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First look: Opera 10 faster with new features

Today, Opera has announced the release of the Opera 10 Web browser for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux platforms. Are the new features and performance increases enough to beat out other popular browsers? The answer: it depends mostly on your choice of ...

From JEREMY_REIMER "AT" HOTMAIL.COM, Ars Technica,  1 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Facebook Inc.

The prospects of Microsoft Word in the wiki-based world

I was having dinner with friends the other day and we started talking about word processing programs we'd all used in office jobs. "You know, I've been using Word for over 20 years," I said, and immediately felt older than dirt. But it was true. The ...

From JEREMY REIMER, LXer,  8 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Word, RIP: 1983 - 2009

I was having dinner with friends the other day and we started talking about word processing programs we'd all used in office jobs. "You know, I've been using Word for over 20 years," I said, and immediately felt older than dirt. But it was true. The ...

From JEREMY_REIMER "AT" HOTMAIL.COM, Ars Technica,  3 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation

It's alive!: Ars reviews AmigaOS 4.1

From its very inception, the Amiga has been about defying conventional wisdom. In the early 1980s, everyone knew that personal computers weren't powerful enough to multitask, but the Amiga proved the naysayers wrong. In the 1990s it was accepted that ...

From JEREMY REIMER, Ars Technica,  23 Sep 2008
Related Topics: Hyperion Entertainment,  Sony

A history of the Amiga, part 7: Game on!

The Amiga started out its life as a dedicated games machine, and even though it grew into a full computer very quickly, it never lost its gaming side. The machine's 4096-color palette, stereo sampled sound, and graphics acceleration chips made it a ...

From JEREMY REIMER, Ars Technica,  13 May 2008
Related Topics: Bill Williams,  Cinemaware

Hands on: Opera 9.5 beta 2 improves speed, adds features

Opera has consistently defied expectations about what a browser (and browser company) can accomplish. Begun back in 1994 as a research project at the Norwegian research company Telenor, the Opera browser was first released as version 2.0 in 1996, and ...

From JEREMY REIMER, Ars Technica,  28 Apr 2008
Related Topics: ASA Limited

Between black and white: the state of grayware on the PC

In the old days, as our parents frequently love to remind us, life was much simpler. You bought a computer, and when you finally figured out what you wanted to do with it, you assembled a list and went down to your local Egghead for some software. It ...

From JEREMY REIMER, Ars Technica,  24 Apr 2008
Related Topics: America Online

Rogers Unlimited data plan not so unlimited after all

In advertising, superlatives rarely mean what they are meant to. However, there are times when "truth in advertising" gets stretched beyond reasonable limits. Case in point: the introduction of "unlimited" mobile data service plans by network providers ...

From JEREMY REIMER, Ars Technica,  11 Feb 2008

A history of the Amiga, part 6: stopping the bleeding

When a corporation is bleeding money, often the only way to save it is to drastically lower fixed expenses by firing staff. Commodore had lost over $300 million between September 1985 and March 1986, and over $21 million in March alone. Commodore's new ...

From JEREMY REIMER, Ars Technica,  11 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Electronic Arts Inc.,  Trip Hawkins,  William Shatner

Hunting trolls: USPTO asked to reexamine broad image patent

In an attempt to strike back at what he feels is an abuse of the patent system, an anonymous sponsor has filed a Request for Ex Parte Reexamination (PDF) of a patent that purports to lay a broad claim to the displaying of compressed graphic images over ...

From JEREMY REIMER, Ars Technica,  5 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Stanford University,  Lawrence Lessig,  Green Bay Packers,  Unisys

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