This is an open-source company worth keeping an eye on.
Jason van Zyl, creator of Maven, the popular Java development framework, has quietly founded an open-source company around the popular build framework. Maven has over 2 million downloads and the Maven Central Repository–home, incidentally, to more than 50,000 main artifacts and averaging 100 million hits a [...]
Broadcom co-founder and former CEO Henry T. Nicholas III is facing two federal indictments that allege conspiracy and securities fraud related to options backdating, as well as numerous drug violations.
I think it’s fair to say after this latest news, he’s the epitome of a PR nightmare.
Details of his raucous lifestyle started to come out after [...]
If you’re keen on moderating blog comments in near real time and would prefer to do so without a browser window open, you should check out Moderator. It’s a hybrid tool that uses both a WordPress plug-in and an Adobe AIR desktop application to keep you up to speed with the latest user chatter on [...]
Using Data Execution Protection (DEP) within Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista SP1, IE 8 will scan downloads and block any that it deems dangerous.
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IE 8 Beta 1 has already introduced several changes when handling ActiveX components. Components will be installed per user, which eliminates the need for everyone to have administrator privileges. [...]
Wooing younger users
Microsoft isn’t the only company Bartz is monitoring. Facebook, too, with its younger users, also is on the list. As the mother of a 20 year old, “I’m very familiar with Facebook,” Bartz said.
But not all is well. Google last week was relatively bullish about its search-ad business, reiterating its argument that [...]
Representatives from Mister Wong were not immediately available for comment.
No background is provided other than the report that the acquisition was made for an undisclosed amount.
Mister Wong, a European site, is a sort of cross between Delicious and StumbleUpon, generating recommendations based on the bookmarks a user has flagged. As the puzzled Mashable writer points [...]
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Its Reality View presents a photo-realistic image of complex highway interchanges, with actual road signage and exit-ramp guidance.
That’s a decidedly entry-level price for a GPS, but this model goes way beyond entry-level features. In addition to the traffic service, which will advise you of trouble spots and suggest alternate routes, the Navigon offers text-to-speech [...]
Vocito's simple taskbar application lets you hunt through your address book and make a call no matter what you're doing on your computer.
This deeper integration centers around a slick and simple Mac taskbar drop-down application that’s directly integrated with the Address Book app. It lets you start a call almost as fast as doing [...]
Comedy.com better be funny. Luckily its CEO and founder Dean Valentine is. Valentine’s a longtime content creator, and just happens to be the same guy who helped create the mid-’90s TV dud Homeboys in Outer Space, so go figure. The site launched in February, and it aggregates comedy content from all over the Web, including [...]
Are we the world’s least efficient market? Imagine what would happen if we could all pull behind a few credible alternatives, rather than inventing 585 of them?
This problem is ingrained at Microsoft, which feels the need to brand everything, but it is in no way limited to them. A search on Sourceforge for “issue tracker” [...]
