Archive for May, 2007

Judge Blocks Gift Ban Provision of Amendment 41

A Denver District Judge has banned the gift-ban provision of Amendment 41. This was a constitution vote by voters last fall that banned gifts over $50 and banned all gifts by lobbyists.
Gifts are now allowed to be given to elected officials and their families until there is a trial and verdict.
This had drawn some [...]

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Steve Jobs discusses the future of Apple

Steve Jobs discussed the future of Apple last night at the D: All Things Digital Conference sponsored by the Wall Street Journal.
It is an interesting discussion on where they are going. Things discussed include the Mac, iPhone, iTunes, and many other things.

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Steve Jobs and Bill Gates: historic discussion live from D 2007 – Engadget

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates: historic discussion live from D 2007 – Engadget
Everyone made fun of the fact that they would be on stage and it would be awkward for them and their hosts. But that is not the case. You have two really professional and smart people who both started their own [...]

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Launch: Access your Google Reader feeds offline with Google Gears – Lifehacker

Launch: Access your Google Reader feeds offline with Google Gears – Lifehacker
This is an interesting application from Google. This will help with all those Web 2.0 applications that require you to be online and allow you to step out of the connected to read or conduct work without being connected to the Internet.
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Be Careful of Firefox Extensions

Be careful of Firefox extensions. There has been a vulnerability identified in some of the Firefox extensions, particularly the Google Toolbar.
You can read the story by Washington Post Columnist Brian Krebs, “A New Vector For Hackers — Firefox Add-Ons”
Google has since announced a fix for the security flaw that was identified by Chris Soghoian, [...]

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Apple TV Getting an Upgrade

Apple TV is getting an upgrade.
Coming soon is the ability to download and watch the more popular YouTube videos. YouTube will be encoding them in H.264 codec.
The YouTube videos will be the most popular to begin with, but YouTube will begin to convert all the videos to h.264 codec later this year.
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Marriott Updating TVs and Computer Options

Well Marriott announced it a while ago and now they are beginning to role out the new TVs and ways to connect to them.
They are putting in a 32″ LCD TV from LG that has a connection box attached to it so you can play your audio and video files. You can also even [...]

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