29 Apr 2010
According to Microsoft’s own statistics, over 250,000 copies of its Windows-based development platform have been downloaded since its first version release.
As such, there are three versions of the software: Express, Standard, and Academic.
Another difference is in the licensing restriction. Pros and academics who buy the license for the 2008 version will be allowed to distribute an unlimited number of copies of the Concurrency and Coordination Runtime and Decentraliz
28 Apr 2010
The basic idea will be to supply the technology on an open source basis and then let users alter it to fit their individual company needs. At the same time, Canonical hopes to benefit from a developer feedback loop, which presumably would contribute any bug fixes or suggestions on how to advance the offerings. Any profits would roll in through the later sale of ancillary support and add-on services to customers.
Next month the company will offer the first details on plans to roll
25 Apr 2010
This past month, however, even as Ning neared 500,000 social networks (at least one of which is not used for porn! Go figure!!), Ringside went down for the count.
Ringside Networks was a very cool company - one of the best new open-source companies, as I wrote earlier this year. The company had a dream similar to Ning’s - to make social networking-type applications an integral part of a wide array of websites and enterprises.
We were ready for our S
21 Apr 2010
If Palin doesn’t suffice as your VP pick, one site recommends you try her out as your new Segway.
There are plenty of crude references to Palin online–on the less offensive side, one can buy merchandise calling Palin a “Babe-raham Lincoln.”
There could be a lot to glean about Palin’s views and policy positions from her churchgoing history, the Huffington Post pointed out Tuesday. However, the archived sermons cited in the article are now inaccessible.
20 Apr 2010
Has the era of the 1GHz smartphone arrived? It has for Toshiba, which has tapped Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon silicon.
The TG01 is slated to be available in Europe this summer. The price, at this time, has not been disclosed. (Acer and Asus are also expected to bring out Snapdragon-based products.)
Toshiba smartphone uses a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor.
The chip’s claim to fame is that it’s an ARM design that runs at 1GHz. Typical ARM architecture ch
19 Apr 2010
A new Web service called Pastebud will soon let
iPhone users copy and paste text from
Safari into e-mail messages and between Web pages.
The way it works, according to the YouTube demo, is through bookmarks that allow users to go between Web pages and e-mail. Then users are able to highlight text and hit a button to copy, flip to another page, and hit paste.
Third parties have tried to create applications to add cutting and pasting to the
19 Apr 2010
That’s a deal compared to the estimated $200 per user per year it can cost a company to archive e-mail on-site over seven years, Bill Kee of product marketing wrote in an entry Wednesday on the Official Google Enterprise blog.
Appealing to organizations burdened by federal rules requiring electronic message retention, Google is offering hosted e-mail archiving for up to 10 years for $45 per user per year. The service works with a company’s existing e-mail infrastructure and h
19 Apr 2010
Apple awarded three key members of its executive team with $100,000 raises to kick off its 2009 fiscal year.
This was the first raise for Cook and Oppenheimer since October 2005. Mansfield received a raise just prior to his promotion to his current role, and is now the third most-highest paid executive at Apple. Mansfield displaced retail chief Ron Johnson among the group of Apple’s highest earners that must report their compensation to the SEC.
Chief operating officer T
18 Apr 2010
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screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET)
“In the coming months you will start seeing stunning GeoEye-1 imagery blended into our database and viewable through Google Earth, Maps, and Google Maps for Mobile,” said Dylan Lorimer, strategic partner manager; and Jacob Schonberg, associate product manager, in a Google Lat Long blog post Wednesday.
Google has begun offering the first high-resolution imagery from the GeoEye-1 satellite it helped sponsor–but only as an optiona
16 Apr 2010
Among U.S. consumers surveyed, 63 percent now have broadband access at home, up from 55 percent a year ago. The study, released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, found that home broadband adoption has bounced back from 2008’s relative period of stagnation.
Only 7 percent of the people surveyed said they still use a dial-up connection at home, half the level it had been two years ago. Among those people, 32 percent said the p
