I have had a bit of a trouble believing Google’s “Don’t be evil” motto, unofficial or not. I don’t trust companies or governments to do things in my best interest, because that is not in their best interests. I left Gmail because of seeing ads for what was in my email. It is not the ads, but the idea of a company essentially reading my email. I’ll leave Microsoft’s hotmail the second I see this happen. I am not that concerned of my searches being tracked, but there is a point where that will go over the line and we are hitting it.
I am in utter shock that InfoWorld has been caught with their pants down. Apparently Randall Kennedy, a paid writer for InfoWorld, is Craig Barth the CTO of Devil Mountain Software.
Wait… No I am not shocked that this happened. Since the tech media essentially has the story written on Microsoft and just waits for something to fit that mold to publish it. All you have to do is read virtually any story on Microsoft by the tech press to see what I mean; like a story at Computer World today “Google search share slips in China, Bing tiny in 2009”. Really a shock since Bing has only been trying to compete for the last year in China.
So Microsoft announced Windows Mobile Phone 7 today. Looks great and since I really like the Zune UI, this should be a great experience. I have been holding off getting the Zune HD because I wanted to see if it was going to survive or not and WinPh7 (is that a good acronym?) is taking the Zune UI and placing a phone and whole host of other services with it.
I think it looks great and is a game changing moving from Microsoft, which was needed. Good job MS.
Check out the Official Website for Windows Phone 7.
Wow, that “do no evil” motto of Google was apparently not known by the group that decided to charge $350 as their own Early Termination Fee on top of the carries ETF. Have to say I did not expect this from Google! Below is the actual statement from Google’s Nexus One’s Terms of Sale.
First, I am no expert on CPU cooling and this is just a limited review of what I am seeing after a day of use. With that noted…
I bought the Cooler Master Hyper N520 ($39.00) from Fry’s Electronics on the recommendation of the tech guy I was talking too to place in the new computer I was building. I didn’t want to stick with the standard OEM fan from Intel, my experience is they are pretty much garbage when you put the processor under a solid load. I also know that a quad core (have a quad at work) is a pretty hot animal. So I got this behemoth of a cooler… I was actually worried it wouldn’t fit in the case and at nearly 7” tall you have to worry about case size.