http://www.cancersurgeries.net Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:52:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One demonstration did catch my ear: Moo-Cow Music's Band, which was originally developed by a single programmer, Mark Terry, as a sort of fun hack. It is now being rewritten for the iPhone development platform and offered with Apple's blessing through the iTunes App Store. It allows you to tap ... http://www.cancersurgeries.net/2010/09/04/iphone-music-app-offers-new-way-to-annoy-bandmates/ But Google has said that it plans to expand support to other browsers and cell phone platforms, including its own Android software. Another issue is that mobile Gears only works with applications that are Gear-enabled. So far, Google Gear applications aren't widely available, but Google is trying to make it ... http://www.cancersurgeries.net/2010/08/31/google-gears-heads-for-windows-mobile-phones/ Vieux hasn't revealed the new location, but I'm told by former employees not to take him too literally. Updated at 2:49 p.m. to include the information that Red Herring's Web site is back up. Red Herring is on at least one tech pub's "Death Watch" and the site outage might have ... http://www.cancersurgeries.net/2010/08/24/red-herring-down-but-not-out/ No End in Sight, an Iraq war documentary by tech exec-turned-filmmaker Charles Ferguson, was nominated last week for an Academy Award. The film, an analysis of how the U.S. occupation in Iraq evolved into a violent quagmire, was Ferguson's first film project, but apparently not his last. Charles Ferguson "The experience ... http://www.cancersurgeries.net/2010/08/21/fomer-tech-execs-film-gets-oscar-nomination/ We've seen a bunch of new laptop models from Sony in the past couple of weeks, including the 15-inch Vaio NS, the 14-inch Vaio CS, and the whopping 18-inch Vaio AW. Sony's apparently has one more new laptop model in the offing (that we know of), and this one is ... http://www.cancersurgeries.net/2010/08/21/sonys-turn-to-leak-a-laptop-the-vaio-tt/ commentary Hitwise Hitslink reports a massive boom in Apple's Mac market share, rising 52 percent over March 2008 to reach 11.43 percent. This is in stark contrast to data reported by ZDNet, which showed a .47 percent drop in the Mac's market share. What gives? Operating System Market Share - April 2008 (Credit: Hitslink) It's ... http://www.cancersurgeries.net/2010/08/21/apples-market-share-explodes-52-percent-in-april/ Apple released QuickTime 7.5 late on Monday, fixing a handful of security issues, including holes that would have allowed someone to run malicious code on a computer and remotely control it. One of the issues, which would have allowed a maliciously crafted PICT image file to run code, affected computers ... http://www.cancersurgeries.net/2010/08/21/apple-fixes-security-issues-with-quicktime-75/ Sony Ericsson W890i (Credit: Sony Ericsson) Only the most passionate cell phone geeks know that the Federal Communications Commission holds a treasure trove of information on upcoming handsets. Because the FCC has to certify every phone sold in the United States, not to mention test its SAR rating, the agency's online database ... http://www.cancersurgeries.net/2010/08/21/this-week-in-cell-phones-at-the-fcc/ Over the last 10 years, IT has moved further and further outside the firewall. Starting with ASP (application service providers) and moving to multitenant SaaS (software as a service) on-demand applications, and now into cloud-computing environments, the status of on-premise IT has shifted from being a necessity to an option. ... http://www.cancersurgeries.net/2010/08/21/cloud-computing-value-is-assumed-cost-matters/ MessageLabs revealed that an intricate flaw in the underlying design of the Internet's DNS (domain name system) protocol is still vulnerable several weeks after patches were made available. Elinor Mills, who covers security for CNET News, explains what's going on. Why in the world would Microsoft make available a free--and very ... http://www.cancersurgeries.net/2010/08/21/cnet-news-daily-podcast-why-security-experts-stil/