CSHARP123 - Slashdot User

Submission + - Windows to feature "Fast startup mode" (msdn.com)

Submitted by CSHARP123 on Friday September 09, 2011 @08:35AM

CSHARP123 writes: The feature is a hybrid between start from cold boot and waking up from a hibernated state. This feature is called fast startup mode. More information on Buidling Windows 8 blog from Gabe Aul, director of program management in Windows. There is video as well on the blog which shows windows starting up in less than 10 seconds.

Comment Re:On /. by the end of the day (Score 2) 264

by CSHARP123 on Thursday September 08, 2011 @08:32AM (#37338698) Attached to: After Firing CEO, Yahoo Puts Itself Up For Sale

What would MS gain by buying Yahoo? They are already serving bing search results. It made sense at that time. Now I don't see much gain for MS from this buy other than for the asian assests that Yahoo may have (Alibaba investment)

Comment Battery life sucks (Score 0) 135

by CSHARP123 on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @01:20PM (#37329472) Attached to: Samsung and VMWare Bringing Virtualization to Android

Battery life sucks on Android phones. I say work on battery improvements. I hope with Moto in the basket, Google provides a better experience with Android phones than Samsungs and HTCs.

Submission + - Unstoppable iPad's Only Competition is iPhone? (smartertechnology.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @12:14PM

An anonymous reader writes: With HP dropping out of the tablet market, Amazon, Samsung, and LG are poised to pick up the gauntlet but not in time to make much of a dent in the Christmas season, according to iSuppli, when the iPad's main competition will be the iPhone 5 which is slated to debut this fall. I knew HP was in trouble when I saw its TouchPad at Cosco (which only sells deeply discounted wholesale items). Lets hope that Amazon, Samsung and LG can pick up the slack!

Submission + - CS Majors do badly in the jobs market (wordpress.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @11:42AM

An anonymous reader writes: British CS majors do badly in the job market — with, four years after graduation, a higher than average (for college graduates) unemployment rate and fewer returning to higher education. The only good news is that a higher propertion than average are in employment. Brit CS majors also do badly immediately after graduation. No similar US figures exist reports the Computing Education Blog.

Submission + - Judge Bounces Google's Complaint Over Android Code (computerworld.com)

Submitted by

CWmike

on Wednesday August 17, 2011 @04:13PM

CWmike writes: "A U.S. trade judge has rejected Google's move to block the testimony of a Microsoft expert witness in the dispute with Motorola over patents allegedly used by Android. The judge denied Google's motion to prevent the expert hired by Microsoft from testifying about the Android source code at an upcoming hearing. Last week, Google accused Microsoft of violating a confidentiality agreement struck between Microsoft, Motorola and Google in the ITC case. The judge rejected Google's motion on Monday. 'The ALJ [Administrative Law Judge] finds no basis to discern from Google's statement whether Google made a reasonable, good-faith effort to resolve the matter with Microsoft,' he wrote in his ruling."

Submission + - Moon younger than previously thought (news.ku.dk) 2

Submitted by TaeKwonDood on Wednesday August 17, 2011 @01:54PM

TaeKwonDood writes: Analysis of a piece of lunar rock brought back to Earth by the Apollo 16 mission in 1972 has shown that the Moon may be much younger than previously believed.

Submission + - IE blocks more socially engineered malware (nsslabs.com)

Submitted by CSHARP123 on Tuesday August 16, 2011 @03:29PM

CSHARP123 writes: According to NSS Labs, IE 9 caught an exceptional 96% of live threats compared to other browsers. The story is also carried on ZDNet http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/report-ie9-blocks-up-to-seven-times-more-socially-engineered-malware-than-other-browsers/14258.
Now slashdoters it is about time for you all to use IE 9

Comment Every Mobile OS Manufacturer now has OS associated (Score 1) 578

by CSHARP123 on Monday August 15, 2011 @09:52AM (#37093854) Attached to: Google To Acquire Motorola Mobility For $12.5 Bill

Moto - Andorid, Sammy - Bada, HP - WebOS Nokia - WP7( I think MS may Buy Nokia), Apple - IOS BB - BB OS This is going to be interesting. What happens to companies like HTC and like who do not have any OS that is closely associated with them? Also the way BB is going. It could be a major acquisition target. Will HTC go for it. or will MS consume it for the sake of getting some more patents

Comment Re:Java and .NET falling by the wayside? (Score 1) 314

by CSHARP123 on Thursday August 04, 2011 @05:39PM (#36991142) Attached to: Oracle's Java Policies Are Destroying the Community

Why not. SharePoint uses .net as its platform. It generated well over a billion $ in revenue in 2008-2009 and still growing. So what if MS did not use it for OS extensions. It is used where it makes lots of sense.

Comment Bogus Patents ?? (Score 1, Insightful) 294

by CSHARP123 on Thursday August 04, 2011 @09:23AM (#36984776) Attached to: Google Accuses Competitors of Abusing Patents Against Android

Android's success has resulted in a 'hostile, organized campaign against Android by Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and other companies, waged through bogus patents.'"

Patents are granted to these companies. When did it become bogus? If Google thinks this is bogus. They need to fight and get the patents invalidated. It is not as if Google is a small company and cannot fight. Google may have purposefully violated patents from other companies and hence they do not protect the OEMs who are implementing Android. If Google thinks these are bogus then fight and make sure these patents are invalidated.

Submission + - Microsoft Makes Fun of Google's Gmail (winbeta.org)

Submitted by

BogenDorpher

on Thursday July 28, 2011 @04:29PM

BogenDorpher writes: "Microsoft recently held an event called the Microsoft Global Exchange sales conference. At this conference, one of the attendees managed to snag a very special and funny sales video that pokes fun at Google's Gmail. The video is called "Gmail Man" and is intended to show you just how much Google cares more about advertising revenue than privacy. Ouch."

Comment Made Billions (Score 1) 138

by CSHARP123 on Friday May 13, 2011 @08:16AM (#36116714) Attached to: Google Expected to Settle Over Drug Ads, to the Tune of $500M

What's the big deal with 500M when GOOG made billions out of these ads. Unless there is more severe punishment to the individuals who run these businesses, this wont stop.

Comment Re:What's your style? (Score 1) 198

by CSHARP123 on Monday December 13, 2010 @03:41PM (#34537532) Attached to: Google Seeking "Search Without Search"

In our company it is called, how to promote without really promoting

Open Source-Friendly Smartphones For the Small Office? 222

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 21, 2010 @03:49PM from the ethics-schmethics dept.

Thunderstruck writes "I work in a small office with just two computers. Both machines run long-term-service releases of Ubuntu, with Gnome, and Evolution for scheduling, contact management and electronic mail. We plan to stick with Linux long-term. For telephone service, we're using smartphones. In order to keep everything straight, we need phones that can synchronize easily with the calendars and contact data on each owner's desktop machine. We cannot use cloud based services for this function due to ethics rules, and for security reasons. Right now, we do all of this with older Palm phones, but these are a dying breed. What options are out there right now for phones that will sync with Evolution (or another good Linux PIM suite) which do not require data to go through the cloud first?"

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