http://www.thewardour.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:23:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en NOTE: This is not an official CNET review. And is not by any means a full review. Just a quick first-look. Official CNET product review is here. (Credit: Brooke Crothers) Update: One other quick impression. No excessive heat to speak of. Another challenge for designers of ultra-thin notebooks is how ... http://www.thewardour.com/index.php/2010/09/04/which-is-sturdier-a-macbook-air-or-an-hp-business/ Bundled with home phone: Here is the breakdown on the pricing changes for AT&T's DSL service: • Pro (3Mbps):$28.99 to $34 "Even with this adjustment, our pricing still beats cable's standard pricing across the majority of our markets," AT&T spokesman Brad Mays said in an e-mail. "We're confident that customers will see the value ... http://www.thewardour.com/index.php/2010/08/29/att-jacks-up-dsl-price-5-per-month/ At the SMX West conference today, Yahoo is making a big deal of its new open search initiative. This program, not yet live, will allow site publishers to influence the way the Yahoo search engine displays results for their sites. The service does not, however, let publishers change the ... http://www.thewardour.com/index.php/2010/08/24/yahoo-open-search-good-for-users-but-great-for-y/ (Credit: Sprint Nextel) That's the good news for Palm, which on Thursday reported a dismal fiscal fourth quarter, which ended May 30. For the quarter, Palm reported a loss of $91.5 million, or 78 cents a share, compared with a year-earlier loss of $41.1 million, or 40 cents a share. Revenue ... http://www.thewardour.com/index.php/2010/08/24/in-wake-of-loss-palm-looks-to-pre-as-savior/ Jim Breyer Jim Breyer, a partner at venture capitalist firm Accel Partners, was named to Dell's board of directors Monday. (Credit: Accel Partners) Breyer is on the board of three companies, Wal-Mart, Facebook, and Marvel Entertainment, which conveniently intersect with areas of Dell's business the company wants broaden and improve. As part ... http://www.thewardour.com/index.php/2010/08/24/vc-breyer-named-to-dell-board/ What policies need to be put in place to promote these new technologies? Heywood: Our recommendation was that these changes need to be incentivized in some way. Now we've put in some strict CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) standards that are going to force the industry to move as rapidly ... http://www.thewardour.com/index.php/2010/08/24/mit-prof-sees-no-free-ride-to-cleaner-cars/ Bonus link: Also, if you're in a more constructive frame of mind, the Japanese camera giant also shares instructions on how to make a Canon SLR out of balsa wood. (Credit: Canon) A FredMiranda forum member named Sam posted some photographic details of his lens disassembly after his model suffered a stuck ... http://www.thewardour.com/index.php/2010/08/24/why-that-canon-lens-costs-so-much-part-ii/ "YouTube has been blocked in China," Google said in a statement. "We don't know the reason for the blockage, and we're working to restore access to our users in China." By now, YouTube and parent company Google should be expert at handling international crises. Iran, Pakistan, Turkey, and Thailand are among ... http://www.thewardour.com/index.php/2010/08/24/wsj-china-bans-youtube/ Mr. Usher appears to have been betrayed by his significant other. So much so that he decided to set up a website and auction the whole of his life on eBay. The auction ends this weekend. As I write this, the leading bid is some A$390,000. Still trying to conjure the inspired connection ... http://www.thewardour.com/index.php/2010/08/24/man-selling-his-life-on-ebay-believes-he-is-barry/ Follow me on Twitter @mjasay. Microsoft's Internet Explorer continues to hemorrhage market share to Mozilla's open-source Firefox browser. But Microsoft is set to surpass Mozilla in one area: adoption of its open-source Microsoft Public License (MS-PL), according to research from Black Duck Software. It's a matter of coloring inside the CodePlex lines. Of ... http://www.thewardour.com/index.php/2010/08/24/microsoft-beating-mozillain-open-source-licensi/