BRUCEB NEWS
Dropbox Smart Sync Included With All Paid Plans
Dropbox Smart Sync is now included with all paid plans for individuals and businesses. It's not a feature of Dropbox's free account, but that plan is so limited that the lack of Smart Sync doesn't matter. Let's take a minute to unpack that. This might be interesting...
MUSICNET ON AOL
This week sees the debut of another horrible online music service, MusicNet on AOL. After years of failed litigation against file sharing services, with 60 million people using...
PIRATED SYMANTEC SOFTWARE
I get a spam message or two every day offering to sell Symantec software at ridiculously low prices. This article confirms that the software is pirated, which is what you’d...
COREL DEATH WATCH: MICROSOFT BAILS OUT
In October 2000, Microsoft acquired a 24.6% share in Corel for $135 million. It has now signed a deal to sell its shares – for a total of less than $13 million. Microsoft’s cash...
RIAA CERTIFIABLY INSANE
A quick followup to my item on March 1. You’ll recall that the RIAA had placed its heavily attacked web site in the hands of a disabled individual doing his first web hosting...
WIRELESS NOTEBOOKS
Intel, Dell, and a host of others are rolling out notebook computers based on Intel’s Centrino chip set on Wednesday. Intel is also set to launch a massive advertising campaign...
WINDOWS XP STATUS BAR
The status bar is the bar at the bottom of Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer windows. It shows all kinds of interesting things – the number of files in a folder, or the...
THE SEVEN WARNING SIGNS OF BOGUS SCIENCE
Robert L. Park is a physics professor at the University of Maryland, and the author of Voodoo Science: The Road From Foolishness To Fraud. He has written a wonderful short...
BE CAREFUL OUT THERE
Don’t respond to unsolicited e-mail. Don’t click on links that say “Click here to be removed from this mailing list.” And especially – never, ever put passwords or credit card...
CHEAP DELL LAPTOPS
Tomorrow Dell will put two new laptops on its web site: the Inspiron 1100, starting at $899, and the Inspiron 5100, starting at $1,199. Features and price are comparable to...
CYBERTERRORISM AND FUD
More interesting reading: this Slate article casts a jaundiced eye at the “National Strategy To Secure Cyberspace” pushed out by the Bush administration last month. Part of a...
THE FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGY
Click here and spend some time with one of the most interesting and enlightening articles I’ve ever read about the technology industry. I'm impressed. It pulls information...
RIAA WEB SITE PUZZLE
One of those odd little things that make you say, Hmmm. The RIAA is widely despised, for obvious reasons. Its web site has been hacked on a pretty regular basis for the last...
WINDOWS IS MORE STABLE AND SECURE THAN LINUX
Commentary by columnist Paul Thurrott in a newsletter today: "The mainstream press--which has historically over-inflated Linux's value, usage, and potential--is finally starting...
FCC SCREWS UP BROADBAND
A few days ago, the FCC ruled that the Baby Bells could lock up their broadband networks, but that they would continue to be required to allow competitors to have access to their...
WINDOWS XP KILLS DOG, STEALS TOASTER
The media gleefully went Microsoft-bashing again last week, and again it was complete rubbish. It started when an industry columnist noted that someone with physical access to a...