dvorak on May 23rd, 2008

It’s snowing in California? Ballmer says MSFT is going to spend $50 billion one way or the other. Yahoo is not a strategy. Carl Icahn worried a deal will never happen. Vista user account control are confusing says MSFT exec. XP SP3 corrupting the registry says Symantec. HP is now taking over the server business from [...]

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dvorak on May 22nd, 2008

Nine hurricanes coming. Sugar OS may be spread to other systems besides OLPC. Meanwhile the OLPC folks say the next XO 2.0 will $75? Har. Twitter gets $15 million. How to beat jet lag? Don’t eat? The Netflix box is a streaming box not download and play. This is not the way to go. Google [...]

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dvorak on May 21st, 2008

Microsoft is now in the news too much. Gates still chattering about one thing or another. The company decides to bribe users to use their search engine. Microsoft Office not adding support for its own Open XML until Office 14. Apple and CBS sued over stealing Mighty Mouse name. Is Comcast irked over the set [...]

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Paul on January 24th, 2008

When creating an RSS Feed (or Atom, if that’s your flavor), how do you decide the level of information you want to provide in your feed?  Many sites decide to post only the headline in their feed, causing the reader to visit the site, thereby enhancing page-view counts.  At the other extreme, others decide to [...]

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