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Is Joost pushing the naughty factor a bit too much

Joost, the pioneer of peer-2-peer online TV distribution is starting to get noticed for it “provocative” and targetted visual publicity. I personally don’t mind it (hey, I am a man… you know) but some people feel less that excited about it.

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Joost Teams Run the Leiden Marathon (and 10K)

The weather was perfect for running, sunny with a cool breeze. The whole city of Leiden was turned upside down to host the biggest sporting event of the year, the Leiden Marathon. From the early morning till late evening hundreds of volunteers and supporters did their best to make sure that the runners had a day to remember. And we did! Continue reading Joost Teams Run the Leiden Marathon (and 10K)

Apple new name for .mac = mobileMe

According to blog codingrobots Apple has recently acuired the mobileme.com domain name:

mobileme.com has changed hands recently (Jan 2007) and is currently parked by markmonitor.com.Apple use these guys to register their domains, including apple.com (http://www.whois.ws/domain_archive-com/apple.com/).

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Microsoft: It’s Not The Broadcast Flag, It’s A Different Flag

After certain NBC TV shows wouldn’t record on Microsoft’s Vista Media Center a few weeks ago, Microsoft admitted that Media Center includes broadcast flag technology, while NBC Universal admitted that it accidentally set the flag. However, now Microsoft is trying to clarify, claiming that it’s not actually the broadcast flag that it included, but an entirely [...]

Microsoft Demo Multi-Touch Windows 7

OK, this really is like Vista with a multi-touch interface slapped on it. It look somewhat similar to some of the “Surface” demo that I have seen around (especially the playing with virtual water)

I think they are trying to show that they too can come up with a multi-touch OS. They must have intelligence telling them that Apple is about to release something similar and they want to make sure people had seen it first from MS. Good tactic MS. Continue reading Microsoft Demo Multi-Touch Windows 7

Big changes coming to .Mac?

Rumors are flying about major changes coming to Apple’s .Mac online service. Perhaps most interesting is this post from Dmitry Chestnykh, the CEO at Coding Robots. He went through the iCal Localizable.strings file in the recently released 10.5.3 update and found a number of changes. In particular, he found a lot of evidence that the .Mac [...]

Leopard running on an Atom Processor

Using PC_efi technology (a means to run OS X on a PC without kernel modification), an anonymous source for netkas.org has managed to run and benchmark Leopard on an Atom chip, which is rumored (and denied) to be headed for Mac.

The Atom Processor would certainly make a good candidate for a mini-tablet. It’s small enough to [...]

Joost looking for Plug-In developer with OSX/Linux experience

I was looking through Joost web site tonight and noticed a link for a Plug-In Developer.

I taught, this look like something that might be linked to the possible future video web site. So I went ahead and followed the link. I noticed something interesting in the “Desired” section:

Experience of OSX or Linux installation and configuration would be an advantage.
Experience with scripting applications including FLASH.

Continue reading Joost looking for Plug-In developer with OSX/Linux experience

Rumors indicate Eee Box will be called EBOX, coming June 3

What we have been calling the Asus Eee Box looks to finally have an official name. Based on unnamed sources, the Inquirer is reporting that the desktop PC will be called the Asus EBOX. As already speculated, they are saying it will be revealed on June 3 at Computex. Specs also look to be what we’ve [...]

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