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1. Chrome OS: Lame Copy or Amazing new OS?

   (Software/Software Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   ... look stupid.   By confusing the market between their two distinctly different platforms and largely blindsiding the poor suckers, er vendors, who were putting Android on Smartbooks they effectively bought ...

2. How Microsoft blindsided vulnerable Apple with Windows 7

   (Software/Software Features)

   Thursday, 22 October 2009

   ... no pun intended, of how Microsoft blindsided Apple and left the firm looking like they had given the PC market back to Microsoft. The other part is that Apple is now fighting on two fronts against two ...

3. Almost no one is prepared to pay for online news

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 21 October 2009

   ... publishers run around like headless chickens trying to work out exactly how the hell they can earn a living from online content, they're blindly attempting to cripple news aggregation sites like NewsNow ...

4. Windows, users, guns and stupidity

   (Software/Software Opinion)

   Monday, 12 October 2009

   ... blind NASCAR driver on acid. When someone says they’ve lost data because their machine crashed, this is usually because they’ve either accidentally deleted it or turned it off without saving the document ...

5. Mental Image debuts iRay rendering technology

   (Software/Software Features)

   Wednesday, 30 September 2009

   ... and raise the blinds covering the windows of a remotely-based virtual office. Kaplan also changed the time from day to night, which instantly altered the light and shadow balance within the room. iRay ...

6. Intel and Apple are at the crossroads

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Wednesday, 23 September 2009

   ... become blind to history and repeat the same problem. Jobs, at least to me, appears to be different and is doing the right thing.Apple’s CrossroadsHowever, my concern is what Apple will do when Steve Jobs ...

7. Car lets the blind take the wheel

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   Wednesday, 15 July 2009

   Blind people in Virginia are getting the chance to drive, thanks to a specal dirt buggy developed by students at the Virginia Tech College of Engineering. Blacksburg, VA - Blind people in Virginia are ...

8. Anyone can use echolocation, say researchers

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   Wednesday, 01 July 2009

   You may have heard of Daniel Kish or Ben Underwood, two blind people who learned to detect objects through echolocation - but you can do it too, according to Spanish researchers.  Madrid, Spain ...

9. EU shoots self, users in foot in MS feud

   (Software/Software Features)

   Wednesday, 24 June 2009

   The European Union's blind hatred of Microsoft looks to have backfired bigtime and millions of European users looking to upgrade to Windows 7 will now have to reinstall all their programs and data rather ...

10. Analyst: iPhone service plans too pricey. Duh!

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Monday, 23 February 2009

    ... -- at least if we took off our Apple blinders, that is. Do I sound upset? Yes, there are plenty of reasons for being upset about the iPhone and what we the consumers have to accept just to use one of ...

11. Wikipedia edits may become more restricted

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 26 January 2009

    ... and as obvious as this might sound, it's always a good idea to examine the history of changes made before blindly accepting information on Wikipedia as fact. Many online sites do not take the time to do ...

12. Defcon’s Wall of Sheep eats iPhones for breakfast, lunch and dinner

    (Security/Security Features)

    Monday, 11 August 2008

    ... are fairly careful about using their laptops on the wireless network, mobile phone users often blindly log into the network and surf away.  Many of these iPhone and Windows Mobile phone users were ...

13. Facebook Connect: laying the seeds for revolution

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Thursday, 24 July 2008

    ... tolerate the same level of intrusion from Microsoft Windows, or our cell phone company. Yet, many of us are blind to the implications of it within the context of social networks. We somehow assume that ...

14. Bus driver blindly follows GPS, tries to fit 12-foot bus into 9-foot tunnel

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 17 April 2008

      It doesn’t take a math genius to know that a 12-foot tall bus won’t fit into a 9-foot high tunnel, but that’s exactly what a bus driver tried to do on Thursday in Seattle.  The bus was carrying ...

15. UPDATE #2: Scientist to create new lifeform from artificial DNA

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 08 October 2007

    ... where people can live in safety.  And not enough patience to be content in moving extremely cautiously in such areas.  Mankind's greed and avarice reaches out and blinds his logic, and that ...

16. Blind people given the OK to sue over Target website

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 05 October 2007

    A class action lawsuit against Target has been given the green light by a federal judge, allowing the argument that it is inaccessible to the blind. Sacramento (CA) - A class action lawsuit against Target ...

17. First look: Apple reinvents the cellphone

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Saturday, 30 June 2007

    ... for their daughters and sons as reward for good grades in school, gadget lovers who anyway buy everything that is new on the market and of course Apple-fanatics who blindly buy whatever Steve Jobs tells ...

18. Analyst Opinion: Apple is not real

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Wednesday, 20 December 2006

    ... things. In addition, Apple is surrounded by an enviable fan base, which tends to support, almost blindly, everything the company does. Many companies would probably kill for that kind of loyalty; on the ...

19. YouTube allows Comedy Central clips

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 02 November 2006

    ... is the double-edged sword content producers face when dealing with sharing sites. Some television shows have turned a blind eye towards sharing, in the hopes of drawing in even more viewers to the regular ...

20. Blind web surfers sue Target for accessibility

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Tuesday, 24 October 2006

      The NFB, an organization that represents blind people, is suing Target, saying that its Web site is inaccessible to blind Internet users. The NFB, an organization that represents blind people, ...

21. Warner warms up to YouTube with media sharing agreement

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 18 September 2006

    ... to post content, such as show promos, on its own. Several television networks appear to have just turned a blind eye to YouTube. However, a handful of TV channels have fully embraced YouTube's "viral video" ...

22. With Grouper.com acquisition, what is Sony getting itself into?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 23 August 2006

    ... digital rights management for digital video in all its current and proposed media. It may be difficult to conceive of Sony casting a blind eye to the activities of a copyright-free playground it now happens ...

23. Google tests more accessible Web search for blind

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Thursday, 20 July 2006

      Google has begun testing a new version of its search system that makes finding information on the Web easier for the blind or visually impaired, its creator said on Wednesday. Google has begun ...

24. Open source project puts users in charge of online ID management

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 27 February 2006

    ... identity management is based in most cases on a virtually blind agreement to privacy policies, which leaves many users in the dark about which parts of their information is used for which purposes. And ...

25. The Three Most Deadly Letters at CES and MacWorld: DRM

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Tuesday, 10 January 2006

    ... sales. Now compare this to the languishing media industry which appears to be drifting towards unprofitability and you'd have to be blind to miss where the margins are going. Apple assures the experience ...

26. CES 2006: NVIDIA: Two-tiered Windows Vista hardware support may split product line

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 06 January 2006

    ... WindowBlinds.) Yesterday at CES, Nvidia released three new editions of its GeForce Go mobile processor series - the models 7400, 7600, and 7800 - to accompany its existing 7300 GPU. The three models will ...

27. Is Google Web Search at Risk?

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 04 February 2004

      In its legal battle with Google Inc., American Blind and Wallpaper Factory Inc. In its legal battle with Google Inc., American Blind and Wallpaper Factory Inc. is challenging much more than the ...

28. CipherOptics Launches Video Education Page

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 16 July 2003

    ... of such topics as "Blinding The Operator," "DES," "SHA-1," and "IKE." Check out the CipherOptics website here.  ...

29. Blind people still can't read Flash

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 19 June 2002

    ... follows the recent introduction of Macromedia's Flash MX technology, which enables blind people to view Web sites using screenreaders. Earlier versions of the popular Flash Web design tool were inaccessible ...

30. So farewell then, 3dfx.com

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 08 February 2002

    ... Kool & the Gang pumping out the music. But then the company messed up - it rested on its design laurels, letting Nvidia steal through the blind side to take the performance crown. And it messed up ...

31. Making Games Sound Better

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 16 May 2001

    ... develop three game titles: Boxes, Concentration, and Truth or Bluff. iomo will also develop seven new WAP titles for Nokia including WAP Hunter, WAP Fishing, WAPundrum, Blinder Thinker, Runaway, and Infiltrator. ...