Microsoft: Storage unification still somewhere out there
Microsoft customers are still in search of that elusive goal: a single, unified storage system to simplify the deployment and management of Microsoft's enteprrise wares. And Microsoft officials are s...
Microsoft's Interoperability Principles and IE8
We've decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can. This decision is a change from what we've posted previously. — Why Change? — Microsoft r...
Woz finds flaws in Apple's latest offerings
Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, in Sydney today. — Asher Moses — Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak heaped less than lavish praise on the company's iPhone, MacBook Air and Apple TV products wh...
Apple falls short of 1,000 movie rentals
Apple fell far short of its goal of rolling out 1,000 movies for rent through the iTunes Store by the end of February. — Macworld's Christopher Breen checked in Friday on Apple's promise, and found ...
AllPeers Service Shutting Down Today
It is with deep regret that we inform our users, friends and fans that we will be shutting down the AllPeers service today. We are tremendously proud of the product that our team has built, and we re...
Hands-on with the 9-inch Eee PC
If you hadn't guessed from the headline, and as rumored just an hour ago, there's 9-inches of LCD on this thing. Actually, 8.9, but who's counting? We found out that and a few other little tidbits a...
Exclusive preview: Delicious Monster's Delicious Library 2.0
Back in 2004, shortly before the release of Mac OS X Tiger, Delicious Library 1.0 arrived as a slick looking inventory cataloging application designed to manage listings of books, videos, albums and o...
TNS extends digital capability through acquisition of Compete
London — TNS extends digital capability through acquisition of Compete — Taylor Nelson Sofres plc (TNS), a world leader in market information and insight, announces that it has agreed to acquire C...
Charlene Li At Graphing Social Patterns
Today and tomorrow I will be at the Graphing Social Patterns conference in San Diego. There are a lot of great speakers speaking at the event. If you are here, definitely stop by and say hello! Rig...
Dave Veloz's Steampunk Remake:
A Steampunk Monitor and Keyboard for a Mac mini — There is nothing in the world that I like better then receiving pictures of things that people have been inspired to build by my projects. When I o...
Ballmer Confirms Microsoft-Yahoo “Dialogue"*
At a news conference in Germany, Steve Ballmer seems to confirm SVP Jean-Philippe Courtois's remark last week that Microsoft (MSFT) and Yahoo (YHOO) are in talks. Or at least that's how we read Steve...
The Sun is going to shine on Python
Today is my first day as a Sun employee. — How? — Tim Bray was one of the first people to respond to my “looking for a job” blog post. I have not written about it much, but I've been very impress...
X1 IS An H2 Product - We'Ve Got The Official Statement!
Lately there have been some rumours about the release date of X1. It was said that it supposedly won't see the light of the day till some time in February 2009. I've told many people otherwise and I...
Microsoft flirts with “cloud"-based applications, still making billions off Earth-bound variety
Though they squabble over things such as the rights to control parts of Facebook and Yahoo, the real battle between Microsoft and Google is only just beginning to show itself as the two jockey …
When Will We Have Our First Valleywag Suicide?
Today I read all the sordid details about the alleged sexual encounter between a notable technology visionary and a woman who appears to be looking for as much publicity as possible. Where did I read...
Microsoft to Expand Microsoft Online Services for Businesses of All Sizes
Exchange Online and SharePoint Online enter beta. — Monday from the annual Microsoft Office SharePoint Conference, Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft Corp., will announce that the company will offer ...
Actual Performance, Perceived Performance
If you've used Windows Vista, you've probably noticed that Vista's file copy performance is noticeably worse than Windows XP. I know it's one of the first things I noticed. Here's the irony— Vista's...
T-Mobile and Nokia introduce Nokia 6650 exclusively for T-Mobile customers
Espoo, Finland - Today, at CeBIT 2008, T-Mobile and Nokia announced the Nokia 6650, a stylish and easy to use device optimized for use with T-Mobile services. Available exclusively for T-Mobile Inter...
Nine Inch Nails Uploads New Album on Torrent Sites
Nine Inch Nails has just released the first volume of their new album “Ghosts” on BitTorrent sites as a free download. The band encourages its fans to share the album with friends, post it on website...
Reading Steve Jobs
Second guessing Steve Jobs — or actually first guessing — is Silicon Valley's most popular spectator sport. Dozens of Web rumor sites pour over every one of his pronouncements as if he were the Pope,...
The World's Largest Supercomputing Cloud
I had no idea the Hubble telescope could see only 12 billion years into the past. — Frankly, I'd never really thought about telescopes looking into the past until Dr. Michael Norman, a researcher fr...
Advocacy groups bash Comcast's “technical-sounding nonsense”
The Electronic Frontier Foundation and Free Press, two of the biggest backers of the FCC's investigation into Comcast's traffic management practices, late last week filed reply comments with the Commi...
PARENT CALLING
GE RERUN: BACK TO CORPORATE FOR COMSTOCK — Beth Comstock, NBC Universal's integrated media boss, is being returned to the General Electric mother ship, The Post has learned. — GE Chief Executive J...
TomTom GO 930, GO 730 make their debut
Today, TomTom added two new models to its GO series of portable navigation systems: the TomTom GO 930 and the TomTom GO 730. Both GPS devices feature enhanced user interfaces with new icons and a tec...
MacBook Air aflutter: demand stays strong, sold out often
It might not be the iPhone, but the MacBook Air is selling much stronger than many of us would have guessed. After a full month of being on the market, the Macbook Air is still a difficult commodity ...
Coming soon: Movies on flash memory cards
GALWAY, Ireland—PortoMedia is probably the only start-up in the world inspired by the movie Carlito's Way. — Company founder Chris Armstrong explains: Four years ago, he set out to his local DVD sto...
iPhone gets native P2P torrent software
Your iPhone plays audio. Your iPhone plays video. Until now, you had to sync those suckers. Today, the insanely brilliant iPhone Hacker core announced a preliminary version of a Transmission Peer-t...