Ok, they’re just prosecuting spammers for multi-million dollar judgements , that likely will never be collected… but it’s a great quote (and perfect for Halloween!).  And the effect is hopefully equivalent to the head-spiking from long ago. ...

Check out this cool pumpkin carver from the good folks at Archetype !  Here’s mine:  A fun way to spread a little Halloween cheer – after you build your pumpkin and customize the message, you can generate an email to send it to your friends...

Seven patties and 2120 calories.  Wow!  Read about the Windows 7 Whopper , or see the video below.    Technorati Tags: Windows 7 , promotion

The MIT Technology Review magazine recently reported that next month Eran Tromer, a postdoctoral reseacher at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, will present research suggesting that Amazon’s EC 2, an Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud...

Well, no secret I’m one of the few who actually liked Microsoft’s  Seinfeld ads .  Always felt it was a great way to humanize the brand, and prepare it for a re-introduction to the world. In fact, I still feel that way.  Judging from the...

Amazon (UK) announced today that Windows 7 is the best selling pre-order product of all time , beating out Harry Potter.  A couple quotes from the TG Daily Article:  "The launch of Windows 7 has superseded everyone's expectations, storming...

Ok, this is very cool. I just tried it, and I’m impressed.  Fast, relevent   results from the real-time twitter stream.  Load up www.bing.com/twitter and it gives you a tag cloud of what’s trending. I clicked on the Windows 7 tag and...

It’s no secret that Moore’s law is breaking down.  It will be great if the geniuses at Intel and AMD figure out how to keep increasing transistor densities, but it looks like circuits will start melting soon if we get much more dense.  My 20...

Most the folks likely to stumble across this blog have heard of Microsoft Surface by now.  It’s the table top computer that came out a couple years back that brings together machine vision and massive multi-touch into a table form factor for collaborative...

If you’re planning to re-pave your machine and add Windows 7 sometime in the next few weeks, don’t forget to download Microsoft Security Essentials (aka, MSE).  The free anti-virus software package has gotten good reviews, and also got off to a very...

Well, maybe that’s pushing it, but some very good news this week on hypervisor interoperability and management of  heterogeneous environments… Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual machines are now certified and supported to run on Windows Server’s Hyper...

Check out what my teammate, Jon Box , had to say about the new Windows Mobile 6.5 release yesterday.  I was just gearing up to write my own post, but Jon’s is an excellent round-up on the announcements and why they matter.    See Jon...

Five computer science students in China have created a great little utility called PhotoSketch. Learn more from this Mashable review of PhotoSketch .  In a nutshell, PhotoSketch lets you sketch a stick figure image, and tag the elements of the image...

There’s a free Forrester   webcast from on Windows 7 coming up tomorrow ( register here ) that runs 12-1:00 PM Eastern Time.   Among other things, Benjamin Gray from Forrester will be discussing his view on the Top 5 Windows 7 features...