If you’re Eric Schmidt, you have to pray that Google is not going to need to hire an out-of-work comedian when it turns 30.
Schmidt knows this narrative through first-hand experience. He also knows that Google at 10 occupies a stronger position than did Microsoft at a similar point in its history. Neither Microsoft [...]

The iPod came in just a couple of days–but as soon as I unwrapped it and connected it to my
Mac at home I got an ominous alert from my usually quiet antivirus software. The iPod, it informed me, contained some virus known as AdobeR.exe.

As I dug into the problem, I learned something I probably should [...]

Primavera was not alone in the project management software field. Seven years ago, Microsoft announced plans to step into the market with its own project software.

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Primavera Software)

The deal, whose financial terms were not disclosed, is expected to close by the end of the year. Through it, Oracle aims to integrate its enterprise applications [...]

“Microsoft’s applications fail all the time. “But for us our signals need to get to our audience, so it’s a different world. And it’s not acceptable for there to be any interference.” –Dennis Wharton, National Association of Broadcasters
This is exactly what Wally Bowen, from the Mountain Area Information Network in Asheville, N.C., and [...]

But Alex Eckelberry of Sunbelt Software criticized Secunia’s report as being a “useless test.” And others, too, have criticized the metholodgy used.

The Secunia test departed from the traditional testing done by organizations such as AV-test.org and AV-comparatives.org, which use collections of malware to demonstrate the on-demand and heuristic capabilities of the security products. Secunia used [...]

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CNET Networks/Corinne Schulze)
Sony has come a long way since the release of the NW-MS11 Network Walkman. One of the company’s first flash-based MP3 players, the NW-MS11 didn’t even play MP3s and was crippled by copy-protection woes and painfully slow transcoding, but even back then, Walkmans were a model of sleek design and excellent sound [...]

Update: As I was publishing this blog, my mail service was restored.

Well, I guess I’ve had enough e-mail for one day anyway. I’m headed to bed. Hopefully everyone’s servers will be working tomorrow.

I tabbed over to my Yahoo Mail window and noticed that my window, which had been working all day, was now returning [...]

Mozilla will continue to update Firefox 2 until mid-December.

On Thursday, Mozilla pushed out a new security update for its new
Firefox browser. Version 3.0.1 for Windows and Mac addresses vulnerabilities in malformed GIF files on
Mac OS X, command-line URLs that could launch multiple tabs when Firefox is not running, and a potential remote code execution by [...]

I was all set to write about handwriting in
Microsoft Office 2007 today, but a funny thing happened on my way to open Outlook 2007: The program vanished. Gone. Without a trace.

Tomorrow: handwriting in Office 2007 (this time for sure!)

So I did what any Windows user would do: I ignored the situation and tried to [...]

Stereophile magazine editor John Atkinson’s recent article, “Getting the best from your loudspeakers,” provides gobs of useful information.
Atkinson’s feature looks at stereo speakers; I’ll tackle 5.1 channel placement soon.
Perhaps his most important bit of advice comes early on: “Entire books have been written about the relationship between loudspeakers and room acoustics, but the starting [...]