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• RIM's Lazaridis on why Qwerty's still working

  RIM's co-CEO tells Silicon.com why he believes smartphones are the future, why Qwerty is so exciting, and why the Bold has nothing to do with the iPhone. BlackBerry maker RIM ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Components, Peripherals, Handhelds, Hardware, Qwerty, Silicon.com, Apple iPhone, Consumer electronics, Touch Screen

  May 16, 2008 11:25 AM PDT

• Microsoft, HP ready XP SP3 endless-reboot patches

  Help is on its way for users affected by the Windows XP Service Pack SP 3 endless-reboot problem that has plagued some users for the past week-plus. Both Microsoft and ...

  Tags: Mary Jo Foley

  May 16, 2008 11:23 AM PDT

• Moonlight, the Silverlight for Linux project, releases first public version

  Miguel de Icaza has announced that that the first public sourcecode release of Moonlight CNET articleis now available. This version of Moonlight is based on Silverlight 1.0 and not the ...

  Tags: Web Browsers, Linux, Operating Systems, Ryan Stewart, Open Source, Internet, Software, Microsoft Silverlight, UNIX

  May 16, 2008 11:21 AM PDT

• Office 2008 for Mac: The straw that broke the backs of Microsoft's Windows developers?

  Could it be that a Macintosh program will be the tipping point for the confidence that ISVs have in Microsoft as a technology partner? One c-level technologist for a Windows ...

  Tags: David Morgenstern, Engineer, ISV, Microsoft Windows, Developer, Scripting Languages, Web Development, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft VBA, Software/Web Development

  May 16, 2008 10:53 AM PDT

• XP meets XO: Will Linux get an equal shot?

  Updated: The One Laptop Per Child program will put XP on its XO laptop and children in the developing world will have a choice between Windows and Linux. On the ...

  Tags: Linux, Laptop Computer, Operating Systems, XO, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows XP, One Laptop Per Child Project, XP Screen, Software, Microsoft Windows

  May 16, 2008 10:48 AM PDT

• McAfee's HackerSafe: "Um... we go in like a super hacker"

  God is good and created YouTube for laughs and giggles on Friday, and I couldn't help myself at taking a good chuckle at this.  I saw this youtube video posting which ...

  Tags: Nathan McFeters, McAfee Inc., God, Hacker, Security, XSS, Logo

  May 16, 2008 10:45 AM PDT

• Nortel Demos Virtual World Platform

  Nortel demoed a virtual world prototype here in a Ottowa at a day long event. Dubbed Web Alive, the virtual world is the first project to come out of Nortel ...

  Tags: Channel Management, Web, Telecommunications, Voice, Collaboration, Marketing, Nortel Networks Corp., Web Alive, Dave Greenfield, World Platform

  May 16, 2008 10:28 AM PDT

• Freak helicopter death turns into an anti-iPod story

  Is it me of has this story of death by helicopter been hijacked by the anti-iPod brigade? The death of a pedestrian in Cranbrook, B.C., on Tuesday has raised the question ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Apple iPod, Helicopter, Digital Media, Digital Music, Consumer Electronics, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

  May 16, 2008 10:12 AM PDT

• 2007 US ad revenues up 26%

  The Interactive Advertising Bureau IAB and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP PwC announced that the 2007 Internet Advertising Revenue Report shows Internet advertising revenues in the US continued their upward climb. For the ...

  Tags: Advertisement, Finance, AM, Internet, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Revenue, Internet Advertising, Operational Accounting

  May 16, 2008 10:12 AM PDT

• Rumor Mill: What's next from Apple (updated)

  It's Friday, which means that it's time to look at the latest raft of rumors about our favorite Cupertino company. Atom-powered mini-tablet This one was pretty hot. ZDNet.de reported that ...

  Tags: Apple Inc., Apple MacBook, Notebooks, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Apple iPhone, Intel Corp., Minitablet PC, Jason D. O\'Grady

  May 16, 2008 9:42 AM PDT

• Jerry Yang is busy...Writing email

  Yahoo filed its internal communications about Carl Icahn's proxy war plans with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The takeaway: Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang has been writing a lot of emails. ...

  Tags: Stockholder, Carl Icahn, Company, Corporate Law, Corporate Governance, Larry Dignan, Annual Meeting, E-mail, Jerry Yang, Director

  May 16, 2008 9:29 AM PDT

• Windows 7 ship date? The crowd has spoken...

  Last month, I kicked off the Windows 7 release date prediction pool with my analysis on why I think Windows 7 will be released in time for the holiday buying ...

  Tags: Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Ed Bott, Software, Microsoft Windows

  May 16, 2008 9:23 AM PDT

• Ready for the iProd?

  I felt certain this was an April Fool's joke, but apparently there's a real patent application behind it. (Picture from New Scientist.) Call it the iProd. The idea is you ...

  Tags: Components, Human Resources, Monitors & Displays, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Health Care, Dana Blankenhorn, Hardware, Monitor, Software

  May 16, 2008 9:19 AM PDT

• Automatic eyeglasses prescriptions?

  For its space missions, NASA wants astronauts with excellent vision without corrective lenses or glasses. This doesn't prevent its Vision Science and Technology Group to study human vision of ordinary ...

  Tags: Management, NASA, Metric, Roland Piquepaille, Strategy, Vision, Model

  May 16, 2008 9:05 AM PDT

• Universal coverage changes the debate

  Once you start following countries with universal health care, it's clear that problems remain but the terms of debate shifts. Take Canada, for instance. (Please?) Questions of how much money ...

  Tags: Human Resources, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Health Care, Government, Dana Blankenhorn, Canada, Software, Benefits, Enterprise Software

  May 16, 2008 8:59 AM PDT

• Putting the XP into the OLPC

  So, Microsoft has managed to get in on the OLPC bandwagon and put XP in front of millions of eyeballs in the developing world. But is this move about the ...

  Tags: Management, Operating Systems, Team Management, Microsoft Windows XP, Team, One Laptop Per Child Project, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Microsoft Windows

  May 16, 2008 8:47 AM PDT

• Fight card: AMD Radeon 4800 vs. Nvidia GTX 200

  The high-end graphics card market isn't the straightforward, mano-a-mano battle it used to be. Graphics cards with dual GPUs, systems with multiple cards in CrossFire or SLI implementations, and most ...

  Tags: Graphics, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., GPU, Radeon, John Morris, NVidia Corp., Card

  May 16, 2008 8:44 AM PDT

• Yet another "iPhone killer:" Blackberry's Thunder (updated)

  Did you hear that John Mayer is cheating on Apple again? That's right, Apple's poster boy blogged that he's using a Blackberry Bold. Not really surprising considering that RIM sponsored ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Peripherals, Handhelds, Hardware, Verizon Communications Inc., Consumer Electronics, Apple iPhone, 3G, Cellular Phones, Keyboards

  May 16, 2008 8:17 AM PDT

• WinXP on XO laptops OK as long as Linux runs, too

  Microsoft's agreement to offer Windows XP on OLPC's XO laptop is appropriate and long overdue. It was pure hypocrasy for Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates to publicly decry the so-called "Digital ...

  Tags: Bill Gates, Operating System, Laptop Computer, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Gates Foundation, Operating Systems, Microsoft Corp., XO

  May 16, 2008 8:07 AM PDT

• Photo of rumored Palm Treo 800w appears

  Back in the day when I had a Palm OS Treo I used to load up the custom ROMs created by Shadowmite since they took out a bunch of junk ...

  Tags: Peripherals, Matthew Miller, Handhelds, Photograph, Hardware, Palm OS, Microsoft Windows, Palm Treo, Operating Systems, Palm Inc.

  May 16, 2008 7:40 AM PDT

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