MiniUpdates – Tech News PodCast 12-24-2008

In Today’s News:

NoteBooks Rise, New York Times Drops, Online Sales Jump and Toshiba Recharges its batteries.

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MiniUpdates – Daily Tech News PodCast 12-22-2008

In Today’s News:

EA Cuts, Google Dominates, Intel Ships, Palm Gets, Nano Rewires and Warner Breaks.

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MiniUpdates – Daily Tech News PodCast 12-19-2008

In Today’s News

YouTube’s search stake grows, FaceBook accelerates, HD gets a new home at YouTube, Scribd gets bribed, SocialMedian gets Xinged and Samsung will be joining the droid.

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MiniUpdates – Daily Tech News PodCast 12-17-2008

In Today’s News

Mac World loses Jobs, IE 7 gets critical, Mozilla plugs holes, Video Ads run with the bulls, Chegg keeps chugging, MIT uses nano to help fight cancer.

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Firefox 3 brings on Nostalgia

As I was testing my company’s flagship website on the newly released
Firefox 3.0, I encountered some new bugs on my site that existed only
when using Firefox 3.  It was then, that I was touched with a bit of
nostalgia for “the good ol’ days”.  You see, at this time my company
must now test at least in Firefox 2, Firefox 3, Internet Explorer 6,
Internet Explorer 7, and Safari.  We do also try to test in Opera and
a few others as well, as a matter of good conscience, but it isn’t
officially required.

Rather than tell you youngsters a nostalgic tale of how I used to
write assembly code barefoot in the snow, uphill, both ways; I have a
story about the times when programming was actually easier!   Those
were the days when there were no iPods, Apple was barely hanging on by
a thread, and Netscape had lost the browser wars.   I have no official
statistics on hand, nor official timelines, but I remember very
clearly those days when us code monkeys only truly needed to worry
about coding for one browser, Internet Explorer 6.

Sure, other browsers were always present, but the numbers were
insignificant.  Rather than spend time on compatibility issues for the
fringes of society, it was a very understandable business decision to
instead devote more time and money to improving a website’s features.
Of course, many higher minded people will find that attitude
appalling, but for the more pragmatical, or those with limited
resources, the simplicity was a very seductive convenience.

Convenience often comes at a price though.   For also during those
days, it seemed as if Micro$oft would rule as the sole dictator of our
electronic lives, and only the fringe freedom fighters had the will to
resist.  During those days Bill Gates had not yet turned away from his
role as leader of the Borg to cure humankind’s illnesses, and we took
somewhat seriously the phrase, “You will be assimilated”.   We were
trading convenience for freedom, and that is no trade at all.

Competition is always a good thing; therefore my nostalgia lasted only
a moment.  Slipping back into the present, and using Windows XP, I
submitted a bug report on our the Bugzilla.server running on Cent OS
about the bug in our PHP website when using Firefox 3.0.

Long live choice.

In Today’s News:

WSJ Attacks Google, Apple taking a bite out of the Business market, Microsoft joins the app market, Twitter and Friend Connect, Pew releases report on the Future of Tech.

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MiniUpdates – Daily Tech News PodCast 12-12-2008

In Today’s News:

New Internet Explorer bug is ubiquitous, video game sales continue to rip, first Sony touchscreen walkman is revealed, tumblr rises, and chrome is gold.

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In Today’s News:

Black Friday is in the Red, Cybercriminals are making out like bandits, VC rules the Roost, MySpace joins the Bar and intel stays on track.

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MiniUpdates – Daily Tech News PodCast 12-10-2008

MiniUpdates – Daily Tech News PodCast 12-8-2008

In Today’s News:

Tech commission suggest a new cybersecurity post, Wall Mart has the Wii and will soon carry Iphones, Cisco launches a new video initiative and intel goes gaga over silicon.

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MiniUpdates – Daily Tech News PodCast 12-5-2008

In Today’s News:

facebook faces virus threat, apple takes a bite out of cyber Monday, Google gets friendly and Android finds a new host.

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