It’s nice to have polar opposites keeping me in check. It keeps me in the middle. No, open source isn’t God. Nor is proprietary. Anyone who reads this blog with a current perspective (meaning, you’ve got to keep up with me because my perspective isn’t cemented for eternity – I hope yours isn’t, either) and [...]

It’s not exactly cutting edge, with an Nvidia GeForce 9700M graphics card and an Intel Core 2 Duo P7350 CPU, but at around $1,500, it’s a decent deal on a dual-purpose gaming and multimedia rig. Gateway has had a lot of success recently with similar midrange gaming systems designed for retail shoppers.

We’ve always liked the [...]

Jim Fraser, in a recent article at the Energy Blog, explains how this works:

But democracy is not always a fast process. Dan Reicher, director of climate and energy initiatives for Google.org and former U.S. assistant energy secretary, says that the next president will indeed push for change but any regulations will take time to phase [...]

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Turtle Beach Ear Force X4 headset

While previous Xbox-centric Ear Force models–the Ear Force AXT and Ear Force X2–have suffered from excessive wiring requirements and other design flaws, we’re hoping the X4 will be more in line with the Ear Force AK-R8, an excellent surround headset for the PC. The $200 Ear Force X4 [...]

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Coming soon to the Blackberry: iTunes music syncrhonization.

Still, for music fans in desperate need of a new phone–like me–the iPhone is still the most obvious choice, especially now that a 3G model is almost certainly on the way. But if you’re already a Blackberry fan, or are primarily concerned with having access to e-mail [...]

Plat’Home, a very early Linux provider in Japan, is bringing back a small, easy-to-use, easy-to-configure solution for growing companies to North America.
Plat'Home OpenBlockS

Part of the first ecology-friendly line of Linux servers ever shipped in the United States, Plat’Home’s OpenBlockS server has been built and tested to provide enterprise-grade reliability in its RISC-based hardware, and [...]

Microsoft also issued a critical Windows patch for vulnerabilities in its VBScript and JScript Scripting engines, which could provide attackers with access to users’ systems and allow them to install programs, as well as view and change data.

One of the security bulletins is a cumulative patch for IE, and the other is designed to resolve [...]

Huberman said a major opportunity for his company at EMC is to take advantage not only of its scale and channel partnerships, but its intellectual property, particularly in the area of networked storage products.

EMC has traditionally played in enterprise-level storage and software arenas. Iomega is best-known for hard drives and storage for consumers and [...]

Standards move notoriously slowly, of course, especially when compared with the rest of the technology industry. But the Internet has reached a scale where IM incompatibilities have major consequences that retard innovation, too. Standards might hamper the development of new IM features, but I believe interoperability problems are denying us a broader, richer world of [...]

In the rural community of Corinto, an area at the crossroads of the country’s civil war, I saw students using decade-old machines that could barely access the Internet. Still, they had found great use for what we consider obsolete computers. They were using the PCs to chart crops, as part of a broader effort that [...]