Or, by speaking an address and using MapQuest, directions would appear, aided by the fact that the iPhone’s GPS chip tells the service where you are starting from.
It’s too early to tell if the application will be a success. But it has a lot of potential, especially given that there could be many more service [...]
Mountain Hardwear also sent 2008/09 Stance pant, which I’ll review below. From Mountain Hardwear’s 2007/08 line we received the Edge jacket and the Synchro jacket, bib, and pant. So, consider this a retrospective and prospective Mountain Hardwear jacket and pant review.
Mountain Hardwear Edge Jacket
Other jackets have fleece liners, but this one actually proactively reaches out [...]
After three straight days of traveling to close my quarter, I needed to unwind tonight. Given that I don’t drink or smoke crack, I chose to create a video: “The Challengers of Open Source.” Cheesy title, but I had The New Pornographers’ song (”Challengers”) running through my head and
car stereo on the drive home from [...]
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Mary Jo Foley notes that the more standards-compliant Internet Explorer 8 may cause some problems for website owners. Why? Well, many have tailored their websites to non-standards compliant IE7 (as well as prior versions), and may find that opening the doors to
IE8 may not be painless.
As Microsoft noted on its IE blog:
What does “getting ready [...]
On January 31, 2008, a video depicting hundreds of people standing perfectly still in New York’s Grand Central Station was posted on YouTube. The video quickly became a phenomenon, and to date, nearly 9.5 million people have watched it.
Why, you ask? The standing still was actually part of an elaborate prank, pulled off by “agents” [...]
Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a much awaited decision concerning arbitration agreements. Hall Street Associates LLC v. Mattel Inc. Full Opinion in PDF format While this case won’t grab many headlines and is unlikely to be featured on the evening news, arbitration agreements are very common in high-tech, which means that changes to this [...]
Hey, Mr. Music Executive: scrap your preoccupation with CD sales and start looking for ways to help people share, yes share music; focus more on developing and profiting from artists; and forget about subscription services and ad-supported music.
These are the conclusions of James McQuivey, a Forrester analyst, according to a report titled “The End [...]
Part of the Sequoia Voting Systems Web site was defaced and subsequently taken down on Thursday, according to a report in InfoWorld. As CNET prepared this blog, the entire Sequoia Voting System site was frequently inaccessible.
Last Friday, Sequoia systems contacted Felten and threatened legal action if he or his students conducted an investigation of a [...]
The majority of open source vendors utilize some form of commercial licensing to distribute, or generate revenue from, open source software. Ad hoc support services are used by nearly 70% of the vendors assessed, but represent the primary revenue stream for fewer than 8% of open-source-related vendors. Most vendors generating revenue from open source [...]
If you use the RealPlayer on Internet Explorer, watch out. Researcher Elazar Broad has posted to the Full Disclosure mailing list a so-called heap overflow vulnerability that makes it possible for an attacker to modify heap blocks after they are freed and overwrite certain registers. This could allow code execution on a compromised machine. The [...]
