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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 27 September 2006 |
Earlier this week I wrote a lengthy blog titled PS3 will continue to rule which has caused such an outpouring of criticism, abuse, and outright rage, that I'm going to write another.
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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 27 September 2006 |
Now that Apple believes that it has successfully sequestered the name "pod" from the English language, it is going hell for leather to try and shut anyone anything that uses pod in a name related to the music player business.
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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 27 September 2006 |
Well it's official. The same battery at the center of the massive Apple and Dell notebook recalls is responsible for the now infamous Lenovo Thinkpad firecracker incident at LA International Airport.
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by Stan Beer
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Tuesday, 26 September 2006 |
Just in case you missed it, following the release of RC1, Microsoft has released another build of Windows Vista.
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by Stan Beer
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Tuesday, 26 September 2006 |
Clovertown and Kentsfield - remember those names. They happen to be the latest marketing catch cries for Intel's new server and desktop range of quad-core processors, to be unveiled at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco this week.
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by Stan Beer
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Monday, 25 September 2006 |
I’m not a gamer but my kids and all their friends are. They’ve never quite forgiven me for buying them an Xbox a couple of years ago (on the advice of a friend) instead of a PlayStation 2.
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by Stan Beer
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Monday, 25 September 2006 |
The appearance of a zero day exploit for the critical VML (Vector Markup Language) vulnerability that has been found to affect not only Internet Explorer but also Office 2003 and Outlook HTML emails has prompted third party security professionals to develop immediate fixes. Microsoft, which expects its users to wait until October 10 for an official patch, is strangely petulant but it cannot afford to be.
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by Stan Beer
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Saturday, 23 September 2006 |
 If there's one place that Sony games consoles reign supreme, it's the world's second largest games market Japan. It's also a market where Microsoft has barely been able to get a look in with its latest generation console Xbox 360.
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by Stan Beer
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Saturday, 23 September 2006 |
Mindful of the looming threat posed by Google's growing stable of free online office productivity tools, Microsoft is considering putting its own low-end desktop applications online. However, moving to a free software model poses serious problems for the paid desktop software king.
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by Stan Beer
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Friday, 22 September 2006 |
It is very tempting to blame computer vendors like Dell an Aple for notebooks which explode into fireballs. However, in the final analysis it all comes down to the batteries.
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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 20 September 2006 |
The news that a patent has been filed for three layered discs that can store three different video formats borders on the ludicrous. No doubt the technological feasibility is there. The questions are at what cost and to what purpose.
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by Stan Beer
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Tuesday, 19 September 2006 |
Those who thought that Adobe might be in a spot of bother when a plethora of copy cats, including Microsoft and Open Office.org sprang up offering to save files as PDF (portable document format) documents may do well to think again. Adobe attempts to show in its Acrobat 8 product, document creation is more than just saving files in a defacto standard format.
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by Stan Beer
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Tuesday, 19 September 2006 |
In these days of heightened security, airline travellers already resent having to remove their notebook computers from their cases for inspection before boarding even though most concede it's necessary. However, not being able to use the notebook during flights goes beyond the pale.
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