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Chrome shines, Gore opines, staffs decline

Google's Chrome OS captured a lot of headlines and hype this week after the company invited the media in to have a look-see, setting off a whole lot of opinions about whether it will be any good. Microsoft, predictably, doesn't think so. Otherwise, Al Gore offered his opinion on the role supercomputers can play to quell climate change, and for the first time we can recollect there were not one, but two, cat-related IT stories that caught our attention.



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Third-party screensavers return to Snow Leopard

When Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) was first released, I noted that many (maybe even all) third-party screensavers would no longer work in the new OS. This was because 10.6 required 64-bit compatible screensavers, whereas existing screensavers were 32 bit.

| Opinion | Operating systems | Software | 11/20/09 at 4:10 pm


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Welcome to the Golden Age of Vaporware

I've been in this business for 357 years, but I can't recall a time when we've had more written about products that do not actually exist. We are truly living in the golden age of vaporware.

| Opinion | Hardware | Personal tech | 11/20/09 at 3:40 pm


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Salesforce Chatter: Collaboration tool or social network?

If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and walks like a duck, it probably is a duck. That is, unless you're Salesforce.com, and you're talking about its new Chatter application. While observers have looked at features like profiles, status updates, Twitter and Facebook integration as proof that Chatter is an enterprise-grade social network, the company and its executives are taking pains to call it something else -- a "social platform," or, as carefully noted by Salesforce CEO and co-founder Marc Benioff, a collaboration tool:

| Opinion | Internet | Software | 11/20/09 at 3:40 pm


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Latest unsubstantiated Apple Tablet rumor contradicts previous unsubstantiated rumors

Fervent believers in the previous unsubstantiated rumors were thrown into a tizzy by the latest changes in this made-up vapor-tale.

| Opinion | Mobile & wireless | 11/20/09 at 2:56 pm |


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Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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