Google chief executive Eric Schmidt told worried US newspaper owners on Tuesday they need to work with the Web giant as they struggle to find a new business model for the ailing industry.
[From Google CEO offers advice to newspaper industry by AFP: Yahoo! Tech ]
My favorite quote from this article is "I think the sites are slow. They literally are not fast," he said. "They're actually slower than reading the paper."
Skype this week has added SIP support, essentially meaning that it's possible to integrate Skype calling with a business PABX.
[From Would You Make A Skype Call From Your Browser? - Lifehacker Australia]
ecto is designed to make blogging much easier and yet give the users as much power as possible to manage their weblogs.
With ecto you can write and manage entries for your weblog(s). You can compose entries offline and use the extra features ecto offers, such as spellcheck, creating links, attachments, and much more. ecto is a native Mac OS X application, and offers you a more powerful and easier to use editing interface than your blog's built in control panel.
ecto is the best way to blog!
Latest propaganda from Kogan Technologies. New netbook and it looks good for the price.
"At only AU$539, the Kogan Agora Netbook PRO is the cheapest 10" netbook on the market. It is the perfect balance of ease of use, portability, features, and value for money."
The app, called Installer, has been around for a while and was originally created to install applications directly from your jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch desktop. Rip Dev recently upgraded that long popular application to version 4.1. However, a new version for the desktop might steal the show by allowing the installation of third-party applications over USB straight from your desktop — almost a guarantee of new venues for jailbroken application sales.
via iPhone App installs over USB: Another threat to iTunes App Store? - News - Mobile Phones.
So the Twitter account @stephenconroy as written by Leslie Nassar, a Telstra employee, was today shut down. Whilst some called Nassar a prankster, those who followed @stephenconroy know that this was a brilliantly written, satirical, entertaining and fun parody that was never in doubt as a fake.
via Fake Stephen Conroy Twitter account censored by Telstra? « Amnesia Blog.
Ohhhhh hahahahah ooohh….. Evil is a foot. Recently came across this very evil little tool that can help you generate tons of traffic from stumble upon. I will give this a full review soon but until then check it out and its not for the faint hearted…. Are you ready to unleash a avalanche of stumbleupon traffic to your site?
It wont matter Microsoft. you still, and always will suck….. Dont even try to be Apple.
"A VETERAN executive from the world's biggest retail chain starts work Monday at Microsoft with a mission to open stores specialising in the software giant's products.
The first order of business for David Porter, whose resume includes 25 years working at Wal-Mart, will be to map out where and when to open Microsoft stores and how they will be designed.
Microsoft appears poised to follow in the footsteps of rival Apple, which has seen revenues and profile boosted by a flourishing chain of Apple stores it started about eight years ago."
In a recent survey conducted by Aussie ISP 'Netspace', inital results showed that 78.9% of participants disagree with the Federal Government on making Content Filtering compulsory at an ISP level. If this is anything to go by at a national level, it appears that the Government has it blatantly wrong.
Around 10,000 customers took part in the survey, in which Netspace said was an 'overwhelming response'. Only a mere 13.6% supported a proposed content filtering mandate, with the remaining 7.1% undecided and 0.4% not responding. It really does send out a loud and clear message…. Australians do not want content filtering implemented at an ISP level!
Perhaps the average Aussie can see a bigger picture here than filtering child porn alone, and that it may refer to other fundamental principles such as the real motive for the introduction of filtering at an ISP level; Precedents that it will set; Effectiveness of an ISP filter to work appropriately; and the potential consequences that a decision like this may bring.
What are you concerns? Do they fit into any of the following categories:
A. Will an ISP filter stop illegal content completely? Industry experts are in agreeance and say 'No', as there are many different avenues to bypass or transmit content around an ISP filtering system.
B. What is the real motive behind an ISP content filter? Is it to check election box promises? Control more than just illegal Internet content?
C. Once implemented, where does the filtering stop? Could the bodies in power that be impeach an individual's freedom of speech by removing content at will, regardless of agenda?
D. How much content will be 'wrongfully' removed by accident or otherwise?
E. What kind of consequences are involved for the ISP and end user? Will it slow down the Internet dramatically and or cause other types of technical conflicts?
I, for one, believe that it comes down to 'choice' and more to the point, a parent's responsibility, and that it should extend into respective Institutions (to a certain degree). However, just who should the primary responsibility of nurturing and protecting our children fall upon?
Are we now too busy to do this ourselves to the point that we need 'Big Brother' to intervene? Surely not. Could 'FREE' protection software act as an adequate alternative opposed to pre-emptive control, which in essence, may take away an individuals right to act 'freely'.
Internet content filtering should be available, but to what extent and controlled by whom? If you have something to say on this topic, by all means feel 'FREE" to post a reply.
So now that makes apple products only 50% over priced
[From Refurbished iPods cheaper in China | Technology | Reuters]
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