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EddieC in a Nutshell
My first computer was an Atari 800, at which I dabbled with my BASIC programs around 1980. I moved on to PCs, clones and NetWare after 1984, and later to Apple IIs and Macs until 1990. In July of that year I got my first job at a publishing company, supporting about 25 Mac users (anyone remember... (Read Blog)
Microsoft continues to reach out and touch mobile device makers and their carriers. The company today announced a deal with Research in Motion that will enhance integration between Microsoft’s Windows Live services and Blackberry 7000 and 8000 series devices as well as the BlackBerry Bold, a...
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Research in Motion has thrown its BlackBerry hat into the iPhone ring with BlackBerry Bold, the latest version of the company’s line of sleek, multimedia savvy smartphones.
According to a RIM press release, the new unit is “crafted from premium materials inside and out, that radiate elegance...
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cscgal in a Nutshell
Hi everyone. For those of you who don't know me, I'm Dani. I live on Long Island, about 20 minutes outside Manhattan, have my B.S. in Computer Science, and currently run DaniWeb fulltime. (Read Blog)
This is rather local news for us New Yorkers, but it has just been announced that Cablevision beat out Rupert Murdoch and Mortimer Zuckerman to buy Newsday for $650 million.
Cablevision provides cable television, cable Internet, and voip service to the tri-state area (the areas of New York, New...
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khess in a Nutshell
I am a techie, a Linux evangelist, and an activist of sorts. My tagline should be: "If you need an opinion, I'll give you mine." (Read Blog)
Welcome back to Crystal Ball Sunday. This week in the Crystal Ball are my predictions for OpenSolaris vs. Linux. The release of OpenSolaris on May 5th has caused quite a stir. Many say that it will replace Linux on the Desktop and in the Data Center.
My first prediction is that there will be...
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ASUS announced that their new EEE 900 PC sporting Windows XP (Vista won't run on it) will cost $50 AUD less than its Linux counterpart. I am no economist but I can figure out quickly that a computer that comes with Windows XP Home and Microsoft Works pre-installed is going to be more expensive than...
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Yesterday Sun Microsystems officially released OpenSolaris and suggested that it's going to go head-to-head with Linux as a Desktop Operating System. Solarisx86 is nothing new and has been around about as long as Linux but it is historically proprietary and closed source. It was also very...
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Techwriter10 in a Nutshell
I've been writing about technology since 1988. Currently I divide my time between technical writing and technology journalism.
You can subscribe to my blog with Feedburner by following this link: My feedburner subscription link (Read Blog)
Well there’s nothing to lose
And there’s nothing to prove
I’ll be dancing with myself
~Billy Idol, Dancing with Myself.
Microsoft is 30-something and that’s an elder statesman in personal computing terms, and maybe it’s feeling a bit old. The desktop is so yesterday. The future is on...
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It’s good to be king and have your own way
Get a feeling of peace at the end of the day
~Tom Petty, It’s Good to be King.
It’s often been said that marijuana is the gateway drug, but an article in this week’s BusinessWeek, The Mac in the Gray Flannel Suit, suggests that perhaps the iPod...
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Of course. That's the answer. Easy. Japan has sorted it all out.
They're planning to put a tax on MP3 players.
This will be an interesting move not because a single country is planning such a tax - let's be honest, I'm in the UK, the chances are most readers are going to be in America and Japan...
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Is the Yahoo deal done yet? The stock market thinks so, slicing Yahoo’s financial value by 15% in the last two trading sessions. If the deal were still alive, then the stock would be moving the other way around. Yahoo’s chief Jerry Yang says the $37-per-share demand wasn’t etched in stone but...
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