Entries Tagged as 'hardware'
Why does all tech have to be a * Killer?
I just realized why something annoyed me all these long years - that in technology there’s always a new product out that’s a something killer. Most recently, everything is an iPhone killer, take RIM’s new Blackberry 9000, for example. Why does a product always have to be that? It’s so stupid.
When the iPhone came out, [...]
Categories: hardware
On the reaction to Amazon’s Kindle
Ok, so it’s official, the internets hate the Kindle. I guess it isn’t surprising, but it got me thinking about their arguments and why I, on the other hand, was kind of excited by it.
The most common argument is that we already have laptops and iPhones why the hell do we need yet another [...]
This is why competition is good
You know it turns out monopolies are bad, when customers have no where else to go what incentive does a company have to do anything good? Look no further than the telcos or the cable cos to see proof of this.
Intel, the “tel” part of the wintel monopoly has been terrible. Easily as bad as [...]
Breakfast Links: Daleks, Unlawful Reincarnation & Telephony
Exterminate! Exteeeeerminate! Well the Manchesterians went for the gusto, trying to break the world record of largest number of people dressed up as Daleks in one location! Apparently there’s still no official decision on whether this actually broke the record, but I’m holding my breath. Someone has uploaded several videos from the event - they’re [...]
Categories: breakfast links · hardware · smartphones · telephony
Red Shift? Uh…
I just red this piece on Sun’s CIO Papadopoulos explaining his new usage of the word Red Shift to explain why Sun was doing so well. Whatever about the stupid appropriation of the phrase, I was interested to see what he was talking about - unfortunately as far as I can tell, there’s nothing really [...]
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Google Custom Search Business Edition
So, for various clients I’ve used various Google in various ways. My favourite, to date, has been the Google Mini. It’s a couple grand to get one of these li’l appliances, but it’s dirt easy to set up and lets you completely customize the look of the thing, what it crawls, how often it crawls, [...]
Neo 1973 from Openmoko
Well I’m sure Apple is not quaking in it’s iPhone having boots, but Openmoko has released a developer/alpha version of it’s free (as in liberty) phone the Neo 1973. Unique for being not just free software but free hardware as well - they’ve gone out of their way to choose fully documented components and have [...]
Categories: free software · gear · hardware · smartphones
Dell and Google
Huh, I just caught a Dell commercial showing them making Google search appliances. I was quite surprised to see that and needed to check the interwebbing to see what was what, and lo and behold - there’s an announcement right on the Google Enterprise blog.
I wonder if the partnership with Dell is any broader than [...]
AMD & Transmeta v. Intel
Well, the news came out this weekend that AMD was investing a few $million in Transmeta. No mention of really why they were investing or what AMD was getting out of it. Transmeta had already left the hardware market. Ostensibly there’s some kind of low power synergy to be leveraged between the two companies, but [...]
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I learn something new everyday.
Of course, I’m not that bright, so it’s pretty easy. Today I learned that when good RAM goes bad it is possible that it could prevent the machine from POSTing at all. That is, bad ram in the right place can prevent the machine from even getting to the point where any video signal at [...]
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