Archive for September, 2007

Presentations or Zoho, Cassette or Vinyl, One Laptop May Be The Answer.

Monday, September 24th, 2007

Let me get it started with my weekly Google fix out of the way before I get to the meat of this post. To the tune of $30 millions US, Google is "Platinum" sponsor of the next X-Prize. This time, the X-Fund will go to the first private ...

The Ringle’s DOA, the 787’s late and I want 3-factor authentication.

Monday, September 17th, 2007

The past week ended with a jingle of a joke: the "Ringle". Before I get into the details, let me say that it's from the RIAA that approved and endorsed the name. So far, only Sony BMG and Universal have signed up for this "new" distribution method. Now ...

Apple TOUCH iPod, iCache and Firefox’s milestone.

Monday, September 10th, 2007

In the "bet you didn't know Google did that", it has just been revealed that Google is changing its policy on cookies expiration date. Originally, all Google cookies were set to expire in 2038, which meant that they could track all your search histories and countless of other movements ...

Ubuntu, Google and the Storm worm

Monday, September 3rd, 2007

Ubuntu advertised on Sun's new SPARC servers (from a full page web-ad I came across very recently)... More times then I can recall seeing or noticing Red Hat's logo on advertisements (probably because they focused mainly on the Enterprise). I've been championing the Ubuntu-based distros for the last year or ...