Archive for 2009

Word has it that everything the French President does in Denmark this December will be Twittered. I wonder if his assigned “twitterer” will make it all the way through the summit or if he’ll surrender halfway through the proceedings?

Nicolas Sarkozy’s every move at the climate summit in Denmark will be tracked on Twitter, but the French president won’t be busy typing updates on the micro-blogging website himself, officials said.

I’d love to see Sarkozy and Obama both on their Blackberries at the same time, smoking Rocky Patel cigars. Now that would be worth seeing.

What? They want to get every American online? At the same time? I really wish I could find some free seo services to help me spruce things up before all those millions of newbies hit the information superhighway.

The nation needs to give the same urgency to making sure all Americans have broadband access as the Eisenhower administration did in building an interstate highway system a half-century ago, a report released Friday concluded.

Does IBM really think many people will choose their new service over Google’s based solely on price?

To compete in today’s market you need a lot more than an “email in the cloud” service. What happened to search capabilities, archives, live chat software, and everything else out there?

IBM on Monday will begin offering businesses a basic “cloud computing” email service at a price that undercuts a plusher offering by Internet giant Google.

IBM unabashedly pitched its new LotusLive iNotes as an alternative to email service Google has been promoting as part of a campaign to win businesses over to using applications hosted as services on the Internet.

It will be interesting to see how well their service fares after a couple months.

In the past eleven years we’ve come a long way. Eleven years ago, many people used IRC, now they’re using Twitter. We’ve gone from the world of text editors for web design to WYSIWYG editors that could blow your mind.

Google has come a long way in its eleven-year history, from its humble beginning as a Stanford University research project in 1998, to the global, multi-billion dollar online presence Google enjoys today.

Before, we had word of mouth, now we have web directories and tools to help you find anything you may be looking for. I wonder what’s going to happen in the next 11 years?

When will these guys get it through their heads? It doesn’t matter how much it costs, as long as people feel they’re getting their monies worth.

Music and Internet worlds merged on San Francisco’s posh Nob Hill as insiders brainstormed about industry rocking Web 2.0 trends from social networking to smart phones with cameras.

Internet technologies will transform a music industry in which recording studio revenues have tumbled along with CD sales, according to those gathered for an elite Bandwidth Conference.

Take the electric blanket for instance. No matter how much you spend, you’ll probably be happy if it keeps you warm and you feel like you got value from the purchase. Wake up people.

Do you remember the days when the most trouble you had with girls was at Daytona beach hotels during spring break? Now they’re trouble even when you’re in the computer lab too.

How did you find this story? Did you find it after Googling the name Jessica Biel? If so, it may be too late. Jessica Biel is the Internet’s most dangerous celebrity, and if she has her way, she will destroy your computer.

McAfee on Tuesday released its third annual “Riskiest Celebrities to Search on the Web” and Biel topped the list, beating out Brad Pitt, who came in first last year.

Who knows, it might not be too late.

Black Internet, the ISP that on Monday turned off the access to file-sharing site The Pirate Bay, says it has become the victim of sabotage. The damage is substantial, according to CEO Victor Möller.

Customers that get their Internet access from Black Internet were experiencing outages on Tuesday morning. The reason was sabotage against its infrastructure, according to the ISP.

Instead of spending their days attacking Balck Internet, these hacker types should be searching for the
best acne treatment so they could venture out of the basement once in a while. It always amazes me how the ISP’s are always the bad guys.

When I read stories like this one, I cannot help but wonder why they do not offer desktop computers instead?

The state that was first to provide laptops to every seventh and eighth grader in its public schools is taking its campaign to the high schools, and Maine’s top education official vowed Thursday that every high school student will have a laptop computer within two years.

The 67,000 computers currently being distributed at more than half of the high schools will give students the skills they’ll need to compete in the workplace, said Don Siviski, superintendent of Regional School Unit 2.

Is it because they want students to have the portability to do their schoolwork at home as well as at school? I just think the desktop hardware would hold up a bit better than laptops, especially where kids are concerned.

I am so glad this did not happen to me. I made sure that I backed up all my important data, heck I even did an online backup to make sure I had everything stored securely.

Apple has angered thousands of Mac users with the release of Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6 because the new operating system has caused some computers to fail. After a startup failure, users are greeted with a continuous icon described as the “spinning ball of death.”

In most cases, a spinning color wheel or beach ball indicates that a system is engaged in a processor-intensive activity. The ball usually disappears after a few seconds. However, when the ball spins for a much longer period, as users of Snow Leopard have reported, it is referred to as the “spinning beach ball of death.”

If my MacBook had died, I don’t know what I might have done.