People seem underwhelmed by Chromium OS, but maybe Google has a bigger plan: how about producing a netbook running Chromium OS, and giving it away? The small hardware costs would be covered by advertising *in the Web apps*. Would you use one? Like there is no ad’s on Google to start with? Of course [...]
Going back to the article concerning the demise of CompuServe one of the early providers that lost out was also Sprite, one that was costly and hard to access. There was one more that I really have let slide to the back of the tiny little brain but if some one can think of it [...]
Mobile workers are especially vulnerable because they operate outside corporate security systems, and often return home to unload nasties into the company network. Paul Rubens finds seven excellent Firefox plugins to help protect the mobile worker. Personally I use all but two of these little rascals and I might have to check into the [...]
Marvell has created a new Plug Computing initiative to help developers build high-performance, always-on, always-connected and environmentally friendly little computer devices that plug into electrical wall sockets and act like embedded or appliance computers in the home. The little plug-in computers start with a gigahertz-class processor and are capable of acting like home media [...]
The fastest way to raise the hackles of most U.S. IT professionals is to mention offshore outsourcing. Among them, there is a common perception that U.S. corporations are cutting IT budgets by laying off lots of IT professionals and shipping their IT jobs overseas, and generally wrecking a lot of IT departments in the process. [...]
Okay as you all know, or I hope that you do Comcast has started to enforce a bandwidth on it’s users. While a 250 gig a month cap sounds like a lot, but if you have more than one computer and more than one user, what with movie,iso’s, podcasts, chattting, IM, and streaming music the [...]
Suppose someone wants to send you a large file. They could try to send it via email, but many email servers impose limits on file size. They could try sending it over during an instant messenger or Internet Relay Chat session, but that’s slow, as the file actually gets transferred twice: once to the [...]
A vendor of Linux-based WiFi arrays is finally releasing a version of its WiFi Monitor utility for Linux desktops. The open source, widget-like Xirrus WiFi Monitor for Linux enables users to monitor, secure, and troubleshoot WiFi networks, says Xirrus. The company refers to the software as a "desklet," a widget-like applet that provides quick [...]
Assuming you have managed to find a wireless card that is working well with your Linux distribution, or perhaps you just settled for a hack-n’-hope solution with NDISWrapper, you need to settle on an application that you can use to connect to your wireless network. For vanilla GNOME and KDE-based installations, you are provided solutions [...]
Legitimate online video services have already been slow in coming to Canada, but because of download limits being imposed by the country’s major internet service providers, they may never really get here. Many of the country’s largest ISPs recently did away with unlimited download offerings in favour of consumption-based models, where users are billed extra [...]