Archive for: February 3, 2008

Filed under: Gaming, Laptops
We think it’s possible that the day has come to confess that Ben Heck (aka Benjamin Heckendorn) has officially taken it to the limit, put the pedal to the metal, and a large number of other cliches that propose something has been pushed just about as far as you can take …

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Gadgets

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At all interested in snagging a 32-inch LCD HDTV, Xbox 360, some console peripherals, and adequate Old Spice to keep your roommates or meaningful other from kicking you to the curb for spending altogether too much duration watching and playing with all that gear? Hit up En…

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Gadgets

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Curious to know what about $3 million bought Toshiba on Super Bowl Sunday? whether so, the recycled commercial is after the break. So, what do you do when the game’s by, Toshiba?[Thanks, Peter]
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Continue reading Toshiba’s Super Bowl 2008 ad: the final act of desperation?&…

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Gadgets

Filed under: Cellphones, Displays
It seemed obvious back in mid-December of final year that Polymer Vision wasn’t going to nail its timetable for production versions of the 3G-equipped, e-ink wonder known as the Readius. Now word is that the company will have a commercial version of the phone / e-bo…

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Gadgets

Florian Bertaux, better known as homebrew developer lefbe here on QJ.NET, has published the first release of a new line of Eden Software’s Unlimited Video: Unlimited Video for iPod and iPhone. The initial version already boasts a wealth of features you would normally find on Unlimited Video for PsP,…

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Apple

It shouldn’t come as a surprise to readers that the folks by at Google might not be totally stoked on the potential merger of Microsoft and Yahoo!. whether you weren’t certain were the company stood on the issue, you can now get clued in thanks to a post on the official Google Blog earlier nowad…

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Gadgets, Google

“I read about Steven J. Vaughan’s editorial on which he tries to explain why you don’t see as much corporate support in Debian as you see in other places. The conclusion of Steven’s analysis, it seems, is that Debian is immature. I will attempt to reply to it from a Debian perspective.”Original post…

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OS

“Google invited developers to its London office for one of three workshops - the others being in Munich and Tel Aviv to spread the word and teach developers how to write for their new OS. Here’s what they told us. The mantra for Android is that it’s ‘a total and contemporary embedded OS, with a cutt…

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This write-up details the story of a KDE-loving software engineer who was forced to use Windows for his job. “His only hope was that he knew Qt was cross compatible with Windows Linux and Mac, and there was talk that someday, KDE was to be ported to Windows. So he waited. Well, KDE4 was announced an…

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Nu-uhhh.

That’s a one word summary of Microsoft’s statement Sunday rebutting Google’s statement earlier in the day that said Microsoft’s $44.6 billion tender for Yahoo could raise antitrust concerns.

“The combination of Microsoft and Yahoo will create a more competitive marketplace by establishin…

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We’re not certain that you’d want to do it, but it’s nice to know that you can do it. whether you’re really sick of the local OS that came with your Eee — or you’re trying to feel out what a Cloudbook would be like whether you could buy one — you can now install Everex’s Google-centric gOS ont…

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Gadgets, Laptops

Like everyone else, PC Magazine asked Google for a comment in reporting the hostile $44.6 billion bid Microsoft made for Yahoo! At the time, the company declined to comment. Now Google has posted its own response, in (what else?) a company blog post.

Reading it, I can't help but think that Google has decided to lob a few FUD-caked monkey wrenches into the works. Consider the tone that David Drummond, senior vice president of corporate development and Google's chief legal officer, takes:

"Could Microsoft now attempt to exert the same sort of inappropriate and illegal influence over the Internet that it did with the PC?" Drummond states. "While the Internet rewards competitive innovation, Microsoft has frequently sought to establish proprietary monopolies -- and then leverage its dominance into new, adjacent markets."

All true, certainly. But where the Web is concerned, Microsoft has only really succeeded in one area: the Internet browser. In search, Google has won. In ads, Google has won. In the popular groupthink, Google is as certainly as synonymous with the Internet as anyone, although I think an argument can be made that MySpace and Facebook's social networks have influenced the development of Web apps and development as much, if not more, than Google. Microsoft's certainly part of the dialogue, but how much of that is simply trying to make sure those Web apps run in IE?

Microsoft could certainly come to dominate the Internet, but past history doesn't exactly inspire one to believe it's an inevitability.

Lance Ulanoff, who also noted this post, thinks Google sounds "surprisingly nervous" about the whole thing. I disagree. Google never sounds surprisingly nervous about anything, honestly.

Quite frankly, ...