The concept of using the Internet to deliver television is far from new even though telephone companies are hyping the television services that they are deploying as the new. Back in halcyon days of the dot com boom there was one startup that delivered television to those few who had access to broadband service. Icravetv.com provided TV signals from Toronto and Buf
I’ve got a confession to make I’m one of the computer users on Microsoft’s hit list. I’m hanging on to Windows 2000. Microsoft has been running has been ads on television and in print still promoting Windows XP despite the fact that it will be replaced by Windows Vista in early 2007. When promoting a new upcoming release of Windows Microsoft promises the most revol
Boot Camp isn't Apple's first attempt at having two platforms running in one box. In 1994 Apple introduced the Quadra 610 Dos Compatible. A separate card with a 486 processor was installed in one of the slots. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=112244
It started with the remake of 'Ocean's Eleven' and then came 'Ocean's Twelve' and now there's talk of doing 'Ocean's Thirteen'. Steven Soderberg, George Clooney and company have room for ten prequels!! Yikes
Yet another Valentine's Day has passed and just like most that preceded it, I've been left dateless. For a proportion larger than the general population those in the fields of information technology, mathematics or sciences face similar difficulties in the romantic area. Without a doubt fixing missing DLL errors and performing spyware exorcism has a detrimental effe
After several years of a cable telephone duopoly in home broadband Internet service there may finally be an alternative on the Horizon. Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access better known as WiMax promises to do for communities what WiFi did for homes and businesses. There were previous broadband services using fixed-point wireless. Without the costs assoc
Up until about this time last year it was though that Microsoft's dominance in the field of the web browser was indisputable. Along came a little web browser called Firefox, and for the first time ever a Microsoft product actually lost market share. While Linux has long been considered to be the challenger of Microsoft's monopoly in operating systems but has never
Way back in the early days of mass marketed Internet service small independent companies provided dial up service. The broadband business has been a duopoly, cable and telephone companies are the only two options for the vast majority of high speed Internet subscribers. Technologies such as fixed wireless and powerline promised to introduce greater competition into
While Apple Computer's market share has been minuscule their role in the technology industry is not. It was Apple who brought computing power from the mainframe systems to the desktop. It was two guys named Steve who saw that there was a need and a desire for computers in homes, schools and small businesses. Computers were no longer limited to Governments, large c
Just over a year ago, I defected from Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Outlook Express when I switched to Mozilla Suite a web broswer, e-mail client and web page editor all in one program. When I found that I could surf the web without being deluged with pop-up ads I was hooked. I was slow to embrace tabbed browsing at first but once I found how useful it is I will
Microsoft’s recent acquisition of anti-virus software maker Sybari and the acquisition of GeCad in 2003 has lead to some speculation about how Microsoft will distribute their upcoming anti-virus program. It is most widely believed that an anti-virus program will be a part of the next version of Windows code named ‘Longhorn’ by the development team at Microsoft slated
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