2008 June 12

From Europe, by way of down under, it seems that the next revision of the MacOS will be the first that will not run on PowerPC  processors.
from itwire.com
Are PowerPC-based Macs nearing their use-by date? HardMac (the English-language version of French Mac site MacBidouille) has published what is says is a screen capture from the developer [...]

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn must be doubly worked up, as he has seen the day give the news that Microsoft isn’t interested in Yahoo anymore, and Yahoo would continue to rebuff any advances from Redmond. He also has seen the news that Yahoo has hammered out a deal with Google, to have AdSense content on [...]

Kestrel, or revision 9.5 of Opera, has been released, and packs quite a few new features into a very small footprint.
The early results are in, from PCMagazine, and although Opera doesn’t completely trounce other browsers, it doesn’t finish any worse than second in any of the tests administered.
Before the big Firefox download day, it might [...]

and remember that one standard is why USB was so successful. Unlike other standards that really weren’t, USB has had Intel forging the specifications all along, like the hardy blacksmith that turns out perfect horseshoes every time because of the practice he’s had.
If AMD and nVidia threaten to move on their own standard, either because [...]

Further refinement of the Bluetooth specifications is promising the speed increases and range extension that many have been hoping for for many years. With the specification coming through ten years, it has shown less than spectacular levels of adoption, something certainly not intended by its designers, who envisioned a certain level of Bluetooth ubiquity.
Part of [...]

It seems that Microsoft has finally decided to admit that it turns out code that is full of problems, and that the chances of quick release from the growing pains of coding to standards are small.
from Betanews
Late Wednesday, a Microsoft spokesperson told BetaNews that a TechEd session in Orlando today summarized some of Internet Explorer [...]

I am constantly amazed by a few things with members of the Republican Party.
Probably the first would be the way that people who are down in the lower rungs of the economy are somehow drawn in by the GOP and are fully willing to vote against their own interests. No one has ever been [...]