Microsoft is going to spend $80 million on an advertising campaign to support its new search effort, rumored to be called Bing, as the company once again takes on deeply entrenched rivals Google and Yahoo. AdAge magazine reports that the campaign could eventually hit… Read More »
Archive for May 2009
Last week, Netvibes, a Paris-based web startup that allows people to assemble their personalized start pages, debuted new features such as adding multiple pages. The company, after a controversial early life, has been keeping a low profile. The new developments provided a good… Read More »
Recently, I attended a Barcamp for web workers, where I popped in and out of two groups discussing Getting Things Done (GTD). There was a beginners’ group, and one they called “Kung Fu GTD,” for the hardcore efficiency crowd. Despite not being a GTD… Read More »
I was bouncing around the web this fine holiday and came across this photo of something that is reminiscent of the kinds of things we show all the time here on jkOnTheRun: Pretty cool, no? The photo is by Qole Tech. One thing of note —… Read More »
Almost every few hours for a week I’ve been getting messages from my Facebook acquaintances with links to some phishing sites. These are not even very sophisticated messages — instead, they’re random links to utterly evil sites such as atreps.at, greenbuddy.be and nudz.ru. There have… Read More »
According to a report in Friday’s Charlotte Observer, North Carolina lawmakers are falling over themselves to entice Apple to build a state-of-the-art server farm in their backyard — specifically, Catawba or Cleveland county. The carrot they’re dangling? In this case, nothing short of a multimillion-dollar… Read More »
The folks at Lenovo have kicked off the Memorial Day holiday with the release of some new notebooks and a new netbook. We had the opportunity to talk with them about these products, and they will certainly round out Lenovo’s consumer offerings. The new netbook pushes… Read More »
The high-profile success of services such as Salesforce.com and Amazon Web Services has led many businesses to undertake cloud computing initiatives. Moving to “the cloud,” however, entails a variety of security, management and compliance risks that corporate executives may be unwilling to assume… Read More »
Here’s an interesting tidbit I didn’t know about Palm’s Pre: The device can sync with multiple Microsoft Exchange accounts using ActiveSync. I haven’t used a Windows Mobile device in nearly two years, but unless I’m mistaken, not even those devices support multiple Exchange accounts.… Read More »
Today it’s the foundation for all modern pre-installed Windows systems. It replaced the aging FAT (File Allocation Table) file system with a leaner, meaner standard. It’s more secure, more flexible, and has more built-in gadgets than a Swiss Army Knife. It’s NTFS, of course — the… Read More »
After reading Aliza’s post about how she organizes her email, my biggest piece of advice in using Gmail is to embrace the organizational chaos. I’ve been using Gmail for over three years, and I use it as my primary email. I have a dozen or… Read More »
Initial public offerings as of late have been about as common as celebratory banquets for Wall Street bankers. Last week, however, after some nine months of an IPO drought, two venture-backed startups, software maker SolarWinds and online restaurant reservation system OpenTable, broke the mold… Read More »
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