HUGE: Google Set to Make Gmail Social With Status Update Features
I wonder how this will work with enterprise GMail.
Gmail is set to become Google’s next major push into social media. According to The Wall Street Journal, the popular webmail service will soon launch a new feature for sharing content and status updates with friends. [Update: We think Google might announce these features on Tuesday]
via HUGE: Google Set to Make Gmail Social With Status Update Features.
Kohjinsha’s dual-screen DZ Series laptop now for sale — Engadget
Do want.
Remember IBM's ThinkPad 701 with the butterfly keyboard? This isn't it, it's better... conceptually anyway. Instead of two halves of a keyboard magically jigsawing themselves together, Kohjinsha achieves a similar result with its DZ-series using a pair of 10.1-inch TFT displays with 1,024 x 600 pixel resolution (each) packed into an otherwise svelte 1.02 x 8.26 x 0.74~1.65 inches / 4.09 pounds (1.84 kg) portable. Best of all it's on sale now for ¥95,800 (about $1,110) with a Linux pre-load -- add another ¥5,000 (about $58) for 32-bit Windows 7 Home Premium.
via Kohjinsha's dual-screen DZ Series laptop now for sale -- Engadget.
Saudi Citizen Living In Sugar Land Found Guilty Of Selling Counterfeit Parts To Marine Corps | FortBendNow.com
Man, these really are counterfeit. I thought maybe they just meant "knockoff" imitation parts -- you know, like Cysko. Not the case. I wouldn't look twice, even if I had two of these side-by-side. I'd just chalk up the differences to outsourcing.
Ehab Ali Ashoor, 49, a Saudi citizen who resides in Sugar Land, has been found guilty of trafficking in counterfeit Cisco goods after a three-day jury trial before United States District Judge David Hittner, United States Attorney Tim Johnson announced today. The case was re-tried this week after a hung jury last Friday.
12 Trends to Watch in 2010 | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Integrated Defensive Electronic Countermeasures (IDECM) AN/ALQ-214
Including:
- Attacks on Cryptography (check)
- Global Internet Censorship
- Hardware Hacking (check)
- Location Privacy (check)
via 12 Trends to Watch in 2010 | Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Official Google Blog: A new approach to China
This will be a really noble gesture if it actually happens.
Microsoft Let NSA Spooks ‘Enhance’ Windows 7 – Microsoft – Gawker
Microsoft Let NSA Spooks 'Enhance' Windows 7 - Microsoft - Gawker.
Finally Got Invited to Try Google Wave
This morning at 6:23 I finally received an invitation to try out Google Wave.
Now to see what all the fuss is about.
HOW TO – Make a cheap “pager scanner” « adafruit industries blog
HOW TO - Make a cheap “pager scanner” « adafruit industries blog.
Fox and Microsoft are up to Something
It was interesting last night to notice the Microsoft product placement in Family Guy. For those of you who didn't see it, the show entered its first commercial break with a Mac OS X-esque spinning beach ball - followed by Peter Griffin leading into a Vist- ahem. Excuse me. A Windows 7 commercial where he endorsed the product's ease-of use. (For those of you who don't know, Win 7 is re-packaged Vista. And you doubted the power of marketing!).
My first thought was immediately of the network's political leaning's. They are known neither for their populism, nor for their subtlety. Then this morning, I read that FT is reporting of a Murdoch-Microsoft deal in the works. Despite it being Family Guy, it had the smack of Microsoft's always-contrived advertising humor.
Animators, animators, animators...
"Peter, hold my ears so I can euuuuuuglabalacagh..."
I immediately laughed because the PHP community has a long tradition of using the characters and storyline of Family Guy when illustrating examples of programming concepts.
My next thought was of the way this is going to hurt News Corp. If this is accurate, there is going to be an even larger divide between the segments of the English speaking world vis-a-vis their attitude towards News Corp publications. If Murdoch pulls all his sites from Google, it may lose what little credibility it still has; insofar as the fox can blend in with the hounds as long as it doesn't leave the pack.
Now see here, I own 30% of this network!
But once they leave the universe of Google indexing, and enter the unholy alliance with Microsoft, people will no longer be confused that what they are reading from News Corp via Google is actually news.
Net effect on Microsoft? Not sure about this one. They are paying News Corp to do this, so there's that. But other than it being a waste of money, I'm not sure how is really going to make Bing much more of a competitor than it is now. Especially if Google keeps acting like a benevolent public utility co-op that makes money for everyone.
Another question -- albeit one of lesser significance -- is that of the weird vertical relationships of MySpace and Facebook. Myspace is a property of Fox Interactive Media and Facebook (incidentally a PHP-based site) had a large infusion of cash from Microsoft back in its earlier days (mostly a symbolic one).
No one is talking merger or anything, but it is interesting to see how ever-changing technology is driving the marketplace now more than ever.
