Thompson said that the company has started offering a development kit for some software makers and partners, but that for the time being the kit will only be available to select developers.
“We’re in business now,” said Pete Thompson, the general manager of Microsoft’s surface computing unit.
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At last year’s partner conference, Microsoft talked about having [...]
Updated Friday with details about TG Daily notifying CNET News about the breach.
And I was using a VPN every time I logged on, with a strong password, even when I was using the local area network instead of my wireless card.
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eWeek reporter Brian Prince [...]
Pandora may eventually consider placing short audio advertisements in its streams, but, Pandora’s first priority is to grow its user base.
For music lovers, the Pandora internet radio application for the iPhone and iPod Touch is a welcome addition.
Yes. Because of legal restrictions, users cannot skip tracks on Pandora more than six times per hour. Fortunately, [...]
If you’re a native Mandarin speaker, I’d love to hear how this does with English translations. Let me know in the comments.
Telephony service JaJah has launched two completely different voice tools that are both useful in their own right. The first is a new “concierge” service that lets you call any of your contacts with [...]
So here’s the paradox that I think about: Let’s consider a company like Google, which writes, buys, and installs a lot of software. Some is unique to its business and isn’t available as an online service. Other products are packaged applications. Yet it wants the rest of the world to stop buying software, instead just [...]
Morgan added that it expects Apple to offer a more conservative guide to Wall Street and investors for the three-month period ending in December.
According to RBC’s research note:
Morgan Stanley not only revised its recommendation for the stock, but also lowered its fiscal 2009 earnings estimate to $5.47 a share from $5.91 a share.
RBC [...]
I don’t know what Yahoo and Google are doing. There have been rumors of potential Yahoo-Google deals. There have been rumors of potential government review of Yahoo-Google deals.”
From later in the event
“I’m going to take another one. I actually want to just take one more part of the Yahoo question. There was something [...]
That’s a sentiment echoed by Dancho Danchev, who offers some insight on ZDNet. Among his observations is that these systems can be spoofed or otherwise fooled. For example, attacks against the U.S. may appear to originate in a country that the enemy wants us to DDoS (perhaps for them).
“Although it’s hard to prove it,” [...]
Seagate is alleging STEC violated four of its patents relating to its SSDs, memory-backup systems, and self-testing systems for devices, according to a report in MarketWatch.com.
STEC issued a formal response Tuesday to a patent infringement lawsuit filed by rival storage maker Seagate Technology and its subsidiaries.
STEC alleges the Seagate lawsuits take aim at its Zeus-IOPS [...]
The big implicit assumption is that without adequate license protections, corporations will strip mine open source and the entire communal development process will just wither away over time. A favorite proof point in favor of this argument is how Linux (which uses the copyleft GPL license) largely triumphed over BSD Unix (which predates Linux and [...]
