I have been under the weather this week, but I wanted to write a quick post about some interesting items. So let's dig in. Toshiba has given in and stopped trying to compete against Sony's Blu-ray system in the high definition DVD market. Normally I think that competition is good [...]
If you ever happen to be on Second Life and see this person, his name is Scottk Telling. In other words, this is me. I have been spending more time in the synthetic world lately and thought I would offer a few observations just as an update. Without a lot [...]
Microsoft Outlook is a good application. It combines my calendar, contacts, email, notes and even tasks; all in a friendly Microsoft tool. I mean how great is that, right? In fact compared to Lotus Notes, Outlook is amazing, but Outlook could be doomed anyway. You see, Outlook is not cool. [...]
Force feedback is growing up. Any one who has ever played a game system like the Microsoft Xbox360 or Nintendo Wii knows what the controller with a rumble pack feels like. You get the sensation of actually driving over a curb when you play a racing game. You can feel [...]
I think one of the bigger problems with becoming a software behemoth is that the billions of dollars you spend on R&D spawn lots of pieces that do not get a lot of press. Such is the case with Microsoft's Workflow Foundation. If you are not familiar with the concept [...]
Amazon, the world's leading book e-tailer, is getting larger by acquiring Audible. Audible is the leader of audible books sales on the internet with some 80,000 titles in the stable. Reuters is reporting that Amazon will pay $300 million for Audible, a 23% premium. This move gives Amazon a steady [...]
Google Knows How Old You Are Google recently began offering a new tool to advertisers; the ability to select a demographic segment to target web ads to. Publishers who sign up for the beta test can send demographic information to Google already; so information like gender and age can be [...]
A few years ago there were a lot of executives talking about network security. Now, most of them had no idea how to get it, but they were concerned because they were reading lots of stories of break ins and data loss. Unless my ears are letting me down, I [...]
Wordpress, a very substantial blogging engine and CMS, has recently announced that all Wordpress.com hosted blogs now have 3 GB of storage, up from the 50 MB they previously had. This is huge news. Blogger, the Google offering, today hands out 1 GB, and to get 3 GB from TypePad [...]
For many of us that have grown up using MS Office, the thought of using an online office tool from a third party vendor is a bit scary. I have been using Word, Excel and PowerPoint for so many years that the only way I can remember not using them [...]