The Mouse That Soars

August 11, 2007

Logitech’s MX Air packs a lot of technology into a small package

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Interesting story about why apple makes some of the choices it makes, specifically why copy and paste seems omitted from the iPhone.

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Google CEO Eric Schmidt was recently at the Seoul Digital Forum and he was asked to define Web 3.0 by an audience member.

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Intel will be launching new four core 45nm Intel Core Extreme “Penryn” processors in Q4 2007, a few months ahead of schedule. The top of the line proc. is likely to hit 3.33GHz, run a 1333MHz system bus and hold 12MB of L2 cache.

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So, while the success of Firefox shows that people wanted an alternative to Internet Explorer, I really do think Vista is the tipping point for a desire for an alternative in the OS arena. People are tired of Microsoft. They are tired of the barrage of security concerns, of the blue screens, the lock-ups.

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In a stunning discovery, Eben Moglen, legal counsel to the Free Software Foundation, reveals that the much vaunted MS/Novell “vouchers” have a fatal flaw: There is no expiration date. Confused? Read on and see how the upcoming GPL 3 may grant patent immunity to not just Novell users, but ALL Linux users.

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As predicted, Apple released revised MacBooks today.Apple(R) today updated its MacBook(R) consumer notebooks with faster Intel Core 2 Duo processors, 1GB of memory and larger hard drives in every model. The MacBook is just one-inch thin and features built-in 802.11n wireless networking for up to fiv…

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WordPress 2.2 has been officially released. It is a significant update including widgets by default, a blogger importer, and even more features and general optimizations. Try it out!

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Security researchers get around to finding flaws in IPv6 that were dealt with in IPv4 years ago. Ars looks at the issue of IPv6’s source routing and how big of a problem it really is.

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Gates said an accelerating consumer shift to digital lifestyles had helped make the operating system the fastest selling in history, and that premium editions have accounted for 78 percent of Vista sales.

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