Cummins Family Website - A Right of Center Family in South Florida.Michael, Wendy and young Danny write about their various interests and the world around them; certain to include events in South Florida, Technology, Genealogy, Whippets, Food, Wine and other Bloggy Goodness.Microsoft to add a 'super standards' mode to IE 8- January 22, 2008 From ZDNet: Microsoft is planning to add a new, opt-in "super standards" mode to Internet Explorer (IE) 8 - a move of which some developers are critical. IE Platform Architect Chris Wilson shared the details of how Microsoft plans to...http://www.i-magery.com/archives/2008/01/microsoft_to_ad.html Macromedia Flash Meet Microsoft Silverlight.- January 21, 2008 OK. I can see the writing on the wall. Can you From ZDNET Reminder: Microsoft to push Silverlight to business users this week "...but this week - specifically on January 22 - Microsoft will make its Adobe-Flash-alternative Silverlight available via...http://www.i-magery.com/archives/2008/01/macromedia_flas.html The White Space Coalition- January 21, 2008 The "White Space" between your digital TV Channels seems to be Prime Real Estate for the uber-tech-companies. This exploration of the white spaces is part of the general-spectrum "land rush" that is taking place as American TV evolves. As TV...http://www.i-magery.com/archives/2008/01/the_white_space.html Study Shows RedHat, Firefox - Buggier than Windows, Internet Explorer- January 21, 2008 I didn't expect to read this today: Secunia has found that the number of security bugs in the open source Red Hat Linux operating system and Firefox browsers far outstripped comparable products from Microsoft last year....http://www.i-magery.com/archives/2008/01/study_shows_red.html IE7 will be Forced Upgrade on Feb 12- January 19, 2008 From VNUNET: Microsoft is reminding IT managers that the scheduled 12 February rollout of Windows Server Update Service will include an automatic upgrade to Internet Explorer 7. Companies wishing to remain with IE6 have been offered guidelines explaining how to...http://www.i-magery.com/archives/2008/01/ie7_will_be_for.html Robots Evolve, Learn to Lie and become Heroes- January 19, 2008 This is just plain eerie. (from Discover Magazine, via Gizmodo) "We set up a situation common in nature - foraging with uncertainty," Floreano says. "You have to find food, but you don't know what food is; if you eat poison,...http://www.i-magery.com/archives/2008/01/robots_evolve_l.html Windows 7- January 18, 2008 From the Tech Blog over at the Houston Chronicle: Remember how fast ME was swept under the rug Think it might happen again with Vista Microsoft's executives insist the company listens to its customers. Many of those customers have indicated...http://www.i-magery.com/archives/2008/01/windows_7.html The End of an Era- January 18, 2008 Via Wizbang REYKJAVIK, Iceland - Bobby Fischer, the reclusive chess genius who became a Cold War icon by dethroning the Soviet world champion in 1972 and later renounced his American citizenship, has died. He was 64. Fisher died in a...http://www.i-magery.com/archives/2008/01/the_end_of_an_e.html Silicon Nanowires to Boost Lithium Batteries Tenfold- January 18, 2008 From NEWSFACTOR.COM, by way of the InstaPundit Publishing in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, the Stanford researchers have shown that by using silicon nanowires as the battery anode instead of today's graphite, the amount of lithium the anode can hold is...http://www.i-magery.com/archives/2008/01/silicon_nanowir.html |