Coop's Scoop: Why we need a privacy czar
Internet World approaches. Also: MS sweetens the pot for Palm users while Dubya gets sweet on BillG.
Internet World approaches. Also: MS sweetens the pot for Palm users while Dubya gets sweet on BillG.
The recent collapse of worldwide financial markets has everyone on edge. If you’re like most people, tough times have you looking around at ways to cut back on spending. You might be tempted to impose a freeze on all new purchases of hardware and software, but that draconian strategy only works for so long. Sooner or later, you need to refresh old technology, either because it’s stopped working or is so slow that it’s cramping your productivity. A better strategy, in my experience, is learning to shop smarter. In today’s post, I share some of the secrets I’ve learned about how to get great PC hardware and software without breaking the bank.
The new Edge browser has been marketed very aggressively. In an oddly aggressive move, Apple seems to have begun to react and defend Safari.
Yesterday's presentations were a lot of fun to cover. I'm getting right back into the grind today.
Devil Mountain Software, Wal-Mart's purchase of Vudu and the FCC's broadband recommendations top today's headlines.
Microsoft published a "brief" history of the Windows interface in a blog post that offered some flashes of candour about Vista and Windows 95, and argued that the tablet as we know it today is one device too many. Redmond also said that it is dropping Aero Glass.
As time change nears, some companies are still struggling to patch their computer systems.
For a long time, Redmond was rarely associated with something that's quite important to selling tech. How things have changed.
The appeals court decision which spared Microsoft a breakup seems to have barely affected employees, who say they are more concerned with building the software giant's new products.
Vista is officially being released today. That might explain why last week a group named ECIS that has represented European competitors to Microsoft before the European Commission "sounded the alarm" about Microsoft's supposed intention to replace web programming linchpin HTML with XAML / WPF.