I received a laptop when I joined my current employer. The Dell laptop has a handy dandy built-in mobile broadband card . I have 24×7 Internet access at my fingertips, open the Dell utility and click the connect button. Sweet!
No external card to mess with or lose. I can access the Information Super Highway (cheesy, I know) from virtually anywhere. I do not need to chase down Wi-Fi hot spots or wait until I get home to get online. Look ma, no cards.
There is a new search engine in town. Former Google employees have launched kewl, cool, cuil. Cuil claims to be the world’s biggest search engine with 3x’s more pages than Google and 10x’s more pages than Microsoft. How did they come up with these numbers?
Rock Band 2 On-Disc Track List:
Artist Song Title Decade
1. AC/DC “Let There Be Rock” 1970s
2. AFI “Girl’s Gone Grey” 2000’s
3. Alanis Morissette “You Oughta Know” 1990’s
4. Alice in Chains “Man in the Box” 1990’s
5. Allman Brothers “Ramblin’ Man” 1970’s
6. Avenged Sevenfold “Almost Easy” 2000’s
7. Bad Company “Shooting Star” 1970’s
8. Beastie Boys “So Whatcha Want” 1990’s
9. Beck “E-Pro” 2000’s
10. Bikini Kill “Rebel Girl” 1990’s
See the other 70 after the fold…
What? Well, we all know that this will never happen in our lifetime. As most know, the end of life for Windows XP is quickly approaching. June 30, 2008 is the end of XP as we know it today. Vista will rule until Windows 7 is released in 2010.
Back to Windows XP Open-Source, I just became aware of the ReactOS Project (I must be living under a technology rock or something). React is an open-source Microsoft Windows XP-compatible operating system. Nice!
The project is still in the alpha stage, but it certainly looks promising in its current state of development. Checkout the product roadmap and screenshots for more details. The React project officially started in 1998 and see it has been a challenge to date.
Good luck to the development team and contributors.
It looks like RIM better start worrying about how their Blackberry is going to stand up to the iPhone 2.0 coming in June. Apple has added a slew of features for the enterprise users out there. The iPhone 2.0 software update will be a free update for all current iPhone users that will added push email, push calendaring, push contacts, remote data wipe, and more. What… push? Yup… but how you ask? Apple has licensed Microsoft ActiveSync to provide full blown Microsoft Exchange support for your iPhone. Not only that, but they made it simpler to implement than RIM. You install software on your Exchange server that tracks any iPhones used in your company, and that pushes directly to the iPhones… no need for extra servers getting in the mix that could go down and take down your service… remember when a RIM server went down for a day awhile back and all Blackberry users were freaking? They still haven’t given a reason for what happened. RIM… watch your back!
Now for the SDK… developers can download the SDK for free, but it requires an Intel Mac running OS X Leopard. You get all kinds of cool tools including a sweet interface builder, remote debugger, and a utility that will show you the CPU, memory, and framerate of your application in realtime as you test it. In order to distribute your software you must pay apple a $99 fee to become a software publisher on iTunes, and after that you can publish as many applications as you like through iTunes. You can make your software available for free or charge, and if you charge for it you will get 70% and 30% goes to Apple for overhead.
Oh… one last thing. Do you have a great idea for some really cool software? Well why not get some money to make it happen! KPCB’s iFund has 100 million dollars waiting to give away to encourage developers to establish the iPhone as the platform of choice for mobile computing.
Need more info?
http://www.apple.com/iphone/enterprise/
Silverlight is Microsoft’s answer to Flash Player. It runs on all the major platforms (including MAC). Currently they are about to release SilverLight 2.0 beta. We can use Javascript and .Net to develop things in Silverlight.
Here are some user samples:
By now, we all know that HD DVD is d-e-a-d. Well, what do you with your Xbox 360 HD DVD player? You can use it as a paper weight, cup holder, book end, etc. Damn! Xbox 360 users have all the kewl accessories. I am a loser, because I have a PS3 with Blu-Ray. Nice!
Microsoft is really starting to scare me…. look out there is an asian martial arts lego ms office man on the loose! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!! I mean seriously… people get paid for this? Why doesn’t Microsoft do something novel with their money like… i dunno… fix their software? I think someone needs to give Bill a judo chop!
It was only a matter of time, Toshiba Announces Discontinuation of HD DVD Format. Onkyo Announces Discontinuation of HD DVD Players too!
If the Sony Ericsson PSPhone ever makes it to production, I want one! The PSPhone slices, dices, minces, purees, and plays Sony PSP games. Forget the Xbox laptop, the PSPhone is the shiznit!
