jbrodkin
No user record in our sample, but jbrodkin has activity below (stories or comments). Likely we have partial data — the full bulk-load will fill profiles in.
- Windows 8 Mail leaves users pining for the desktop—or even their phones (arstechnica.com)
The e-mail client in Windows 8 is the shell of a potentially good application—but Microsoft hasn't given it the proper care it deserves. With less than a month before Windows 8 hits RTM, Mail is a mess that doesn't…
- Best Buy's surprisingly insecure approach to new PC setup (arstechnica.com)
Best Buy's surprisingly insecure setup process for new PC buyers involves customers writing down their desired login passwords, and handing them to a Best Buy employee.
- Facebook asserts trademark on word "book" in new user agreement (arstechnica.com)
Facebook is trying to expand its trademark rights over the word "book" by adding the claim to a newly revised version of its "Statement of Rights and Responsibilities," the agreement all users implicitly consent to by…
- Microsoft's five biggest weaknesses (networkworld.com)
Microsoft is still a giant no matter how you measure it, but its position as the world's dominant provider of software to consumers is at risk. The primary factors (cough, Apple and Google, cough) can be debated, but…
- Adobe software breaks down on Mac OS X Lion (networkworld.com)
More than a dozen Adobe products are not working properly on Mac OS X Lion, Apple's new desktop operating system, continuing Adobe's struggles to make its software compatible with Apple products. Adobe initially claimed…
- OS X Lion: Easiest OS upgrade ever? (networkworld.com)
Assuming you don't use applications that require PowerPC, upgrading from Mac's Snow Leopard to Lion could very well be the easiest OS upgrade you've ever met. Here are the results of my own upgrade, with screenshots…
- Microsoft struggles to get Hyper-V drivers in Linux kernel (networkworld.com)
It was recently reported that Microsoft is now one of the top corporate contributors to the Linux kernel. But the reason for Redmond's recent flurry of contributions lies in the fact that its two-year-old project to get…
- Microsoft's desperate claim: A tablet is just a PC (networkworld.com)
Microsoft's mobile chief Andy Lees turned a few heads this week by declaring that a tablet is just another PC, and that Windows 8 tablets will do everything Windows 8 desktops can do. Given that this strategy has been a…
- The Microsoft/Android war: Which patents are at stake? (networkworld.com)
You may already know Microsoft has forced five Android vendors to pay royalties each time they ship a device, and is suing Motorola and Barnes & Noble in cases that claim Android steals Microsoft intellectual…
- Microsoft's Hottest New Profit Center: Android (networkworld.com)
One of Microsoft's hottest new profit centers is a smartphone platform you've definitely heard of: Android. Google's Linux-based mobile operating system is a favorite target for Microsoft's patent attorneys, who are…
- Chrome nearly replaced Firefox in Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth says (networkworld.com)
Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth is a big fan of Google Chrome, and says the browser could replace the standard Firefox in future versions of Ubuntu Linux. "We looked at it closely in the last cycle and the decision…
- Windows 1.0: Still playing Reversi after all these years (networkworld.com)
25 years after it came out, it's still possible to run Windows 1.0 in a virtual machine. While you can't connect to the Internet, you can play Reversi and see the first version of Notepad - which is pretty similar to…
- Missed email reminders have plagued Google Calendar for years (networkworld.com)
Google's calendar service for home users and businesses has been plagued with missed email reminders for years, and Google is still struggling the fix the problem, according to support forums. One support forum on…
- Red Hat CEO on patent trolls: Just pay them off (networkworld.com)
With Red Hat on the verge of becoming the first billion-dollar company focused exclusively on open source software, it has attracted quite a bit of attention — from lawyers waving patents. And although Red Hat fights…
- Former MySQL boss: Code 'in better shape than ever' under Oracle (networkworld.com)
Despite concerns that Oracle would be unfriendly to open source projects acquired through the merger with Sun, former MySQL CEO Marten Mickos says the MySQL code base is in fantastic condition. Version 5.5 of the MySQL…
- Microsoft less profitable than Apple (networkworld.com)
Microsoft raked in $16 billion in revenue and more than $5 billion in profit - but it wasn't enough to top Apple which is more profitable than Microsoft for the first time in a long time.
- Linux patent protection network gets boost from Facebook, HP (networkworld.com)
Facebook and HP have joined IBM and Red Hat in a Linux patent protection network that is acquiring rights to patents to prevent Linux-using members from being sued. The group is also giving a leadership role to Google,…
- Amazon built Top 500 supercomputer in its own EC2 cloud service (networkworld.com)
Without much fanfare, Amazon officials last year built a supercomputer on the EC2 cloud service that placed 231st on the most recent Top 500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers. The 7,000-core cluster,…
- 10,000-core Linux supercomputer built in Amazon cloud (networkworld.com)
HPC vendor Cycle Computing recently built a 10,000-core Linux cluster on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, in what might have been the largest HPC deployment to date on the Amazon service.
- Bashing Microsoft 'like kicking a puppy,' says Linux Foundation chief (networkworld.com)
Two decades after Linus Torvalds developed his famous operating system kernel, the battle between Linux and Microsoft is over and Linux has won, says Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin. With the one glaring…
- Google's autocomplete ditches algorithms for humans who read your searches (networkworld.com)
This Google April Fools Day prank sounds creepily similar to what most of us just assume Google already does
- Linus Torvalds: Android copyright violation claim is "bogus" (networkworld.com)
Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds has scoffed at a new claim that Android violates the Linux license. Google's use of the Bionic Library does not result in a deriviative work that has to be licensed under GPL, as some…
- First look at Google Chrome 10 (networkworld.com)
Boosted JavaScript performance, Adobe Flash sandboxing, password encryption and an overhauled settings interface are among the new features in Google Chrome 10. JavaScript pages should now load 12% faster than in…