del.icio.us, Mozy, and other social and personal data storehouses should take note: Mozilla is entering the competitive landscape with some visionary ideas. The organization aims to keep the online user experience customized wherever, and however the web is accessed with its new Weave platform.
Although it is more and more rare these days, the US Government can still get it right once in a while. Recently they decreed that all NIH research must be released to the public for use one year after publication in their own journals. The decreed portal for publication is Pub Med, and the law changing the NIH public access policies is the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2007 (HR 2764).
For those of you sitting on the sidelines in the HD DVD vs Blu-ray format war, your decision may get even tougher in 2008 with dropping prices.
Seeing its core ISP service flailing and losing market share, AOL has cut the cord on further Netscape development.
The US Transportation and Security Administration has been slowly adding to the list of things passengers can’t take on planes; next on their list will surely be toenails and fingernails, as they could be carriers of bio-toxic hazardous material, but for now the department is settling for banning disposable lithium-ion batteries. Why? Because they’re a dangerous fire hazard, silly!
Mobile phones are becoming more like mini offices, and entertainment hubs every day, with multiple applications, Internet access, and the option to watch download television music to your pocket handheld. But all of this comes at a price, and if you go over the maximum set on your tariff, you could be facing a hefty bill of £27,000 ($58,000).
You can hardly call it "throwing" a concert, but Radiohead will release a free, pre-recorded concert on its site for New Year’s Eve. Cross off another item on the list of technological "experiments" to pull online.
Amazon’s managed a coup in its campaign to be the MP3-seller king of the heap by doing what Apple’s iTunes hasn’t: gotten Warner to license its tunes DRM-free. Bad enough that Amazon already sells its tunes at 89 cents – ten cents cheaper than iTunes.
Few people know this: you can extend the warranty on your Zune for an extra year. Unless you’ve had a problem with your unit, you probably aren’t aware of the policy. Despite what others will tell you, this is why you should avoid extended warranties on not just your Zune but your iPod too.
Firefox benefits from a vast community of add-on developers and here are a few that will supercharge your every day browsing experience.
Breaking technological news in the medical field happened when researchers from two separate labs successfully created stem cells from adult cells. Stem cell research has been the source of great controversy in recent years because of the need to use embryonic cells to reap the benefits of stem cell regeneration. With this new door opened, stem cell research has turned a significant corner, with several news outlets comparing it to the old alchemists goal of turning lead into gold.
You might see Blu-ray popping up in a lot of internal drive bays soon if Panasonic has its way.
The Everex gPC is a low cost computer that runs gOS, a customized version of Linux with the enlightenment theme, features mundane hardware and clocks in at $200 without a monitor. Some reviews have come in and there is little to distinguish the gPC from low cost Windows based PCs.
I love the Internet, yes I do. But there are times when I feel somewhat overwhelmed by it or more correctly, by information overload. Research firm Basex estimates that the interruptions and loss of productivity information overload causes has a high cost: USD650 billion, to be exact.
A rumor’s been getting passed around the grapevine lately, and it goes like this: Apple is going to start a movie rental service because various users have found code in iTunes that references movie rentals. Well, it now looks like the rumor’s going to become a fact.
Since going public, Vonage has seen a barrage of lawsuits from Sprint Nextel, Verizon, and most recently AT&T. Vonage just settled its latest dispute with AT&T, capping its loss at $39 million.
It may be awhile yet before we know how the Christmas holiday season shaped the ongoing HD-DVD vs Blu-ray war for sure, but one thing is for certain in that standard definition DVDs still aren’t going anywhere.
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