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DailyTechRag July 27, 2007
- AMD reveals roadmap, all new chips coming in 2010
- Video: Cisco killing off Linksys brand
- Washington tops list of most email-addicted cities
- Firefox URL-handling bug re-emerges
- $150 laptop too good to be true?
- Laptop Magazine rates the best and worst designs of all time
- Is this the new Apple keyboard?
- ALSO NOTED: Google to create portal for Sprint/Clearwire’s WiMAX network; Cisco follows Intel’s lead, invests $150M in VMWare;
AMD reveals roadmap, all new chips coming in 2010
AMD might seem down as of late but don’t count the company out just yet. At its annual analyst conference, the Sunnyvale, CA chipmaker released an updated product roadmap for public consumption and also let slip a few details on heretofore unknown …
Video: Cisco killing off Linksys brand
All creatures great and small must eventually meet their maker and unfortunately for Linksys, that includes vendors of home networking gear. The SMB and consumer network hardware vendor, which Cisco Systems bought in 2003, will soon disappear, at least as far as branding is concerned. In a round-table discussion with members of the European press, Cisco CEO John Chambers revealed that the Linksys brand will be retired, with a redesigned version of the Cisco brand taking its place. “It …
Washington tops list of most email-addicted cities
As an interesting counterpoint to yesterday’s video, which aimed to help people who don’t care enough about email to better manage their inbox, here comes a list of U.S. cities–from the folks at AOL–where people care too much about their email. And lo and behold, our nation’s capital and home of DailyTechRag world headquarters, Washington D.C., tops the list. …
Firefox URL-handling bug re-emerges
Firefox security buffs might remember a URL-handling bug that plagued the open-source browser back in early June; according to the Mozilla foundation a similar vulnerability has popped up in the browser yet again, with researchers posting a non-malicious proof of concept on the web. “We thought this was just a problem with …
$150 laptop too good to be true?
Remember that $150 Linux laptop from Swedish consulting company Medison? Of course you do–how could you forget? Well, the already shady machine just got a bit shadier: Medison posted a statement on its website yesterday in the hopes of calming would-be buyers’ fears …
Laptop Magazine rates the best and worst designs of all time
Design-obsessed laptop historians will likely find no better read this week than Laptop Magazine‘s comprehensive list of the best and worst designed laptops of all time. Many of you probably won’t remember the Acer TravelMate C100–widely regarded as the first convertible tablet …
Is this the new Apple keyboard?
You might recall that a few weeks ago, rumors of a redesigned, MacBook-style Apple keyboard emerged, with tipsters claiming that the slimmer …
ALSO NOTED: Google to create portal for Sprint/Clearwire’s WiMAX network; Cisco follows Intel’s lead, invests $150M in VMWare;
> Google to create portal for Sprint/Clearwire’s WiMAX network. Article
> Cisco follows Intel’s lead, invests $150 million in VMWare. Article
> Microsoft says that it has sold 60 million Vista licenses. Article
> More …
DailyTechRag July 26, 2007
- Sun accuses Microsoft of “patent terrorism”
- Intel optical tech might boost chips to lightspeed
- Sony, Apple sued over exploding battery
- Apple posts strong profits, boasts record Mac sales
- Second Rotation trades cash for old gadgets
- Toshiba to release 32GB ReadyBoost USB drive
- Video: How to manage your email inbox
- ALSO NOTED: Digg partners with Microsoft for ad sales ;Mac hater John Dvorak loves his new Mac;
Sun accuses Microsoft of "patent terrorism"
Despite the fact that the ongoing patent battle between Microsoft and the open-source community has been going on forever, we haven’t had a juicy …
Intel optical tech might boost chips to lightspeed
In the day-to-day battle between AMD and Intel, we often see the two chipmakers squabbling over a Gigahertz here and a price cut there. If a recent advancement made in Intel’s research labs offers any indication, however, the incumbent chipmaker might be preparing to take a generational leap ahead in the multi-core race. The company has developed an optical modulator (read: …
Sony, Apple sued over exploding battery
Having begrudgingly recalled more than 10 million laptop batteries due to overheating, flaming and exploding incidents last year, you’d think Sony would have been hit with more lawsuits from consumers. It comes as a bit of a surprise, then, that this is the first that we’ve heard of: A Japanese couple has filed a lawsuit against Sony and Apple in the Osaka District Court, …
Apple posts strong profits, boasts record Mac sales
Earlier this week, Apple investors had a brief scare when the company’s stock dropped 6 percent. The reason? Analysts were disappointed when AT&T revealed in its quarterly earnings call that only 146,000 iPhones were activated during the first weekend of sales. A few analysts …
Second Rotation trades cash for old gadgets
If you’re a real geek, your apartment and cubicle likely look like a gadget graveyard. And if you’re like most geeks, you’re probably too lazy to divest yourself of any of that ancient technology. Here’s a solution that allows you to make some money off your old devices without leaving the comfort of your desk: Second Rotation, an online company that trades cash for used gadgets. Second Rotation provides you with a pricing guide for old tech, allowing you to decide what is and isn’t worth …
Toshiba to release 32GB ReadyBoost USB drive
Windows Vista’s ReadyBoost feature is certainly cool–it allows you to kill two birds with one stone by making use of an unused USB flash drive while also reducing your startup and shutdown times in Vista. But just how far would you go to speed things up? Toshiba has decided to take this question to its logical endpoint with their new line of flash …
Video: How to manage your email inbox
A full 252. That’s how many unread emails I currently have in my personal inbox. Yes, I have a problem with email. But I suspect many of you do, too. So let’s all sit down and watch this video of geek guru Merlin Mann giving a presentation at the Googleplex on managing your inbox. You’ll probably recognize Mann as the voice behind the 43 Folders website, a proponent of both Getting Things Done and the Hipster PDA and a fixture in the OCD geek community. Mann has a lot of great ideas when it comes to managing email, so be sure to check out the video of his presentation.
ALSO NOTED: Digg partners with Microsoft for ad sales ;Mac hater John Dvorak loves his new Mac;
> Digg partners with Microsoft for ad sales. Article
> Western Digital jumps on the 1TB HDD bandwagon. Article
> Dell partners with Bic Camera for Japan retail sales. …
DailyTechRag July 25, 2007
- Amazon.com reaps benefits from IT spending
- Swedes launch mysterious $150 Linux laptop
- Samsung develops first LCD with DisplayPort
- Helio Ocean gets Exchange server support
- San Fran power outage shuts down popular websites
- Congress: P2P networks threaten national security
- How to: Back up data from all your Google Apps
- ALSO NOTED: U.K. study finds no link between wireless networks and illness; Microsoft may not be bound by GPLv3;
Amazon.com reaps benefits from IT spending
It’s not too often you find a company that’s eager to pump hundreds of millions of dollars into its IT department but then again, not every company is Amazon.com. Being a company that lives on the web, Amazon has to make sure it can offer its customers high-availability and a snappy response–lest they get lured away by one of the web’s other …
Swedes launch mysterious $150 Linux laptop
Did someone say $150 laptop? That’s right, somehow Swedish consulting company Medison has managed to undercut the likes of Acer, Intel and even …
Samsung develops first LCD with DisplayPort
So long DVI and VGA. And HDMI, I hope you’re ready for a little competition. The battle for display standards is about to heat up with the advent of DisplayPort, a next-gen technology delivering high-quality digital audio and video via a small, USB-sized connector. …
Helio Ocean gets Exchange server support
It’s got to be a rough life for the Helio Ocean. An innovative wireless device that boasts a number of novel features, the Ocean had much of its thunder stolen by some Apple phone a mere month after its release. The folks at Helio, however, aren’t the …
San Fran power outage shuts down popular websites
It’s not often an event here in the physical realm has repercussions felt even in Internet land, but that’s exactly what happened yesterday afternoon when a power outage struck downtown San Francisco. 365 Main, a 227,000-square-foot data center in the heart of Frisco was hit particularly hard, bringing some of the Internet’s most popular sites–including Craigslist, GameSpot, Yelp, Technorati, TypePad and Netflix–to their knees. The outage supposedly was caused by an explosion under a …
Congress: P2P networks threaten national security
Hmm. We’ve just received word from our department of questionable reasoning that Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file-sharing networks are being fingered as a “national security threat” by members of the U.S. Congress. At a hearing on the topic of Internet piracy, Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman revealed he is considering new legislation to address the threat posed by P2P networks, which can allow government employees to inadvertently share classified documents and materials on the …
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