So what does this mean for Second Life, which was briefly a marketers’ paradise before swifty falling from grace in the Silicon Valley pecking order? Well, it’ll help make it a friendlier environment for some of the new “residents” whom Linden Lab hopes to woo. The company is profitable, due largely in part to the [...]
“I don’t think there’s a lot of controversy,” Berman said on Wednesday. “This one is not like the patent bill.”
HOLLYWOOD, Calif.–Rep. Howard Berman, who heads a congressional panel in charge of writing copyright legislation, lashed out at Internet pirates this week and defended his effort to add stiffer anticopying penalties to federal law.
* Wondered whether [...]
The technology consists of a number of standardized Web programming interfaces called APIs; with OpenSocial, a developer can more easily write a single application that runs on several different Web sites.
Programmers are working on building OpenSocial 0.8 support into Apache Shindig, an open-source project that can endow servers with OpenSocial support, Dan Peterson, a Google [...]
Launching in public beta on Tuesday is ProofHQ, a new entrant to the world of Web collaboration tools. The service is focused mostly on design work, but has been set up to handle nearly every kind of document and illustration format under the sun.
Like Conceptshare, a tool we’ve raved about in the past, ProofHQ is [...]
Ask and ye shall receive.
At least if the supplicant is the Net’s most prominent techie cartoonist and Google is in a position to fulfill the request.
In late September, I chuckled at Randall Munroe’s XKCD cartoon about living to regret YouTube comments. The cartoon suggested a virus that would read people’s YouTube comments back to them [...]
As I mentioned previously, based on a recommendation from Scot Finnie, I installed the Online Armor firewall on a couple Windows XP machines.* Scot recommended the paid version, I opted to get my feet wet with the free edition (v2.1.0.131). These are my first impressions, not a review. I don’t think anyone can base a [...]
ThinkPad has slimmed down considerably–just in time for the Oscars!
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The X300 is here! The X300 is here! The last few days at CNET Laptop HQ have been consumed with Lenovo’s latest ThinkPad, which first popped up last week. The verdict? It’s the sleekest ThinkPad yet, and quite possibly the perfect balance between portability and [...]
Turning to TV, things can become even more frustrating. It’s Garry Shandling’s Show is nowhere to be found, while Shandling’s Larry Sanders Show has only the complete first season and a “best of” compilation–apparently tepid sales of the former didn’t justify a complete season-by-season release. Projected sales volume isn’t the only problem. Another roadblock is [...]
Chipmakers are struggling with these questions as well as how to adjust their recipes for the future of mobile computing. It’s not so much the about chips themselves, but how you use them.
What do you want in a mobile computer?
Thakkar concedes that point, but notes that a more powerful CPU can handle popular [...]
Among the other patent filings are hardware designs such as a washable keyboard and a washable mouse. There are other washable designs on the market, including both keyboards and mice.
Microsoft, which typically does not comment on individual applications, did offer a bit of comment, in the form of a statement from Horacio Gutierrez, Microsoft’s vice [...]
