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2008 February

Can Microsoft Juggle All the Balls?

With all the speculation about the Microsoft buyout of Yahoo, the unrelated purchase of Danger, and the less than spectacular update of Vista, it is almost mandatory to ask if the company is spreading the time and manpower too thin.
The buyout of Yahoo seems, for many, to be just a matter of time, so time [...]

The Lifespan of Technology

As I was thinking about what has happened in the last four months in technology, I realized that the HD DVD format has been pushed hard, heralded as the best choice for a high definition format for discs, and pronounced dead - all in that same 4 months.
here and gone in such a short [...]

nVidia Promises PhysX on Your Next Graphics Card

Just announced, the completion of the acquisition of Ageia will allow nVidia to incorporate the functionality of the physics processor into the very next series of graphics cards. This is great news for all who are suffering from slot-envy, with all the many things to possibly add to a motherboard’s busses, yet many boards come [...]

Got An Early Samsung Blu-ray Player?

If you do, you just might be able to get some help for the shortcomings of it. A class action lawsuit has been filed, as the problems found when advanced features and DRM were added were significant.
Apparently, the consumers who are filing have been upset by the reports of those Blu-ray representatives at the [...]

Microsoft Uses Its Most Powerful Tool Again

Although I’m sure that many will believe the reference above is to that three letter acronym FUD (fear-uncertainty-doubt), it is in fact, the five-letter word, MONEY, to which I was referring.
As many who follow these things know, Microsoft has always been a company less inclined to innovation, and much more inclined to acquisition. It began [...]

Redundancy - Why It’s Needed

As anyone who has been using the Internet for more than 10 years knows, there was once a group of sites where software, mostly freeware, was mirrored, along with the source site of said software. These places were called repositories, and it was thought a good idea, as there was no telling when the link [...]

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