Tainted views on Technology. Slanted more towards innovative and uncanny uses on current technology. A little hacker-mindset is also thrown into the equation. Basically THIS Blog is an Armed & Dangerous literary work.
Rumor has it that Google is looking to enter the online-payment service with a service that may be named “Google Wallet”. Google is keeping quiet about any information regarding “Google Wallet”, however the rumors has spread to PayPal and also several online merchants have been contacted in regards to the new service.
posted by Sterlingo @ 2:27 AM
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Seems as if Redmond is trying to penetrate the "graphic designs" market with a new product codenamed Acrylic. Microsoft says "Acrylic is a professional illustration, painting, and graphic design product" with no release date as of yet. A screenshot, forum, blog review, FileForum review, Slashdot post, and alpha download here and here are all available.
posted by Sterlingo @ 2:00 PM
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C't Magazine of Germany have reported that with a copy of the right directories and by changing 2 bytes it is possible to convert Windows XP Home to Pro Lite. Also in similar news 3am Labs based in Hungary have argued the Microsoft Workstation versions are the same as the Server versions in terms of the binaries. They state that the only difference is in the registry. In an article posted on The Register talk about converting .NET Server into XP Pro using their software: NTSwitch (Which is not posted on their site anymore, however it can be found in the wild).
posted by Sterlingo @ 9:54 PM
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The latest information is showing that Firefox (8% market share thus far) is slowly gaining market share from the larger player in the game: Microsoft's Internet Explorer (down to 87.23% as of recently). This is according to NetApplications.com, which is a California-based maker of applications for monitoring and measuring Web site usage. The article goes on to say that due to the growing number of Firefox users, webmasters are going to have to make their sites Firefox-compatible.
posted by Sterlingo @ 8:51 PM
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Right before the market closed on June 1, 2005 the market closed early due to a “communications glitch“. Even with only four loss minutes, it can mean big money loss to traders. The market opened the following day at it’s normal time of 9:30 am, however that short downtime irked traders and also calls into question the reliability and dependability of the financial data network of the New York Stock Exchange and exchanges throughout the US when there were suppose to be improvement made after September 11, 2001.
posted by Sterlingo @ 11:39 PM
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