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Normally I am not a huge fan of mobile buyouts. After AT&T buying out Cingular years ago, I have found that these types of things make me a little nervous as to how they will affect the customer. And if AT&T has taught me anything with its Cingular buyout, it’s that these things can leave [...]

I must admit that as a fellow full time Linux user myself, I find myself in a similar position as the individual behind this column.This being said, I do disagree with him in a couple of areas. First, while it is true that Vista started off as what I like to call Windows Me part [...]

At first the prospect of being able to use something outside of the Kindle as an eBook reader actually made me think there might be hope here. While Kindle on the iPhone is great, the standalone model is not welcome in my home. $300 for what again? Please…
Here we’ve got color, cool functionality (even if [...]

It was not all that long ago that I had settled into a really great Samsung plasma TV, yet we are already moving on to OLED! Skipped LCD altogether as the model of Samsung I had addressed the usual gripes with plasma - no issues with burn in, gaming works well, and the picture is [...]

Due to the success of the previous article on podcasting with your Skype software, I thought I might elaborate a bit on some other tools that you might find helpful. Obviously for many single user audio podcasts, there is the need for doing interviews or simply recording audio either looped through cables or with special [...]

I have been a fan of the Jitterbug concept for what feels like years now. Provide a simple to use, easy to understand mobile phone that is truly usable for those who are less than tech savvy. Some have tried to classify this as a “phone for seniors,” but I would counter that most flip-phones [...]

Reading this article today, I found myself wondering how people would think that it is price alone that is keeping people from swarming over to the media player in the first place. Sure, it is a barrier that one has to be willing to overcome. But I see some bigger reasons why PC adoption of [...]

Odd as this may sound to some of you, most people like the iPhone but end up avoiding going with one over the problems with the US carrier — AT&T. Now before you ask if I am just complaining yet again about something silly, realize that I do not know one single AT&T subscriber using [...]

The O’Reilly Radar Global Issues Webcast Series will feature scientists, technologists, and other thought leaders seeking to inform and engage O’Reilly’s audience to help solve the most pressing issues of the day, including energy, climate, the environment, and globalization.
“With this series, we hope to encourage people to consider these issues and motivate them to be [...]

Honestly this seems simple enough, in Vista one should be able to open up Windows Explorer.
Right click on the bar where the sorting options are present, click on more.
It will open up the “Choose details” window.
Scroll down the list and put a check mark on “Summary”
Click on OK.
Sadly I have one person that has been [...]

Gnomie Jonathan Vasquez (FearedBliss from our chatroom) writes:
Hey, Chris.
I was just wondering something and I wanted to ask you your opinion on an Open Source Religion. I’m hoping to get a good response from you since your Facebook’s religion status gives me the feeling that you aren’t religious. Anyhow, let me explain.
Nowadays I believe that [...]

I am shocked that this is even an issue with Microsoft, what with the release of IE8 showing that Internet Explorer does not have to blow toes. Overall, I find IE8 to be perfectly usable. So much in fact, I am having a difficult time understanding why in the world Microsoft would say it plans [...]

Sony, the company that killed off HD DVD in hopes people would buy into Blu-ray and even was passing around rootkits for a time is now back in action. This time, Sony has figured out the ultimate way to piss off its customers: It’s opted to disable hardware virtualization on its VAIO line of computers.
Yes [...]

Your office or firm might not own — or be able to afford — the latest software or computers. But that may not impair the productivity of your workers, concludes a new Tel Aviv University study.
More important than the tools themselves is the belief in their effectiveness, says leading management specialist Prof. Dov Eden of [...]

Looking at this comparison has me leaning more and more with Android for a multitude of reasons. Price, overall, being a big one. There is no question that the iPhone (which I own) and the Pre are pretty cool. Sadly, both tend to have cost working against them. Especially the iPhone.
But then there is functionality [...]

While the first part of this story is certainly sad and unfortunate, it is later into the article where things become readily frightening. Hard drives, likely unwiped, are available for a song to anyone willing to pay. Imagine, all of your history just sitting there on an old PC that you “threw away.” One might [...]

Over the past year or so, we have been hearing all of the reasons in the world why the iPhone is a must have. And as an owner of an iPhone 3G running the 3.0 OS, I think I am able to be fairly balanced about this. So this article presents the argument that the [...]

So which is it? Is Wi-Fi honestly having an effect on people or is it just something else that some folks have attributed to Wi-Fi? As this article has been so kind as to point out, the speculation rages on. Despite people leaving dire comments on blogs and others being able to show strange symptoms [...]

It’s a recession, so there is no question that Microsoft (among other companies out there) is looking to rethink how it approaches things. And in Microsoft’s defense, it is definitely shacking things up with how it is approaching its upcoming release of Office as free will sound pretty good to most people. But this still [...]

If this had happened here in the Western world, the mobile carrier would have had its phones ringing off the hook with angry subscribers. However, in the UAE, one mobile carrier appears to be getting away with it. Apparently the key is to dismiss the issue as a “misunderstanding” of sorts.
Personally, I would dump my [...]