Amen. Looking around the industry, there’s very little “innovation” going on. The
iPhone’s interface? Sure. Vista (or, for that matter, Apple’s
Leopard)? Nah.
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I think there’s a lot of truth in Linus Torvald’s derisive comment about innovation, and the software industry’s fetish with it.
I think that “innovation” is a four-letter word in the industry. It should never [...]
This stands in contrast to Baidu’s service, which the Journal says has led to legal disputes with record labels because illegal downloads are accessible. You get no shortage of illegal download options when you run a Baidu music search for Björk mp3s. (Sidenote: Björk herself plays Shanghai March 3.)
It will definitely be striking if Google [...]
Windows 7 Server to be ‘minor release’
MIT students fight to keep card hacking material confidential
EA revises Take-Two acquisition offer, again
Listen now:
Torvalds to kernel hopefuls: Think ‘trivial
Also, a hearing in Boston is likely to resolve the question of whether or not students who found fare card vulnerabilities must turn over unpublished [...]
The results are part of Google’s Onebox technology, which treats the search box as a command input field that can be used to extract specific results such as answers to math calculations, plane flight details, package tracking, and the time in London.
(Credit:
James Martin/CNET News.com)
He wouldn’t comment on any plans to offer the service to [...]
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There was also a sharp falloff in the acquisition of start-up companies by bigger corporations…There were only 56 acquisitions in the first three months of the year, down from 83 in the fourth quarter.
With those options increasingly off the table, investors must spend money and time nurturing–or altogether salvaging–existing companies rather than building new ones.
It [...]
Those in the know may recall that Carney had reportedly gone all High Noon on Calacanis when the Santa Monica, Calif.-based tech personality was in town for a charity benefit a few months ago. But Carney and Calacanis appeared to have no hard feelings between them on Wednesday night, and hugged a lot. And then [...]
“The company is clearly laying out a very optimistic scenario,” Ross Sandler, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets, wrote in a research note. “Judging by recent history, we remain skeptical of Yahoo’s ability to execute smoothly against this plan. If the overall economy and the online advertising space were in a healthier place right [...]
Friend category
View, send, receive messages
Manage downloads
Set the vibration feature of the controller
Sign in to PlayStation Network
Register friends
Manage Bluetooth devices
Terminate the game
Music category
Use the system BGM
Work the system BGM operation panel
Settings category
Assign controllers
View profiles
Game category
Set audio devices
Use the voice changer
According to the site, you’ll be able to access the following features via the XMB during [...]
Google on Monday unveiled a new Web-based tool, Map Maker, that lets people add roads, lakes, businesses, and other features to unmapped regions of Google Maps.
I’m of two minds about this. On the one hand, it’s great that this kind of activity can be crowd-sourced (please excuse the jargon) so the community (please excuse the [...]
One caveat with Office Live Workspace: it does not allow users to edit documents online, as Google’s service does. Microsoft executives haven’t ruled out the possibility of online editing in the future.
Microsoft’s answer to Google and other competitors in the online application market entered widespread beta testing on Tuesday.
The free service, set to debut later [...]
