http://www.zixuan.org Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:46:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Surely more than a few people snickered when they learned earlier this month that Dell has attempted to trademark the term "cloud computing." The United States Patent and Trademark Office basically rejected the company's application this week unless Dell can come up with some evidence that it's not a generic ... http://www.zixuan.org/index.php/2010/09/04/dell-and-facebook-prepping-significant-announcem/ (Credit: Brando) Okay, I know what you're thinking: There are 80 different kinds of memory cards?! Well, if you count up all the variants of the major formats and, um, carry the one... hmm, I still don't get anywhere near 80. But better safe than sorry, right? This could be the last ... http://www.zixuan.org/index.php/2010/08/30/read-any-media-card-in-the-known-universe-for-17/ 9. Global Solar - I have been following this company for a long time. CIGS is very hard and has broken (or is currently breaking) hundreds of millions or billions of dollars worth of wannabes. This management team, led by Mike Gering, respects how hard it is. And since they ... http://www.zixuan.org/index.php/2010/08/24/power-10-ranking-of-top-cleantech-companies/ Security firm Sophos warned on Thursday that e-mails being circulated on the Web that purport to offer a free iPhone game instead are carrying a Trojan horse that can take control of infected Windows machines. The e-mails have subject lines like "Virtual iPhone games!" and "Apple: The most popular game!" The ... http://www.zixuan.org/index.php/2010/08/21/trojan-masquerades-as-iphone-game/ The Motorola i776 shows a shiny silver face. (Credit: Sprint) Last month at the fall CTIA show, Sprint assured us that it was not forgetting its Nextel fans. The carrier promised that by the end of the year it would release four iDEN-only phones for the push-to-talk-loving masses. We've already reviewed the ... http://www.zixuan.org/index.php/2010/08/21/meet-motorola-i776-nextels-newest-phone/ Say you just captured an amazing video of your cat doing something funny. It's time to upload it to YouTube right? Why stop there? HeySpread, a service from the folks at Particles was just updated Thursday morning to take the video you just captured and push it out to nearly ... http://www.zixuan.org/index.php/2010/08/21/send-your-viral-video-to-20-different-video-hosts/ Victor Rook, an indy filmmaker who was once wrongly accused by Viacom of copyright violations, is happy a judge has reminded media companies to think twice before calling someone a pirate. In February 2007, Viacom demanded that YouTube remove Rook's documentary about a professional wrestler, accusing him of using ... http://www.zixuan.org/index.php/2010/08/21/for-youtube-videos-a-fair-use-boost/ Google is working with a titan of traditional journalism to help promote citizen journalism. YouTube announced Monday that it has partnered with the Pulitzer Center to create a journalism contest designed to unearth the best news videographers. Contestants have until October 5 to submit news clips three-minutes long or less ... http://www.zixuan.org/index.php/2010/08/21/youtube-and-pulitzer-center-look-for-best-video-jo/ Elections departments around the country have spent millions on electronic voting systems that are flawed and officials aren't about to throw them out and start all over. The only solution is to conduct audits to verify the count after every election, a researcher and expert on electronic voting said at ... http://www.zixuan.org/index.php/2010/08/21/expert-says-flawed-e-voting-systems-need-constant/ Angel investor Ron Conway is warning his start-ups to start saving up cash and reducing costs quickly. He's not the only one who says the current economic crisis is similar and perhaps worse than the dot-com bust of 2000-2001. CNET's Rafe Needleman, editor of Webware, stops by to talk about ... http://www.zixuan.org/index.php/2010/08/21/cnet-news-daily-podcast-how-will-web-20-weather/