Posts made in June, 2005

Considering the Macintel Alliance – New York Times

Posted by on 16 Jun, 2005 in My Stream | 0 comments

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/16/technology/circuits/16POGUE-EMAIL.html

From the page: “Running both operating systems on a single machine will be a distinct advantage for Mac buyers–a key attraction of new-age Macs that no other company will be able to offer. You’ll have the software libraries of both platforms available to you: the slick convenience of Apple’s photo, video and music software, plus the vast catalogs of special-purpose programs for Windows.”

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Computer Shopper

Posted by on 14 Jun, 2005 in My Stream | 0 comments

http://www.computershopper.co.uk/?news/news_story.php?id=73713

From the page “This would mean a standard desktop 3.5in drive could store 2 Terabytes of information, a 2.5in laptop drive could touch 500GB, and a 1in drive for PDAs and music players could hold 50GB.”

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Forbidden sites hijacked all over China

Posted by on 13 Jun, 2005 in My Stream | 0 comments

http://www.dit-inc.us/report/hj.htm

Interesting reading about what China is doing to control its peoples access to information

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I, Cringely . The Pulpit . Inflection Point | PBS

Posted by on 12 Jun, 2005 in My Stream | 0 comments

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050512.html

From the page: “At that point, you’ll buy your PC from Google, use Google as your ISP, surf an Internet that is really the Google cache, be fed ads and sold content from Google servers. Its a GoogleWorld that requires no AOL, no Microsoft, no Intel, no HP or Dell — only Google, cable companies, telephone companies, users, and of course advertisers and web page producers.

There is no going back.”

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I, Cringely . The Pulpit . Going for Broke | PBS

Posted by on 10 Jun, 2005 in My Stream | 0 comments

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050609.html

From the page: “That’s the story as I see it unfolding. Steve Jobs finally beats Bill Gates. And with the sale of Apple to Intel, Steve accepts the position of CEO of the Pixar/Disney/Sony Media Company.”

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