http://www.berniescb.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:15:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Instead of the evolutionary marvel that Microsoft long promised, Vista instead has become synonymous with development delays, shifting feature lists, and spotty driver support. Microsoft is greasing the skids for Vista acceptance by offering free telephone support for Vista Service Pack 1 through March 2009. (The toll-free call-in number in the ... http://www.berniescb.com/?p=380 Thirty-nine. That's the number of PR-related pitches I've received in the past 24 hours. Out of those, just one fulfilled my write-up requirements of being a topic that is both interesting and related to digital music. That's a 2.5 percent pass rate...and today's a good day. So perhaps I am ... http://www.berniescb.com/?p=378 Concerns with economic conditions drove all the broad stock indicators such as the S&P, EAFA, and emerging markets into negative territory for the week. Commodities, on the other hand, continued their advance with the broad based ETN tracking the DJ AIG commodity index (DJP) increasing 3.1% for the week. This ... http://www.berniescb.com/?p=376 Like the Kindle, the Sony Reader is an e-book viewer. Though it can't download them wirelessly, Sony's eBook Store does carry about 100,000 titles as well as half a million public-domain works from Google. Alas, most of the commercial books are priced a few bucks higher than Amazon's. Find more deals, ... http://www.berniescb.com/?p=374 In the two years using Comcast's own DVR service, I never had a recording fouled up like this. Comcast's DVR had its problems, but it proved to be a reliable recorder of shows--a key element to any digital video recorder in my estimation. Comcast + TiVo suffers from the same ... http://www.berniescb.com/?p=372 But the idea of a Web-based dead-man's switch is sound, and I'm surprised there aren't more travel or dating sites implementing a variation of this. When we're overdue to arrive at a destination (or home), it might be good to tell people where we thought we'd be. A delay ... http://www.berniescb.com/?p=370 The company on Wednesday said that the plug-in hybrid will be "geared toward fleet customers in Japan, (the) United States, and Europe." Toyota's Prius, numbering a million sold, uses a nickel metal hydride battery. Lithium ion batteries, which are heavily used in consumer electronics, are being built into an upcoming ... http://www.berniescb.com/?p=368 (Credit: Erica Ogg/CNET) The ARM processor doesn't have access to the main motherboard or the ports, which should alleviate security concerns, according to Todd Forsythe, vice president of Dell's commercial client product group. The secondary processor--used mostly in smartphones--also draws much less power than a more robust desktop or notebook processor ... http://www.berniescb.com/?p=366 The latest dispute originates in comments made by to CNET News by Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority spokesman Joe Pesaturo in in a report published Monday. In his e-mail to us, he said the students "agreed to provide the MBTA with a copy of the presentation" scheduled for the Defcon hacker ... http://www.berniescb.com/?p=364 The canceled products were in various stages of production, from pre-production to beta testing with customers, though none was produced in volume yet, said Gudorf. (Credit: Digeo) "As we assessed our situation, it became clear that the best action for Digeo was to focus our work on the next-generation product for ... http://www.berniescb.com/?p=362