Category: Technology

  • This is your Tech Tidbits Daily for Wednesday, Feb. 16th 2005. Today’s news is from Brian Baily’s Leave It Behind weblog.  In a post in late January, Brain introduces his readers to a relatively new open-source blog publishing tool called dasBlog that is written in Microsoft ASP.NET. A developer David…

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  • I am trying to connect some dots from Engadget posts … Microsoft’s Xbox "2" is suppose to be running IBM PowerPC 970/970x processor. Currently Apple’s systems all seem to run on IBM PowerPC processors. The next version of Playstation "3" from Sony is running the "Cell" processor (co-developed by Sony/Toshiba/IBM).…

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  • Engadget reports that the  Microsoft’s Tablet PC Edition of Windows XP bug that causes the Tablet Input Panel (TIP) to misbehave to a point where your system can’t use the TIP as an input option is really a pain.  Right now Microsoft is reportedly telling people to reboot daily.  Nice…

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  • This is your Tech Tidbits Daily for Tuesday Feb. 15th 2005. Today’s news is from Help Net Security and is in reference to the availability of a new version of very important computer network security tool.  This open source tool is called NMAP and the current version is 3.81.  It…

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  • Robert Scoble is posting: Fortune – Diary of a Demo; call for links; and bloggingdemo. Wi-Fi Network News had a post on mobile VoIP, and NWFusion has some coverage from the "networking" perspective. Also my favorite PR person Renee Blodgett is blogging a lot via her site Down The Avenue.

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  • Network World Fusion Radio’s podcast segment "The SBC/AT&T Ripple" (published  2/7/2005) discussed among other things the potential for a Verizon and MCI merger.  Great analysis!

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  • This is your Tech Tidbits Daily for Monday, Feb. 14th 2005. Happy Valentine’s Day. Today’s news is in reference to an article posted to the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) News Service mailing list.  The post was entitled "Of MRI’s and iPods" that was originally posted in MIT’s Technology Review…

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  • There are a ton of links on this new "reported" handheld device from HP: Engadget#1, Engadget#2, Engadget#3, Engadget#4, Engadget#5, and Gizmodo. It has a pretty good look and feel; and a compelling feature set.  It will be interesting to see what the stats are on the unit after officially released.

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  • Security Focus reports about a  PNG (Portable Network Graphic) and MSN Messenger & Windows Media Player vulnerability. I am little concerned because it appears that Windows Media Player will accept a PNG within the album art field in a standard audio file.  Not sure if the an "infected PNG" can…

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  • It is raining in Southern California this weekend.  So, I was at my computer a little more than normal and I had some links, so here you go … Podcasting: Doppler Radio 2.0.0.3 is available Good ‘How To’ on Autosyncing Podcasts with Windows Media Player 10 The Future of Podcasting…

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