According to our anonymous tipster, .Mac will undergo a complete revamp that will coincide with the iPhone 2.0 launch (which everyone expect to occur at WWDC 08).
Taken from the transcript of the interview with Bill Gates and Steve Jobs at the D5 conference on May 30, 2007.Walt Mossberg (addressing Steve Jobs): You obviously have a very large Internet business with iTunes and you sell a lot of stuff…
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One of my friends lost his job this week. He worked in the chem department of a pharmaceutical company, doing something that went completely over my head while he was explaining it to me. Ive been in a similar situation? its not uncommon for companies to just run out of funding or to have massive sweeping layoffs.
My friend was a chem PhD looking for very specific niche working with protein synthesis. I love programming. But I don’t love Java. I don’t love the publishing industry. And I don’t love the OS I’m working…
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In a new series of People Behind KDE interviews, we visit the United States of America to meet a KDE developer with an affinity for education, accessibility, and Asian culture, a person who works on getting you Hot New Stuff - tonight’s star of People Behind KDE is Jeremy Paul Whiting.
I work on KDE because I like C++/Qt, the KDE libraries, and the community. I think the current state of the desktop “wars” is over (hopefully), although there are still some stubborn developers on both sides, but I think…
Widely regarded as the first laptop computer, the GRiD Compass was designed in 1979 and made available in 1982. Each unit sold for over $8,000 (taking inflation into account, thats the equivalent of $18,000 today). It even went aboard the space shuttle!
On to the technical details. The Compass used the then hugely popular Intel 8086 processor, 384K of magnetic bubble memory, a 320×200 monochrome ELD screen, and a 1200bps modem. External storage in the form of hard and floppy drives could…
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Dying?
Nobody knows how committed Facebook is to improving the platform or the role applications are meant to play in the overall Facebook ecosystem. Signals like the reduced level of direct participation in the developer community, increasingly…
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Later this month, Apple is opening its latest flagship store on Boylston Street in Boston. The store’s main claim to fame? It’s huge. We’re talking largest Apple Store in the world, by square footage.
I think NY thinks everyone has an inferiority complex. by Jordan Golson at 02:37 PM on 05/05/08 Reply by Email * @Dearhaw: No inferiority-complex in that comment. Nope. None. by mordecaidrake at 02:39 PM on 05/05/08 Reply by Email * Lame,…
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Over the last few days a number of popular bloggers have complained, loudly, that its time to ditch Twitter and move to a decentralized version of the service that wont go down every time usage spikes…Chris Saad, co-founder of DataPortability and founder of startup Faraday Media, thinks he knows one way Twitter can be decentralized effectively.
I read blog posts and comments about twitter’s scalability problems for a while now. What i keep wondering is how come no one is looking at the traditional ways the software industry is scaling large scale data distribution issues. Look…
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If Ubuntu 8.04 presents so few problems for Mrs RD, it must be doing pretty much everything right, mustn’t it?
MRS Red Devil is, without being unkind, not the most computer literate person on the planet.She is a wonderful wife and mother, a faithful friend, kind and generous with her time and energy – and very cute, to boot.But when it comes to…
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Brazil often makes Linux-related headlines, the latest being the adoption of KDE in Brazilian public schools. Its clear that Brazil is enamored with Linux, but why? This is an important question for Microsoft since emerging markets are key to sales growth.
Before Windows Genuine Advantage, Microsoft’s strategy was to ignore the pirates: sell to the corporations, let everyone else copy it. Now regular people are growing third arms and paying for Windows licenses. Fair enough:…
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!= ubuntu girlfirend
My questions arise after reading both a Digg post & eventually a linked post on Linux today with a test one done on Content Consumer. It was a well thought out document on how his girlfriend thought, & how being out of her comfort zone and into something new would work out.
Johnny hadn't noticed the add/remove programs yet, & since he had some success on Google finding what he needed to get his monitors working, heck why not! He tried the help section earlier and type in “dual monitors”, but…
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“Take a few minutes to reflect on the world-changing tool that RSS is, and consider how different our lives would be without it.”
<a href=”http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/lone_remaining_burmese_blogger.php”>News from Burmese blogger “Niknayman”</a><iframe style=”margin: 10px; padding: 10px; float: left”…
There was good news for Apple and Comcast, but bad news for Blockbuster woven into Time Warners conference call with investors today. Jeff Bewkes, Time Warners chief executive, said that the companys Warner Brothers studio will now release movies for video-on-demand systems on the same day they are released as DVDs.
All this represents the beginning of the end for the Hollywood system of sales windows? that are used to extract the most profits from a movie. Still, films are released first to theaters, and they are only available on…
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The next generation of iPhone appears set to claim exclusive access to advanced graphics core and video decoding technology, thanks to a secret licensing deal between Apple, mobile graphics leader Imagination Technologies, and Samsung, the iPhone’s ARM “system on a chip” manufacturer. The result may be an ideal platform for handheld gaming and high
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Funny concept, Lenovo — manila envelope stuffing was just ripe for a demonstration of what all you typical MacBook Air user is going to need on hand.
That's a good one. Admittedly, IBM thinkpads are some sweet looking hardware, but I wouldn't run vista if they paid me a consulting fee. We should start separating our hardware from our software and leave it to personal preference….
