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Posted by Russell Shaw in IP Telephony on: May 31, 2007 5:27 PM Hands-on video and first impressions of the HTC Touch Earlier today HTC announced the HTC Touch device with their new TouchFLO technology. I was able to meet up with my press contact and get a device to evaluate a couple hours ago. I created a quick video to try to show readers how the new interface works and also.

.. Posted by Matthew Miller in The Mobile Gadgeteer on: Jun 5, 2007 7:30 PM Is Microsoft winning the FUD war in the board room?

One by one, free and open source software providers are signing agreements with "the dark side", the poster child for proprietary software, and (many say) the antithesis of open source: Microsoft. Posted by Ed Burnette in Dev Connection on: Jun 4, 2007 7:31 PM What Google Gears means for Rich Internet Applications and Apollo Some big news today that Google is announcing an open source project called "Google Gears" which is an open source collaboration between Google, Adobe, Mozilla, and Opera that enables offline web applications in the browser. It seems very similar to the announcement that Mozilla made about the offline features in.

.. Posted by Ryan Stewart in The Universal Desktop on: May 30, 2007 4:36 PM Are ATI and Nvidia doing enough with their Vista drivers?

ATI and Nvidia have released new WHQL-certified Windows drivers for their flagship video cards. In the past three months, both companies have been delivering a steady stream of new drivers. Are those updates enough to quiet the critics?

Posted by Ed Bott in Ed Bott's Microsoft Report on: Jun 4, 2007 7:54 AM Novell document dump makes it look like a scandal The Washington game of dumping incriminating documents late on a Friday is well-known. When someone does it, suspicions are raised. (Image from the blog of La Shawn Barber.

) Now Novell has done just that with its Friday night document dump on the Microsoft agreement. Just to make us even more..

. Posted by Dana Blankenhorn in Open Source on: May 27, 2007 8:54 AM Why I won't use GPLv3 software I've discussed in the past some of the problems I have with the GPLv3. I still don't understand why the FSF insists that hardware vendors allow the software on their systems to be modified.

Hardware companies, in my opinion, should have the right to control the design of their...

Posted by John Carroll in John Carroll on: Jun 1, 2007 10:28 AM Google Gears - the game has changed I'm not often left feeling completely astonished these days. I like to think I'm pretty on top of where things are going. But I just got completely blindsided by Google Gears.

There's already plenty of first-glance analysis to help you grasp the magnitude of what they've done. Posted by Marc Orchant in Office Evolution on: May 30, 2007 10:30 PM Siebel 2.0: The end of Salesforce.

com It’s finally time to call a spade a spade, or in this case, a soon-to-be has-been a has-been. Of course, doing so after the fact sounds too spiteful, so I’m going to do it well ahead of the curve. While these kind of predictions are hard to get right, I.

.. Posted by Joshua Greenbaum in Enterprise Anti-matter on: May 23, 2007 10:43 AM How to innovate?

That was both the spoken and unspoken question on everyone's minds at the Wall Street Journal's memorable D Conference this week in Carlsbad. How can we radically improve the experience and value of interacting with one's digital device? What is the next chapter in the evolution of.

.. Posted by Andrew Keen in The Great Seduction on: Jun 3, 2007 10:52 PM Equally hilarious in the mouth meets foot category were Torvald's comments as reported by information week in which he first asserts that all the fundamental OS design work was done well before both Linux and Windows, and then contradicts his own logic by asserting that any Microsoft patents revealed by.

.. Posted by Paul Murphy in Managing L'unix on: May 24, 2007 12:15 AM IT'S OFFICIAL: BlackBerry Curve rollout tomorrow via AT T Wireless AT T Inc (formerly Cingular Wireless) says this morning it will officially offer the BlackBerry Curve in wireless retail and business channels starting tomorrow.

AT T will be the only U.S. carrier offering the Curve.

It will run on AT T's EDGE network. Basics: Size: 4.2" x 2.

4" x 0.6' Weight: 3.9.

.. Posted by Russell Shaw in The BlackBerry Beat on: May 30, 2007 5:51 AM Dell and Wal-Mart add up to a positive for AMD?

Dell appears poised to help out AMD as part of a new venture into retail stores. Dell announced yesterday that it will begin selling desktop PCs at retailer Wal-Mart Stores in the U.S.

and Canada this coming June. News reports say the first desktops to be offered on Wal-Mart shelves..

. Posted by John Spooner in ChipLand on: May 25, 2007 5:05 AM Expect a June demo of Silverlight on Linux, sans browser What's interesting to me is that developers are now getting more RIA choice, probably than ever, especially with Google Gears and its offline "software and a service" functionality. We're about as close to "write anywhere, run anywhere" as we've ever been.

The winners, of course, are the end users who...

Posted by Dana Gardner in BriefingsDirect on: Jun 1, 2007 8:32 AM Nielsen, the measurer of all things media, released a report last week on the impact of digital video recorders and, at the same time, introduced a new ratings service to report on actual viewership of programs and commercials that have been recorded for playback on TiVo and other time-shifting devices...

. Posted by Mitch Ratcliffe in Rational Rants on: Jun 4, 2007 4:15 PM Admit it: when you look at a spreadsheet, you trust the results. You don't question the totals or the percentages you see.

But data, and formulas used to compute what appear in the spreadsheet cells, are both prone to errors. According to computer scientists from Oregon State University, 90% of..

. Posted by Roland Piquepaille in Emerging Tech on: May 29, 2007 9:37 AM What Google Gears means for SaaS developers Gears is almost a defensive announcement, an admission that the browser needs to move up a gear (pun intended) if it's going to stay relevant to the needs of Web application users. Posted by Phil Wainewright in Software as Services on: May 31, 2007 2:27 PM Sell your stock yet?

Once the shining pioneer that took Apple's idea of mobile computing and scaled it to fit in your pocket, now the company that can't seem to figure out what they make or who they are. This week they announced their stellar new product, the Foleo fake..

. Posted by Alan Graham in Web 2.0 Explorer on: Jun 1, 2007 8:24 AM The Courts routinely subpoenae email messages, and people routinely use email to incriminate themselves.

I had supressed, until now, the urge to comment on the Karl Rove missing-email fiasco; however, it keeps getting juicier. The story, so far, goes like this..

. Critics say that the Rove staff used the Republican National Committee (RNC) email..

. Posted by Maurene Caplan Grey in E-Communications Community on: Jun 4, 2007 1:37 PM Ready for SOA? Here's a litmus test Smash the hierarchy.

Push decision making down to the front lines. Give employees autonomy and ownership of problems and solutions. And, most of all, trust, trust, trust.

Todd Biske and I are on the same page when it comes to questioning how much of role SOA can really...

Posted by Joe McKendrick in Service Oriented on: May 26, 2007 8:48 AM Open source and business pleasure vs. A European PR firm was pitching my company for business last week and putting out a few ideas on how to generate demand in different countries across Europe. One of the ideas that they presented was a “business pain barometer” to indicate how much pain companies might be feeling using.

.. Posted by John Newton in Newton's Theory on: May 23, 2007 7:41 AM Day 1 of iTunes Plus has its minuses As Bob Lefsetz rants, the iTunes Plus launch today has not been without its hiccups.

He's particularly ticked off that users must go through a laborious "change preferences" process once they've drunk the iTunes Plus Kool-Aid, should they wish at any time to purchase the non-Plus version of a song...

Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: May 30, 2007 2:01 PM Breaking through the virtualization confusion Many vendors have embraced the idea of helping organizations work with a logical view of computing resources rather than a physical view. Unfortunately, each has chosen a different layer or set of layers as their focus and yet, they still call their product “"virtualization." Maybe that's because "virtualization" has.

.. Posted by Dan Kusnetzky in Virtually Speaking on: May 31, 2007 3:00 AM Macintosh.

..Help me understand why I can feel them.

..the flames.

..they're coming.

But I have to ask this question again (yes, I've asked one very much like it before) in light of recent events. The recent events, of course, involve the release of a particular Linux distribution with a funny African sort of name and, maybe..

. Posted by Christopher Dawson in ZDNet Education on: May 27, 2007 10:57 PM Schneier on ID theft I am attending the IT Security Summit 2007 here in Johannesburg this week. It’s a busy week for conferences with Interop in Vegas and AusCERT in session in Australia.

While smaller than the other two this one is proving very interesting. I originally submitted my cyber crime scenario presentation but..

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