Free Software from Bill
Posted on February 19, 2008 - Filed Under Tech News | Leave a Comment
Gatesy is announcing today that starting in 10 countries, Microsoft is giving away development tools to students to stir their creative juices (and hopefully create new customers for life).
He’s giving away Visual Studio, Expression Studio, SQL Server, Windows Server, and some more stuff.
China is one of the countries he’s giving to. Odd, I thought they […]
Green and Red
Posted on February 18, 2008 - Filed Under Science News | Leave a Comment
Little green men on the red planet…not so say the scientists. In a ‘revealing’ analysis of all the trudging around Mars that the rovers have done, the brainiacs have written off life on Mars ‘as we know it Jim’. Seems that ancient evidence of water they found would just be too oxidizing and salty for […]
Read More..>>Wally Owns the Ball
Posted on February 17, 2008 - Filed Under Tech News | Leave a Comment
It’s my ball and I say….
When you’re the biggest, toughest kid on the block, you get to call the shots….so when Sony and Toshiba went to fisticuffs over whose HD standard would be top banana, guess what? Big boy Wal-Mart stepped in to settle the dispute.’It’s Blu-Ray I say!’ And just like that, game […]
64GB Flash
Posted on February 16, 2008 - Filed Under Devices | Leave a Comment
Samsung has started production on a line of 64GB Flash devices. We’re finally ramping up toward the demise of the old Winchester hard drive structure that has cobbled everything from speed to size to reliability over the years of computer history.
These cards will
Spread the Sheets
Posted on February 15, 2008 - Filed Under Google Docs | Leave a Comment
Google recently did a pretty cool thing. They came out with a new feature - forms. By combining spreadsheets with bulk e-mail, the new function lets you send mail with fields to fill in. As different recipients do that, the spreadsheet gets completed. So it’s like
Read More..>>Street View Maps from Google
Posted on February 14, 2008 - Filed Under Google Maps | Leave a Comment
Looks like Google adds about 35 street level view maps of cities in the US in the course of a year. The latest are Juneau, Boise, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Manchester, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Albany, and Schenectady. I guess G can only
Read More..>>Black(and blue)Berry
Posted on February 13, 2008 - Filed Under Devices | Leave a Comment
Customers of RIM (Research in Motion) were aghast and taken aback on the 11th when they lost service for a few hours. The more we depend on these kinds of devices, obviously the more we miss ‘em when they don’t work. RIM is naturally catching a lot of heat
Read More..>>Adsense Anguish
Posted on February 12, 2008 - Filed Under Google Adsense | 2 Comments
“While going through our records recently, we found that your AdSense
account has posed a significant risk to our AdWords advertisers.”
Oh how sweet….I spend all this time the last couple of years ‘optimizing’ for a little monthly Adsense income and just about to get my next 100$ check and our friends at GA decide
Here They Go Again
Posted on February 12, 2008 - Filed Under Merger News | 1 Comment
Wasn’t it just last May that MSFT and YHOO were looking at some sort of partnership, if not outright merger? Those talks broke off almost before they got started with analysts saying that Yahoo was worth $50Bil. What are they worth now? In the interim, GOOG has increased its hold on search plus a myriad […]
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