http://www.beforetheend.org Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:22:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en During the full year, Sun's revenue increased to $13.88 billion, up a slight 0.1 percent, while its net income after charges improved to $1.1 billion from approximately $1 billion in the prior year. During the quarter that ended June 30, Sun generated revenue of $3.78 billion, down 1.4 percent from a ... http://www.beforetheend.org/index.php/2010/09/04/sun-shares-fall-sharply-on-quarterly-results/ Plaintiffs in the shareholders lawsuit are asking the judge to set a trial date to invalidate the severance plans, prior to Yahoo's annual shareholders meeting on August 1. The letter points to Yahoo's proxy materials filed Tuesday, as well as a posting in Silicon Alley Insider. In a move to add more ... http://www.beforetheend.org/index.php/2010/08/29/yahoo-shareholders-push-judge-for-speedier-trial-d/ Shares of technology companies took a beating on Monday as the House of Representatives failed to pass a bailout plan for the financial sector. In a televised statement, President George W. Bush said that he was "very disappointed" in the failure of Congress to pass a bill. "We'll be working to ... http://www.beforetheend.org/index.php/2010/08/24/tech-stocks-hammered-as-bailout-fails-in-house/ (Credit: Wolfram Research) The O'Reilly School of Technology announced Wednesday a licensing deal with Wolfram that will let it create an online version of Mathematica called Hilbert that "will emulate the desktop version of the software with remarkable fidelity." The software will be available to students in the second half of the ... http://www.beforetheend.org/index.php/2010/08/24/oreilly-taking-mathematica-online/ AT&T said that it is already working to fight online child pornography. "AT&T has long-standing and established procedures for the removal of illegal child pornography from our servers, including servers that host newsgroups," said Marty Richter, a representative for AT&T. "Consistent with these procedures and federal and state statutes, when ... http://www.beforetheend.org/index.php/2010/08/24/california-pols-ask-isps-to-block-child-porn/ Sun says that the JDK and JRE 6 Update 4 for multiple platforms is available for download. Secunia says, "The security issue is caused due to the JRE processing external XML entity references even though the 'external general entities' property is set to FALSE. This can be exploited to e.g. ... http://www.beforetheend.org/index.php/2010/08/24/why-you-should-patch-your-java-runtime-environment/ Twhirl, a desktop client for Twitter and Friendfeed that I dearly love, updates only one site at a time, so I can use it to send Twitter posts to either my main Twitter account or other specialized accounts I occasionally write to. Friendfeed reads in only what I write in ... http://www.beforetheend.org/index.php/2010/08/24/the-looming-crisis-personal-syndication-overload/ But squeezing so many channels through a limited bandwidth pipe, the sound suffers. Maybe, just maybe if the XM/Sirius merger goes through the combined bandwidth will give us better sound. I've got my fingers crossed. Don't get me wrong, I love Sirius' programming, but I hate the sound. It's grungy, harsh, ... http://www.beforetheend.org/index.php/2010/08/24/sirius-satellite-radio-still-sounds-awful-after-a/ So, how will Intel improve Nehalem integrated graphics? Not surprisingly, more transistors and more bandwidth, according to Gelsinger. "Largely, integrated graphics is as much die area as you can throw at it and as much memory bandwidth as you can give it," Gelsinger said. "So, could we equal discrete graphics ... http://www.beforetheend.org/index.php/2010/08/24/intel-future-graphics-target-ati-nvidia/ Find more deals, coupon codes, and bargains on CNET's Shopper.com. Alas, I'm among those with teary beer: I bought a shuffle for Mrs. Cheapskate just a few months ago. But she absolutely loves it, so I will bottle up my overpay rage and pretend I'm not $30 poorer. (Credit: Apple) One additional note: ... http://www.beforetheend.org/index.php/2010/08/24/apple-drops-ipod-shuffle-price-to-49-adds-2gb-mo/