04 Sep 2010
(Credit: MuleCon)
The fine folks at InfoWorld Events and MuleSource are offering Negative Approach readers discounts for their upcoming events.
Disclosure: I am an employee of MuleSource and speaker at OSBC.
MuleCon-April 1-2, 2008, San Francisco
http://www.mulecon.com
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OSBC-March 25-26, [...]
30 Aug 2010
Our recommendation: If you’re currently using another file or folder synchronization product, stand pat. Live Mesh is too rough around the edges. In addition to the user interface issues, I found that during initial sync it dragged my systems’ performance down a lot. I would hope performance improves as Microsoft inches toward a public release [...]
24 Aug 2010
Gateway DX4820-02 and DX4300-03
Gateway SX2800-01
In addition to HP’s announcement, Gateway also took the covers off two new back to school desktops today. And also like HP, Gateway does its own part to ensure piano black uniformity across the Windows ecosystem.
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Gateway)
(Credit:
Gateway)
You’ll find the mainstream Gateway desktops at various retailers. The $749 DX4300-03 [...]
21 Aug 2010
Ever wanted to post a screenshot or thumbnail of a Web site on your blog? Probably not. But if you’re like us then this situation comes up all the time. Enter SnapCasa, a service that lets you drop in a preview of any site in one of three thumbnail sizes that will regularly update as [...]
21 Aug 2010
Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang
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Dan Farber/CNET Networks)
The following is a record of a live report of Yahoo’s conference call with financial analysts discussing the company’s first-quarter results.
2:01 p.m. PDT: The call is getting started. For background, here’s a link to Yahoo’s financial results for the first quarter of 2008. To recap, Yahoo’s net income was essentially [...]
21 Aug 2010
Up until today, only Windows Mobile 5 and 6 and BlackBerry users could take CellSpin’s mobile blogging and media-sharing platform for, well, a spin. On Thursday the San Jose, Calif. company announced a big addition to the family: phones on the Symbian platform.
Adding Symbian cell phones, many of them high-end, brings CellSpin’s free beta service [...]
21 Aug 2010
Verizon Wireless’ announcement that it is joining the LiMo Foundation raises the question of which LiMo-enabled devices the carrier will add to its lineup. Verizon has yet to answer that question, and a look at LiMo’s current device lineup holds no clues. At present, none of its devices will work on Verizon’s CDMA network. Here’s [...]
21 Aug 2010
On Facebook, you can poke your friends and test your movie compatibility. On the House of Hackers social network, members share information about securing computer systems, exploiting vulnerabilities, and all sorts of things related to hacker culture.
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House of Hackers)
Some people think of hackers as the bad guys who break into computer networks and [...]
21 Aug 2010
As I’ve said before, in coverage of Satisfaction and SupportSpace, if you want to get good support for the products you own, your best bet is usually to skip calling the official support line and find other real users of your product. Somewhere out there, you can be sure, there’s a geek who knows the [...]
21 Aug 2010
While many businesspeople are worrying about a possible recession, Microsoft says it sees its part in the economy remaining strong.
In a telephone interview on Thursday, Colleen Healy, Microsoft’s general manager of investor relations, said that the company booked a greater amount of future revenue than it had expected, taking in about $500 million more than [...]
