Dell Can’t Trademark Generic Term After All
Dell’s “Cloud Computing” trademark application: denied
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Some End Of Summer Recommendations
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 [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Boldly Going Massively Multiplayer
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 [...]
Chrysler Readies Mobile Internet
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 [...]
Leaked Centro 2 Photo Shows New Form Factor
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 [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )When You Get XP Preloaded, MS Gets Credit For A Vista Sale
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 [...]
Money Disappearing From Store Shelves
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 [...]
IBM To Microsoft: It’s Go Time
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 [...]
Surflizard And Techlizard Get Redesigned
Surflizard.com gets yet another re-design. We are now sporting a new look, and tighter integration with Techlizard.com, our technology and gadget blog. The clean new design for both sites is based on Andrew Faulkner’s The Fadtastic Theme, featuring an adjustable width that fits your browser and good usability thanks to plenty of white [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )InfoWorld Gets BOSSIE
InfoWorld has posted their “2008 Best of Open Source Software Awards“, cleverly nicknamed the BOSSIES. Most of the picks are obvious (Firefox, OpenOffice), but it’s still worth reading for those hidden gems you might find. There’s Elgg, for example, which let’s you set up your own MySpace-like social networking site.
Ok, the guide is [...]
Media Only Upset About THEIR Internet Access
Reporters in China to cover the Olympic games may not have unlimited and uncensored access to the internet for a few days or weeks. Chinese citizens will continue to have their internet access filtered and censored during the games and after the games. One is a minor inconvenience, and one is a serious [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Dell Trademarks The Future Internet
Reported in The Industry Standard, Dell is seeking a trademark on the term “cloud computing.” As we all know, cloud computing is a generic term used commonly to describe the use of software served remotely, also known as “web apps” or “software as a service” (abbreviated “SaaS”).
Dell already seems to have [...]
Return Of The Night Stalker
A free comic book download, Kolchak the Night Stalker: Fever Pitch, is available from DriveThruComics.com. This comic features first-rate artwork and a good story. Fans of the original tv show will be especially pleased. The Silencers #1 and Twilight Crusade: Gabriel are also available for free, and a lot of comics are [...]
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