Archive for: February 6, 2008

February 6, 2008

Modu mystery unravelled, look ma, a modular handset

Filed under: Review - 06 Feb 2008

Filed under: Cellphones
Mystery solved, modu is of course, a modular cellular handset — the reply was in the name the whole duration, intelligent. The fun begins with the notion that the actual handset can be slipped into “modu jackets” which let users totally change the look of their handset witho…

Google Apps Team Edition aims to move companies to the cloud

Filed under: Review - 06 Feb 2008


Just like rogue employees in the 1990s forced instant messaging into corporations, the new Google Apps Team Edition being launched on Thursday offers a way for workers to slip a hosted apps service into the enterprise.

that could help Google in its efforts to lure more citizens off desktop applic…

Acer’s H5350 entry-level HD projector

Filed under: Review - 06 Feb 2008

Filed under: DisplaysSo CeBIT ‘08 is just around the corner, and Acer’s warming up for the monstrous worldly tradeshow with that little gem. The H5350 projector blasts out a 1280 x 720 image at 2000 ANSI lumens, a 2000:1 contrast ratio and a 28 dB noise level. It can accept inputs up to 1920 x 1080 …

A Microsoft Secret Plan for Yahoo’s Open Source?

Filed under: Review - 06 Feb 2008

One of the most surprising things about Microsoft’s tender for Yahoo is that whether successful it will manufacture Microsoft one of the two or three largest users of open source software in the world. Google is certainly the largest. The National protection Agency may or may not be moment (only the…

Hey, Mac Users! You’re Not as Secure as You Think You Are!

Filed under: Review - 06 Feb 2008

So, you think that since there are so few holes in your Mac OS that you’re invulnerable to attack? That may be true for Trojans and viruses, but it’s not the case for phishing attacks that can be fiendishly misleading and destructive. Not worried yet? Read that column and you might think again.Origi…

Is Microsoft a Doomed Dinosaur?

Filed under: Review - 06 Feb 2008

With the proposed Microsoft takeover of Yahoo, a BBC editorial asks whether that isn’t just the case of one doomed company, the one “which folded to spot Web 1.0″ trying to buy another which has succeeded in “never coming to terms with Web 2.0.” Should we fear a new onslaught of monopolistic weight…

Southern California Linux Expo To Be Held that Weekend

Filed under: Review - 06 Feb 2008

SCALE 6x, the 2008 Southern California Linux Expo will be held in Los Angeles that weekend (Feb 8-10).
that will be the 6th annual SCALE conference. Keynote speakers will include Jono Bacon (Ubuntu) and Stormy Peters (OpenLogic). The event will include 5 speaker tracks with by 80 speakers. The ex…

Who is really behind Wikipedia?

Filed under: Review - 06 Feb 2008

A revealing Computerworld feature dissects offers a rundown on how Wikipedia and its various sister projects really work - the ideals behind Copyleft and the GNU FDL license, the citizens that contribute, the policies and guidelines that determine contributions, dispute resolution, the Wikipedia Hie…

12 Crackpot Tech Ideas That Could convert Computing

Filed under: Review - 06 Feb 2008

Infoworld has an interesting commentary entitled “12 crackpot tech ideas that could convert the enterprise” that outlines some long-awaited technological innovations that are (perpetually?) just by the widespread commercial use horizon that could have a huge affect. For example: solid state drives…

NES.app v2.0.5 - Game Genie cipher saving fix

Filed under: Review, apple - 06 Feb 2008

Here’s yet another NES.app update for all iPhone owners who want to play Nintendo Entertainment System games on the gadget. Now that it’s compatible with iPhone v1.1.3, that version 2.0.5 fixes Game Genie cipher saving.NES.app, for those who missed it before, has been available for a expanded time t…

Aerotel’s GeoSkeeper lets everyone know precisely where you’ve fallen and can’t get up

Filed under: Review - 06 Feb 2008

Filed under: Household
For some reason, all the promising telehealth devices we come across seem to suffer from the same poor case of vaporitis, but we’ll let these terrible renders of Aerotel’s GeoSkeeper slide considering the concept is actually fairly promising. The watch features a GPS receiver,…

Apple Software 1.1.3 jailbreak releases pose “nightmarish” problems

Filed under: Review - 06 Feb 2008

Though “nightmarish” is way too harsh a word, but homebrew developer ZodTTD described current Apple homebrew development as such on a recent blog post. The problem, as the dev sees it, really lay on three things - three similar yet so separate things: the three jailbreak releases for the previously …

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