PocketPC Thoughts reports that Palm is buying Handspring:
Actually, the board has approved the purchase of Handspring, it hasn’t happened yet. According to this CNNMoney report, the deal won’t happen until this fall and will be after PalmSource has been spun off. The spin off was also approved late yesterday.
When I read stuff like this I wonder if it’s still April. Many related stories can be found at google news.
Please move the letter “Q” away from the letter “W” on my keyboard. They are far too close together. If that isn’t possible, please change the keyboard shortcut for “Close Every Window and the Entire Application without asking any questions” from CTRL-Q to CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-Q. If you can’t do that, then please add a dialog box to confirm the fact that I want to close all 27 of the tabs I just opened.
If there were a t-shirt for that, I’d have a drawer full of them.
From the Netcraft blog:
Rackshack had a large transformer explode and start a fire today. Amazingly, given the pictures of the firethey seem to have prevented it from affecting their network performance which, at least for rackshack’s own site, is no different from any other day.
Jeff Darcy the Canned Platypus:
My employer finally came out of stealth mode yesterday, so I can finally talk a little bit about what we do. What we provide is an “appliance” that plugs into a storage network in front of your old disk array, and gives you the ability to turn back the clock on your storage to any arbitrary point in the past. This differs from the snapshot products everyone already has, because it doesn’t require that you had the foresight to do a snapshot just before your database went nuts and messed up all of your data. You can always restore to just one minute before, without needing an omniscient snapshot strategy. Furthermore, restoration is instant. Sure, we’re still doing stuff behind the scenes for a while but, as far as anyone in front of us is concerned, every block on that volume just went back in time. Lastly, we store all that old data in a way that’s very space-efficient. We’ve worked with some Big Brains on how best to do this, and the result is a huge improvement over snapshot or backup non-solutions that require anywhere from 2x to 6x your original dataset size to get even less functionality.
That’s some mind boggling stuff. I didn’t even know that was possible. Good luck.
Things are hopping in #mobitopia this afternoon.
I managed to get Haystack installed and running last night on a WinXP machine. It seemed like the first time I ran haystack.exe it installed and initialized a bunch of stuff then went away. I gave it some time, clicked haystack.exe again, and after a few minutes (I think) it started up.
I’ll write more about Haystack as soon as I can poke around a bit.
We have launched a petition to build support for the Public Domain Enhancement Act. That act would require American copyright holders to pay $1 fifty years after a work was published. If they pay the $1, the copyright continues. If they don’t, the work passes into the public domain. Historical estimates would suggest 98% of works would pass into the pubilc domain after 50 years. The Act would do a great deal to reclaim a public domain.
You can find me at number 107.
DPReview has the inside track as always on the Konica KD-510Z. As far as I can tell, the difference is that it’s silver. I have a KD-500Z in front of me, let’s do a little spec rundown:
| Konica KD-500Z | Konica KD-510Z |
| 5 megapixel | 5 megapixel |
| 3x optical zoom | 3x optical zoom |
| SD/MMC/Memory Stick | SD/MMC/Memory Stick |
| Black | Silver |
There’s also a specs page for the KD-500Z. Here’s what DPReview has to say:
After all that the KD-510Z seems to be a fairly unremarkable five megapixel three times optical zoom digital camera virtually identical to the black bodied KD-500Z they announced at Photokina last year.
Yep. Shh, don’t tell. It’s about 99% the same camera. In silver.
Don’t hype it if you don’t have it.
The Register has a report that Amazon is thinking about licensing Apple’s Music Store technology. That’d be quite amusing since Apple licenses Amazon’s 1-Click technology.
We shall see.
Shares of International Business Machines Corp. IBM.N were halted on Monday in over-the-counter trading, pending news.
IBM said in a statement shortly after the halt it is the subject of an investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
It said the probe is related to revenue recognition in 2000 and 2001.
Crap. I hate to see bad stuff happen to good companies. I really really hope that their books are clean.
The Motley Fool states the obvious: Finding Nemo rocked, Pixar rules, and Disney hasn’t put out a decent movie on their own in quite awhile.
A visit to the Walt Disney Pictures site doesn’t look very promising either. The preview for Brother Bear looked good, though it felt like a bad rehashing on The Lion King. If I see another animated film this summer it will probably be Rugrats Gone Wild. The Wild Thornberrys rule.
I’m glad to see that Liam Lynch‘s My United States of Whatever is popular in the mainstream. The Screen Savers had a cool interview with him this morning.
I’ve been running around saying “Whatevah!” and shouting the chorus of the song since I saw it on Sifl and Olly back in the 90’s. So there.
The normal people are finally catching up.
Game maker The 3DO Company has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California. The company is best known to Mac gamers as producers of the Heroes of Might & Magic strategy game series.
Chris Brumme has a great piece up about application domains and other lowlevel bits about possible future directions for the .NET platform.
We saw Finding Nemo last night.
Much fun, go see it.
OSNews notes the release of Python 2.2.3.