Technology Commentary By Hobbyists For Hobbyists

Microsoft has the unfortunate reputation of being more vulnerable than most when it comes to security exploits, so I’m sure the boys in Redmond were cringing just a bit more than usual when they discovered that malware was infecting Windows Mobile phones as well. According to Cnet, the applications “3D Anti-Terrorist game, PDA Poker Art, [...]

Steve Ballmer is known for being a bit, how should we say it, “outspoken”, but he was forced to carefully choose his words while defending the PC at the All Things Digital Conference last week. Ballmer was responding specifically to comments made by Apple CEO Steve Jobs where he insinuated that PC’s are going to [...]

Microsoft has a mixed reputation in the mobile phone market, but has some pretty ambitious goals for its upcoming Windows Phone 7 platform. According to sources inside the company they are forecasting sales of more than 30 million units in the first 18 months of general availability.
Taken on its own this number is difficult to [...]

Microsoft TechFest is an opportunity for developers and researchers to preview some pretty oddball technology advances, but one of the more down to earth applications might just revolutionize the way international business meetings are conducted. The new “Microsoft Translating Telephone” allows users to communicate in different languages, and experience voice to text translation on the [...]

Advertising, love it or hate it seems to work, but just how much money does it cost to get your point across? The exact marketing budget of the big tech companies has typically been difficult to track down, but the folks over at Businessinsider.com claim to have the inside scoop. Based on numbers collected from [...]

 
 
Articles By: Justin Kerr

January 3rd 2010
Microsoft Research Patent Makes Air Guitar a Reality

January 3rd 2010
Quake Ported to the Palm Pre

January 3rd 2010
Core i3 Laptops Leak in Advance of CES at Surprisingly Low Prices

January 4th 2010
Blu-ray Disc Capacity Set to Jump From 25GB to 33GB Per Layer

January 9th 2010
Mad Catz Sets the Bar (and the Price) [...]

 
 
Articles By: Justin Kerr

December 6th 2009
US Agency Uses Weather Balloons to Gauge the Accuracy of the Internet

December 6th 2009
Verizon won the Battle, but AT&T Still Wants to Win the War

December 6th 2009
How Google Learns to Read your Mind

December 6th 2009
30 Year Scandinavian Study Shows no Link Between Cell Phones and Brain Cancer

December 13th 2009
The Google [...]

 
 
Articles By: Justin Kerr

November 7th 2009
Zune HD v4.3 Firmware Update Brings Several New Improvements

November 8th 2009
Windows 7 is Selling Well, But Microsoft Could Still be in Trouble

November 8th 2009
ComScore Internet Usage Survey Shows Microsoft “On Top”

November 15th 2009
Windows 7 Activation Bypassed (Yes Again) for Keyless Activation

November 15th 2009
Windows 7 OEM EULA Excludes Home Builds not [...]

 
 
Articles By: Justin Kerr

October 11th 2009
Conan O’Brien Interviews the Co-Creator of USB

October 11th 2009
Researchers Claim Phishing is on the Decline, but is Being Replaced by Key Loggers

October 11th 2009
LG Announces its Solar Cell OLED eBook Reader

October 17th 2009
Michael Dell Confirms First U.S. Smartphone Coming in 2010 and Talks About Future Strategies

October 17th 2009
Postal Worker Steals [...]

 
 
Articles By: Justin Kerr

September 6th 2009
Got A Question For Kevin Smith? He’s Holding a 24 Hour Twitter Marathon.

September 6th 2009
Gmail Offers Some Nostalgia with Four new Themes

September 6th 2009
Everyone Wants a Kindle – But Only for $50

September 12th 2009
Asus Might be Joining the Home Server Market

September 12th 2009
Some Windows 7 Upgrades Could Take Over 20 [...]

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