Research company Gartner has issued a statement warning businesses to steer clear of Google's desktop search tool until a more robust, enterprise-ready version is released. While the tool is potentially extremely attractive to employees, Gartner states in a recent research note, IT managers should discourage users from adopting it and instead opt for a more business-ready, secure search engine. "We have no problem with it being used for personal use," said Gartner research director Maurene ...
Google scored a big legal win Wednesday when a federal judge ruled that its use of trademarks in keyword advertising is legal. Judge Leonie Brinkema of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia granted Google's motion to dismiss a trademark-infringement complaint brought by Geico. The insurance company had charged Google with violating its trademarks by using the word "Geico" to trigger rival ads in sponsored search results. Geico claimed the practice diluted its trademarks ...
The Motion Picture Association of America launched a new legal campaign Tuesday targeting the BitTorrent and eDonkey file-swapping networks, two technologies widely used to trade movies online. Ratcheting up its previous online antipiracy efforts , the Hollywood group is working with law enforcement agencies in the United States and Europe to target and arrest individuals who play a critical role in the functioning of each type of network. Full article: [Here]
It seems every time a larger company incorporates a feature that a smaller company has that a bunch of people start screaming bloody murder. Shrieks of "copying" and "stealing" come up. What's the point? Last year the folks who made Konfabulator made a be stink when Apple incorporated Dashboard into the OS. I totally agreed with Konfabulator's developers that it was pretty lame on Apple's part but in the end, complaining just looks bad I think to most people. The fa...
Survived the trip to Las Vegas. I hate traveling. And being cramped in a seat for 4 hours is no fun. To small too tight fitting to be comfortable with. Which brings me to a related issue - young overweight females should not wear tight fitting shirts that don't cover their bodies completely. It's yucky, gross, and just wrong. As soon as we got to the hotel, ran into Steve and Marcel (Neowin admins) along with other friends from the community. Went to the Vista lab with them and th...
Bink.nu has a funny article about tonight's Keynote where Gatesand Balmer played each other in boxing on the Xbox 360.
It's been quite a show. CES is a computer nerd's dream. Every kind of gadget and gizmo you could imagine is there. Outside the show there was a Microsoft tent that looked pretty cool. Windows Vista is EVERYWHERE and looking fine. Another look from outside. 1080p TVs were everywhere. Several members from the Windows community there. Neowin.net, TweakXP.com, OSNN, Bink, Longhorn blogs, and more. Chris Pirillo and Jen from Microsoft.&nbs...
I walked the show floor quite a bit on day 2 and everywhere you looked it was HD-DVD vs. Blu Ray. Microsoft meanwhile seems to have a real winner with their MCE (Media Center Edition) that they're preparing for Windows Vista. For me, the big thing is being able to record HD content from various sources and save it to a hard drive or stream to other places in the house. The UI is very slick and if you have an XBOX 360 then all the better. My travels did lead to some sight seeing after the ...
Tonight Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates presented the keynote address here at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. WinCustomize.com is there in the press room blogging live from the event right now! Windows Vista as well as gives a vision on how personal computing technology will go in the future. During his demo, Mr. Gates was able to integrate his information and data seamlessly across a cell phone, tablet PC, and his desktop PC that was connected to a 40 inch monitor th...
Stardock Magazine is nearing its 10th year anniversary. In the old days, Stardock Magazine was done as a regular magazine. The ones from 1996 were done with Page Maker 5 (Which I can't convert with Adobe InDesign). So here's one from early 1996 as a PDF. Some of the graphics and fonts are wrong (i.e. the layout errors and such weren't in the actual paper version) but it gives you an idea of what kinds of things Stardock was up to way back then.
There's been some bumps lately in terms of Stardock being able to get "stuff out there" to users. Why is that? This article talks about the back end of what's been going on.
Holy cow what a year it has been at Stardock. 10 years ago, Stardock was an OS/2 developer. If you were with us from the OS/2 days, comment below. We'd love to hear what some of your favorite OS/2 experiences were. If 10 years ago someone had told us that we'd be helping Microsoft on Windows Vista projects and have top-rated turn based strategy game of the year we would have never believed it. So what were some of the highlights of last year? February: Galactic Civiliza...
I don't know about you but I hate having to wait until the end of the year to read those "best of" lists. This is doubly true because those lists almost always favor things released near the end of the year. Well, we're half-way through 2007 already and so here's our list of the top 5 coolest things we've seen so far this year! #1 Erector Spykee Robot . A brilliant idea made real. This is a remote control robot that has a microphone and camera on it tha...
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