August 2009

For those of you who are old enough to remember the monumental three-way product/platform wars between a variety of different players, as well as the various face-offs between heated contenders, you can often slot the threesters into that ol’ Good-Bad-Ugly trifecta. Perhaps not this time, however. Apple’s [AAPL] Snow Leopard OS release on August 28, [...]

Remember when I just had to get an Xbox 360 Elite Edition to replace my first Xbox 360 that unfortunately suffered a RROD event? Well, Microsoft [MSFT] has definitely come a long way since then, offering to correct their RROD warranty policies to reflect the wider impact of various hardware failure conditions. Now, to really [...]

Could there possibly be any company willing to step up on August 28, 2009, the official release date for Apple‘s [AAPL] new version of their popular operating system, OS X. This new version, codenamed Snow Leopard, is 10.6, but it seems to provide quite a few new features and revisions for existing capabilities. What is [...]

Larry posted the news earlier today about how the Halo 3: ODST “Transport” vehicle will be making the rounds at several Gamestop outlets, starting today. This gives some lucky folks the opportunity to try out some of the game, and possibly even win some prizes, while getting the word out about the new upcoming game [...]

This is one of those animal-interest stories that just tickle your fancy as one of those feel-good do-good things that humans have been alleged to do, despite what animal bullies would have you believe. This was reported in the Daily Intel section of NYMag.com (New York Magazine) earlier today about how a man saved a [...]

… And here ’tis, the seventeenth announced update to Javamancy the Weblog, Javamancy mini, and all of the other Web applications running at javamancy.com (that most of you don’t have to interact with, or even worry about!). The majority of the update is, of course, the WordPress 2.8.4 release, which finally cleared our QA testing and [...]

Microsoft [MSFT] and Nokia are finalizing an agreement to augment Nokia (particularly Symbian/S60-based) phones and smart devices into becoming viable business-grade devices, or even components in functional corporate meshes.

Less than two weeks ago, WordPress 2.8.3 was released in order to address a security vulnerability; before that, less than a month ago, WordPress 2.8.2 was released to address some other security issues… Now we have WordPress 2.8.4, which according to Matt is a security release intended primarily to address a password reset vulnerability that [...]

“Say it isn’t so!” Well, for those of you who have been following this event intently– and who isn’t, if you’re an avid Twitterer, right?– Twitter appears to be the victim of a DoS attack that started around 9:00 AM ET today. In a cruel twist of fate, in which other companies use Twitter to [...]

Javamancy Updated XVI

August 4, 2009 at 2:00 PM

in Operations,Services

… And now we have it, the sixteenth announced update to Javamancy the Weblog, Javamancy mini, and all of the other Web applications running at javamancy.com (that most of you don’t have to interact with, or even worry about!). From a technical standpoint, this realigns Javamancy with the WordPress 2.8.3 codeline, which does not adversely [...]