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Thursday, April 19th, 2007Sneak peek at Silverlight. Just in case you’re into keynote demos, this is a link to the demo that Microsoft gave at NAB 2007 showing early screens and animations done with its new Silverlight Flash competitor. (Source: PC World)
Google redoes Froogle. Apparently, it wasn’t doing that well–not sure why, it was definitely my favorite site […]
Nerd News Today; 4/13
Friday, April 13th, 2007Most AV programs can’t find Storm. PC World just did a quick test to see how bad the Storm Worm impact is. Turns out most AV programs don’t find it. Test included 31 different virus programs of which only Clam, Kapersky, and Symantec reported the little bastard. Back to Clam AV for me on XP […]
Nerd News Today; 4/12
Thursday, April 12th, 2007Sony to do 1mil:1 aspect ratio TV. This is the OLED TV that Sony showed us at CES 2007 in January. Only problem is that it’s not the 27-inch model we saw at CES that would be capable of full 1080p resolution. Instead it’s going to be an 11-inch (nope, not a typo) capable […]
Nerd News Today; 4/11
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007Halo 3 coming soon. Microsoft’s announced the date: May 16. Coming for the xBox 360 first and then us poor PC players can start looking for it later this year. (Source: GamePro)
Young scientists at NASA open-sourcing space program. This is kinda cool. Seems there’s a small clique of scientists looking to get the public involved […]
Nerd News Today; 4/9
Monday, April 9th, 2007ICANN thinking about going private…again. They’ve been talking about this or a variant for some time. Either private or owned by the UN. Right now, it’s private after that strategy was recommended in the President’s Strategy Committee report. I don’t think the UN is the way to go, but total privatization has me worried, too. […]
Nerd News Today; 4/3
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007Yet more virtualization news. Virtualization has to be one of the bigger industry buzzwords since…Pong. Anyway, there’s yet more news in this dept.: the Xen people just announced a new XenEnterprise, which boasts better Windows support and will be out in June. (Source: CNET)
InfoWorld’s last print issue yesterday. They wasted no time. It’s not dead […]
Nerd News Today; 4/2
Monday, April 2nd, 2007Wireless power for gadgets! How many times have you enjoyed something like a wireless headphone only to curse at the jumble of power cables on your desk? Get set for relief. A new startup, called Powercast, says it’s got an FCC-approved and safe method to send power to small devices via RF. Could be on […]
The fists of God
Friday, March 30th, 2007Earlier this evening — well before several Lagavulins with Jon Udell — I posted to my InfoWorld blog about two high-end workstations I’ve been using for the past month or so. I get a lot of “I could build that system for $20 from newegg.com” emails whenever I post about workstations, but honestly, that’s just […]
CompUSA closing stores, Oliver’s dilemma
Saturday, March 17th, 2007Just got a call from our erstwhile friend Oliver. He was standing in a CompUSA near Edison, NJ, and sounded like a Supermarket Spree contestant. Apparently CompUSA is closing a bunch of stores, and those stores are selling everything except the walls at steep discounts. Note: This includes all Apple hardware.
The 15″ MacBook Pro that […]
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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