As it turns out, 42% of PC users never run a defragmentation utility *at all*. And the automated defrag tool in Vista may end up making files get fragmented even faster in systems with lots of changing files. So what to do?
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The song remains the same about .NET, just sung louder–Microsoft wants to put itself at the center of the enterprise. So, the company announces it’s going to spend money on research to do it. And this, they try to make into a news event.
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eWEEK interviews the folks behind the Django web framework. Suddenly, I feel the need to expand my coding time.
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Costco, Southwest Airlines, and the City of Los Angeles …all victims of FUD, or is SuSE really worht that?
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WabiSabiLabi, the eBay of security vulnerabilities, confirmed that its founder and strategy director Roberto Preatoni has been arrested in connection with an ongoing spying investigation and remains custody in Milan.
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Clint Bolton of eWEEK sums up the reactions of analysts to Facebook’s new spooky-creepy Project Beacon and “social ads”. Internet News covers the same ground here. Bottom line: it’s new, it’s untested, and it might be the next big thing in marketing. But then again, maybe the Facebookrati will spit the commercial content back out.
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Will $39 million make AT&T’s patent lawsuit against Vonage go away? After about $130 million in payouts to Sprint, Verizon and others, Vonage sure hopes so.
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John Edwards’ adviser and former Howard Dean campaign manager Joe Trippi and RNC E-campaign director Cy Krohn agree: all this Web 2.0 stuff is da bomb. But if Twitter is going to elect the next president, I’m moving to Canada.
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Here’s something to do a reality check on. How do you measure market share of something that’s both a product and a stealth movement that requires no new purchases ?
It’s like saying “Water Losing Market Share to Coke.”
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A variation in the wording of the House bill extending the Internet Tax Freedom Act would allow states to tax services not directly provided by ISPs, according to a Congressional Research Service memo.
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