http://www.traditional-poetry.org Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:35:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sources familiar with Dunnington's design confirmed the presentation is accurate, and that the processor features all six cores on a single chip. The presentation also reiterates Intel's plans to release the Nehalem generation of chips with an integrated memory controller and point-to-point interconnects between cores later this year, borrowing ... http://www.traditional-poetry.org/index.php/2010/09/04/intels-dunnington-six-cores-on-one-chip/ On Monday when we launch the voting for the Webware 100 awards, we're also going to go live with our partnership with the Web 2.0 Expo. This event, which starts on April 22, is the biggest Web 2.0 show there is, and we're thrilled that Webware and the ... http://www.traditional-poetry.org/index.php/2010/08/29/webware-web-20-expo-it-just-had-to-happen/ Sobees is in private beta and Windows only at the moment. We've got a dozen invites to hand out. Leave your e-mail in the survey linked below. The first 12 folks will get in. Update: All invites all gone now. You can sign up to get on the waiting list here. There ... http://www.traditional-poetry.org/index.php/2010/08/24/sobees-serves-up-skinnable-portable-desktop-widge/ Developer Alex Bosworth listed lock-in as his top concern with Google App Engine. "With Google App Engine, you own all the data in your app. As stated in our terms, you always have the right to get your data out of Google App Engine at any point. We wouldn't have ... http://www.traditional-poetry.org/index.php/2010/08/23/does-platform-as-a-service-mean-developer-lock-i/ If Red Hat can learn this space well, it may position the company to do more with Red Hat Exchange, allowing it to fully host open-source applications (and take a percentage of the revenue for its troubles). It could also set Red Hat up nicely to better grok and respond ... http://www.traditional-poetry.org/index.php/2010/08/23/red-hat-getting-into-the-hosting-business/ He has been sued by the Federal Trade Commission and companies such as AOL and Concentric Network Corp. In May 2006, Wallace and his company Smartbot.net were ordered by a federal court to turn over $4,089,500. By now, Wallace should know his way around a courtroom. If he did, he was ... http://www.traditional-poetry.org/index.php/2010/08/23/myspace-wins-suit-against-spam-king/ Canon's EOS Rebel XSi goes on sale in April. But the reality is that Rebel XSi (also called the 450D and Kiss X2 in various parts of the world) customers are more likely to be upgrading from a compact camera, a market where SD dominates. And from a technical perspective, ... http://www.traditional-poetry.org/index.php/2010/08/23/canons-smart-move-to-sd-memory-cards/ I read in Businessweek months ago about how IBM requires remote workers to congregate (online, over-the-phone, or in-person) every three days to improve happiness and productivity. In trying to figure out how to apply this practice to Alfresco, I thought of Skype. At Alfresco, we've stumbled upon an ingenious way to ... http://www.traditional-poetry.org/index.php/2010/08/23/skype-the-ultimate-collaboration-tool/ But with Apple's usual genius for industrial design, the iPhone looks a lot thinner than it is, and its display is larger than the Instinct's; video looks better on the iPhone. Samsung's new Series 9 LCD HDTVs use LED backlights to improve contrast and color quality At the event, I ... http://www.traditional-poetry.org/index.php/2010/08/23/samsungs-showcase-in-san-fran/ It's been four years this month since Apple announced it would drop the PowerPC architecture and switch to Intel's x86 design. One person involved in the back-and-forth between Apple and IBM at the time provides some insight into why it happened. Here's what Jobs said in 2003: "The PowerPC G5 ... http://www.traditional-poetry.org/index.php/2010/08/23/four-years-later-why-did-apple-drop-powerpc/