'TechRepublic' Tag

• Apples next big innovation: The iMac Touch?

  August 24, 2010

  [Story ID: 3476] The popularity of Apple iOS on the iPad and smaller devices and the stalwart OS X on iMacs and MacBooks might lead to a combination of the two. New patents provide some intriguing clues as to what might be Apple’s next big idea. by Selena Frye

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• Oracle vs. Google over Java: Android lawsuits may begin to pile up

  August 13, 2010

  [Story ID: 3410] just proves to methat the use of proprietary technology like Java is a stupid decision.I will never use an android phone because it is java.bloated garbage is all you get from java.And it proves to meonce again, that software patents are BS. Freakin’ patent trolls. Just to give Oracle a…

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• Poll: Should Microsoft fire Steve Ballmer?

  August 6, 2010

  [Story ID: 3381] Change leadership?Is it time for Microsoft to change its leadership and re-establish its corporate strategy? Is it too late? Should Microsoft be looking to spend its large cash position on an acquisition that will jump start the company’s technological prowess? How much longer can Microsoft survive on the twin cash…

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• TechRepublic bloggers weigh in on offshoring

  August 2, 2010

  [Story ID: 3368] Re: The Joys & Perils of OffshoringThat was a great explanation about problems with Off Shoring.I work in a company that is primarily programmers. The owner has said on multiple occasions that he could fire everyone and hire 3 times as many programmers for 1/3 of the price he…

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• Microsoft once patented a reading stand and book holder

  July 22, 2010

  [Story ID: 3198] Why is this part of IT dojo?Why is this article part of IT Dojo? Unless this demonstrates the innovation capabilities of Microsoft? Why waste the bandwidth?The fact that Bill Detwiler Head Technology Editor of TechRepublic is writing this is makes this even more troubling.This had ZERO learning value and…

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• Aspator 1.0252 (Windows)

  July 22, 2010

  [Story ID: 3207] Aspator read searched patent abstracts, claims, drawings and, bibliographies on one single page, direct access to esp@cenet and Google Patent Search, download PDF of a patent through pat2pdf.org, download multiple patents in one single PDF file or in separate PDF files, and save searched patent results for later study.

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• Bizarre Microsoft patent: Clear box thats a reading stand and book holder

  July 21, 2010

  [Story ID: 3107] One of Microsoft’s early US patents had nothing to do with computers. Drawings show a reading stand and book holder that Microsoft patented in 1986. by Bill Detwiler

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• MakeMKV 1.5.8 (Mac)

  July 21, 2010

  [Story ID: 3182] MakeMKV is your one-click solution to convert video that you own into free and patents-unencumbered format that can be played everywhere. MakeMKV is a format converter, otherwise called “transcoder”. It converts the video clips from proprietary and usually encrypted disc into a set of MKV files, preserving most information but…

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• Recording Computing-Machine – Full (Wild computing devices from the late 1800s and early 1900s)

  July 13, 2010

  [Story ID: 2917] Antikythera and other Ancient Computing devicesSome of these devices are amazing and are real major breakthroughs. Not the next (easy-ish) logical step. Lots of respect to those brilliant minds of the past. Are there any living now? I wonder how the world would look like if the Antikythera ever made…

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• Aspator 1.025 (Windows)

  July 12, 2010

  [Story ID: 2918] Aspator read searched patent abstracts, claims, drawings and, bibliographies on one single page, direct access to esp@cenet and Google Patent Search, download PDF of a patent through pat2pdf.org, download multiple patents in one single PDF file or in separate PDF files, and save searched patent results for later study.

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