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From VNUnet: Sales of laptop computers in the US have outstripped desktop PCs for the first time, according to figures released by analyst firm Current Analysis. Laptop sales made up 53.3 per cent of total retail PC sales in May, compared to 45.9 per cent during the same period last year.
From Windows IT Pro: As expected, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced Monday during his keynote address at the World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2005 that his company is migrating to Intel microprocessors. The transition will take over two years, Jobs noted, with the first Intel-based Macs appearing in mid-2006. “Our goal is to provide our …
From TechRepublic: Dell will launch a new premium brand targeted at high-end home customers, the company announced on Thursday. The No. 1 PC maker said the as-of-yet unnamed brand, which is slated to debut this fall, would include both desktop and notebooks priced between $1,200 and $3,500 and positioned just above the company’s Dimension and …
From CNet News: Microsoft has drawn some criticism after confirming that it will not make the next version of Internet Explorer available to users of its Windows 2000 operating system. In a blog posting at the end of last week, a Microsoft employee confirmed that the company would not be releasing IE 7 for Windows …
This blog shows a listing of all the current feeds that the main Google site provides.
I read about this on the Search Engine Watch blog: Don’t feel like reading RSS feeds but would rather listen to them? I just noticed that C.E.C. Systems, the company that provides Speegle, is offering a free service called Speakwire that allows you to have selected RSS feeds read to you using the same synthesized …
I first read about this in Ed Bott’s blog. The BBC site explains it this way: Download all nine of Beethoven’s symphonies here the day after they are broadcast. All the symphonies are performed by BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. The page has a listing of when the performances are and when the music …
PCIN.net Update blog is powered by b2evolution. It is open source software, and part of the community that uses it is a community antispam list. This has worked wonders on the hundreds of junk sites that have visited my sites and sucked up bandwidth. Unfortunately it isn’t perfect. Occasionally there is some automated system that …
Cory Doctorow from Boing Boing has made an interesting post claiming the music business attempts to shut down P2P networks is detrimental to their own online sales business based on reports from NPD Group which found online distribution of purchased songs was up 52 per cent and illegal downloading of songs was up by a …
From New York Times: IN the winter of 1996, back when I was a brunette who wore sensible shoes, a photographer snapped my picture during a rehearsal for a college musical. The production mattered; eating and sleeping did not. The resulting portrait showed a pasty, gaunt girl being swallowed by a XXX-large T-shirt. The only …