Comment Re:Hotmail (Score 0) 385
Why should Gmail get all the attention?
Because as web-based email goes, Hotmail is abysmally bad?
Comment Google Apps, Emailchemy, Google Uploaders (Score 1) 385
I recently did something very similar with mail dating back to 1993 or so in multiple mailbox formats (Eudora, PST, Thunderbird mbox, etc.)
Get a Google Apps account http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/index.html
This allows you to run a gmail interface with mail on your own domain.
If you need more than the available storage for free, you can pay for 25 gigs, but it seems like the free level will work for you.
For the PST files, upload them with Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Outlook
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/outlookmigration
Alternately, migrate the PSTs to Thuderbird using Emailchemy
http://www.weirdkid.com/products/emailchemy/
Then, if you're on a Mac (it seems you are) upload to Google Apps via the Google Email Uploader for Mac
http://code.google.com/p/google-email-uploader-mac/
This will upload everything you have in your Thunderbird environment. And it will take some time. At first it may look like the program has frozen, but give it a half hour or so to sort through all your Thunderbird folders, and then let it upload the mail overnight. It took me a few overnight uploads, but it was worth it.
Once you have it in Google its very searchable and flexible. You can for instance re-organize it using labels, and then re-download to Thunderbird via IMAP if you like.
Comment Mama Took The Kodachrome Away (Score 5, Funny) 399
Comment It was the perfect gift (Score 1) 649
Jobs' Next Fight — Dealing With iPhone Hackers 341
An anonymous reader writes "With Steve Jobs' recent announcement of his intention to fight off the independent iPhone developers, the question worth asking is: How will Apple try to defeat the hackers: Software updates, or lawsuits? Will Apple risk losing its most frequently (ab)used legal tool, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, in order to try and punish the developers of the iPhone unlocking tools? This CNET article explores the legal issues involved in this, which make it perfectly legal to reverse engineer your own iPhone, but illegal to share your circumventing source code with others."
Submission + - Inside the Third Gen iPod Nano (businessweek.com)
ahess247 writes: When the leaked photos of the 3rd-gen iPod nano first hit the Web it quicky took the nickname "little fatty," but fat is a better phrase to describe its profits. BusinessWeek reports that a teardown analysis by iSuppli finds that it costs Apple only $58.85 to build the 4-gig iPod nano, and $82.85. But it also reveals some of Apple's suppliers, about which its usually very tight-lipped. Synaptics is back as the supplier of the click-wheel technology, beating out Cypress Semiconductor which had it previously. Also of note: The same Samsung CPU chip that powers the video and audio in the nano is being used in the iPod Classic as well.
Homeland Security Funds LED Light That Blinds, Disorients 455
katzmeow writes "Ryand Singel's Wired blog notes that Homeland security has developed an LED flashlight that uses 'powerful flashes of light to temporarily blind, disorient and incapacitate people.' The idea is to use it to incapacitate people — 'arrest them' — on airlines, borders, etc. without using traditional weapons.
The company's president Bob Lieberman says the tool is perfect for confronting 'border jumpers.'
'You don't want to hurt or kill them, just take them into custody,' says Lieberman. 'With this, they don't need to know English to comply.' The 'light saber' can even be scaled up to bazooka size for subduing crowds."
Cisco to Kill Linksys Brand Name 262
Mav sent in this article that opens, "In a roundtable with the European press, John Chambers confirmed the "end of life" of the Linksys name, being replaced by the new and redesigned Cisco branding." He explains, "It will all come over time into a Cisco brand. The reason we kept Linksys' brand because it was better known in the US than even Cisco was for the consumer. As you go globally there's very little advantage in that."
BusinessWeek Advocates Microsoft Piracy 181
xzvf writes "In a lengthy editorial, BusinessWeek advocates allowing users in China and India to pirate Microsoft software so that it can obtain the same level of market share there as it has in the US and Europe. From the piece: 'If Microsoft succeeds in discouraging piracy of Windows in China and India, it is far more likely to drive the user of the pirated software into the Linux camp than it is to steer them into the land of paid-up Windows users. Microsoft's IP management strategy in China and India should instead focus on securing the victory of Windows on the desktops of all PC users. That may require deliberately lax enforcement efforts against pirated copies of Windows for the short and medium term. Only after the Linux threat lessens might Microsoft have the luxury of tightening up piracy protections, as it is now doing in the West. Microsoft can afford to be patient.'"
Submission + - Political Mudslinging Via YouTube, MySpace
An anonymous reader writes: BusinessWeek takes a look at how political campaigns are taking the time-honored tradition of political mudslinging digital. One notable example: In the Virginia Senate race incumbent Republican George Allen held a comfortable lead over challenger Jim Webb until one of Webb's camera-toting aides captured footage of Allen making a racial slur during a campaign stop. The video soon held the number 1 ranking on YouTube and gained national attention. Allen has since taken a steep drop the polls, and Republicans now risk losing a seat they thought secure.
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