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A long Zune outage will hit users Monday. The outage will take place first thing Monday and will last for up to forty eight hours. This is a long outage. Microsoft is not giving specific details. The Zune services and forums and store will all be offline. The devices should [...]
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September 27th, 2008 | Posted in Technology | No Comments
Adobe is fighting back against Microsoft Silverlight. Adobe may have lost some marketshare but they struck a major deal with the NFL broadcasting full length NFL Sunday Night Football games for the first time. Adobe Flash will be the player of choice. Now all we need is fully archived games so you [...]
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September 7th, 2008 | Posted in Technology | No Comments
So the new iPod nano 4g will be out soon. Yawn. Why does anyone even care? 4g is like nothing and all it does is play media. Why wouldn’t someone just by the new iPhone? I have little respect for people so defendant upon music. I mean what is [...]
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September 6th, 2008 | Posted in Technology | No Comments
Firefox 3.1 is coming out soon. The biggest question is how will it respond to Google Chrome. One of the newest features is support for HTML 5 and CSS 3 including the HTML 5 video. This alpha version is code named Shiretoko. There should also be some improvements in performance of Firefox 3.1 [...]
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September 6th, 2008 | Posted in Technology | No Comments
So in case you didn’t hear Samsung is thinking of acquiring SanDisk. I am worried about this because SanDisk makes excellent products that I have long thought were superior in quality and low prices. I am afraid that Samsung Electronics will not merge well with SanDisk resulting in higher prices. The primary [...]
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September 5th, 2008 | Posted in Technology | No Comments
One of the problems with the iPhone is that it crashes. Steve Jobs has promised a solution in September. The issue occurs when the iPhone firmware attempts unsuccessfully to load third party apps. The problems seems to be a permissions issue. Those who have crashes have a long wait. Oh [...]
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August 20th, 2008 | Posted in Technology | No Comments
I have been thinking of switching from Sprint to Verizon. Verizon was recently ranked number one by J.D. Power in customer service. They actually solve problems. I am less than impressed with Sprint customer service. Now if only all the carriers would do away with those pesky contracts and early termination [...]
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August 15th, 2008 | Posted in Technology | No Comments
There is some kind of attack happening to Facebook. A malware worm is all over the network. The Facebook wall posts are infected. If you see a picture of a jester sticking out his toungue then you have it. The trojan most likely allows for other viruses or spyware to be [...]
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August 8th, 2008 | Posted in Blogging Monitization, Business, Technology | No Comments
Microsoft is considering reducing the price of the Xbox 360. The word is that the price could be reduced to two hundred dollars. This price reduction could take place as early as September. Microsoft needs to turn up the heat because of the recent price reductions on the Sony PS3. But [...]
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August 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Technology | No Comments
Microsoft wants you to buy Vista. It is using a video site Mojave to show critics the operating system. The videos show the critics complaining about Vista. Then they are shown a new version of windows called Mojave. When they are told it is Vista they are all surprised. Hey I am [...]
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July 29th, 2008 | Posted in Technology | No Comments