http://www.itnownet.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:44:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Intel sees a future where it is a bigger graphics player at the high end of the market. At the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai earlier this month, Senior Intel VP Patrick Gelsinger spelled out Intel's vision: ray tracing-based rendering technologies that can be used in high-end gaming, an Nvidia ... http://www.itnownet.com/?p=443 Nonetheless, the engineering challenge of getting robots to the moon, deploying them properly, and then getting them to successfully comb over 500 miles of dust (akin to the size of Mare Imbrium) into something recognizable from Earth is, to say the least, staggering. A Salt Lake City company called Moon ... http://www.itnownet.com/?p=441 All the while, the record labels have single-handedly shown the world that they don't care about consumers and they most certainly couldn't care less about the artists. Aside from that, these record labels have consistently gone out of their way to solidify themselves as the very lowest of the low ... http://www.itnownet.com/?p=439 Just because that's true, it doesn't mean that it's a bad thing. The iPhone 3G is a fine device and it performs many of the tasks you would expect it to without a problem. But it's also a device with connectivity issues, design flaws, and buggy software, making it an ... http://www.itnownet.com/?p=437 Check out the responses in this video: Ask a dozen people what "cloud computing" means and you'll get a dozen different answers, all pointing to the network. Rob Boothby of Joyent interviewed more than a dozen technology wonks, including Steve Gillmor, Matt Mullenweg, Tim O'Reilly, Kevin Marks, Rafe Needleman, Stowe ... http://www.itnownet.com/?p=435 Our major criticism of the Grace still stands, which is that it's a little light on connectivity. There's no auxiliary input, which is a nice option if you want to connect an iPod or other another external audio device. There also isn't a remote, which definitely should have been included, although ... http://www.itnownet.com/?p=433 Microsoft's changes to the product search feature come ahead of a broader revamp of Live Search due later this year. Microsoft is currently testing the new search, code-named Kumo, with its own employees. However, as we noted earlier this week, Microsoft still has work to do to grow its search ... http://www.itnownet.com/?p=431 Designed by ICANN to help registrars who made errors in their domain names, the grace period refund was quickly abused by Web sites that populated their domains with lots of ad links that redirected visitors to other sites. It also led to the unavailability of popular names that were scooped ... http://www.itnownet.com/?p=429 Any company that wants a true community to form around its software needs to let the community contribute to it, and not merely at the edges. A proper open-source license is a great start, but commit rights for outside contributors is the only thing that will truly make it a ... http://www.itnownet.com/?p=427 The commission would welcome any move towards genuine interoperability. Nonetheless, the commission notes that today's announcement follows at least four similar statements by Microsoft in the past on the importance of interoperability. Red Hat wasn't impressed by Microsoft's pledge to open up its APIs and protocols. This isn't surprising. More surprising, ... http://www.itnownet.com/?p=425