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Here come the Ultrabooks

David Lane — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 21:07:04 +0000

A while back, the headlines from Computerworld arrived in my mailbox and one topic jumped out at me: Ultrabooks, expected to be hot at CES, could be boon for enterprise IT. Over the past weekend I actually saw two of them at my local big b more>>

Black Wednesday

Katherine Druckman — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:52:07 +0000

No, it's sadly not a day for shopping. Today, some of the most visited websites are dark to raise awareness of two bills now making their way through the U.S. Congress. more>>

Can we help AT&T solve its mobile data problem?

Doc Searls — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:45:08 +0000

I'm in midtown Manhattan, connected to the Net over my hotel's slow but costly wi-fi connection. Normally when I'm traveling — at least here in the U.S. — I avoid lame hotel connections by using AT&T's cellular data system, usually through my iPhone's "personal hotspot." more>>

The Commodore 64 is 30 This Year

David Lane — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:51:50 +0000

I used to have a paperweight sitting on my desk that read something like “Robert H. Lane, appointed President of Commodore Computers....” It was the sort of thing that they gave to executives. A brass plaque of their appointment as it appeared in the Wall Street Journal or the Globe and Mail. more>>

The Near-Death of Blog Search

Doc Searls — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:13:42 +0000

The first blog search engine was PubSub in 2002. It was inventive and strange in some ways (and took some getting used to); but it was fast and did a good job of searching through syndicated postings, mostly from blogs — at least until blog spam became an epidemic that nearly killed the whole category a couple years later. more>>

Google Plus

Shawn Powers — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:40:51 +0000

The early years of the 21st century forever will be known as the age of social media. I don't know if that's something we should be proud of, but nonetheless, here we are. During the past decade, we've seen things like Friendster, Pownce, Twitter, Wave, Facebook, Tumblr, Buzz, Gowalla, Brightkite, Foursquare, Loopt, Plurk, Identi.ca, LinkedIn, Yammer and now Google Plus. more>>

Round and Round We Go

Shawn Powers — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:00:00 +0000

Hurricane season is well underway, and if you're an information junkie like me, you like to watch storms progress even if you're thousands of miles away from the tropics. I was looking for a good hurricane tracking software package for either my phone or Linux desktop, and I realized everything I'm looking for is available on a simple webpage. more>>

GandhiCon 4.x

Doc Searls — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:44:56 +0000

Searches for the word "linux" have been trending downward since early 2004, according to Google. Searches in mid-2011 are about a quarter of what they were in early 2004. On the other hand, searches for "android" more than doubled those for "linux" by mid-2011. So, what should we make of that? more>>

A Way off the Ranch

Doc Searls — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:00:00 +0000

As entities on the Web, we have devolved. Client-server has become calf-cow. The client—that's you—is the calf, and the Web site is the cow. What you get from the cow is milk and cookies. The milk is what you go to the site for. The cookies are what the site gives to you, mostly for its own business purposes, chief among which is tracking you like an animal. more>>

What do you plan for your $99.99 HP TouchPad?

Doc Searls — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 20:19:33 +0000

So BestBuy is having a fire sale on HP TouchPads, which HP is discontinuing, along with it's entire more>>

Should Google Buy HP's PC Business?

Doc Searls — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 02:43:16 +0000

So the biggest PC maker is getting ready to dump its PC business. That's the gist of HP kills tablets, confirms PC spin-off plans, in Computerworld. more>>

FourthParty is here

Doc Searls — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 20:05:01 +0000

Back in March of '09, I posted Get ready for fourth party services here, calling them "a classification for user-driven services" and "a place where a vast new marketplace can open up, serving customers first". more>>

In Search Of... A Few Good Developers

David Lane — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:18:36 +0000

Occasionally I get a chance to poke my head up and see what is new and different and occasionally I get asked if I know anyone that could help. This is one of those cases. more>>

Friday Fun: Minecraft

Shawn Powers — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:16:05 +0000

This week's game is one that isn't free. In any sense. It is closed source, and requires payment to even try it out. Why would we mention such a game here at Linux Journal? 2 reasons:

1) It works quite well in Linux more>>

YAAAUU (Yet Another Article About Ubuntu Unity)

Doug.Roberts — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:00:00 +0000

I tried. I really did. I tried to like Ubuntu’s new Unity interface and tried hard to make it work. Unity felt ok on the Acer Netbook -- the small screen is a good match for the new vertical application launcher. more>>