In Search Of Green Technology Consumers by Christopher Mines - Forrester Research:
A distinct segment of green technology consumers ready to put their dollars behind eco-friendly product choices is becoming visible. Forrester’s Technographics® surveys reveal that consumers who care about the environment and the environmental impacts of their technology purchases and usage tend to be female, [...]
First up this morning, a long-overdue paradigm shift to trusted computing whereby security is set upon levels of explicit trust rather than reactive policies that attempt to cover holes. I’ve increasingly done a similar thing on my computers via the content blocking add on for firefox I wrote about a couple months ago (I’ll edit [...]
And the cool part is you use real phones. Yes, it’s proprietary. So is Skype.
Free phone calls with startup’s $399 box:
A Silicon Valley startup will begin selling $399 gadgets Wednesday that consumers with broadband Internet service can use to make unlimited free domestic phone calls.
In the news today:
Apple restricts user freedom. More about Apple’s kowtowing to pressure from blithering idiots who wasted their lives standing in line to be among the first to buy iPhones and who whine when Apple had their first price decrease — gosh, I wonder if Dell will rebate part of the nearly $4000 I [...]
Skype outage caused by download update:
A two-day outage that left millions of Skype users unable to use the popular Internet phone service was caused by an abnormally high number of restarts after people had downloaded a Windows security update, the company said Monday.
iRobot sues Robot FX over alleged patent infringement:
It looks like Robot FX has [...]
T-Mobile begins offering US customers unlicensed mobile access (UMA) today. This merges WiFi with cellular, enabling better indoor reception via wireless router (so it requires you to have broadband) as well as connection at T-Mobile’s hotspots.
The initial pricing scheme allows users to add unlimited At-Home service for $10 (regular price will be $20). Family plan [...]
I’ve added this page about PortableApps.
Sun is announcing today that they’ve completed re-licensing — to GPL version 2 — the core of Java. With this move, Sun hopes to get some help with the rest that isn’t yet GPLed:
Sun hopes the open-source community will help it resolve the issue of Java source code that remains “encumbered,” where Sun doesn’t hold [...]
Intel is working with Canonical, Ltd, to get Ubuntu on their forthcoming mobile platform.
Jack Schofield writes that Asustek, assemblers of some of Dell’s laptops and Apple MacBooks, plans their own line of sub-$250 laptops. Asustek VP Jerry Shen says sales could reach 10 million units in 2008. It’s going to be based on the Intel Classmate, which is designed for either Linux or Windows.
Meanwhile, Microsoft is now complicating [...]
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