http://www.wiideos.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:43:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If that date comes to pass, Apple will have officially missed the back-to-school shopping season, which is generally one of the best-selling quarters for the Mac. Even if it launched the new notebooks tomorrow it would have missed most of the college students who were looking to upgrade before ... http://www.wiideos.com/?p=315 The PDF Generator 3D ES component is targeted at the manufacturing industry and allows companies to share two- and three-dimensional models in PDF format. The component works with more than 40 CAD applications, according to Adobe. Adobe Systems is updating and expanding its LiveCycle software for building business-oriented Web applications. LiveCycle ES ... http://www.wiideos.com/?p=313 (Credit: Apple) It's one thing to lose a gadget and know where you lost it. It's another thing to have the thing seemingly vanish. Missing: One iPod Touch, last seen somewhere around here... Newsweek's Steven Levy recently had a similar experience with a MacBook Air he had on loan from Apple. Such was the ... http://www.wiideos.com/?p=311 Before we get to the good news, let's first consider a draconian scenario for Advanced Micro Devices. As the chipmaker was announcing Monday that it would lay off 1,650 employees later this year, the stock was hovering just above $6, down from the mid-$20s a year ago and about $40 ... http://www.wiideos.com/?p=309 On the Official Google Enterprise blog, Scott McMullan, the Google Apps partner lead for Google Enterprise, said that it intends to expand the catalog. According to TechCrunch, the Marketplace replaces a simpler Enterprise Solutions Gallery. Google and Salesforce are also rumored to announce a partnership on Monday that will let Salesforce resell ... http://www.wiideos.com/?p=307 It could also mean, as Farmer pointed out, less chatter taking place in an open forum as application creators grow more concerned about the effect of competition in the packed developer space. All gold rushes must come to an end, and according to one new report, Facebook's developer platform is ... http://www.wiideos.com/?p=305 Pocket Lint is claiming that Microsoft will release Windows Mobile 6.1 next Tuesday, which happens to be the day that Microsoft's Robbie Bach, head of the Windows Mobile team, is planning to give a keynote address at the CTIA Wireless conference in Las Vegas. Purely a coincidence, I'm sure, although ... http://www.wiideos.com/?p=303 Twhirl's been kicking around since mid-November of last year, and you'll need the latest version of Adobe' AIR runtime to have it work on your system. Screenshots after the break. Twhirl lets you monitor multiple Twitter accounts and cross post your Tweets to Jaiku and Pownce too. (Credit: CNET Networks) As an ... http://www.wiideos.com/?p=301 (Credit: Sony Computer Entertainment of America) For many people, Sony's oft-maligned PlayStation 3 video game console had one no-doubt-about-it selling point: when it launched, it was by far the cheapest Blu-ray player on the market. If you're Sony, do you care? Not if you can get people to buy the machine--which, unlike ... http://www.wiideos.com/?p=299 Another problem triggered by Ajax are that JavaScript is more complex and therefore harder to test. And more sophistication brings more opportunities for problems with "input validation"--making sure that text typed into forms, for example, isn't actually naughty code that could sidestep ordinary scrutiny and run on somebody's computer. A big ... http://www.wiideos.com/?p=297