Archives for March 2006
Over the past week, news sites and blogs have been full of stories about delays in the launch of a couple of big products: the new version of Microsoft Windows - Windows Vista; and then new games console from Sony Corp, the PS3. In some of these stories, and the community comments responding […]
Sun Microsystems Inc ( SUNW ) is shortly to make its Grid Compute Utility offering generally available, initially to customers based in the US. In his blog post, entitled The Network Is The Computer, Sun’s President and COO, Jonathan Schwartz, gives some of the details. The question, then, is - does Sun’s […]
A rumour that Google is about to acquire Sun Microsystems has been spreading across the Web for the last few days. Is it only a rumour, or could there be some substance here? One way to think about this is to put yourself in the shoes of the Google CEO, and ask - […]
Back in January, when the first Intel-based Macs were launched, the big question was: will these machines run Windows? At the time, the answer was no. As of today, however, the challenge to enable Intel Macs to boot Windows appears to be over. Two developers, narf2006″ and “blanka” have solved the technical […]
OK - this is slightly off-topic, but according to the BBC, Creationism is to be taught to children in UK science classes. This is both ridiculous and unacceptable. I realise that extremist factions in the United States have somehow gotten control of the educational agenda there; however, I had thought we might be […]
After my speculation yesterday, the new Microsoft / Intel Origami / UMPC devices from Samsung, Founder and Asus have broken cover at the CeBIT show in Hanover. All the potential design flaws I mentioned (lack of keyboards, being too big, and looking ugly/undesirable) are, it turns out, present on these devices.
The method of text […]
The new Microsoft / Intel “Brick” “Origami” appears to be a new type of ultra mobile PC. That is, a handheld computer with a “large” screen, using an Intel processor and running Windows. A couple of videos have been put up on the Web. From what I’ve seen so far, I’m […]