From the monthly archives: May 2006
Link: Fuel Cell Technology & The 10 Hour Battery
Technology focusing around fuel cells is set to launch next year. Positive statements from laptop manufacturers like NEC, IBM, and Toshiba suggest that fuel cell technology will be available within 12 months, but such predictions have [...]
Link: WSJ.com – Microsoft’s Ballmer Defends Plan to Increase Spending.
The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) reports that Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer made a rare appearance to investors to defend Microsoft’s plans to invest $2 billion more than expected to improve Web-based products including search. Windows [...]
Link: Do Dial-Up Modems Still Matter?.
With broadband (high-speed Internet) adoption at an all-time high in the United States, can we finally assume that all users will have high-speed internet connections– and by association, an enjoyable, responsive, non-painful way to use the Internet? Or do web developers still need [...]
Link: Google Checkout: PayPal Killer?.
It looks like Google Checkout may be in the making. The speculation is that it is a free shopping cart that lets website owners accept payment and track sales through Google Analytics.
The New York Post released rumors of Microsoft’s possible take over of eBay. Of course, only "unnamed" sources were used as references. Nonetheless, any news to do with the Microsoft / Google wars causes quite the stir online. Check out some of these responses found at CNET’s News.com.
The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) has an intriguing article explaining how "advanced-technology products often lack important virtues of their predecessors." Cell phones crackle with static that rotary phones don’t have; printers require tedious adjusting in order to print an address on an envelope while typewriters handled it with ease; and digital cameras [...]
The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) reports that "…under a roughly three-year pact, Google, of Mountain View, Calif., would pay Dell to have its desktop software for searching the content of a user’s hard drive and emails, and a Web browser search toolbar installed on the computers, the people said. Dell would also [...]
Link: Converting Trash into Energy.
The trash you toss in the garbage could end up powering your lights, computer and washing machine, because in the world of alternative energy, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure trove of fuel. Check out the article above for details on converting landfill [...]
Link: 101 of the Top Free Software Utilities Available.
Here is a fairly comprehensive list of the 101 best "fabulous freebies," free software packages that are extremely useful, popular, and free! Follow the link to sort either alphabetically or by category. Click on any [...]
Link: Microsoft Releases Vista, Longhorn, Office Betas – Simultaneously.
In an unprecedented move, Microsoft Tuesday simultaneously released beta versions of its three major upcoming software releases — Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Windows Server, code-named Longhorn.
