Nov 19th, 2008 · Gregg Keizer sifted through many threads of e-mails released under the 'Vista Capable' lawsuit to dig up this jewel...More than a year before Windows Vista's release — and long before Apple started poking fun at the OS — Microsoft officials …
see also: premium · Microsoft · Windows · computer · Apple · consumer · 2005
Nov 19th, 2008 · Gregg Keizer sifted through many threads of e-mails released under the 'Vista Capable' lawsuit to dig up this jewel...More than a year before Windows Vista's release — and long before Apple started poking fun at the OS — Microsoft officials …
see also: premium · Microsoft · Windows · computer · Apple · consumer · 2005
Nov 16th, 2008 · The Wall Street Journal has a look at global warming research using rubber duckies. The toys have been employed in tracking ocean currents since 1992; but recently NASA robotics expert Alberto Behar released 90 yellow rubber ducks into the melt water …
see also: robots · research · NASA · Wall Street Journal · global · Language · Greenland
Oct 30th, 2008 · The Wall Street Journal is reporting that MTV's Rock Band has gained the licenses to an undetermined number of songs. Details are scant, but it would be nice to see a whole game based on just the evolution of The Beatles' music. According to Reuters, …
see also: Music · Wall Street Journal · licensing · evolution · songs · privacy · Beatles
Oct 28th, 2008 · According to the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft has been making a concerted effort to promote Windows in Africa, pushing Windows over Linux in very poor countries that haven't been locked into a single operating system. From the article: 'To that end, …
see also: Linux · business · Microsoft · Windows · computer · Wall Street Journal · donates
Oct 12th, 2008 · The Wall Street Journal is running an essay from Lawrence Lessig about the fair use of copyrighted material on the Internet. He makes the case that companies who go to extreme lengths to squash minor videos, such as Universal, are stifling creativity …
see also: video · Internet · defense · piracy · copyrighted · Wall Street Journal · Companies
Oct 12th, 2008 · marshotel excerpts from a story at the Wall Street Journal: "European law-enforcement officials uncovered a highly sophisticated credit-card fraud ring that funnels account data to Pakistan from hundreds of grocery-store card machines across Europe, according …
see also: intelligent · Europe · laws · fraud · technology · Machine · Wall Street Journal
Oct 11th, 2008 · marshotel excerpts from a story at the Wall Street Journal: "European law-enforcement officials uncovered a highly sophisticated credit-card fraud ring that funnels account data to Pakistan from hundreds of grocery-store card machines across Europe, according …
see also: intelligent · Europe · laws · fraud · technology · Machine · Wall Street Journal
Oct 11th, 2008 · The Wall Street Journal is running an essay from Lawrence Lessig about the fair use of copyrighted material on the Internet. He makes the case that companies who go to extreme lengths to squash minor videos, such as Universal, are stifling creativity …
see also: video · Internet · defense · piracy · copyrighted · Wall Street Journal · Companies
Oct 8th, 2008 · While America's attention has shifted to the economic meltdown and the presidential race between corporate favorites John McCain and Barack Obama, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) National Applications …
see also: intelligent · laws · corporate · presidential · Wall Street Journal · technologies · enforcement
Oct 5th, 2008 · Most of you are the free IT staff of friends and family, just as I am. One of my largest headaches is backing up their data. What I am looking for allows for off-site storage on multiple server machines running Linux, has Linux & Windows clients that …
see also: Linux · servers · software · Windows · photos · reliable · Machine
Oct 4th, 2008 · Most of you are the free IT staff of friends and family, just as I am. One of my largest headaches is backing up their data. What I am looking for allows for off-site storage on multiple server machines running Linux, has Linux & Windows clients that …
see also: Linux · servers · software · Windows · photos · reliable · Machine
Sep 18th, 2008 · For the second time, the Wall Street Journal health blog has questioned whether premed students should be forced to suffer through organic chemistry. Dozens of doctors weighed in with comments, and many of them seem to think that the wry subject is almost …
see also: blog · Science · students · research · patient · health · Wall Street Journal
Sep 14th, 2008 · Yahoo! has taken a step beyond Google by opening up its website and other services to third-party developers, the Wall Street Journal is reporting. 'The efforts ... range from allowing users to search other content — such as classified-ad sites …
see also: Google · service · Online · Music · download · company · Yahoo
Sep 10th, 2008 · The Wall Street Journal reports that Google News crawled an obscure reprint of an article from 2002 when United Airlines was on the brink of bankruptcy. United Airlines has since recovered but due to a missing dateline, Google News ran the story as today's …
see also: Google · popularity · Wall Street Journal · newspaper · Bloomberg · 2002 · dollars
Sep 10th, 2008 · According to the Financial Times, Google has announced their support for a new initiative called O3B to 'bring internet access to 3bn people in Africa and other emerging markets by launching at least 16 satellites to bring its services to the unconnected' …
see also: PC · bandwidth · network · Google · service · history · Internet
Sep 9th, 2008 · Van Cutter Romney was one of several to write with that story that "The Justice department has secretly hired former Walt Disney lawyer Sanford Litvack for a possible antitrust suit against Google. As reported earlier, the Justice Department is investigating …
see also: Google · Online · antitrust · advertising · Yahoo · Wall Street Journal · Subpoenas
Sep 6th, 2008 · Anti-Globalism sends us to a Wall Street Journal for a report that Dell plans to sell its factories in an effort to revamp its production model. Quoting: "Dell's plants are still regarded as efficient at churning out desktop PCs. But within the industry, …
see also: PC · service · products · computer · Portable · desktop · company
Aug 20th, 2008 · The Wall Street Journal is reporting that a Maryland start-up company has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Nintendo, alleging four patent violations — three in the Wiimote alone. "The start-up, Hillcrest Laboratories Inc. of Rockville, …
see also: software · commission · company · Lawsuits · infringements · Wall Street Journal · console
Jul 16th, 2008 · Microsoft executives are reportedly meeting with their AOL counterparts to discuss combining the two companies' online divisions. No one from either side is willing to comment, nor has the structure of the supposed deal been worked out. The original unconfirmed …
see also: protection · Online · Microsoft · Yahoo · Wall Street Journal · WSJ · division