http://www.grzegorzdembinski.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 06:00:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Intel is expected to face new antitrust charges from European regulators that focus on the chip giant's marketing and sales practices, according to a report Tuesday night on The Wall Street Journal's Web site, citing unidentified people familiar with matter. In June, it was reported that the U.S. Federal Trade ... http://www.grzegorzdembinski.com/index.php/2010/09/04/report-intel-faces-new-eu-antitrust-charges/ After some delay, Microsoft released Office 2008 in January. The company has also delayed several times the availability of converter tools that allow its predecessor to read the XML file formats introduced with Office 2007 for Windows. As a result, Mac owners who need to read the new formats are ... http://www.grzegorzdembinski.com/index.php/2010/08/29/microsoft-updates-new-mac-office/ Silverman said that once Skype became aware of the problem it contacted executives at TOM, and the security issue regarding stored personal information has been resolved. But he also noted the company's concern that TOM has been storing this information. Earlier this week, Canadian researchers at the Citizen Lab at the ... http://www.grzegorzdembinski.com/index.php/2010/08/24/skype-we-didnt-know-about-security-issues/ Currently, most patents last for twenty years from the date they were filed. At yesterday's conference, Judge Newman - who sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit - commented that maybe a shorter lifespan of 5-6 years makes more sense for software patents. It's basically ... http://www.grzegorzdembinski.com/index.php/2010/08/24/should-software-patents-have-shorter-life-spans-th/ If you want a real, two-way link between the app suites, you might want to check out Ghost, which I covered Wednesday. But is worth noting that you can now log in to Zoho with your Google ID. Zoho, which makes an online productivity suite, is now allowing the import of ... http://www.grzegorzdembinski.com/index.php/2010/08/24/zoho-allowing-import-of-google-docs-files/ We've brought you the details on the T-Mobile G1 with the Google Android OS and now we present it in pictures and video. CNET Executive Editor David Carnoy attended the G1's New York City launch event Tuesday where he gave the phone a good once-over in our First Look video. ... http://www.grzegorzdembinski.com/index.php/2010/08/24/t-mobile-g1-in-pictures-and-video/ Xeon server processors also saw price cuts. The X3220 (2.40GHz) was cut 12 percent, from $224 to $198. The X3210 (2.13GHz) saw an identical cut, while the E3110 (3GHz) was reduced 11 percent, from $188 to $167. The pricing for QX "Extreme" processors, such as the QX9775 (3.2GHz, $1,499), ... http://www.grzegorzdembinski.com/index.php/2010/08/24/intel-cuts-chip-prices-up-to-31-percent/ While the world rightly awaits Firefox 3.0 with anticipation, it's actually the mobile Firefox browser Fennec that I am looking most forward to seeing. According to the head of Mozilla Europe, we should be seeing Fennec in September, with a beta release later in 2008. The problem? It won't run on my ... http://www.grzegorzdembinski.com/index.php/2010/08/24/mozillas-mobile-browser-due-out-in-september/ Recently I wrote about Flagfox, a simple Firefox extension that puts a flag in the corner of the browser window indicating the country where the website being viewed resides. Hovering the mouse over the flag displays the IP address (explanation below) of the website and clicking the flag brings up more ... http://www.grzegorzdembinski.com/index.php/2010/08/24/verifying-legitimate-bank-websites/ Nintendo: Cloud? Isn't that what Lakitu rides in Super Mario Bros.? Microsoft: Xbox 360 requires no cloud to overheat repeatedly and die Sony: Even if everyone got OnLive free, PS3 would still be the best-selling console Apple: you ain't seen nothin' yet The companies have definitely ... http://www.grzegorzdembinski.com/index.php/2010/08/24/friday-poll-most-honest-response-to-onlive/