Posted on March 1, 2008 by Dan
The US division of i-mate located in Redmond, Washington, had a busy day Friday laying off the entire engineering, QA and tech writing departments (among others).
Chief Software Officer and VP of Sales and Marketing are also both gone, with the sales director set to be promoted to GM of everything.
The problem was difficulty getting their [...]
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Posted on March 1, 2008 by Dan
If you have a Mac and are looking for an RSS reader, NewsFire is a great choice that just got a little better now that its free.
Dave Watanabe, developer of NewsFire, posted to his blog that “after much internal debate I’ve made the decision that as of today, NewsFire is totally free. No feature restritions, [...]
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Posted on March 1, 2008 by Dan
Last February Sirius and XM satellite radio services announced a proposed merger of the two companies and set a deadline of March 1, 2008, for the companies to walk away from the deal if US regulators had not yet approved the deal.
Today’s March 1, and the two have announced that they would be extending the [...]
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Posted on March 1, 2008 by Dan
Microsoft and the Library of Congress have reached a deal where the Library of Congress will use Silverlight on their new website. In exchange, Microsoft will provide a $3 million grant in technology and services.
The grant will be used to enhance online accessibility and interactivity as well as to bring Vista-powered kiosks to the library [...]
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Posted on March 1, 2008 by Dan
Now that the high definition disc format war is over, Blu-ray can sit comfortably as the format king, right? Maybe not.
Yes, Blu-ray has beaten HD DVD, but how relevant are movies on disc really going to be a few years from now?
Lucas Mearian at Computerworld feels that discs just don’t have the appeal they once [...]
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