http://www.osdir.org Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:51:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A Google spokesman said the company could not confirm the number of workers laid off. "It's clear to us that we do not want to be in the search engine marketing business," the company wrote in a blog posting . "Maintaining objectivity in both search and advertising is paramount ... http://www.osdir.org/?p=442 Under the current system, companies have been allowed to perpetuate the falsehood that spectrum is scarce for economic gain, he said. "The tragedy is we're not using anywhere near the capacity of the wireless spectrum to communicate." "As (mobile) gains in popularity...the question becomes what the dominant platform ... http://www.osdir.org/?p=440 Samueli, who co-founded the company, also resigned as chairman of the board. The board appointed director John Major to serve as nonexecutive chairman. The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged two current and two former key executives of chipmaker Broadcom with backdating stock options. Major said Broadcom would not comment on allegations, ... http://www.osdir.org/?p=438 If you ask me, it'll be the Xbox 360. According to the latest sales figures, Sony has sold roughly 13 million Playstation 3 units worldwide, while Nintendo has sold 25 million Wiis and Microsoft has sold 19 million Xbox 360s. And while Sony won't cite those figures, it chooses instead to ... http://www.osdir.org/?p=436 AMD, Palm, and RIM were all down double digit percentages for part of the day, though all the stocks managed to pare those losses significantly before trading closed. Google shares closed at $369.14, down $17.77, or 4.6 percent. Microsoft shares closed at $24.91, down $1.41, or more than 5 percent. ... http://www.osdir.org/?p=434 Though the Classmate is already available on the retail markets of India, Mexico, and Indonesia, this will be the first time the device has been for sale to consumers in the developed world. The Eee PC certainly is bringing cachet to the tiny, Linux-based laptop segment, but will that translate to ... http://www.osdir.org/?p=432 The legendary Museum of Modern Art in midtown Manhattan just got a bit more...modernized. It's not clear whether the museum Wi-Fi will also let visitors access the Web as a whole, or just the internal museum site. Requests for clarification were not immediately answered. MoMA announced Monday that it has installed a ... http://www.osdir.org/?p=430 Nothing will stall your workday faster than a dropped network connection or recalcitrant peripheral. There's a good chance that just a few tweaked Windows settings will get you rolling again. With some luck, the tools built into the OS will be all the help you need. And if Windows' diagnostic ... http://www.osdir.org/?p=428 Now, overlap can be both a good thing and a bad thing. On the positive side, choosing one company's technology over another allows talent to be freed up to work on other projects. In an interview, Microsoft division president Kevin Johnson talked about the common "passion for innovation" at the two ... http://www.osdir.org/?p=426 The standard support model goes something like this: customer calls support, gets a low-level support person who proceeds to read through a manual trying to answer the question. Unable to do so, he or she calls for reinforcements who work on the problem under a veil of secrecy in which ... http://www.osdir.org/?p=424