Ultra-Mobile PC (aka Origami) now official

So much has been written about these devices already that I thought it might be interesting to take a different tangent on discussing the announcement. You can learn more about the devices themselves from Microsoft’s official announcement, the Origami Project website, and ongoing coverage at GottaBeMobile My interest, frankly, is less about the first generation … [Read more…]

GOOGLE sparked another battle with Microsoft

Google sparked another battle with Microsoft yesterday by agreeing to buy a small company that offers a rival product to Microsoft’s Word software.The American online search engine is buying Upstartle, the Silicon Valley-based company behind Writely.com, an internet-based word processor. The move is Google’s latest expansion away from its core search product and marks the … [Read more…]

Mac OS X Hacker challenge is over.

38 hours, nobody hacked it. Under fire from intermittent DOS attacks, nessus scans, ssh dictionary attacks and much else. The difference to the other competition? Nobody had local access to the machine except the machine’s owners, as it would be in a realistic situation. read more | digg story

BlogExplosion up for SALE

This is definitely not a typo or an early April Fool’s joke. BlogExplosion will be going up for sale next week. We will be sending out a special email early next week with full details about how we plan to sell the site. After many long discussions over the last couple of weeks we have … [Read more…]