Jul
11
Over here at MyGolem, we’re proud to welcome our new sibling website, EnquiringMimes. The folks over at EnquingMimes believe “today’s master skill is understanding and being able to use technology to get things done, ” and that if you are over 27, you’re playing catch up. Not just baby boomers, we all need help sometimes figuring it all out. EnquiringMimes aims to be your guide to the technology you really need on issues like these:
- How to edit an image?
- Whether you really have to use Microsoft Office?
- How’s the best way to keep a to-do list?
- What’s Linux and why might I possibly need it?
- How do I set up a wireless network at home?
- Skype, hmmm, do I really have to pay for long distance?
- What do I do with all these digital pictures?
- What’s the easiest way to sell all that semi-junk in the garage?
- What do I do with my records, cassettes, CDs?
Give them a look.
EnquiringMimes Mission - What are we doing here?
Apr
24
Virtualization Giant Reports Strong Quarter
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VMware, the Microsoft of virtualization, just reported first quarter results. As if one needed other evidence, virtualization is a very healthy industry. Revenues were $438 million, an increase of 69% compared to the same quarter last year.
If you want to know where virtualization is going — international revenues increased 74% driven by “triple-digit business growth across Australia and emerging markets including Brazil, China, India and Russia.”
And the state of the market is good - VMware expects 2008 growth of approximately 50% compared to 2007.
Apr
21
Infosecurity Europe did a “survey” where members of the public in the UK were asked to fill in a survey that included sharing their password — 45% of women gave up their password — the reward for filling out the survey was a bar of chocolate. The big store was that only 10% of men gave it up for chocolate, of course it wouldn’t be hard to imagine a reward that would make men give up a password pretty quickly.
The story seemed to have legs because it was the usual fluff that showed the silliness of women and dependence on mood altering substances like chocolate. No mention was made as to whether the passwords given were real or just a way of getting free chocolate.
CBR carried the story with a straight face
The Inquirer, at least, thought it was funny
Apr
21
AmazonMP3, launched in September, is second to Apple’s iTunes Store in selling downloaded tracks of music, but the difference between number 1 and 2 is a huge one — Apple iTunes sales were 10x that of Amazon according to market research firm NPD.
Other interesting factoids are that the iTunes store has now beat out Walmart as the top music retailer.
The NPD study shows no evidence that Apple customers are leaving iTunes for the DRM-free environment of AmazonMP3. Not surprising really — most people are going to put the music on their iPod anyway so who cares about DRM, the only real concern is how easy is it to take the song and put it somewhere I can play it. DRM or not DRM is a theoretical and boring argument for most people. When they copy music, it’s to put it on an iPod.