* Gearhead: Portable multimedia * Backspin: The theory of alternate meetings * The past 7 days on Gibbsblog
Gearhead: Portable multimedia
Last week BackSpin touched on the immense pain in the butt that having content in a proprietary format can be if you want to use it on a system that doesn’t support that format.
To read this week’s Gearhead in its entirety, click here.
Backspin: The theory of alternate meetings
Hang on! I’ve been in this meeting before! I have! It’s the same group of people, we’re just weeks away from launch and these looneys want to change everything!
To read this week’s Backspin in its entirety, click here.
The past 7 days on Gibbsblog
The Coming of the End
It’s like one of those biblical things: “Apple Wednesday announced it has released beta software that lets Mac users run Microsoft’s Windows XP operating systems on Intel-based Macintosh computers.”
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RIAA Thwarted SlightlyAA
Back in October last year in a Backspin column I mentioned the case of Tanya Andersion, a 42-year-old disabled single mother from Oregon accused of downloading gangster rap.
The RIAA allegedly hired a company called MediaSentry to hack into Anderson’s computer looking for evidence. The story continues but with less going in the RIAA’s favor than they might like …
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Win a Barebones Shuttle PC
Want to win a barebones Shuttle PC with 2GB of Crucial memory? Just answer a trivia question based on Shuttle and Crucial marketing blurb and if you are one of the three lucky winners, you get the goods! Oh, don’t bother after April 24th … the contest has to end sometime.
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The Tiered Internet
Am I missing something? In all this furor over the dire possibility of a tiered Internet aren’t people ignoring the fact that it already is tiered?
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The Value of Solutions Vendors
I was just researching a company in the Ajax market (you’ll have to read next week’s Network World Web Applications newsletter to find out which one) when I realized something …
