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From TechRepublic: Dell has agreed to purchase gaming PC maker Alienware, in a rare acquisition designed to improve Alienware’s supply chain and boost Dell’s standing among PC enthusiasts. advertisement Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Alienware will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of the world’s largest PC maker, said Nelson Gonzalez, chief …
The latest issue of Michael Robertson’s Michael’s Minute announces the release of a new web-based word processor called ajaxWrite: ajaxWrite is a powerful word processor that can read and write Microsoft Word formatted documents. Anytime you need a word processor, need to open a .doc file or edit a .doc file, simply point your Firefox …
Last week I discussed some memory card maintenance to be sure your camera can record the photos that you shoot. This week I will discuss the merits of photography critiques and offer some websites where you can go to get them. Over the past few years, photography sites that allow people to submit photos for …
Quite a while ago I posted about Box.net Virtual Storage. I still haven’t tried the service, as I don’t really have a need for it, but it’s interesting. One of the guys who is at Box.net has been in contact with me regarding a test that they were running (I didn’t end up participating). He …
Irving (of Irving’s Info Page) sent me these links: These three links may be of interest…..for U and family and/or your readers: www.citytowninfo.com www.city-data.com www.zillow.com Here’s a bit about each one… CityTownInfo.com CityTownInfo.com is the easy way to find info on thousands of US cities and towns. Want to know the population of a town? …
From Mercury News: Google has mysteriously downgraded the search ranking of a Web site geared to help parents care for young children, causing a “cataclysmic fall”in advertising revenue and the number of monthly page views, according to a class-action lawsuit filed Friday. The civil suit by KinderStart.com of Norwalk seeks financial damages and more information …
From TechRepublic: Doctors pronounced Ethan Myers brain dead after a car accident dealt the 9-year-old a severe brain injury in 2002. After he miraculously awoke from a nearly month-long coma, doctors declared he would never again eat on his own, walk or talk. Yet, thanks partly to a video game system, Myers has caught up …
From InternetNews.com: Google is free to cache whatever material it wants unless content owners specifically forbid the search site from copying and archiving online content, a federal judge ruled last Friday. The judge dismissed a lawsuit claiming Google had violated an author’s copyright by archiving his Usenet posts and providing excerpts from his Web site …
From Datamation: Workers! If your office space sounds like the inside of a wind tunnel from the incessant hum of all the PCs surrounding you, lend me your ears. A small manufacturing company recently started shipping a new kind of PC case that emits almost no audible noise whatsoever. Its components stay cool without the …
From CNet News: On Thursday, two Senate Democrats, Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Max Baucus of Montana, introduced a bill called the “Cyber Safety for Kids Act of 2006.” The 11-page measure would require the U.S. Department of Commerce to work with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the nonprofit organization that …