Jul 29th 2007
This Week in Tech 107
We're Going To Need A Bigger Flywheel
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Dvorak uses a Mac, and likes it, an intern loses 800,000 social security numbers, and we celebrate Sysadmin Day...
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Dvorak uses a Mac, and likes it, an intern loses 800,000 social security numbers, and we celebrate Sysadmin Day...
- Dvorak's favorite PC company is EndPCnoise.
- Dvorak is using a Mac, and he likes it.
- Joy of Tech made a comic about Dvorak's liking of the Mac.
- Fake Steve called Dvorak a frigtard.
- Friday was the 9th annual SysAdmin Day.
- Google has pledged $4.6billion for the 700MHz spectrum.
- The governor of Nevada accidentally posted the password to his Outlook email account on his website.
- Target was to push Blu-Ray over HD-DVD, but it turned out to be false.
- Microsoft claims that by the end of 2008, there will be one billion machines running Windows.
- Digg has ditched Federated Media and Google for Microsoft in order to serve ads.
- The LifeLock spokesman who gives away his social security number was hacked!.
- Alienware has added a solid state drive option.
- The owner of the former allofmp3.com faces jail time and a fine of 15 million rubles.
- 800,000 social security numbers were stolen from a 22-year old intern's car.
- A study shows that 1 in 5 adults watch Web videos.
- Another study shows that 20% of a work day is wasted.
- A senator from Guam is a level 70 dwarf priest in World of Warcraft.
- A huge power outage in San Francisco took down several large websites.
- For the first time, NetFlix lost some customers.
- The founders of ConnectU have sued Facebook.
- A Polish bus driver was fired for sending over 38000 text messages on the company phone.
- Is the US government checking up on Vista users?
- Nokia has bought social networking site Twango.
- This past quarter was great for both Microsoft and Apple.
- Is Cisco going to kill the Linksys brand name?
- Business.com sold for 360 million.
- Gizmodo pitted HDMI cables from both Monster and Monoprice against each other.