No more WTF on North Carolina’s license plates
Posted by trm96 | Filed under Other News
A 60 year old technology teacher is in outrage over North Carolina’s use of WTF in it’s license plates and is offering residents to replace then with a new (non-offencive) license plate free of charge. My question is WTF is this world coming to? lol
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Tags: North Carolina, Technology, WTF
Slashdot and their new Data Center
Posted by trm96 | Filed under Other News
Slashdot just announced the testing of their new data center. You can access it from beta.slashdot.org
Slashdot article
Tags: Beta, Slashdot, Technology
Are SSDs the future?
Posted by trm96 | Filed under Technology News
A lot of major Hard drive manufacturers are planning to bring solid state hard drives (SSDs) to the marketplace, but is it really the future of the hard drive?
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Tags: Computers, hard drives, SSDs, Technology
Blockbuster offers to buy Circuit City
Posted by trm96 | Filed under Other News
Blockbuster has put in a bid to buy the electronics chain Circuit City for $1.33 billion. Circuit City witch has struggled recently because of Best Buy’s dominance in the consumer electronics retail sector, witch already has claimed the life of CompUSA. Circuit City is expected to agree to the deal aimed at “taking advantage of the global trend of putting media content on electronic devices”, Blockbuster said on Monday.
Tags: Bestbuy, Blockbuster, Circuit City, Technology
iPhone SDK have developers fired up.
Posted by trm96 | Filed under Apple News, Technology News
Apple has launched it’s iPhone SDK (software development kit) and has come under fire over it’s strict terms of service. Apple is not allowing for p2p VOIP (voice over internet protocol) apps like Skype, also competing web browsers Firefox and Opera are forbidden. Even Sun Microsystems had to withdraw its hopes for java on the platform, at least right now. Apple has even been compared to the likes of Comcast with their anti-net neutrality filtering, and Microsoft’s Netscape-killing antitrust tactics. But if you know Apple like I do you know they will eventually change their mind… Remember when Apple said no to 3rd party apps of any kind?
Tags: Apple Computer, iPhone, Technology
