Chrome OS? O oh, early success of Bing has Google running scared!!!

Being me is not easy!

In my blog post here, Bing: Be Afraid Google. Be very Afraid, I went against the grain and declared that the nonsensical and trite platitudes being mouthed by the Googlians was nothing more than fear.

In it, I posted one cool nugget: Google until now, has been able to distract Microsoft from coming after their cash cow, web search.

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*Battlefield Earth: you know the saying: It only took a billion monkeys thumping away at a billion typewriters a billion years to come up with that drivel. Which describes Microsoft’s web search strategy before Bing™.

AbsoluteWindows is giving away an HP dx9000 TouchSmart PC

In conjunction with two other sites, AbsoluteWindows will be giving away a brand new HP dx9000, the TouchSmart of business PCs.

What do you have to do to get this baby?…(read more)

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Ivy Worldwide wins the HP Circle Award!

Right off the bat, Ivy Worldwide is already garnering kudos!

The HP Circle award is an award created by HP to celebrate marketing and design excellence at the company.

Guess who won in 2009?

Ivy Worldwide, formerly known as BuzzCorps. (read more)

Et tu, Mark Sanford?

Now, we find out that where Mark ‘the righteous’ Sanford was: committing adultery!

Wow!

St. Mark violated one of the Top 10? (read more)

OpenSauce World walks the talk

Gotta give these yobs props for this.

In one of the online fishwraps, I just read the OpenSauce World (yeah, intentional misspelling; then again that’s what I think of them,), the event formerly known as LinuxWorld, is going, well, the open source way, by giving away entry to the event for free to ‘qualified’ professionals…(read on)

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The SmallBizWindows HP ScanJet 7000 Review

Prior to the start of MedikLabs, my only interaction with scanners were of the personal desktop kind, since I left all the heavy lifting to the pros at FedEx Kinko’s or their peers.

However, the healthcare industry, as constituted in these United States in the year of our Lord 2009, has NEVER heard of conservation. Resultantly, that entire industry generates a ton of paper. Worst of all, the crazy amount of paper create d is only reduced by a smidgen if an electronic medical records software suite, or EMR, is used!

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Tech Data will NOT carry Linux netbooks

Sanity reigns supreme in technology distribution!

This Computerworld article will have those freaks all a twitter…(read on)

Ivy Worldwide’s $2500 Logo Design Contest ends Friday

We are down to the final days of the Ivy Worldwide Logo Design Contest.

The prize?

$2500 USD.

Details at www.ivyworldwide.com

It’s a Windows netbook world after all!

“You will not be able to download any distro, freetard.
You will not be able to use plug-n-play, just turn on the system, and get it to work.
You will not be able to lose yourself in movies streamed from Netflix, and skip,
Skip out for Jolt, or any other energy drink during downloading from torrents.
Because the Linux revolution will not be televised”

With the greatest respect to Gil Scott-Heron*.

Sometimes, it is hard to be humble!

In the nascent days of this market, spurred on by the research and development by Nicky and his crew at the OLPC, this subcategory of the laptop space in PCs was seen by the savior by the freetards. (read more)

Send less spam or unsubscribe me?

A certain store chain* specializing in boudoir outfits hit is on the nail with their customer-forward thinking when you hit the unsubscribe key: ask if you want to unsubscribe completely, or reduce their spam to one spam piece per week.

While not optimal...(read more)

Android harlots: Android to surpass iPhone

Will this nonsense ever stop?

Now you have some dimwits proclaiming the ascent of Android….over the iPhone!

Wha???

For goodness sakes, it would NEVER happen!

Even if you look past the desirability of the iPhone*, how do you get past the Linux underpinnings...(read more)

Ivy Worldwide

BuzzCorps is changing to Ivy Worldwide, reflecting an expanded mission, and new capabilities to be added to their offerings.

However, to start, Ivy Worldwide needs a new logo.

To get your creative juices flowing, the pot is primed with $2500 for the winner...(read more)

Bing!

Today, Microsoft unveiled Bing, it’s new search service.

I am looking forward to testing the service against Google and other search engines for relevance....(read more)

Microsoft limits netbook sizes: no story here!

Sometimes, you gotta wonder!

Over this past weekend, the blogosphere has been all a-twitter, pun intended, about a leaked* Microsoft document limiting the sizes of systems shipping with Windows 7. (read more)

Excellent choice: General Charles F Bolden, Jr, USMC, (Rtd)

In what is IMHO, the best pick yet by this administration, President Obama picked retired US Marine Corps General and 4-mission Shuttle astronaut, Charles F. Bolden, Jr. to lead NASA. (read on)

Linux lovers only deploy 20%

Even I cannot make this stuff up!

For all the braying of the Linuxhead sheep about the advent of Linux, (read on)

The Intel Antitrust Saga Part II: The EU Cash & IP Grab

One of the unheralded fallout from the IMO illegal EU hobbling of Microsoft, is the requirement that Microsoft publicly release, for IMO, a mere pittance, communications and other protocols to, ostensibly the world, but to EU companies in particular. (Read on)

SCO Trustee wants Chapter 7 for it

I just knew this was going to end badly! (read on)

The Intel Antitrust Saga Part1: Intel is a monopoly?

Who knew?

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Windows 7 Little Things: ‘Aero Glass’

One of the little tricks I used in the Windows Vista Era, was manually activating ‘Aero Glass’ on lowly systems, due to the heavy GPU power requirements of that OS. (Read on)

Upcoming Reviews at AbsoluteWindows

We have the following products up for review at SmallBizWindows & AbsoluteWindows:

• Epson WorkForce 310
• Epson Artisan 800
• HP Color LaserJet CP6015xh
• HP ScanJet 7000
• HP Z400 Personal Workstation
• Nvidia vReveal
• NTI Media Maker 8
• NTI Shadow 4

Quite a full plate, eh?

Windows Vista SP2

We have given ourselves a 60-day deadline to migrate all managed systems to Windows Vista SP2 from SP1. (Read On)

AT&T Pantech Matrix Pro Giveaway by AbsoluteWindows

Well, it’s your turn to win a brand, spanking new AT&T Pantech Matrix Pro coupled with a $100 AT&T Gift Card.

What do you have to do to win this?

Just send me an email at matrixpro@absolutevista.com....(read more)

The SmallBizWindows HP Compaq dc7900 Review

I have been using the HP Compaq dc7900 Ultra-Slim Desktop PC for the past three months as part of a long-term review.

This is one nice PC.

Unboxing
The dc7900 came in a fairly largish box, which was surprising until I opened it, and remembered that it...(read more)

2 Weeks with Windows 7 Release Candidate

I have been using Windows 7 Release Candidate, or RC, for the past two weeks, both in x86 (32-bit) and x64 (64-bit) versions.

This release is an upgrade for me, since I have been using Windows 7 as my primary operating system since PDC2008, last October...(read more)

In Jim Goldman’s Bizzaro World, a PC costs $1500!

“I pity the fool”, used to be a phrase spat out in derision by the fictional character Sergeant Bosco Albert ‘B.A.’ Baracus on the 1980’s TV show, The A-Team.

In these current days, the fools in question are those who take the opinions of ignorant and...(read more)

O Oh, here comes the Javinal, again!

First it was Sun.

Then Sun and IBM.

Now, it is ORCL and Sun!

Larry Ellison, my favorite Hedonist, is out there waxing prophetic about the prospects for Solaris
and Java.

Then it hit me: Larry Ellison. Network Computer. Java.

The horror!

The Java Terminal...(read more)

0% Financing for SMBs? Dial me in!

Zero Percent!

Just got a memo that HP is offering 0% financing to small and medium businesses for, get this: Workstations, notebooks, desktops, servers, storage, printers, monitors, etc. the entire shebang!

Talk about standing out in these troubled times...(read more)

Los Angeles Lakers 2009 Round 1 Schedule

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AT&T Pantech Matrix Pro Giveaway

26 sites around the world will be giving away the Pantech Matrix Pro, a Windows Mobile v6.1 smartphone.

Furthermore, you get $100, in the form of an AT&T gift card, to get your Matrix Pro experience going.

Tools for Thought kicked off the contest...(read more)

Google Health, anyone? FAIL!

Imagine this scenario: You faithfully have your personal medical data entered into, or imported into Google Health.

Something (medical) happens, and you depend on that data to see you through to good health.

Meanwhile, due to some automagic translation...(read more)

HP Tech Day 2009: CradlePoint PHS300 saves the day!

Recently, I was in Houston, Texas, for the 2009 HP Tech Day for the HP ProLiant G6 Servers.

Most of the event took place in a super-secure conference room on the HP facility, and guess what?

The wired network was for HP employees only!

I know, I know...(read more)

The SmallBizWindows Pantech Matrix Pro Review

The Pantech Matrix Pro is a dual-keyboard, dual-slider smartphone running Microsoft Windows Mobile v6.1 Standard.

This is truly a world phone, with quad-band GSM, and tri-band UMTS radios.

I have been using the phone as my primary phone for the past six...(read more)

GM & Segway

Sometimes, the truth is waaaay stranger than fiction.

Really stranger than fiction!

Case in point is the news about GM and Segway coming together to create a new vehicle, currently nicknamed P.U.M.A., picture below.

I will wait while guffaws subside....(read more)

HP ProLiant G6 Servers Unleashed

Last week, HP released eleven, yes, eleven new ProLiant servers, targeting all sizes of businesses from the small business to the enterprise.

This range of servers are comprised of tower, rackmount, and blade servers. I had the good fortune to be part...(read more)

HP ProLiant G6 Servers

Just got back from Houston (Texas), where I was part of HP’s ProLiant G6 Servers Tech Day events, and participated in the HP Web Jam for the ProLiant G6 earlier today .

My head is chuck full of information that I will start to divulge here, and in The...(read more)

SGI sold for $25 million USD?

That is it?

Silicon Graphics Inc?

Read On

HP ProLiant Web Jam: The new G6

I will be at this virtual event along with a global selection of bloggers giving you a deep dive on the latest HP ProLiant Servers, the G6 servers.

Read On

Up for Review: Epson Artisan 800

This SMB multifunction/all-in-one (AIO) device is now at the Orbiting O’Odua and ensconced safely in my home office there.

Read on

Special Preview: Monsters vs. Aliens

For the past few days I have been in my old stomping grounds of Los Angeles – to be correct, in Beverly Hills.

One of the experiences I enjoyed was a visit to the DreamWorks Animation Studios facility in Glendale, California, where the visit culminated in a special sneak preview of the new DreamWorks Animation 3D film release, Monsters vs. Aliens at the double-private Directors’ Screening Room there....(read more)

HP ProLiant ML110 Gen 5

HP Small Business Servers Review Series, Review #1…(read on)

Up for review: HP dc7900 Business Desktop & L1945w Display

The HP Compaq dc7900 Business Desktop is a small form factor desktop that I have been told is the best desktop out there for a home office, among its other uses.

….read on

The SmallBizWindows CradlePoint Routers Reviews

In my preview here, I announced the CradlePoint MBR1000 WWAN router.

Well, the MBR1000 was joined by the CTR500 and PHS300 mobile routers.

These three devices have performed beyond admirably….(read on)