Microsoft SQL Server 2012 is about to ship on March 7, 2012.
Don’t even think about getting a copy unless you are one of the elite Microsoft beta testers or have the Release Candidate which is available now.
That’s right. You have to be connected to Microsoft to qualify to install and test the new release of SQL server which is better than Oracle in some respects. Continue reading
A Swedish company is showing technology that makes it possible to select screen items simply by looking at them.
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BellAliant FiberOp speed test
Updated 8:36 PM – reconnect your set top box with HDMI if you want HD television. The Aliant techs leave it hooked at the lowest level, 480p, for testing purposes.
After months of watching those TV ads for 30 Mbps internet speeds, I made the jump back to BellAliant for the new FiberOP internet.
Actual performance what you’d expect from the tests – very fast.
The results are stunning and handily beat 30 Mbps service from Eastlink.
Kinect controlling medicine (photo Microsoft)
Apple won the latest round of the computer interface war but Microsoft is fast on Apple’s heels with Kinect for Windows. Kinect is a game changing technology.
As visualized in Minority Report, we won’t touch the mouse or screen but merely gesture with our bodies.
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The world isn’t going mobile. It is mobile.
Internet sites that want to increase traffic need to migrate to HTML5. It’s new and takes some effort but that’s where the market will be.
Look around and everyone is on a smart phone. They are not talking. They’re connecting with Tweeter, Facebook and StumbleUpon and surfing the web. Continue reading
UAD has just released the $149 plug-in modeled on Little Labs 500-series lunchbox module. It makes mixing the low end of your recordings a breeze at a small price.
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Since the day after Halloween I have been getting sales flyers in my email for Black Friday.
The deals are too good to resist with cool computer parts up to 60% off. I’m already getting the custom build bug.
Since I was a child, I’ve been building things. Log cabins, Mechano sets, plastic and wooden models. Continue reading
The Dick Tracy wrist watch – computer and video phone - was a dream in the 60s
People like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates made it a reality.
The smartphone is just the beginning of the truly personal computer that connects us together and to the businesses we use.
It won’t matter who builds the devices – Apple, Android or Microsoft. Continue reading
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
The tributes to Steve Jobs the tech guru are pouring in daily.
Jobs was a petty, immature human being who died prematurely at his own hand, according to a new biography Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson.
“In his last years, Steven Jobs veered from exotic diets to cutting-edge treatments as he fought the cancer that ultimately took his life, according to a new biography to be published on Monday.” New York Times. Continue reading
A U.K. study of 350 of the largest firms that found that pay for company executives rose by 700% since 2002 to this year, while the value of those firms went up by 21% and workers pay went up by 27%. “There has to be something questionable about that picture.” Gartner Continue reading
Amazon.com Kindle Fire
Chris Desponosa – The split browser notion is that Amazon will use its EC2 back end to pre-cache user web browsing, using its fat back-end pipes to grab all the web content at once so the lightweight Fire-based browser has to only download one simple stream from Amazons servers.
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