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blogs.technet.com - 19 hours ago
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We’ve received questions about public reports that customers
might be experiencing system issues with the November Security...
Updates (which some are referring to “Black Screen” issues). We’ve investigated these reports and found that our November ...
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Reports of Issues with November Security Updates
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VMware Fusion 3 makes it easier than ever to run Windows applications just like Mac applications… without rebooting.
Combine a Mac native user experience with an all new 64-bit native engine designed to deliver peak performance running on Mac OS X Leopard or Snow Leopard. VMware Fusion ...
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Mac OS X Leopard
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Google Chrome OS
google.com - 20 hours ago
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2009 Year-End Google Zeitgeist Methodology To compile the
2009 Year-End Zeitgeist, we studied the aggregation of billions...
of queries people typed into Google search this year. We use data from multiple sources, including Insights for Search, Google ...
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Zeitgeist 2009
code.google.com - 35 hours ago
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Android Developer Challenge Logo ADC 2 ADC 2
Winners ADC 2 Official Judges ADC 2 Top 200...
Gallery Education and Reference Entertainment Games - Arcade/Action Games - Casual/Puzzle Lifestyle Media Productivity/Tools Social Networking Travel Misc ADC 2 ...
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Android Developer Challenge
Loren Brichter on Twitter’s new-style retweets and Tweetie’s support for them.
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And I agree with Winer about the iPhone: call quality sucks. It doesn’t matter if it’s technically AT&T’s fault or Apple’s, since we don’t have a choice.
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techcrunch.com - 46 hours ago
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It was so close I could taste it.
Two weeks ago we were ready to publicly launch...
the CrunchPad . The device was stable enough for a demo. It went hours without crashing. We could even let people play with the device themselves – the user interface ...
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The End Of The CrunchPad
money.cnn.com - 27 hours ago
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Stewart Alsop in February 1997: Let’s get this
straight right away: Apple Computer did the wrong thing....
On December 20, Apple announced that it would spend $400 million to purchase Steve Jobs’s company, Next Software. The company ...
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Claim Chowder: Stewart Alsop in 1997 on Apple’s ...
Jeremy King:
Microsoft’s latest round of security patches appears to be causing some PCs to seize up and display a black screen, rending the computer useless.
The problem affects Microsoft products including Windows 7, Vista and XP operating systems, said Mel Morris , the CEO ...
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alsop-louie.com - 46 hours ago
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He blames the OS, not the hardware, and
complains that the UI is frequently not responsive. It’s...
always interesting to see reviews after a device has been out for a month, but I haven’t (yet) seen any others like this about the Droid. ...
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Stewart Alsop Trashes the Droid
blog.rsscloud.org - 43 hours ago
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Dave Winer: Unix had a shell language. DOS
had a batch language. Lotus 1-2-3 had its macro...
language. Emacs is a programming tool as much as it is a text editor. We have gotten out of the habit of making programmable end-user products, but they ...
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Dave Winer Wants a Programmable Twitter Client
Reuters:
Ailing telecom equipment maker Nokia Siemens Networks has changed its business focus to increasing its market share, the new chief executive of the venture was quoted as saying on Sunday.
“In early 2008 we made a strategic decision to focus more on cash flow and ...
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aaronsw.com - 24 hours ago
jasoJason DeParle and Robert Gebeloff:
With food stamp use at record highs and climbing every month, a program once scorned as a failed welfare scheme now helps feed one in eight Americans and one in four children. […]
From the ailing resorts of the Florida Keys to Alaskan ...
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Looks good:
A jQuery plugin for mobile web development on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and other forward-thinking devices.
But the demos show just how far short even best-of-breed iPhone web apps fall compared to native apps.
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computerworld.com - 6 days ago
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computerworld.com —
Computerworld - The Mac clone maker now fighting
for its life in federal court pitched an extremely...
aggressive business plan to potential investors last year, claiming that it would sell as many as 12 million machines in 2011. According to a slide ...
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Psystar promised investors huge clone sales
Great follow-up from Alan Storm to my piece yesterday on the regex for matching URLs. Storm does what I was too lazy to do: dissect the regex and explain how it works. I’m a big fan of the “/x” format for regex patterns — it’s a big aid for readability and ...
