Ο Steve Ballmer λέει ότι μια μέρα θα νικήσουν την Google

It's not easy being Steve Ballmer. The Microsoft CEO was asked for the umpteenth time Tuesday if his company will ever be number one in search.

"There's no good answer to this question. If you say yes you seem like you're arrogant, and if you say no it looks like you have no faith. So the answer is yes, someday," Ballmer said.

[ Microsoft and Google have been battling each other in both search and productivity apps. | Discover what's new in business applications with InfoWorld's Technology: Applications newsletter. ]

"The truth is, the number one thing Google benefits from is they did it right first," he said.

Ballmer was interviewed on stage Tuesday at the Search Marketing Expo in Santa Clara, California, by Danny Sullivan, editor in chief of Search Engine Land and a longtime search industry watcher.

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Για πες ρε Steve Ballmer και το άλλο με τον Τοτό. Στο καπάκι πες κι εκείνο με τον Γιωρίκα.

Τα σπάει στα ανέκδοτα ο Steve Ballmer. Απίστευτος γελωτοποιός!

Η ανατομία των Apple Mac

Anatomy of Apple Design from Transparent House on Vimeo.

Όμορφα πράγματα. Ακόμη πιο όμορφα όταν τα δουλεύεις :)

Το βίντεο μιλάει από μόνο του

Δεν θα πω τίποτα παραπάνω για τον Roger Ebert: Apple MacBook. Μιλάει από μόνο του λέμε!

Η Virgin αγαπάει την HTML5

As Silicon Valley titans Apple and Adobe System deck it out over the weakness of Flash, one Valley-based outfit has put Adobe's Flash in its place - and that place isn't online

Start-up airline Virgin America has decided HTML is "good enough" for animating online content on its brand-new website, which went live Monday, dumping Flash.

It's a move that does more than just show what happens to customers when there's a clash of tech-industry egos.

It illustrates the options customers have between picking the closed Flash - or Silverlight from Microsoft - and open technologies such as HTML to serve content to a new generation of mobile computing devices.

Virgin picked HTML to give users of iPhones and other mobiles the option in the future of checking in through their phone. The battle between Adobe and Apple has seen Flash deliberately excluded from the Jesus Phone.

Chief information officer (CTO) Ravi Simhambhatla told The Reg: "I don't want to cater to one hardware or one software platform one way to another, and Flash eliminates iPhone users. This year is going to be the year of the mobile [for Virgin]."

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Αυτά είναι! Κι ακόμη δεν είδαμε τίποτα. Έπεται συνέχεια.

Viacom VS Hulu = 1-0

Unable to make the digital media dollars add up to their liking, Viacom will remove “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” “The Colbert Report” and other Comedy Central television shows from Hulu next week.

Although the companies said Tuesday evening that they were parting amicably, the decision represents the first major fracture between television show owners and the wildly popular video Web site.

Viacom’s decision is a serious loss for Hulu — this week “The Daily Show” is listed as the third most-watched TV show on the site — and it is a reminder that content owners can control just how much video — or how little — is placed online for all to view. At the moment, that spigot is being tightened, in part to protect the industry’s primary revenue stream, cable and satellite distribution.

However, the severing of ties with Hulu does not represent a strategic shift for Viacom. Comedy Central will continue to stream full episodes of the shows on TheDailyShow.com and ColbertNation.com, respectively.

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Καλά να πάθει η παλιοHulu. Άντε και χειρότερα. Που το παίζει και ιστορία η παλιοσαβούρα. Η παλιοψαροκασέλα. Ζώα πελάτες και υπεύθυνοι(;) της Hulu!

Apple VS HTC

SAN FRANCISCO — Apple has relied on slick applications, and even slicker advertisements, to promote the iPhone and maintain its advantage over rivals like Google in the battle to rule the next generation of smartphones.

But the fight may come down to something more provincial: who has the best lawyers.

On Tuesday, Apple sued HTC, the Taiwanese company that is the largest maker of smartphones running Google’s Android operating system, including the Nexus One, designed and sold by Google.

In the lawsuit, filed with the office of the United States International Trade Commission and the United States District Court in Delaware, Apple said that HTC phones running Android violated 20 of its patents, including those relating to the iPhone’s ability to recognize the touch of multiple fingers on its screen at once.

Since last fall, Google has been gradually adding multitouch capabilities to phones running Android through software updates.

Though the lawsuit singles out HTC, many patent lawyers and analysts say they believe Apple’s target is Google and the Android operating system, which the company gives away to cellphone manufacturers.

“We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We’ve decided to do something about it,” said Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, in a statement. “We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours.”

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Δεν είμαι η Apple. Δεν είμαι ο Steve Jobs. Δεν έχω τίποτα στοιχεία στα χέρια μου. Αλλά μπορώ να πω δύο-τρία πράγματα πάνω στο θέμα.

Πιστεύω ότι αυτή η κίνηση της Apple δεν είναι ότι καλύτερο. Από την άλλη ίσως θέλει να στείλει μηνύματα σε όλους τους ανταγωνιστές (τωρινούς και μελλοντικούς). Εξάλλου πριν από τρία+ χρόνια όταν ανακοίνωσε το iPhone η Apple είχε πει ότι το έχουν πατεντάρει το iPhone μέχρι εκεί που δεν πάει. Και επί τρία+ χρόνια τώρα, όλοι βλέπουμε πόσο πολύ την έχουν κατακλέψει και δεν έκανε τίποτα. Ίσως να ήρθε πλέον το πλήρωμα του χρόνου και των απατεώνων.

Βέβαια πολύ λένε ότι οι πατέντες δεν θα πρεπε να υπάρχουν και μπλα-μπλα. Δυστυχώς τα πράγματα δεν είναι τόσο απλά και ποτέ δεν πρόκειται να γίνουν. Στο κάτω κάτω αν έχει δικαίωμα η Nokia να κάνει μηνύσεις τότε έχει και η Apple. Εξάλλου ποιοι είμαστε εμείς που θα μιλήσουμε γι αυτά τα θέματα. Εμείς εξάλλου ανακαλύψαμε τις πατέντες. Ότι δεν λύνεται, κόβεται είπε ο Μεγάλος.

Βούιξε ο τόπος μερικές μέρες τώρα

Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a vulnerability in VBScript that is exposed on supported versions of Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 through the use of Internet Explorer. Our investigation has shown that the vulnerability cannot be exploited on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, or Windows Server 2008. The main impact of the vulnerability is remote code execution. We are not aware of attacks that try to use the reported vulnerabilities or of customer impact at this time.

The vulnerability exists in the way that VBScript interacts with Windows Help files when using Internet Explorer. If a malicious Web site displayed a specially crafted dialog box and a user pressed the F1 key, arbitrary code could be executed in the security context of the currently logged-on user. On systems running Windows Server 2003, Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration is enabled by default, which helps to mitigate against this issue.

We are actively working with partners in our Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP) to provide information that they can use to provide broader protections to customers.

Upon completion of this investigation, Microsoft will take the appropriate action to help protect our customers. This may include providing a security update through our monthly release process or providing an out-of-cycle security update, depending on customer needs.

Microsoft is concerned that this new report of a vulnerability was not responsibly disclosed, potentially putting computer users at risk. We continue to encourage responsible disclosure of vulnerabilities. We believe the commonly accepted practice of reporting vulnerabilities directly to a vendor serves everyone's best interests. This practice helps to ensure that customers receive comprehensive, high-quality updates for security vulnerabilities without exposure to malicious attackers while the update is being developed.

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Για χιλιοστή φορά. Όσοι χρησιμοποιείτε Internet Explorer και Windows XP καλά να πάθετε.

Αυτοί είμαστε

Billions of bits of plastic are accumulating in a massive garbage patch in the Atlantic Ocean—a lesser known cousin to the Texas-size trash vortex in the Pacific, scientists say.

"Many people have heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch," said Kara Lavender Law, an oceanographer at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. (See pictures of the Pacific Ocean trash vortex.)

"But this issue has essentially been ignored in the Atlantic."

The newly described garbage patch sits hundreds of miles off the North American coast. Although its east-west span is unknown, the patch covers a region between 22 and 38 degrees north latitude—roughly the distance from Cuba to Virginia (see a U.S. map).

As with the Pacific garbage patch, plastic can circulate in this part of the Atlantic Ocean for years, posing health risks to fish, seabirds, and other marine animals that accidentally eat the litter.

Διαβάστε τα χάλια μας εδώ.

Ουδέν σχόλιο.

Σας λέω εγώ μαλάκες, κλπ.

Και σας πειράζει.

Σας λέει μαλάκες ο Λαζόπουλος και τον χειροκροτάτε.

Σας λένε οι κυβερνήσεις να στήσετε κώλο και στήνετε.

Αυτό δεν είναι δύο μέτρα και δύο σταθμά που λένε.

Αυτό είναι που λέω εγώ: Τρομπόνια, τούβλα, μπεεεε, ζώα, κλπ.

Περαστικά μας.

ΣΗΜΕΙΩΣΗ:
Δεν έχω πρόβλημα με τον Λαζόπουλο και τον κάθε Λαζόπουλο. Με σας έχω πρόβλημα που το παίζετε και ιστορία από πάνω: "Δεν με ξέρεις!" ή "Ξέρεις ποιος είμαι εγώ;"

ΟΥΣΤ!

Salsa λέμε!

“And Then There Was Salsa” from Frito Lay Dips on Vimeo.

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Κακό μήνα να 'χετε...

Κακά να περάσετε. Όλα στραβά να σας πάνε. Σας εύχομαι τα χειρότερα. Κακή υγεία και δυστυχία. Ανάσα να μην πάρετε από τα προβλήματα της καθημερινότητας. Σεξ να μην κάνετε. Η μιζέρια σας να χτυπήσει κόκκινο.

Ότι ποθείτε να ΜΗΝ το 'χετε. Κακά, ψυχρά και ανάποδα ΟΛΑ!

Ubuntu 10.04 ftw!

I just installed Alpha 3, and right at the end of the installation my NVidia card was recognized, and the display went to full widescreen. After reboot it's still there and crystal clear. Something I haven't seen since 9.10, and only then by deliberately installing new drivers.

Also, I sometimes charge my iPhone on Ubuntu when I don't want iTunes to come up bothering me on my Mac. So I had my iPhone plugged in and when Alpha 3 installed, guess what? I can now access all my tunes, playlists, apps and everything from my iPhone 3G using Nautilus. And what else? RhythmBox interfaces with it, working like iTunes! Blimey, I didn't even know this was on the list of planned additions. I'm looking forward to seeing if I find anything else.

So, well done everyone, it looks like 10.04 will be an excellent release, maybe even ground breaking.

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Πολύ καλή εξέλιξη. Πολύ καλή εξέλιξη. Φτάνει να μη το καταφέρανε όπως έκανε η Palm με το Pre ;)

Αν είναι σε συνεργασία με την Apple τότε ΟΛΕ ΟΛΕ ΟΛΕ!