Xobni
Posted on May 7, 2008 - Filed Under Microsoft, Software, Tech News | Leave a Comment
A startup called Xobni has just released a new, free plug-in for Microsoft Outlook that aims to help make email more searchable and more social. Xobni — which is inbox spelled backwards — appears as a collapsible, vertical sidebar situated on the right-hand side of the Outlook window.
The software’s main function is search, and it does […]
Green Data
Posted on May 1, 2008 - Filed Under Environment, Tech News | Leave a Comment
What color is your data? Data center, that is. Odds are, it’s not very green.
Recent studies of pollution causes have discovered a new, major source out there. Not cars and planes but data centers. Hard to believe but projections are that those centers and the many yet to come will outstrip
PPU - PayPerUsage
Posted on April 27, 2008 - Filed Under Internet, Tech News | Leave a Comment
By some estimates, the average broadband equipped home will use more than a terabyte of bandwidth per month by 2010. High-bandwidth apps like peer-to-peer sharing and high-quality streaming video are putting a hit on current networks and building a greater infrastructure will be very expensive, so ISPs are
Read More..>>Ring Fring
Posted on April 23, 2008 - Filed Under Apple, Tech News, VoIP, iPhone | Leave a Comment
Get ready for free VoIP calls on your iPhone. An Israeli company called Fring announced that it has started public testing of an application for the iPhone called Fring, which allows users to make and receive calls using voice over IP technology. Fring bypasses any
Read More..>>Even Faster
Posted on April 2, 2008 - Filed Under Internet, Tech News | Leave a Comment
Comcast has announced that folks in the Twin Cities will be the first to check out their new Internet service which brings downloads in at around 50Mbps and uploads up to 5Mbps. As one would expect, this comes at a price — around $150 per month. A bit tasty to me, but as with everything […]
Read More..>>Vista SP1 Update
Posted on March 20, 2008 - Filed Under Microsoft, Tech News | Leave a Comment
Now that SP1 has been available for a few weeks at the corporate level, and just prior to the rollout of SP1 via Automatic Updates, comes the realization(as reported by a number of users), that all is not well with this rollout.
I wrote earlier of the huge size (1.3GB) and install time, 45 minutes minimum. […]
Rural Connectivity
Posted on March 19, 2008 - Filed Under Devices, Tech News | Leave a Comment
It’s almost as if they were listening……
Hot on the heels of my recent diatribe on dial-up in the US, Intel says they’ve developed a new wifi technology aimed at extending existing wifi networks into rural under-served areas. Dubbed the rural connectivity platform (RCP), the node consists of a processor, radios, specialized software and an antenna […]
Zombot
Posted on March 16, 2008 - Filed Under General, Tech News | 1 Comment
A bot is a compromised computer controlled by cash-hungry crooks. That’s about as simple as I can state it. There are situations where bot ‘owners’ have nefarious goals in mind, but in most cases the bottom line motivation is cash, plain and simple.
A botnet is a bunch of bots..a big bunch. Thousands to millions. Mostly […]
Google Loses Employees
Posted on March 7, 2008 - Filed Under Google, Tech News | Leave a Comment
Nearly a third of the first 500 employees at Google have already left the firm.
Seems like when you get rich after an IPO and have had a couple of years of dynamite stock growth, it takes a little of the edge off. Not that Google isn’t still a great place to work, but after you […]
High Speed Internet
Posted on March 4, 2008 - Filed Under Tech News | Leave a Comment
Ok, you’ve already got me beat with your 10Mb pipe. But just you wait till I get my really hi-speed connection. Ok again, you’ll probably have yours first, but check these numbers for jaw-dropping.
Bell Research, along with Alcatel-Lucent has hit a new land speed record for optical data transfer.
The speed?