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Archive for June, 2010

Open source to follow JBoss to the cloud

30 Jun 2010

Following on its successful launch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux as an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud service, Red Hat is now offering the JBoss Application Server on EC2.
The more Red Hat and others can deliver their software as Web services, the less trouble there will be with getting a fair return on R&D investment [...]

So maybe the Internet is a cure for stupidity afte

28 Jun 2010

•  More than one-third of adults have watched politically-related videos.

In increasingly greater numbers, adults are using the Web to regularly contribute to the political conversation–if not to contribute to the politician of their choice. And no surprise, that’s why three of the contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination basically declared their candidacies on the [...]

The Microsoft Outlook fix of last resort

23 Jun 2010

Of course, this won’t help much, if you’re unable to open Outlook at all, which was the predicament I faced. You could make a copy of your outlook.pst file and restore it after you delete the problematic account, but restoring the outlook.pst file may simply cause the glitch to resurface.

In the Mail Setup dialog box, [...]

Google surpasses Yahoo–for a second time

22 Jun 2010

Nielsen’s data showed Google at 128.2 million, Microsoft at 122.1 million, and Yahoo at 117.1 million.

Microsoft’s usage was 2 hours and 17 minutes, and Google was 1 hour and 47 minutes, Nielsen said.

However, underscoring the variability of this sort of measurement, which extrapolates overall data from the usage of a “panel” of users at home [...]

QuickSilverScreen.com down; accused of copyright v

18 Jun 2010

QuickSilverScreen as of 11:50pm ET
More to come as the story develops.
Early this morning, Malaysian time, video-link aggregator QuickSilverScreen.com’s site posted the following message:
This morning we were falsely accused of hosting copyrighted content by the Malaysian government, in result our host (located in Malaysia) asked us to shutdown the QSS main site server. We still [...]

Developer app helps you archive Facebook pics

16 Jun 2010

Get my tagged pics lets you grab up to 10 shots at a time of photos that have been tagged with you.
The system is not entirely perfect. For instance, if you’re looking to archive the 300 or more shots of yourself that have been accumulating over the past several years this is a tedious system. [...]

Essential strategies for weathering the economic s

14 Jun 2010

Cut cost:

4. Horde Cash
Economic downturns require extraordinary leadership. They require brutal honesty. They require action. If your market and company are truly in trouble, here are some turnaround strategies (learned the hard way) to weather the storm so you can live to fight another day.

We didn’t wavier. And neither should you. Nine months later, we [...]

Space shuttle cleared for landing

14 Jun 2010

And at precisely 10:10 a.m. EDT, the deorbit burn began, 218 statute miles above the Indian Ocean. The landing is on.

(Credit:
Daniel Terdiman/CNET News.com)
(Credit:
Daniel Terdiman/CNET News.com)

It’s not that I don’t have some decent camera equipment, carrying as I am a Nikon D60 digital SLR and a 70-300mm telephoto lens. It’s just that this is [...]

Survey Web-based malware puts corporations at ris

14 Jun 2010

•Nearly one-third say their Web security was compromised as a result of employees using computers at work to access social networks, Web-based e-mail, and video sites.
•Web-borne malware increased more than 500 percent in 2007.
•One-quarter of companies report that data has been compromised by a Web-based threat.
Other findings of the survey, conducted [...]

TiVo profits from EchoStar litigation

14 Jun 2010

And the company expects to feel the impact of the financial crisis.

Alviso, Calif.-based TiVo on Tuesday announced it recorded profits of $100.6 million for the quarter, or 98 cents per share, compared with a loss of $8 million for the same quarter a year ago.

TiVo shares rose more than 1.5 percent to reach $4.50 in [...]