The publisher’s Britannica WebShare initiative, launched April 13 with Twitter streaming of a daily topic, announced on Friday a service called Britannica Widgets, with which bloggers can “post an entire cluster of related Encyclopaedia Britannica articles” for free.
With the invention of the CD-ROM came Encarta, owned by Microsoft, which enabled easy cutting and pasting of [...]
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Ignorance, thy name is Ballmer.
Microsoft’s model of selling software is a 20th-century model that will continue to work for it until enterprises discover that they now live in the 21st Century when software is free (but services are not). The model going forward is to give away the core code and charge for services around [...]
Suddenly the bigger brands are divorced dads wearing Levi’s, while the smaller brands are little Brad Pitts whose greatest problem consists in resisting the advances of a million Megan Fox’s.
What is it about large, apparently successful businesses that they suddenly get a slightly freaky fixation about a much smaller rival?
In just the last week or [...]
It’s not the sort of announcement that IBM would make. If you read through IBM’s open source-related press releases of the past few years, you won’t find this sort of announcement, despite IBM’s heavy involvement in Linux and other communities. So why did HP feel compelled to announced the AdvFS contribution?
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All of which makes HP’s [...]
But not long after posting the song on his blog, Allen received a very long but “polite letter” from the IFPI telling him he was in violation of copyright law.
Allen also said that while he never meant to pirate Portishead’s music, he was still alarmed when he received the letter. “I was chilled…they are [...]
Last week my dog pissed on the couch; the same day the cat threw up in my slippers. Why do bad things happen in groups? Is there some unknown force of attraction between disastrous events? Where are the physicists on this?
Microsoft and Intel–the world’s biggest one-hit-wonder–will both go the way of the dinosaur if [...]
Atlanta-based Suniva said on Tuesday that it has raised $50 million to commercialize its solar-cell technology, which it says will be as cheap as conventional electricity.
Solar-technology companies, one of the hottest areas of green-technology investing, continue to attract the funding.
The venture round will be used to build a manufacturing facility in the Atlanta area, [...]
In his own blog post, Trend Micro security researcher Rik Ferguson questioned the security practices that could have allowed
Conficker onto such hallowed turf. “Dear Parliament, if you are having trouble cleaning this up, give us a call, we’ll come and do it for nothing,” he offers.
We are scanning the Network and if we identify [...]
The company on Wednesday is expected to announce the launch of its wind business, which will provide financing and project management for installations between 10 megawatts and 50 megawatts.
Until now, the company has focused on solar power installations at corporations, where it installs and operates solar arrays and sells electricity back to customers under a [...]
Read the full review of the Samsung CLP-315W printer.
First, the quality of the printouts are simply unacceptable. The printer has trouble separating subtle gradations in color and tends to blur together close sections on the color gamut. Also, forget about printing even the lowest-quality photos with the printer–in our experience, even small portraits on [...]
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Video recording on the HTC Magic
To tide you over, we thought we’d point you to a photo gallery posted by our friends over at ZDNet UK who got a hands-on look at the Vodafone HTC Magic. The hardware is actually a bit different from what we saw at GSMA 2009, and the smartphone is [...]