http://www.michaelcates.com Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:29:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Chevrolet New Sail on the market, the high-quality, large space, high security, low fuel consumption characteristics have attracted the attention of the market, all aspects of care to the needs of ordinary families, called sedan in the "high, large and comprehensive . " Navigation in the car audio and video ... http://www.michaelcates.com/index.php/2010/09/le-tour-special-dvd-navigation-along-the-new-sail/ April 15, 2006, CSF held in Hong Kong show, iriver shows a very "alternative" hard-type player, for a time become the focus of attention, then listed a number of outgoing messages, but eventually prove only the user's guess. Until recently, iriver domestic agent bearing three odd letter has finally ... http://www.michaelcates.com/index.php/2010/09/iriver-mp3-e10-heavyweight-hard-disk-shock-mainlan/ Yes, there's an Office Live Workspace logo, but let's face it, everyone was interested in the free drinks instead. This post was updated at 4:50 AM PT on March 4 with comment from a Microsoft representative. (Credit: Caroline McCarthy/CNET News.com) NEW YORK--So, on Monday night, Microsoft threw a party for its brand new Office ... http://www.michaelcates.com/index.php/2010/09/who-are-these-models-and-what-have-they-done-with/ That's because EA had its press conference at L.A.'s opulent Orpheum theater, and Activision is about to have its own at a much smaller venue that has no particular distinction that I'm aware of. I could, of course, be missing some great history that this building has, but I doubt ... http://www.michaelcates.com/index.php/2010/08/live-blog-activision-at-e3-is-guitar-hero-and-b/ Hitwise Hitslink reports a massive boom in Apple's Mac market share, rising 52 percent over March 2008 to reach 11.43 percent. This is in stark contrast to data reported by ZDNet, which showed a .47 percent drop in the Mac's market share. Operating System Market Share - April 2008 (Credit: Hitslink) Indeed, Gartner ... http://www.michaelcates.com/index.php/2010/08/apples-market-share-explodes-52-percent-in-april/ The Microsoft Sync Framework, when integrated into applications, lets Web services be used offline and can synchronize music, videos, images, and other files between PCs and devices. Microsoft has released a new test build of its software as a community technology preview. While Microsoft doesn't specify where the software might be used ... http://www.michaelcates.com/index.php/2010/08/microsoft-updates-collaboration-test-software/ "As the company has not yet announced the date of this year's annual meeting, the amendment will give stockholders who want to nominate one or more directors, including Microsoft Corporation, more time to do so. The amendment does not preclude any party from nominating one or more directors at any ... http://www.michaelcates.com/index.php/2010/08/yahoo-extends-deadline-for-microsoft-to-name-oppos/ Here we go again. A new company, Reframe It, is launching its Web markup product on Wednesday. Like ThirdVoice and Stickis before it, Reframe It lets you highlight a piece of a Web page, comment on it, and discuss those comments with other visitors to the site. On this New ... http://www.michaelcates.com/index.php/2010/08/reframe-it-launches-community-markup-system-for-we/ I also think this approach avoids the kind of self-righteous thinking that Mark Twain pillories in his exceptional "The War Prayer." Often, we don't truly want the consequences of what we want--we simply don't think through the consequences, and so we blindly demand things that end up being "prayers" of ... http://www.michaelcates.com/index.php/2010/08/a-prayer-for-microsoft/ In the wake of a nasty spat with former partner Intel, a reorganization, and mounting criticism, Nicholas Negroponte is looking for a chief executive for his One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organization, according to BusinessWeek. "I am not a CEO," OLPC Chairman Negroponte said in an interview with the magazine. ... http://www.michaelcates.com/index.php/2010/08/negropontes-olpc-seeks-ceo/