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El Lobo writes:
Asus' success with its Eee line of netbooks might have come as a surprise, but the company is now determined to expand the Eee brand into every possible niche and form factor. Case in point: the insanely cool Eee Keyboard, which will surely bring a smile on the faces of those who remember the glory days of the home computer.
Described as a fully functional PC with inset Qwerty key arrangement, the keyboard has a 5in touch screen that displays a suite of bespoke media controls or a Windows desktop.
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El Lobo writes:
The Mono open-source project will create a Linux version of Silverlight by the end of year, said Miguel de Icaza, a Novell vice president and head of Mono. Asked about plans for Linux, Microsoft executives have been non-committal, saying that it will depend on demand. But de Icaza, who is attending Mix, was able to commit without hesitating.
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El Lobo writes:
Most businesses on the net get 70% of their traffic from Google, but what happens when Google — the source of more than 70 percent of your traffic — decides it will no longer index your web site? That's what happened to JavaLobby last month. From the article:
"We had completely disappeared from Google's main index!...if you run a website, then you know how serious a problem this is. On any given day over 10,000 visitors arrive at Javalobby as a result of Google searches, and suddenly they stopped coming! Suddenly we no longer existed in the eyes of the World"
Microsoft is often accused of being a monopoly, but nothing compares to the dangerous power of Googles monopoly.
62020
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El Lobo writes:
For the Linux desktop, 2002 was an important year. Since then, we have continiously been fed point releases which added bits of functionaility and speed improvements, but no major revision has yet seen the light of day. What's going on?
A big problem with GNOME is that it lacks any form of a vision, a goal, for the next big revision. GNOME 3.0 is just that- a name. All GNOME 3.0 has are some random ideas by random people in random places.
KDE developers are indeed planning big things for KDE4 — but that is what they are stuck at. Show me where the results are.KDE's biggest problem is a lack of manpower and financial backing by big companies.
In the meantime, the competition has not exactly been standing still. Apple has continuously been improving its Mac OS X operating system. Microsoft has not been resting on its laurels either. Windows Vista is already available. Many anti-MS fanboys complain that Vista is nothing more than XP with a new coat, but anyone with an open mind realises this is absolutely not the case.
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=16783
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El Lobo writes:
Microsoft, of course, maintains valuable intellectual property on its internal network, including the source code to all its operating systems and applications. These are constant targets for hackers...What do I mean by a constant target? Last year, Microsoft IT said it was the target of more than 100,000 intrusion attempts per month.
So how does Microsoft mitigate those risks while continuing to offer VPN access to remote employees and contractors? "Today, we require a smartcard with a valid certificate and PIN as well as network credentials and authorization to use the network remotely" says the director of MS's internal security. The second layer of protection for the Microsoft corporate VPN is a connection "sandbox," implemented using Windows Server 2003's Network Access Quarantine Control.
A very good reading about MS internal security:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?com mand=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9005756&pageNumber =1
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El Lobo writes:
Looks like things are heating up again in the browser wars.
Google has been openly supporting Firefox, so now Yahoo is displaying a new feature at the bottom of search results pages for FireFox users. Checkout the screenshot on:
http://searchviews.com/archives/2006/12/yahoo_push ing_i.php
It appears that Yahoo is pushing downloads of the new IE 7 from Microsoft and including itself as the default search engine installed in the file menu area.
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El Lobo writes:
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has said it will spend all its assets within 50 years of them both dying ( http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Gates_foundation _to_spend_all_assets_1201.html ).
The foundation focuses on improving health and economic development globally, and improving education and increasing access to technology. It also focuses on fighting diseases such as HIV/Aids, tuberculosis and malaria.
The Seattle-based foundation plans to increase spending to about $3.5 billion a year beginning in 2009 and continuing through the next decade, up from about $1.75 billion this year.
