* Gearhead: More Web OSs and one in particular * Backspin: The Year of Sleaze? * Gibbsblog: The past 7 days
Gearhead: More Web OSs and one in particular
Last week we started to discuss Web operating systems (otherwise called Webtops). To briefly recap, these systems emulate a Windows multiapplication operating-system environment using AJAX or flash applications executing in a Web browser, sometimes with additional back-end processing handled by a remote server.
To read this week’s Gearhead, click here.
Backspin: The Year of Sleaze?
What is the matter with our industry? It seems every day the sleaze quotient increases!
Last week I blogged some comments that amused me from Shelby Bonnie, the ex-chief executive of CNet Networks, and George Samenuk, the ex-CEO of McAfee, concerning their “regrets” about the stock option backdating scandals they were responsible for.
To read this week’s Backspin, click here.
Gibbsblog: The past 7 days
World’s First Human Landing (as Opposed to a Splat!) WITHOUT a Parachute
“January 3, 2005 Jumping out of a plane without a parachute is not something we recommend but that’s exactly what B.A.S.E. jumper Jeb Corliss has been doing to help pave the way for the world’s first landing attempt without a parachute.” – gizmag article.
