Nick Farrell , Tuesday 16 September 2008. 08:59:00
Moorhead, less juice
AMD’S PAT Moorhead, VP of advanced marketing, claims that wee netbooks are not really worth the effort. He said AMD is “taking a wait-and-see attitude on it.” And he does not like the fact that machines that initially aimed for a $299 price tag are now nearer to $499. According to Slashgear, Moorhead thinks the technology behind the netbooks is bad too. He said that you would expect eight or nine hours out of a netbook because it’s small. But most only have under two hours of battery life. This makes them only good for around the house. He reckons you could spend the same money and get a full-sized laptop with a 15.4-inch screen, 160GB hard-drive with dual-core CPU and Vista….
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Nick Farrell , Monday 15 September 2008. 08:53:00
You have to build by-passes, Mr Dent
MAKER OF expensive printer ink, HP has assembled a team of boffins to bypass bits of Vista that it does not like. HP might even be able come up with an operating system that bypasses Vista and replaces it with an HP OS. Apparently the back room boffins have been working for nine months on things like touchscreen technology that allows users to with films or photos. Since Vista is clunky and contains things that many users don’t want or need, HP thinks that by getting rid of the bloat, Vista will go a lot faster on the notebooks that HP peddles….
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Nick Farrell the Inquirer, Monday 22 September 2008. 08:15:00
Oh Really?
WIKILEAKS has published a yarn about members who signed up for the web page of Fox News bile merchant Bill O’Reilly. The information came from hackers who were able to obtain a list of Billoreilly.com premium members, including email addresses, site passwords and the city and state where they live. Wikileaks has been in hot water from O’Reilly for publishing US vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s personal email messages, which were also obtained by hackers. O’Reilly, host of the TV show “The O’Reilly Factor,” rabidly attacked Wikileaks of “trafficking in stolen merchandise.” O’Reilly’s premium members pay $49.95 per year to access special content on the Web site, including discussion boards….
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Nick Farrell the Inquirer, Thursday 25 September 2008. 07:42:00
As if their life was not hard enough
AFTER A childhood of being beaten up in the playground, people with daft names are now having their Facebook book accounts suspended. The anti-social notworking site is suspending the owners of strange names without warning and holding personal information to ransom until you show them a government-issued ID. Sydney’s Elmo Keep tried to login to her account and was told she was banned for life for violating the site’s terms of use. Facebook believed she was not using her real names. According to AP other names who have been banned include US political blogger Jon Swift, Japanese author Hiroko Yoda, British MP Steve Webb, Australian graphic designer Beta Yee, and New Zealander Rowena Gay….
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