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Comment General, General! We need air support asap! (Score 1) 224

General, General! We need air support asap! Sorry lieutenant we are in the middle of a critical update here... So make sure you own that computer before betting your life on it... Not saying that MS is right, they aren't but at the same time this look similar as when a GPS tell you to drive outside of the road...

Comment What matter (Score 1) 312

Yes 100$ is an impulse buy for most, but I suspect that quite a few of the buyer where also expecting the tablet to be able to display a web page, read email, play a few game like angry bird and read book, and this product is capable of all of this Most of the buyer also assumed a tablet with the HP name (and for some Palm) previously priced at +500$ can't be that bad! Now there's a bounty to put Android but as far as I am concerned if I put my hand on one I will use it as is hoping that it can also play avi and stream music/movies, all the rest is already there! Let's hope the marketing guru will understand that people are expecting to pay the same price for a tablet than for a netbook or quite close, they will pay premium maybe for bigger app store or for steve jobs signature...

Comment Re:Price Matters (Score 1) 368

I agree 100% Apple fan have a long history of paying premium for their stuff. I do wonder if that sales was genuine tho... Neither the less it's still an interesting proof that price is important, especially if the seller has no history in regard to what you are buying (Again I think apple is different, they have people who would buy a suitcase sized laptop if Steve was telling them it's better this way)

Comment HP Sales may have been a hack ? (Score 1) 368

This sale could have been made by disgruntled employee of WebOS Seem like the website had video replaced, they could have well used this access to send the email asking to make this huge sales! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBCOLFUge_k&feature=player_embedded Precentral.net is reporting: Looks like someone was able to get one final jab in at HP before getting the boot. HP will no doubt be firing an entire division of webOS hardware engineers in the process of killing off webOS devices. As the video says, if you're looking for an excellent employee, look to the people that will be affected at HP. There will be quite a few great workers looking for a job in the near future. Either way this sales will make history, I do not remember something like this before!
Android

HTC Unlocks Its Own Phones 145

itwbennett writes "Having just announced that it would continue to run Android on its best phones, HTC is now 'needling' Google by making good on 'promises it made earlier in the year to deliver bootloader unlock tools for many of its most popular Android phones,' writes blogger Kevin Fogarty. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, HTC CEO Peter Chou said that HTC views unlocked OSes as a way to encourage both ISVs and owners to get more involved developing apps and mods for the phones. Google, which has been trying to lock Android down more, probably doesn't see it that way."
Businesses

Submission + - Indian Software Firm Outsourcing Jobs to US

phobos13013 writes: "NPR is reporting Indian software maker Wipro is outsourcing positions to a development office opening in Atlanta, Georgia. Although, it sounds good for US job growth, although the implication is that firms outside the US appear to be dominating more and more in the global economy, even from developing and underdeveloped regions of the world. Similarly, salaries of IT professionals world-wide are projected to stagnant or possibly fall due to the large pool of qualified applicants in the market today. Likely another reason companies like Wipro and Cognizant see it possible to outsource to the US and still remain competitive."

Feed Wired: Wired's How To Wiki: Outwit Traffic-Shaping ISPs With BitTorrent (wired.com)

Most ISPs actively engage in traffic shaping, bandwidth throttling, connection sniping or some attempt to keep the bandwidth consumed by high-traffic applications on their networks to a minimum. While this often ensures better performance for the neighborhood, it can mean painfully slow transfer speeds for those dabbling in BitTorrent -- legit or not. Here's how to beat the ISPs.


Windows

Journal Journal: Microsoft post 2 major upgrade for Vista

Microsoft has released reliability and performance updates for Windows,

Update for Windows Vista (KB938194) "This is a reliability update. Install this update to improve the reliability of Windows Vista in certain scenarios. Additional information about this update can be found in KB Article 938194."
Security

DNS Rebinding Attacks, Multi-Pin Variant 84

Morty writes "DNS rebinding attacks can be used by hostile websites to get browsers to attack behind firewalls, or to attack third parties. Browsers use "pinning" to prevent this, but a paper describes so-called multi-pin vulnerabilities that bypass the existing protections. Note that, from a DNS perspective, this is a "feature" rather than an implementation bug, although it's possible that DNS servers could be modified to prevent external sources from being able to point at internal resources."
NASA

Submission + - NASA plans for Earth Impactors 1

TopSpin writes: Flight International reports that scientists at the Marshall Space Flight Center have developed designs for an Aries V launched array of asteroid interceptors wielding B83 nuclear warheads. The hypothetical mission for these designs is based on an Apophis sized Earth impactor 2-5 years out. According to NASA, "Nuclear standoff explosions are assessed to be 10-100 times more effective [at deflection] than the non-nuclear alternatives analyzed in this study (pdf)."
Sci-Fi

William Gibson Gives Up on the Future 352

Tinkle writes "Sci-fi novelist William Gibson has given up trying to predict the future — because he says it's become far too difficult. In an interview with silicon.com, Gibson explains why his latest book is set in the recent past. 'We hit a point somewhere in the mid-18th century where we started doing what we think of technology today and it started changing things for us, changing society. Since World War II it's going literally exponential and what we are experiencing now is the real vertigo of that — we have no idea at all now where we are going." "Will global warming catch up with us? Is that irreparable? Will technological civilization collapse? There seems to be some possibility of that over the next 30 or 40 years or will we do some Verner Vinge singularity trick and suddenly become capable of everything and everything will be cool and the geek rapture will arrive? That's a possibility too.'"

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