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    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Scoble pointed to this story about the possibility of a Pocket PC pricewar just in time for Christmas. Given all the discussion we’ve had around here concerning PocketPC and Palm, it’s probably worth noting to someone planning to buy me a Christmas gift. 🙂 By the way, I think the deciding factor between PocketPc and…

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    Linked – 7 Reasons Not to Use Outlook to Forensically Preserve Emails

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    With the grain of salt that this is written by a company that makes a forensic email collection tool, I think reasons 2-6 in the linked list are very real issues for any eDiscovery collection, and why I would not rush into collecting any web-based email account. “On the surface, this looks reasonable—Outlook connects to…

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    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Way back when, Linspire offered their OS for free for a limited time. I signed up for that, mostly in order to satisfy my curiousity. Eventually I got the ISO downloaded and tried to use it to build a virtual machine using VMWare Workstation. Unfortunately the install crashed. Since the install was kind of a…

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    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

    Blogger Stats has been unleashed on the world. Currently only available for BlogSpot Plus users, but they hope to have it available to others soon. I’d be interested to see how it works out for anyone using it! Sun announced this week that they are going to roll out a Linux desktop system. It seems…

  • Why I’m a skeptic

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Here’s a good reason why I have a hard time believing most of what I hear from news organizations. It’s all about making the story more interesting than it really is and inducing panic so that people stay tuned, isn’t it? So, we’ve got newspeople spouting basically whatever comes into their heads as truth, and…

  • WiFi illegal?

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Some interesting points raised by this article about the legalities of wireless access. I think the ending is probably right on: But ultimately if we want to move to ubiquitous wireless computing, where you can use the WiFi protocols for cheap, mobile VOIP communications, or have near universal wireless Internet access, we are going to…

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