http://www.1917u.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:58:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For the first quarter of 2008, Intel is projecting revenue between $9.4 billion and $10 billion, representing more than the usual seasonal decline of about 7 percent. Smith did not attribute the decline to any one significant factor, but a combination of continued weak pricing on NAND memory and an ... http://www.1917u.com/?p=339 Following earlier news that Microsoft was recalculating its $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo, it has become clear what the company has decided to do. Microsoft has thrown down the gauntlet, as evidenced by a letter Saturday from CEO Steve Ballmer to Yahoo's board of directors. Here's the quote that sums ... http://www.1917u.com/?p=337 First, Ray Ozzie's fingerprints are all over this document. The Wizard of Oz, Microsoft's chief software architect, may be among the savviest technologists alive today, and it's been interesting to watch him navigate a huge, resistant bureaucracy. Since Ozzie's arrival after Microsoft acquired his company in April 2005, he's attempted ... http://www.1917u.com/?p=335 LivingSocial, the parent site for six user review services including ReadingSocial, TuneSocial, and ReelSocial, is announcing two things today: First, a $5 million round of venture funding, which will be used to expand the business. And second, an interesting new strategic twist for the company: a ... http://www.1917u.com/?p=333 This will lead to further delays, according to Nvidia. "By then, they have become the de facto standard and we have no choice but to go back and respin (redesign) the chip, which then adds another nine months," Nvidia says. "Effectively, Intel is building in two years of green field--of ... http://www.1917u.com/?p=331 Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates talked about adding a "black box" to Windows (without the video-recording ability, though). Microsoft later said it wasn't broadly expanding the "Watson" error-reporting capabilities beyond the kinds of data it already had been collecting. It was never totally clear as to what Gates was referring to. Mendlen ... http://www.1917u.com/?p=329 Rogers Cable, one of Canada's largest Internet providers, has adopted Comcast-style BitTorrent filtering, so CBC's use of the technology is sure to heat up the debate. CBC is conducting the entire BitTorrent effort in-house. The show will be encoded into multiple formats (including an iPod-friendly version), Orvis said, and the BitTorrent server ... http://www.1917u.com/?p=327 Listen now: New search engine takes aim at Google Ozzie puts his own spin on 'ThinkWeek' MSN to follow Yahoo in issuing music refunds? CNET News' Greg Sandoval analyzes Yahoo's attempts at damage control to mollify customers upset over its digital music policy. Apple has begun issuing regular status reports for ... http://www.1917u.com/?p=325 Not hard. Not completely true either, as it turns out. I saved the file (i320xp190usz.exe) to the root of the C disk and ran it from there. The resulting error is shown below. 1. Click the link, select "Save," specify "Save As," then click "Save" to download the file. 2. ... http://www.1917u.com/?p=323 (Credit: Apple) Apple quickly retracted a few Mac OS X 10.6 tidbits leaked out by its Canadian subsidiary following the Worldwide Developers Conference keynote, but the Internet misses nothing. Apple's Bertrand Serlet was scheduled to address Apple's developers in a session closed to the press Monday afternoon to go over 10.6, and now ... http://www.1917u.com/?p=321