Tech Bloggers

"October 2009 marked an important milestone in the history of computing. It was exactly 40 years since the first Multics computer system was used for information management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service) is regarded as the foundation of modern time-sharing systems. Multics was the catalyst for the development of Unix and has been used as a model of operating system design since its release four decades ago" - chaz2b from Bookmarklet

"Wal-Mart Stores Inc is offering a $100 gift card along with the purchase of a BlackBerry phone for one week, in its ongoing bid to attract more holiday shoppers." - chaz2b from Bookmarklet

upon further review, its only the older blackberries, those with bugs and such, not worth it, :( - chaz2b

"Microsoft's Bing now relies on Wolfram Alpha to answer some of its users' questions. This is not a full integration of Wolfram Alpha into Bing, though. Instead, Bing only gets answers for queries about nutrition and math problems from Alpha" - chaz2b from Bookmarklet

"Can an open source data management system do for the smart grid what Google’s open mobile operating system Android is doing for cell phones — spawn innovation and low cost development? Execs at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the largest public power provider in the U.S., seem to think so. TVA analyst Josh Patterson says Google’s Android is a good analogy for openPDC, an open source version of a platform that aggregates and processes data about the health of the power grid, and which TVA has helped create. Like Android has done for the mobile industry, openPDC will enable utilities and the power industry to develop their own versions of data management services with more flexibility and at a lower cost than proprietary systems, Patterson points out" - chaz2b from Bookmarklet

"Panera Bread, the national bakery and cafe chain, has blocked all Bit.ly links from users who happen to be using Panera’s free WiFi. In a tweet to user who was inquiring about the issue, Panera’s official Twitter handle responded that the coffee shops have “blocked b/c link is hidden & can’t determine content. Want to keep a friendly-family environment for all.”" - chaz2b from Bookmarklet

"When someone jailbreaks a Iphone, he would probably enable SSH which allows a user to enter terminal and run standard UNIX commands. What people don’t realize when they break the Iphone is that there is a default password, and don’t bother to change it.." - chaz2b from Bookmarklet

Japanese online magazine, @IT Jibun Senryaku Lab. (information site for IT engineers to educate and/or develop oneself), published an interview with a Japanese teenage boy, Masahiro Kanai, who improved the performance of several methods in Ruby 1.9. He is the age of high school freshman (the third grade of junior high school in Japanese school system). - chaz2b from Bookmarklet