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2007 October

So This Is Major League Baseball?

I started to watch the World Series tonight (What hubris we have as Americans! There is probably a team in Cuba that could clean the clocks of any team in the major leagues.) I could not believe it.
I watched all of one inning. The Red Sox looked somewhat like the teams I remember. (You see, [...]

TiVo Gains Features, Talks of More

After announcing a partnership with Rhapsody, and getting some tepid reviews, along with little interest, TiVo rolled out its newest features, certainly to cause a more emotional response from the faithful.
one of the most comforting screens on television!
The features come to the Series 3 and HD boxes, with release for Series 2 still uncertain. [...]

If You Can’t Innovate, Litigate!

Again today, we see that companies that can’t make technical advances choose the road of the lawsuit, and for many, it has worked well.
Transmeta, a company that used to have some innovative stuff, has been almost off the radar completely for a number of years. Last year, the company decided that Intel was a little [...]

Mozilla Looks Good, As Long As Google Funnels the Money

The financial statements published by the Mozilla Foundation show how much it depends on Google for its survival.  While that is well and good, it becomes apparent that there is/was no reason to abandon Thunderbird, or move it to another system of development and support.
According to the report on Ars Technica, Mozilla is not only [...]

Blu-ray Still Leading in Sales

While many of us wait on the sidelines, for a clear victor in the format wars, Home Media Research is there to bring a clear and unambiguous light shining on the situation.
The HD DVD format camp is trumpeting the success and sales of Transformers, but the format is still trailing Blu-ray sales by a large [...]

DTX - Just What the HTPC Doctor Ordered

Back in January, at the Consumer Electronics Show, AMD allowed a peek at a new standard it would be bringing out soon. Well, other irons have been in the fire, and so the DTX form factor was put off by a few months.
Today the first real designs were released, showing how the form factor will [...]

Adobe Repairs Reader, Issues Update

the fix is in!
Now you can read all those pdf’s that were stacking up!
The Adobe Reader problem, brought to light by Petko Petkov (you can’t make this stuff up!) of GNUCitizen.org has been patched. Although the problem was found to be originating in the operating system and not the Adobe software, Adobe was moved [...]

Traffic Shaping - The New Word for Limiting Unlimited Service

Over at ZDNet, Dana Blankenhorn and Paula Rooney have a go at explaining why Comcast doesn’t like BitTorrent one iota, and why most other providers also either try to limit it, or simply tolerate it, with thoughts of how they can remove it, dancing in their greedy little heads.
The authors posit that the reason Comcast [...]

Dell Products Now Offered At Staples

Announced today, Dell products will soon be available at your local Staples store, at least in limited offering. That’s 1400 stores from coast to coast.
The initial products offered will be
Inspiron 1721 and 1521 notebooks;Inspiron 530 desktops;Dell 948 and 926 all-in-one inkjet printers;Dell 1320c laser printer;Dell SE198WFP 19-inch widescreen flat panel LCD monitor;Dell E228WFP 22-inch [...]

Microsoft Relents, European Union Leads 2 - 0

The Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft will be complying with the request of the European Union, once again, and will make certain parts of its source code available to those who are trying to market competing products.
The anti-trust demands being met means that products such as antivirus, antispyware, and media playback software will be [...]

HD DVD Breaks the $200 Barrier

Buzz is all over the web this morning. It seems that HD DVD is poised to break the barrier that will assure a blow for ubiquity. Toshiba is reported to be releasing an HD player that will come in under $200 in time for holiday shopping. Remember, VHS was made much more popular than the [...]

Researchers Dispute Common Thoughts on Flu Transmission

Seasonal flu has been a cause for concern for centuries, and debate about the conditions under which it is transmitted are usually discussed each winter. Common thought held that being cooped up indoors, where warm temperatures reign, and high humidity is frequent is an accelerant to transmission.
For the first time, researchers have tested that hypothesis. [...]

Open Source Software

John C. Dvorak is a cranky guy. Everybody who has any idea of who he is knows it. But he is not a curmudgeon, and he is also usually right. His opinions usually turn out to be the prevailing opinion on down the road.  He was right about OS/2 being better than Windows, he was [...]

Bill Maher: Patriotic, Yet Unblinded By It

After hearing some of the things that Mr. Bush (by the way, when is someone going to take this man aside and tell him how n-u-c-l-e-a-r is properly pronounced?) droned on about this weekend in his message to the country, it is more clear than ever that the only reason this man is relevant is [...]

Surround Sound Headphones for Less Than 4 Ears

For those thinking about following the road less traveled, and working with a more personal home theater using a small monitor and headphones instead of speakers, Panasonic has a couple of great choices.
These units provide the spacious sound that we all look for, and are made to remove that ‘action between your ears’ sound that [...]

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