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Microsoft supporting Blue Laser? What
about Blu-Ray?
Microsoft supporting Blue Laser? What
about Blu-Ray?
08/01/2004 12:39 AMThere’s something disingenuous about the announcement this week from
Microsoft Japan that it will make Longhorn, the company’s next major
operating system release, compatible with the High Definition blue
laser DVD from NEC and Toshiba, which is also backed by the DVD Forum.
Since when was Longhorn written in Japan? And since when did an
operating system company decide on support for a peripheral which will
need its own dedicated drivers and which can be made almost plug
compatible with the current DVD drives, as far as the operating system
is concerned.
In our view it was a major non-announcement. The competing Blu-Ray
specification is already streets ahead of the NEC Toshiba standard,
and it has already established support from Hewlett-Packard and Dell,
which is far more significant than Microsoft, since they are the
customers here and they will actually buy the drives. Microsoft is
hardly likely to turn around to its two biggest customers and tell
them, no the operating system won’t recognize their DVD devices.
News source:
The RegisterRead full story...Blue Laser Products
Blue Laser Products
04/26/2004 04:04 PMNEC's red and blue laser DVD drive
NEC's red and blue laser DVD drive
12/18/2003 03:48 PMNEC has built an optical drive with two lasers: a red one for reading
regular CDs and DVDs and a blue one for reading the...
DVD War Looms As Blue Laser Drives Draw
Near
DVD War Looms As Blue Laser Drives Draw
Near
04/19/2004 08:23 PMJust as consumers are beginning to get comfortable with their DVD
players, electronics manufacturers are set to introduce
next-generation discs that store more—and would be harder to
copy.
Blue laser products ready for retail
Blue laser products ready for retail
04/27/2004 05:55 AMSony beams in blue laser discs
Sony beams in blue laser discs
04/26/2004 11:48 AMThe company introduces optical storage discs that use blue laser
technology to hold more data and that offer improved durability.
Sony ships blue laser optical drives
Sony ships blue laser optical drives
12/02/2003 12:45 AMSony debuts blue laser storage discs
Sony debuts blue laser storage discs
04/26/2004 05:28 PMBlu-ray debuted last year for HD video. Now Sony is taking its blue
laser technology and producing a new data storage solution.
Sony Ships Blue-Laser Optical Media
Sony Ships Blue-Laser Optical Media
04/26/2004 03:47 PMSony Electronics said Monday that it had begun shipping its first
blue-laser media for data, although the recordable and write-once
discs use the company's proprietary technology.
High-Capacity Blue Laser DVDs In The
Offing
High-Capacity Blue Laser DVDs In The
Offing
04/26/2004 03:57 PMHigh-capacity DVDs (Digital Video Disks) that use blue laser
technology may soon be available to information technology
professionals. Blue laser DVD-RW (rewritable) disks are expected by
Sony in the U.S. as early as this June. The disks will store 23GB of
data and the drives will initially be connected by SCSI or USB 2.0
interfaces. The expected cost of the first models is between $2,500
and $3,000; however, fast price drops should follow.
Toshiba blue laser tech chosen for HD
DVD spec.
Toshiba blue laser tech chosen for HD
DVD spec.
12/02/2003 12:40 AMThe Register:
Toshiba blue
laser tech chosen for HD DVD spec.SIGGRAPH: AfterBurner offers 23GB blue
laser burner
SIGGRAPH: AfterBurner offers 23GB blue
laser burner
08/11/2004 03:32 PMNitroAV announced on Wednesday the release of its
AfterBurne
r series of FireWire 800 disc burners, which use Sony drive
mechanisms that employ blue lasers that can write up to 23GB on a
ProData optical disc. The AfterBurner series includes a two-bay
configuration, as well as an internal ultra-wide 5.25-inch 160 SCSI
version and an external USB 2.0/SCSI model, and features 11MB per
second and 9MB per second read and write speeds, respectively, a 16MB
cache that improves speed and lowers the number of errors and a
narrower pitch track for higher recording density.
Blue Sky Research introduces 25mW, 405nm
violet fiber-coupled laser module with
polarization maintaining fiber.
Blue Sky Research introduces 25mW, 405nm
violet fiber-coupled laser module with
polarization maintaining fiber.
05/31/2004 01:47 PMBlue Sky Research, a volume manufacturer of semiconductor lasers,
laser systems and OEM components, today announced the company is
accepting orders for its FTEC405TM 25mW violet laser with polarization
maintain fiber. This latest release compliments the existing FiberTec
product line of 635 and 405nm high stability fiber-coupled lasers.
The new FiberTEC405 laser module’s power output has been increased and
is now available with either a standard single mode (SMF) or
polarization maintaining (PMF) single mode fiber pigtail. [PRWEB May
19, 2004]
Long-Time Microsoft Ally Unisys
Supporting Linux
Long-Time Microsoft Ally Unisys
Supporting Linux
09/08/2004 04:13 PMUnisys has been acting as a virtual Microsoft consulting arm for years
now. But now Unisys has been bitten by the Linux bug.
Microsoft Opens Innovation Centre
Supporting European Union Research
Priorities
Microsoft Opens Innovation Centre
Supporting European Union Research
Priorities
04/26/2004 04:10 PMMicrosoft Corp. officially opened the European Microsoft Innovation
Centre (EMIC) today in Aachen, Germany. The facility, located in a
leading European technology region, serves as the focal point for
Microsoft's European collaborative applied research and development
efforts. Microsoft scientists and engineers at EMIC, in conjunction
with academia and industry partners, will take part in applied
research projects, such as those sponsored by the European Commission
(EC), national research programs and national governments in Europe.
New Brother, HP, and Oki Data Mono Laser
Printers Fuel 15% Growth in 2004
Shipments: Desktop Monochrome Laser
Market Grows as Major Vendors Refresh
Their Lines
New Brother, HP, and Oki Data Mono Laser
Printers Fuel 15% Growth in 2004
Shipments: Desktop Monochrome Laser
Market Grows as Major Vendors Refresh
Their Lines
04/12/2005 04:15 AM"2004 Desktop Monochrome Laser Printer Market" is the second report in
Lyra’s "Hard Copy Observer Spotlight" report series. These
product-planning reports includes information on how products and
prices changed from January through December, current market trends, a
review of the competitive landscape, and selected articles from The
Hard Copy Observer. [PRWEB Apr 12, 2005]
Lyra Imaging Symposium Spotlights Office
Printing Technology and Trends with
Speakers from HP, Laser Imaging,
Lasertone, Rhinotek, Static Control
Components, Teckn-O-Laser and Xerox
Lyra Imaging Symposium Spotlights Office
Printing Technology and Trends with
Speakers from HP, Laser Imaging,
Lasertone, Rhinotek, Static Control
Components, Teckn-O-Laser and Xerox
12/19/2004 03:45 PMLyra Research’s Symposium agenda explores key trends and dynamics in
office printing [PRWEB Dec 10, 2004]
A Big Blue Gauntlet for Microsoft
A Big Blue Gauntlet for Microsoft
05/11/2004 02:03 AMBusiness Week May 11 2004 6:28AM GMT
Microsoft Takes A Chip From Big Blue
Microsoft Takes A Chip From Big Blue
11/05/2003 05:18 AMIT-Analysis.com Nov 5 2003 4:35AM ET
AT&T Wins $3.6 Million Hosting Contract
From Blue Cross And Blue Shield
AT&T Wins $3.6 Million Hosting Contract
From Blue Cross And Blue Shield
06/03/2004 08:55 AMWi-Fi Technology Forum Jun 3 2004 1:11PM GMT
Microsoft Research Aims To Blend
Blue-Sky With Practical
Microsoft Research Aims To Blend
Blue-Sky With Practical
04/09/2005 03:54 AMhttp://research.microsoft.com/library/toolbar/3.0/images/banners/ms_ma
sthead_ltr.gif
Big Blue takes on Microsoft in free
software push
Big Blue takes on Microsoft in free
software push
07/20/2004 09:25 AMCOMPUTING LEVIATHAN IBM is to offer free access to its software to US
universities, the Wall St Journal reports today. The newspaper said
that universities in the USA often teach the students to program for
Microsoft platforms, but that could be restricting. So IBM will help
universities by giving access to both its software and to developing
courses aimed at teaching about operating systems such as Linux,
languages like Java and database products such as DB2.
ActiveWin.com: Microsoft Optical Mouse
by S+ARCK (Blue) - Review
ActiveWin.com: Microsoft Optical Mouse
by S+ARCK (Blue) - Review
08/02/2004 01:10 AMhttp://www.activewin.com/reviews/hardware/mice/starkoptblue/n1.jpg
True blue Big Brother too blue for MPs
(Reuters)
True blue Big Brother too blue for MPs
(Reuters)
06/22/2005 02:18 AMReuters - The nude antics of reality television
contestants on the Big Brother program prompted Australian
government politicians Tuesday to demand a review of how much
nudity can be shown on free television down under.
Big Blue, Blue Titan boost SOAs
Big Blue, Blue Titan boost SOAs
06/07/2004 07:40 AMIBM and Blue Titan plan to bolster data management wares this week,
with IBM retooling DB2 Information Integrator and Blue Titan focusing
on SOAs (service-oriented architectures).
Blue Bands for Blue Budgets
Blue Bands for Blue Budgets
02/01/2005 10:09 PMI had to go all the way over to LISNews<
/a> to find out that a sister Library System here in Illinois has
started a totally awesome project called Libraries Matter. Here at home,
our kids saved up some money to buy the 10–pack of Lance
Armstrong yellow wristbands because they’re all the rage at
school. Can you imagine if we could start something similar with these
blue ones for libraries? Brilliant job, Alliance Library
System!
One thing, though – how about offering packs
smaller than 50 so that ordinary folks like myself can buy some and
give them out to friends, kids, etc.? Let’s get some grassroots
support going, not just top down from the institutional level! Then,
let’s think about how we can use these on Advocacy Day this
year.
Tangent: When visiting the ALS web site tonight,
I realized they’ve added blogs to the home page (kind of, sort
of). Sweet! Unfortunately, no RSS feeds to be found anywhere, which
means I won’t be able to add them to my aggregator, which means
I’ll have to keep relying on other web sites to highlight ALS
projects for me. Not sweet. C’mon, ALS, show us the RSS!
Supporting Kerry Anyway...
Supporting Kerry Anyway...
12/19/2004 03:31 PM I'm aloft somewhere between Rome and Cincinnati, jetting back towards
my crazed, stupefied, dangerous country after three days in Berlin. I
dread coming home. You know things have taken a paradoxical turn when
Germany feels safe, sane, and free by comparison with the United
States of America. But that's how it looks to me. That's how it looks
to the Germans too. The idea that we might actually re-elect George
Bush is unfathomable - indeed, inexcusable - to them. As one of them
put it to me, "We can forgive you for electing him once. As we ought
to know, any electorate can make a tragic mistake. But if you elect
him twice, we will start fearing you Americans as much as we currently
fear your government." I suspect this is a sentiment one could
encounter almost anywhere on God's blue earth. If the election were
global as, in fairness, it probably ought to be, it would be a
pulverizing landslide. I had a hard time explaining to the Germans why
it's starting to look like we might just re-elect Bush anyway. For one
thing, they have not, after all, seen as much of John Kerry as we
have. And let's face it, folks, John Kerry is really irritating.
There. I've said it. And, having broken the surface tension on that
spleen blister, let me just get the rest of this off my chest once and
for all. For me, John Kerry's voice has already started to acquire
that special fingernails-on-the-blackboard effect that Bush's induces
in me. The thought of listening to him daily for the next four years
makes me feel better about the possible onset of rock 'n' roll
deafness. His morose Eyeore visage has become a vista almost as
tiresome as Bush's simian smirk. His patrician demeanor reminds one
why George Bush has gone to such pains to disguise himself as an
illiterate West Texas hick rather than the Yalie he also is. Worse,
Kerry's transparently theatrical efforts to out-macho the Republicans
make him seem, as a friend recently put it, all dick and no balls.
Bush's problem, to hear Kerry tell it, is that he's *not tough
enough,* despite his being demonstrably willing to bomb civilians in a
country that neither attacked us nor expressed any desire to do so.
That's pretty gosh-darned tough, if you ask me. Kerry's failure to
capitalize on the failures of the worst administration in my lifetime
is unfathomable. The systematic ineptitude of his campaign
organization so far fills me with grave concerns about his ability to
form an administration that wouldn't make us nostalgic for Gerald
Ford's. Generally speaking, it would have been better for the future
of the Republic if, upon eliminating Howard Dean, Kerry had been
stashed in a location as undisclosed as the one where they usually
keep Dick Cheney. Then he could have let Bush defeat himself through
policies and actions that no sane electorate could have ratified. But
no. He insisted on campaigning, apparently under the misapprehension
that to know him - or at least to know that virtual version of him his
marketing wizards had wrapped around him - was to love him. This,
unfortunately, has not been the general effect. Gradually, I have
watched the steam go out of the Anybody-But-Bush crowd as we realized
that anybody, in this instance, was the increasingly irksome John
Kerry. People who, several months ago, were ready to go door-to-door
in Ohio in order to defeat Bush are unwilling to even campaign among
their friends to elect John Kerry. And I have become, I must admit,
one of these. Being an actual Kerry *supporter* just seems, well,
un-cool. For the last month or so, the election seemed reminiscent to
me of ads for the film "Alien vs. Predator, " the tag line of which
goes, "Whoever wins, we lose." (Further, it has seemed right to me
that one of these characters is an alien and the other a predator.)
The first debate, which I watched over the Internet in Berlin, did
nothing to alter my feelings about the candidates. Though many
American pundits seemed to think that Kerry "won" that Battle of the
Teledroids, it looked like they both lost to me, with their stammering
repetitions and hollow phrases. Lincoln vs. Douglas it was not. Is it
any wonder that so many people are playing political possum again? As
ordinary folks go back to pretending to be asleep, the true believers,
more fervent than ever, prepare to re-elect George Bush. But is Kerry
really as personally lame as he appears? Well, in fact, no. I had
dinner with Kerry at one point last year, and, while I found his views
that evening to be a bit too tightly congruent with those of the real
money at the table, I found the actual John Kerry to be a great deal
more likeable than his manufactured simulacrum. I remember thinking he
might be an entertaining guy to spend a day skiing with. But even if
Kerry himself were as off-putting as the guy I see on TV, should we
allow his personality deficiencies or cultural idiosyncrasies to
dissuade us from supporting him? I would say not, especially when we
consider what's at stake here. Right here, right now, somewhere over
the Atlantic, I'm having a moment of clarity. I realize the obvious. I
realize that, along with a lot of other people, I have fallen prey to
the peculiar American frailty which has given us so many bad
presidents. I refer to our national tendency to treat presidential
elections as though we were all high-schoolers choosing a Prom King.
Thus, when it comes to qualifying for the American Presidency, a
grating accent can be a bigger political liability than a record of
homicidally misguided policies. Being inconsistent is a greater
personal failing than being consistently, doggedly, disastrously
wrong. Being dorky is more damning than being dictatorial. We all need
to get a grip and quickly. Whatever it has...
Supporting Growth
Supporting Growth
04/16/2005 03:00 PMWall Street and Technology Apr 16 2005 6:56PM GMT
Supporting the US troops abroad
Supporting the US troops abroad
12/28/2004 11:26 AMOver the Christmas holiday I discovered anysoldier.com and was
surprised I hadn't stumbled across it sooner.
Sergeant Brian Horn from LaPlata, Maryland, an Army Infantry Soldier
with the 173rd Airborne Brigade was in the Kirkuk area of Iraq when he
started the idea of AnySoldier to help care for his soldiers. He
agreed to distribute packages that came to him with "Attn: Any
Soldier" in his address to the soldiers who were not getting mail.
Brian is no longer in Iraq but Any Soldier Inc. continues with your
support.Any Soldier Inc. started in August 2003 as a simple family
effort to help the soldiers in one Army unit, thus our name. However,
due to overwhelming requests, on 1 January 2004 our effort was
expanded to include any member, of any of the Armed Services, in harms
way.We now have 981 Contacts (872 Army, 8 Navy, 42 Air Force, and 59
Marine) helping approx 43,570 soldiers!
There's a list of contacts, including recent emails, and a list of
suggested items to send. You can even purchase care packages that have
already been assembled with soldiers' needs in mind. I spent a long
time just reading the emails from soldiers, it gives you a better
sense of what it's like over there than reading most news articles. So
if you received some money for Christmas and you're not sure how to
spend it, consider getting something for Any Soldier and making a
soldier's day.
Supporting Server Clusters
Supporting Server Clusters
03/20/2003 01:05 PMServer clusters -- separate servers interconnected to provide high
availability and able to be managed as a single system -- have gained
popularity as IT budgets have shrunk and the technology of clustering
has matured, reducing IT skill set requirements. But IT shops still
may harbor some apprehension when it comes to taking the cluster
plunge.
Supporting Multiple-Location Users
Supporting Multiple-Location Users
05/28/2002 08:58 AMWhy I'm supporting Dean - The short
answer
Why I'm supporting Dean - The short
answer
01/04/2004 10:50 AMDave Rogers asks, in a comment to my posting about canvassing for
Dean, why I'm supporting the Gov. Here's my reply: If you matched my
positions up with the candidates' (see the WBUR vote by issue quiz),
it'd come out pretty much a wash among all of them except Lieberman.
So, although overall I prefer Dean's stances, I'm not voting primarily
on the issues. There are two other reasons I'm supporting Dean. First,
I think he has the best chance to beat Bush. There are clearly
reasonable arguments about this and I have never made an accurate
political prediction. But...
IBM Supporting Linux On Power Processors
IBM Supporting Linux On Power Processors
01/22/2004 05:05 AMEFF Supporting Pop Up Company,
Understanding Trademark Law
EFF Supporting Pop Up Company,
Understanding Trademark Law
02/19/2004 07:35 PMAs annoying and sneaky as companies like Gator and WhenU are in
getting their ad-pop-up technology onto users' computers, that doesn't
mean the actual process of popping up ads for competitors when you
visit a specific website should be illegal. Most judges realize this,
and WhenU had won a series of judgments from companies protesting the
actions of these companies. However, in December, they
lost a
case as a judge said that it was a trademark violation to have
WhenU pop up ads for other contact lens providers if a user visited
1-800-Contacts' website. If you assume that the end user purposely
decided to put the software on their computer, then what's possibly
illegal about what then happens on their computer. If they want to
see competing companies for websites they visit, that should be
allowed. While they may take some criticism for supporting a pop-up
provider, the EFF is absolutely right in
filing an amicus
brief in support of WhenU. Now, what someone needs to do is take
these companies to court for installing their apps without getting
real permission from users. The EFF makes the argument that someone
walking down to a store to buy some contact lenses has the right to
look at other contact lenses in a different store. I'd take the
argument even further and say that (just like the case for letting
search companies
sell
trademarked keywords) it's no different than a company getting
placement on the shelves near a competing product in the supermarket.
If you make Bob's Cola, then you want to make sure you're on the same
shelf as Coca-Cola, because that's where people will look for you.
That's not a trademark violation. No one is going to confuse Bob's
Cola for Coca-Cola. It just makes sure that you're advertising in
places where you know your target audience is looking. Unfortunately,
companies like Playboy continue to
insist this isn't true and are still suing
search engines for selling ads on their trademarked keywords. How
come they're not suing magazine and bookshops for putting competing
magazines on the stand next to their own magazines?
Republicans: You're Supporting
Terrorists if You Question War
Republicans: You're Supporting
Terrorists if You Question War
09/24/2004 11:32 AMWashington Post: Tying Kerry to Terror Tests Rhetorical Limits. President
Bush and leading Republicans are increasingly charging that Democratic
presidential nominee John F. Kerry and others in his party are giving
comfort to terrorists and undermining the war in Iraq -- a line of
attack that tests the conventional bounds of political rhetoric.
That's polite language from the Post. In fact, this kind
of talk -- increasingly standard among Republicans -- shows how much
they've abandoned principle in their zeal to hold power.
Make no mistake. These aren't just a few errant, later-regretted
remarks, the kind that people tend to blurt out in the heat of
campaigns. As this article shows, it's a calculated and scurrilous
effort to suggest that anyone who questions the Iraq debacle is
unpatriotic.
I suspect that the iraq situation isn't as bad overall as some fear.
But it's nowhere near as positive as Bush and his amen chorus want us
to believe. Kerry is right to talk about it, to focus America's
attention on something the media given too little attention since the
"hand-over" to our puppet government.
For them to equate dissent with supporting terrorists doesn't test the
conventional bounds of rhetoric. It shreds the bounds of decency.
And the winner for best supporting role
goes to... palmOne?!?
And the winner for best supporting role
goes to... palmOne?!?
06/20/2004 07:19 PMNotes and Tips: Supporting SuperDrives
Notes and Tips: Supporting SuperDrives
06/05/2005 11:11 PMTry PatchBurn if you're trying to use a new SuperDrive with "Panther".
Verizon Customer Support not supporting
customers
Verizon Customer Support not supporting
customers
07/02/2004 04:50 AMWell one thing Verizon should do is to have a database of customers
whose husbands are Editors with a national tech magazine that is read
by every early adopter and clued in geek in the nation. My company has
a VIP marker in our customer database not to say we don't take care of
all of our customers but VIP calls get routed to me.
I have had my fair share of issues with customer service people,
but it is amazing the response you get when you plead your case as
high in the food chain as possible with a written letter delivered by
registered mail. I am not going to spoil the story for you as you
actually are getting a 2 for 1 deal here [ZDNet]
Defining and supporting project
management methodology
Defining and supporting project
management methodology
01/03/2003 02:50 AMCNET Jan 3 2003 1:02AM ET
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GrokA matches for Microsoft supporting Blue Laser? What about Blu-Ray? Err, maybe
Microsoft supporting Blue Laser? What about Blu-Ray? Err, maybe
