The first, Download Statusbar, doesn’t actually enable in-browser rendering of PDF documents but gives the user a status bar at the bottom of the browser window that displays the progress of downloads and allows the user to double-click any download to open it in the application of one’s choice.
Apple’s
Safari and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browsers both [...]
It’s true that any reasonable person would probably agree that Customs agents should be able to inspect travelers’ bags for contraband. But seizing a laptop and copying its hard drive is uniquely invasive–and should only be done if there’s a good reason.
An electronic device is defined as “any device capable of storing information in digital [...]
The news of the management shift comes after the U.S. government essentially put the kibosh on a proposed $2.2 billion buyout of 3Com by Bain Capital Partners and Huawei Technologies.
“In addition to his 30 years in the global IT and telecommunications industry, Bob’s bi-cultural background, extensive business experience in Asia and fluency in Mandarin and [...]
Cost cutting will lead to the move, said (Gartner)…Open source will be used in the operating system, application server, and at a database level and will make up 30 percent of an application.
Gartner seems to have checked its former open-source blindness at the door, and is now suggesting that 90 percent of all software-as-a-service providers [...]
Microsoft had indicated even before the second ad debuted last week that a shift was coming.
Reaction to the ads has been largely negative since the first one debuted two weeks ago.
The next ad in Microsoft’s massive Windows campaign won’t feature Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld, but the move is part of a planned shift, [...]
According to one financial analyst, AT&T is paying Apple $325 in subsidies on each iPhone 3G.
The actual price of the
iPhone doesn’t matter to most people, but certain AT&T customers who might not be eligible for the upgrade price of $199 or $299 will likely have to pay the unsubsidized price–or something close to it– [...]
“The first phase of this campaign is designed to engage consumers and spark a new conversation about Windows–a conversation that will evolve as the campaign progresses, but will always be marked by humor and humanity,” Microsoft Senior Vice President Bill Veghte said in an e-mail to employees.
Check out Don’s Digital Home podcast, Twitter feed, and [...]
Run the Windows Update Fix batch file. The CastleCopsWiki offers a downloadable batch file that automatically addresses many of the causes for a stalled update. Use it by unzipping the download file and double-clicking the file named WUFix.bat. This is far from a guaranteed fix for update woes, but if everything else has failed to [...]
Disclosure: Declan McCullagh is married to a Google employee
If Microsoft truly believes that “illegal” activity is happening, it doesn’t need to wait for Washington. It has the ability to launch a private antitrust lawsuit against Google and Yahoo. Redmond knows firsthand how this works: Sun Microsystems filed a private antitrust suit that Microsoft settled for [...]
As I made the usual morning slog through my in-box Monday, I was about to skip past a news release touting a back-to-school promotion for Live Search Cashback, when I noticed one of the featured deals was on a ThinkPad tablet PC from electronic shoe retailer Zappos.com.
The key was Amazon had a logistics system that [...]
