting is insufficient or inaccurate, or (b) 80% of those who we call "podcasters" are nothing of the sort. — Before we write o...
A bunch of stuff
Here's some quickfire blogging before I go to sleep. — Larry Osterman, a developer who's worked at Microsoft for 21.5 years, laughs at the report that Microsoft would rewrite 60% of Vista in two mon...
Biggest. Microsoft. Stuff-up. Ever? (And Who the heck is David Richards?)
In case your not a regular Squash-ee or else haven't picked it up along the way, my tiny, tiny little niche area of authority that I've been fortunate to build a business on is the Australian technolo...
Google Finance
I've basically been offline all week. I've been skiing with my family in Sun Valley and most of the posts on the blog this week were written on the plane and pre-scheduled. That allowed me to take t...
Talking Netvibes
Web 2.0 which I define as ability to do a lot more with a lot less inside of a web browser - and the ensuing funding madness has finally started to go global - albeit very slowly. Netvibes, a Paris-b...
It's a great time to start a business
David Mar 25 — Caterina Fake has a peculiar list of reasons why starting a company today is a bad idea. I say it's never been a better time to start a business. You know, the kind that develops a ...