Archive for March, 2007
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Tuesday, March 13th, 2007Viacom sues Google for $1B. Looks like at least one of the media giants is throwing down the gauntlet on copyright infringement. A pretty big gauntlet at $1 billion, all aimed at allegedly illegal stuff being uploaded to YouTube. (Source: InfoWorld)
Intel gets into NAND hard drives. Well, ‘hard drive’ seems a bit of an ambitious […]
Microsoft releases a FireFox plugin?
Monday, March 12th, 2007Apparently so. What’s next? Honesty in politics? The death of reality TV? The triumphant return of Bea Arthur?
I hope this is just the first salvo in Microsoft actually acknowledging that FireFox exists. It would be really nice to hit their site with FireFox to download patches and do basic navigation without jumping through hoops and […]
Review of Iomega’s New NAS
Monday, March 12th, 2007Just finished this mini-review of Iomega’s new StorCenter 150d. Looks like the bigger 200d, but is meant for smaller companies. You can get it setup with 1TB or even 2TB, but where the 200d is run by the more expensive Windows Storage Server, the 150d uses a Linux/Web interface that’s way cheaper yet still goes […]
Today in Tech; 3/12
Monday, March 12th, 2007RIP Richard Jeni.
Vista virus troubles. Microsoft has been pushing OneCare hard as the virus/malware defender of choice for Vista. Lots of one-click sign-up options when you’re loading Vista from scratch. Bit of a dent in the marketing fender then, that in a recent Austrian AV study it finished dead last behind its biggest competitors. […]
Expensive air
Saturday, March 10th, 2007So I’m sitting in Manchester-Boston airport, loving the free WiFi. Of course, my flight boards in a few minutes, and when I get to O’Hare, I’ll be in a blackhole of T-Mobile WiFi. Since T-Mobile doesn’t have any service in my area, I have no need for an account, so to log on and check […]
Preview of the FlipStart micro PC
Thursday, March 8th, 2007Just banged this out for InfoWorld; a preview of Vulcan’s FlipStart mini-PC. The idea is to be as portable as a phone but as useful as a notebook. Soon as something gets smaller it suddenly scores huge cool points, but as I’m holding the thing, I must say: I have serious doubts.
This thing is the […]
Today in Tech; 3/8
Thursday, March 8th, 2007Samsung releases first hybrid hard drive. You knew they were coming, flash hard disks are here and they’re going to doom the platter variety in a number of markets, especially mobile. Samsung’s are first but there are more coming. These are called MH80 hybrid hard drives and will be available in sizes of 80GB, 100GB […]
More InfoWorld LIVE! Radio
Wednesday, March 7th, 2007I’ve got InfoWorld LIVE! episode 7 up on the SMB IT blog. This week, we’re getting into small business VoIP. Coolness, products and whether it has a real future. Paul V. is a guest this week, too, so I get to zang him at least three times. Just click on the link above if you […]
Today in Tech; 3/7
Wednesday, March 7th, 2007Dammit, I gotta remember to pay bills tomorrow. Too drunk tonight.
Would this not have happened under Linux? A CT man awaiting trial for selling guns and bomb-making stuff, is suing Microsoft. Reason? He’s facing in-court embarrassment after FBI technicians cracked the security on his Windows XP PC and found his apparently semi-legal porn stash. Now […]
Why two disks may not be better than one
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007Well, not the disks themselves. Actually, I get kinda giddy thinking about 1TB 3.5″ SATA drives, but that’s beside the point. With the obvious goal of “bigger better faster more”, many consumer storage vendors are trotting out two-disk RAID0 disks, like Oliver’s IOmega StorCenter. They’re pushed as centralized storage for pictures, video, music, and so […]
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