Ok. This morning I woke up to CNN and HLN blaring away with their gorgeous female anchors about “no more back problems” from those 100 lb. back packs our kids (and you) had to drag to school and back. Incredible.. super rich content, videos, “An A Student in every pot”. What’s the “instead of”? The iPad. Right. The inexpensive and about to be flooded with textbook iPads. Sure. Who and which school district is going to be supplying those (eve...
The owners of the most popular site for uploading “files” Megaupload has been indicted by a Federal Grand Jury for causing more than $500 million in lost revenue because of pirating TV shows,music and other content. The company is run out of Hong Kong (surprise) but is hosted in part in Ashburn, VA where the indictment was made. “Megaupload founder and operator -- Kim Dotcom (formerly Kim Schmitz) -- was arrested along with three others in New Zealand on Thursday at th...
This one really sucks. http://www.businessinsider.com/larry-page-just-tied-employee-bonuses-to-the-success-of-the-googles-social-strategy-2011-4 So what’s behind that? It’s Google’s desire and need to become a Social Media… why? To sell more advertising. So, Larry Page, Google’s new CEO has told employees that 25% of their annual bonus will depend on Google’s social strategy in 2011. When Google gave all of its employees a 10% raise and $1,000 bonus last fall, i...
Bad news for Comet (currently being sold to OpCapita). Microsoft is accusing them of producing counterfeit Recovery Disks for Vista and XP and shipping them off to be sold in their stores across the UK. Some 94,000 copies were made and sold. "Comet’s actions were unfair to customers. We expect better from retailers of Microsoft products — and our customers deserve better, too." - David Finn, associate general counsel, worldwide anti-piracy and anti-counterfeit...
captainmoonlight has made me aware of an email he received from moonchild (Pale Moon dev): A heads-up this time about the upcoming Firefox 10 release: Pale Moon will skip the version 10 code base , considering the implemented features in Firefox 10 are a (partial) implementation of web developer tools that are of less significance, and it does not yet address the most important issue currently present in Firefox, which is a massive performance i...
Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Lamar Smith (R- TX) announced that the provision requiring ISPs to block access to overseas Web sites accused of piracy has been yanked from SOPA. This is a major victory for the tech sector since this provision required changes to the Domain Name System (DNS) blocking provision which would have destabilized the web. "After consultation with industry groups across the country," Smith said in a statement released by his office. "I feel w...
Not talking about a virtual OS isolating app here. This is a “could be big” fun app. “Aurasma is a free app that lets you discover, create and share amazing virtual content, integrated into the real world.” - http://www.aurasma.com/ Available for smartphones, the app recognizes images, symbols and objects in the real world and understands them. It can then deliver relevant content in real time, including videos, animations, audio or webpages. It augmen...
For c|net’s “ Best of the Show ”? Probably the best TV ever – LG 55EM9600 OLED TV : What’s so great? It’s a 55” OLED, excellent viewing angles, absolute black levels, ultra fast and so thin it’s crazy! The best news? Same price as the LCD of the same size. “People’s Choice”: Razer Project Fiona – the gaming tablet with the handles: (photo credits: c|net) There are a whole slew of Best of…” categories… smartphones (ID’s (desired)...
So… for Uvah, a special today. I read where you said 3D won’t happen until we get holographic displays. You’re right, and it’s here, if on a personal level. Neowin’s Chris White interviewed a Vizux representative at CES and the vid is on Neowin. So I took a trip to the company website to learn more. This is true cutting edge stuff. The possibilities (as well as what’s here already) are amazing! (Photo credit Vizux) Say tech help is needed. The guy c...
Continuing with Laptops: Samsung has a design winner Series 9: (Credit cnet) “Samsung says it's 37 percent thinner and 0.4 pound lighter, and after playing around with a preproduction unit, the new body feels more like Apple's unibody style. Samsung says it's 37 percent thinner and 0.4 pound lighter, and after playing around with a preproduction unit, the new body feels more like Apple's unibody style.” http://www.cnet.com/8301...
Also, Lightroom 3 heavily discounted. This one via Island Dog (thank you!). You can give Adobe Lightroom 4 a whirl for free (at least until March 31 when the RTM arrives) according to The Verge. What’s new? It’s dropping support for XP. Vista and W7 are supported, Mac OSX, Lion are supported but Lion not in full screen mode. More support for video files, allowing users to trim clips nondestructively and extract individual frames as JPEGs. Editing adj...
OK, so yesterday you started getting the news about the strong pushes at CES 2012. “Laptops: The Empire Strikes Back” Last year CES belonged to the Pads. This year the big push is to sleek, super thin and fast performers. And you’ll be happy to hear that what used to cost up there in the stratosphere will now be in the less than $1,000 range. Vizio’s the newest of the players. I talked about that yesterday. (image credit: The Verge) Sony is the...
How about a cool slideout on which you choose keyboard/screen or thin tablet mode? Or maybe a traditional notebook… but with the palm rest/touchpad being transparent on which you get notifications on W8 from your email and RSS feeds? This area can be interacted with only you don’t have to open your notebook to do it! So, no smart phone needed for that. The Intel Nikisi prototype. &...
This one just might take over from CCleaner on my machine. Why? Preston Gralla (PCWorld): “This freebie does a neat job of cleaning out the Registry junk. It scans the Registry, flagging orphaned or bad Registry entries, and shows you the name and values for each. It identifies Registry entries that may be dangerous to delete, and those that are safe to delete, so you can distinguish between the two. It also lets you decide which entries to delete, and which to keep. Fo...
On the face of it, it would make you think “What kind of Security Software is this?” when actually it wasn’t Norton’s fault at all. That’s when this one starts to unravel like a John le Carré spy novel. The code (or part of it) was stolen from a “third party”. The Indian Army. I guess they really do need some beefing up of their security, by a group called (insert dramatic name here) “Lords of Dharmaraja”. The good news?...