Scrabulous returns as Wordscraper. Netflix working with LG only for downloads? NASA looking for water on Mars. The Greek computer stories I am now convinced is a BS PR stunt. Yahoo exec makes Yuil search engine to show up Cuil. EDS to be part of HP. Microsoft redoes the search engine yet again. IE beta […]
Entries from July 2008
Is Ancient Greek Computer a PR Stunt for Olympics?
July 31st, 2008 · No Comments
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2100-Year-old Computer Works!
July 30th, 2008 · No Comments
UK hacker to finally be extradited to USA. A waste of the taxpayers money. Scrabulous lives on the Web. Dell going back into the music player business. 2100 year old Greek computer being revisited. Lake of petroleum on Saturn’s moon. Intel cheap computer a hit in Portugal. Microsoft’s Vista trick getting analyzed by everyone. Then there’s […]
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India to Develop $10 Laptop!?! What?
July 29th, 2008 · No Comments
Facebook ditches Scrabulous. Adobe releases 64-bit Photoshop Lightroom 2. Microsoft shows off new spherical display device. Get your own jetpack for $100,000. Dell bringing out mini-desktop, perhaps a smart phone and Wal-Mart laptops. 70-percent of Government laptops are stupidly unencrypted. DS piracy rampant in Japan. India going to develop a $10 Laptop. Will Android merge […]
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Apple MobileMe Has Issues
July 28th, 2008 · No Comments
New search engine flops with too much PR and no oomph. FCC cannot police Comcast but they can shake fist at the company. Apple MobileMe having issues. Company has yet to patch DNS hole as other get attacked by DNS poisoning. China has 560 million mobile phone users. Wow. Microsoft all over the news […]
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This device is great
July 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Blogging directly from iPhone. This is great. I can’t get over how computerlike this thing is. I will start taking donations for an unlocked phone of my own shortly. Or I might sell my car. We will see.
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WinPwn 2.0 is out
July 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment
Prepare for iPhone 2.0 pwnage….
http://www.winpwn.com
EDIT: Not so much. Tried a variety of methods and suggestions but no joy. Will wait to see what the community comes up with. Back to 1.1.4 for now. No Exchange support
EDIT: We have Pwnage! After many sleepless hours (OK, a few) 2.0 is running flawlessly on the 1st […]
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Digg to be Sold to Google?
July 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
I wonder what to do with the sound effects. Will Microsoft change the interface on the Xbox360? Child Online Protection Act has been over-turned. New law needed. Looks like Google may buy Digg for$200 million. CherryPal announces terminal calls it something else. Wiis selling like hotcakes down under. Spam King gets nearly 4 years […]
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GM Gearing Up for Electric Car Era
July 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
Apple looking better and better but margin cuts may hurt the stock price. I like the way Apple does updates for the Mac. TiVO and Amazon doing a deal where you can watch live TV and then buy a product that you see on the show out-of-the blue. People do not watch entertainment just to […]
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The Mouse is Dead. Long Live the Mouse.
July 21st, 2008 · No Comments
Intel cuts chip prices. This means cheaper computers for everyone. Interesting lawsuits over Facebook clones. iPhone 3G sold oil. Mac now number three in the race to make the most computers. They passed Acer. One-fifth of all retail spending now online. Total Internet reaches 1.5 billion users. Amazon S3 outage questions the cloud. Computer mouse […]
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1st Gen iPhone in hand
July 21st, 2008 · No Comments
Thanks to my great and generous friend Jay Gould, I am currently working through my first hands-on experience with the iPhone. It is currently operating on firmware 1.1.4 and is unlocked, jailbroken and running on my T-Mobile SIM. The 2.0 hack is supposed to be out shortly for Windows and I’ll give that a shot […]
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