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Dell Can’t Trademark Generic Term After All

Posted on August 18th, 2008.

Dell’s “Cloud Computing” trademark application: denied

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Some End Of Summer Recommendations

Posted on August 17th, 2008.

Book: I just finished reading Small Favor, the latest installment of The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. This is actually the tenth novel, and the series is still going strong. Harry Dresden is a modern-day wizard who manages to spend most of every book bruised and battered by a variety of supernatural beings intent upon bringing about the apocalypse or something even worse. The books never take themselves to seriously, but still manage to embrace serious issues revolving around family and friendship. If you like urban fantasy light on romance and heavy on action, this series is for you, and Small Favor may be the best installment yet.

Movie: We saw The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor this weekend, and it was an entertaining adventure flick enjoyed by all. The plot and structure didn’t deviate much from the previous two installments, despite being set in China instead of Egypt. Beyond that, the cgi was better and the battle scenes were crazy good. We re-watched the first two films after seeing this movie, and my daughter insisted that the latest was the best.

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Boldly Going Massively Multiplayer

Posted on August 14th, 2008.

A Star Trek MMORPG is in the works:

The massively multiplayer game, from Cryptic Studios for Windows PCs and perhaps Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3, takes place about 30 years after Star Trek: Nemesis. Players can captain their own starship, as a human or alien, as they seek out new civilizations.

I want to play a tribble.

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Chrysler Readies Mobile Internet

Posted on August 13th, 2008.

Wireless internet is coming to a Chrysler near you:

Chrysler will reportedly offer up its in-car EV-DO solution (dubbed Uconnect Web) starting on August 25th, and owners of 2009 Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge vehicles (along with a few “earlier models”) will be able to have the $499 box retrofitted into their rides.

Ok, a Jeep with internet access is just cool.

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Leaked Centro 2 Photo Shows New Form Factor

Posted on August 11th, 2008.

Not sure if this is legit or not, but the device in this leaked Palm Centro 2 advertisement looks a lot like my idea of what the next Centro should look like:

Here’s my take on such a device, from the 14th of last month:

If the ad is a fake (and I suspect it [...]

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When You Get XP Preloaded, MS Gets Credit For A Vista Sale

Posted on August 10th, 2008.

Microsoft allows PC vendors to sell PCs with Vista licenses, but with Windows XP installed (the famous “downgrade” right granted by MS through December 2009). Now HP has told APC that that’s how they sell most of their business PCs (in Australia, at least):
“From the 30th of June, we have no longer been [...]

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Money Disappearing From Store Shelves

Posted on August 10th, 2008.

Microsoft announced two big changes to Money Plus, their personal finance software, last week.
First off, no more brand new version each year. Microsoft is “moving off of an annual release cycle for Microsoft Money Plus.” In other words, there will not be a “Money 2009″ released this fall. It was [...]

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IBM To Microsoft: It’s Go Time

Posted on August 5th, 2008.

From an IBM press release:
For the first time, IBM and leading Linux distributors Canonical/Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat will join forces globally with their hardware partners to deliver Microsoft-free personal computing choices with Lotus Notes and Lotus Symphony in the one billion-unit desktop market worldwide by 2009.
Citing shifting market forces and the growing demand for [...]

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