http://www.operadreams.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:59:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "When you start looking there is a surprising amount of information that gets locked in e-mail," said Shane Williams, one of the Microsoft Research team that worked on Salsa. "E-mail can be very dehumanizing," Cheng said. Although Facebook is notoriously restrictive when it comes to members scraping their data, Ickman said that ... http://www.operadreams.com/?p=325 Wouldn't it be nice if you could find interesting things to read on the mobile Web much more quickly and easily? The CBS Mobile Web site will display suggested articles in the form of "Your Headlines." Because content suggestions are user-driven, they change throughout the day based on natural shifts in ... http://www.operadreams.com/?p=323 Good luck. (Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET) If you can tell me what this is a picture of, and where it's located, and be the first to do so (by e-mail to daniel--dot--terdiman--at--cnet--dot--com) you'll win a prize. So maybe that's why, in the many trips I've taken over the past decade or so to states ... http://www.operadreams.com/?p=321 It's called Prologue, and it's a new theme for WordPress.com users and blogs running off hosted WordPress installs. The goal of the theme is to let anyone setup a microblog, either for themselves or as a group--both public and private. Users can post short, to-the-point messages to their blog without ... http://www.operadreams.com/?p=319 (Credit: CNET Networks) Though Tuesday marks the global announcement of the new Vostro laptops, they won't be available in North America until May 1 (and the Vostro 1710 isn't expected until mid-May). We have a Vostro 1310 review unit in our offices, and so far, we're pleased with its upscale looks ... http://www.operadreams.com/?p=317 Later in the week, MySpace plans to launch another site in another crucial tech market: India--which happens to be one of the hot spots for Google's social-networking site, Orkut. Surrounding the debut of MySpace India will be a developer "hackathon" in Bangalore as well as a rock concert in Mumbai. MySpace ... http://www.operadreams.com/?p=315 From iFixit's photos, we see that the battery is the biggest internal component by far. It is held in place by nine screws, in case you were thinking about replacing it yourself. Like the iPod, the 80GB hard drive is protected by both a rubber bumper and a layer of ... http://www.operadreams.com/?p=313 Don starts out the show discussing the Wii, Mario Kart, interviews his girlfriend and much more. After that, he sits down with Opera's VP of sales to discuss that company's future and rants about video game violence. Listen now: Download today's podcast EPISODE 13 TODAY'S LINKS: Opera Stories Don ... http://www.operadreams.com/?p=311 He also said that BP is very optimistic it can make carbon capture and storage commercially viable because of its experience in oil and gas exploration. Carbon dioxide is injected underground to help oil and gas extraction. Correction 10:20 a.m. PST: This blog misstated the day that BP CEO Tony Hayward ... http://www.operadreams.com/?p=309 While revenue for global technology services rose 8 percent and software rose 12 percent, hardware revenue fell 10 percent. Signed services contracts totaled $12.7 billion, down 4 percent, while short-term signings rose 13 percent to $6.1 billion. IBM's revenue outside the U.S., where the company generates 75 percent ... http://www.operadreams.com/?p=307