http://www.me2everyoneuk.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:43:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en eBay looking to unload StumbleUpon? Photos: Academy of Sciences rebirth Cisco buys into corporate IM New taxes on your monthly cell phone bill? California bans texting by train operators Listen now: A deadly train crash in California prompts the state's railroad regulators to ban cell phone use by engine operators. Meanwhile, Congress is trying ... http://www.me2everyoneuk.com/2010/09/04/cnet-news-daily-podcast-banning-train-operators-f/ Medis Technologies released a portable fuel-cell charger last year that can be recycled. MTI Micro has developed methanol fuel cell chargers for some electronics, but it said last week that the company needs additional funding to commercialize the product. Liquid fuel cells have the potential to give gadget users a longer ... http://www.me2everyoneuk.com/2010/08/30/lilliputian-readies-fuel-cell-gadget-charger/ All the while, the record labels have single-handedly shown the world that they don't care about consumers and they most certainly couldn't care less about the artists. Aside from that, these record labels have consistently gone out of their way to solidify themselves as the very lowest of the low ... http://www.me2everyoneuk.com/2010/08/24/apples-itunes-pricing-scheme-will-never-happen/ Tax protester at San Francisco "tea party" gathering on April 15 holds up sign saying "IRS: We take $$$$$$ from working people to pay for big government." (Credit: Declan McCullagh/CNET) If a little-known but influential alliance of state politicians, large retailers, and tax collectors have their way, the days of tax-free Internet ... http://www.me2everyoneuk.com/2010/08/21/tax-free-internet-shopping-may-be-at-an-end/ VMware's announcement Monday of its new VCloud initiative is an early attempt to offer a more "enterprise-class" cloud offering. Considering that most cloud offerings are based on virtual machine images, it's a smart (and obvious) move by VMware to stake its claim. To date, the majority of cloud offerings ... http://www.me2everyoneuk.com/2010/08/21/vmware-vcloud-channel-conflict-on-the-horizon/ Well, it's finally here: Bill Gates' final, official day at Microsoft as a full-time employee. To mark this historic moment--33 years in the making--we've been combing through our video archives to find some memorable stuff. • Origin of PC clones At a 2001 event celebrating the 20th anniversary of the personal ... http://www.me2everyoneuk.com/2010/08/21/marking-gates-last-day-with-videos/ The Federal Communications Commission's chief has a plan to ensure that people have unfettered access to Internet content and services. Chairman Julius Genachowski proposed this week that the FCC officially turn its four principles of network openness into regulation and suggested that the FCC add two more "principles" as part of ... http://www.me2everyoneuk.com/2010/08/21/week-in-review-keeping-the-internet-open/ commentary (Credit: Acquia) What do you do with 2,000,000 downloads and a 100% growth rate? With 240,000 members of your community and 900-plus developers (a number that doubled in 2007)? You'd start Acquia, that's what you'd do. Or, at least, that's what North Bridge Venture Partners did, and the company looks to have ... http://www.me2everyoneuk.com/2010/08/21/building-an-enterprise-drupal-acquia-style/ commentary Over the past year or so, IBM has been revamping its Systems and Technology Group (STG) organization in a major way. We see those changes reflected in a major way with IBM's Power systems announcement Wednesday at its COMMON User Group Conference in Nashville. Two aspects of the STG reorg are of ... http://www.me2everyoneuk.com/2010/08/21/ibm-i-p-power/ A bipartisan bill introduced Tuesday in the House of Representatives would ban new state or local takes on mobile phone services for a period of five years. Sponsored by Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) and five co-sponsors, the bill is known as the Cell Tax Fairness Act (HR 5793 ). In ... http://www.me2everyoneuk.com/2010/08/21/house-bill-aims-to-ban-new-cell-phone-taxes/