Tuesday, June 24, 2008

A Little Bit: Tokbox‘s premise is a Web-based free video calling service. It was highlighted earlier today on CNBC, and it is being funded by one of the YouTube founders. In addition to providing a consumer-facing interface (so you can vidcall your buddies, and even me, if you’re so inclined), the Tokbox site also provides [...]

The FDA is continuing its investigation on the tomato-associated Salmonellosis, and several FDA updates have occurred over the past weekend. Unfortunately, the M&M numbers continue to increase. In addition to the FDA, the CDC and the Indian Health Service are also participating in the investigation. Impacted Raw Tomato Types The types of raw tomatoes affected [...]

“What?!? My WordPress got hacked?!?” Surprising as it sounds, there are still a lot of WordPress blogs that have not been updated to version 2.5.1, purported to be the current stable version. Often, it is due to technical reasons (e.g., plugins or themes that do not work with the newer versions) or “I don’t have [...]

The ages-old video card/chip wars had supposedly wrapped up more than a decade ago, leaving only two combatants: ATI [AMD] and Nvidia [NVDA]. These two kept slugging it out, year after year, with newer, improved chips and card implementations. When AMD bought ATI, it seemed that Nvidia would be down-and-out, but instead, the company bounced [...]