Well, a lot of readers will ask; what is 4K, or as it is sometimes refered to QFHD (Quad Full High Definition)? Put simply “4K” is 4000 pixels x 2160 pixels. So if I have a TV that is 1920×1080 (so called 1080P) now, why would I want twice that number of […]
A brief Jack Tramiel of Commodore retrospective video
2011 marks the 40th anniversary of Creeper, the world’s first computer virus. From Creeper to Stuxnet, the last four decades saw the number of malware instances boom from 1,300 in 1990, to 50,000 in 2000, to over 200 million in 2010. Besides sheer quantity, viruses, which were originally used as […]
Hewlett Packard (HP) lost over $3 BILLION (yes, with a B) largely as a result of the writing down Palm and WebOS. The video also discusses Facebooks Initial Public Offering (IPO), Apple without Steve Jobs, and other tech stock issues. They also discuss how unreasonable ink prices are for ink jet printers and […]
This video discusses some of the Apple vs Samsung vs HTC vs Google vs Microsoft vs Motorola patent law suites pertaining to (primarily) cell phones
This 4 minute X3 video discusses Qualcomm and Android replacing Intel and Windows (which is not actually going to happen any time soon) and more interestingly that NetFlix is now consuming 25% of North American internet bandwidth during peak TV watching hours in the early evening.
I created the following two courses for some of my clients in 2007 and revised them in 2008 and recently decided to make them available for free. Note that I am not a professional trainer although I have provided dozens of semi-formal “lunch and learn” type courses since the mid-1990’s. […]
by Ian Matthews Written May 23, 2007 Last Updated May 23, 2007 The purpose of this article is to provide a 20 minute guide to Windows Vista’s new features and functions. There is a lot to learn so we also have three other articles you may want to read: Windows […]
Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard
Even though Toshiba sold over 90,000 $99 HD DVD players over the weekend, and that figure only represents a portion of the retailers that participated in the frenzy, I don’t think it is enough. The answer: you shouldn’t. My prediction is that neither format will win. If consumers actually adopt […]
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By Ed Oswald, BetaNews.com Locked in a battle to be the first chipmaker to release a dual-core processor, AMD and Intel are both stepping up efforts to bring their chips to the market faster than originally anticipated. AMD, which originally was planning a mid-year release of its dual-core processor, has […]
Commodore Makes Comeback with Mpet II By Ed Oswald www.betanews.com Most of us who have been around technology for the better part of the last two decades will remember the name Commodore. Commodore computers were the best selling PCs of the 1980s. However, as Microsoft took center stage, the company […]