http://www.dynamic-map.net Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:53:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Thank goodness, therefore, for JBoss. It's doing good things for Red Hat, as well as sprouting new good things outside of Red Hat. We need both. A new startup is set to spin from the ranks of JBoss. I'd give you the URL but then you could track down the host ... http://www.dynamic-map.net/index.php/2010/09/04/a-new-startup-to-rise-from-the-jboss-ranks/ Once you're lucky, twice you're good? So went the title of a recent book about Web 2.0 entrepreneurs. Pretty soon, we may have an idea whether it applies to Caterina Fake. Will it fly? Who knows, but in the midst of this miserable economic depression, there probably are lots of ... http://www.dynamic-map.net/index.php/2010/08/29/flickr-co-founder-presses-beta-button/ (Credit: CNET Networks, Inc.) Currently, the Inspiron 530 desktop and Inspiron 1420 laptop are the only two Dell computers to come preloaded with Ubuntu 7.10. While those looking to put Linux on a higher-end XPS model can always go the self-install route, purchasing a preloaded Ubuntu config saves you the cost ... http://www.dynamic-map.net/index.php/2010/08/24/dell-bringing-ubuntu-to-xps-m1330-laptop/ I downloaded the new beta of Firefox 3 and I can't seem to get it to run for more than about a minute. It seems to crash everytime I submit a form (which I need to do for this blogging tool) and in it's last attempt I've reached a new ... http://www.dynamic-map.net/index.php/2010/08/21/the-firefox-3-instance-that-will-not-die/ It appears that for now at least, we won't get to find out the value of identity on Twitter. A few days ago, Rocketboom creator Andrew Baron put his Twitter account up for sale on eBay, offering access to his 1,500-plus followers. (It's now at 1,757 followers.) Within a few days, ... http://www.dynamic-map.net/index.php/2010/08/21/rocketboom-creator-pulls-plug-on-auction-of-twitte/ A few months back my roommate's rare house plant was dying. In a last ditch effort to bring it back to life, he enlisted my help. We scoured various message boards and Q&A sites with little success to get help identifying the plant (he got it as a gift). The plant ... http://www.dynamic-map.net/index.php/2010/08/21/picanswers-helps-identify-house-plants-the-rest-o/ Qualcomm and Broadcom announced Sunday that they have agreed to end patent litigation between the companies worldwide, with Qualcomm paying Broadcom $891 million, according to the announcement. On Wednesday, Qualcomm delayed its second-quarter earnings statement, citing advanced settlement discussions with Broadcom. Qualcomm made this statement Sunday: "Qualcomm and Broadcom today announced that ... http://www.dynamic-map.net/index.php/2010/08/21/qualcomm-broadcom-reach-891-million-settlement/ In a separate announcement from Verizon Wireless, the company said Friday that it has integrated MySpace into its menu on the Mobile Web 2.0 home screen. This will allow subscribers to click directly into the MySpace Mobile Web site from the menu, eliminating the need for customers to type in ... http://www.dynamic-map.net/index.php/2010/08/21/verizon-wireless-adds-friend-finding-service/ Whoever wrote the comment, its laundry list of reasons users and especially advertisers might like Baidu is informative. I just wish credit had been given to whoever was the original author. (Also there's a "next week" below that doesn't work on the second posting since it was more than a ... http://www.dynamic-map.net/index.php/2010/08/20/reasons-to-like-baidu-but-whose-reasons-are-they/ Given the Democratic and Republican conventions and the Labor Day holiday stealing everyone's attention, I expected this week to be a quiet one when it came to product announcements. But those distractions really only apply to folks in the States, and overseas manufacturers pushed out plenty of new laptop models ... http://www.dynamic-map.net/index.php/2010/08/20/new-models-from-asia-and-the-best-student-laptops/