http://www.andeantravelnews.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:31:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Social network Hi5, founded in the San Francisco Bay Area but most influential in Latin America, announced Monday that the application program interface (API) for its developer platform is now live. This means that, as with other social networks that have opened up their code, third-party developers can create applications ... http://www.andeantravelnews.com/index.php/2010/09/04/hi5-gives-high-five-to-opensocial-foundation-with/ Say goodbye to the black plastic MacBook: a new aluminum one is said to be on the way. One interesting part of the report also suggests that Apple plans to drop the Firewire 400 port and the DVI-I ports currently found on the MacBook Pro in favor of a Firewire ... http://www.andeantravelnews.com/index.php/2010/08/29/new-macbooks-dropping-plastic-for-aluminum/ On Tuesday, Dell launched a Vista migration program to nudge big companies toward the OS. The PC maker's "client migration solution" will cut migration costs by up to 62 percent and reduce labor by an estimated 88 percent, Dell says. ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley reports that it's unclear when a rumored ... http://www.andeantravelnews.com/index.php/2010/08/24/microsoft-all-roads-lead-to-vista/ Microsoft executives are expected to detail more enhancements to Silverlight at its Mix '08 conference in Las Vegas, which starts on Tuesday. Adobe last week released Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) 1.0, a download and development platform for making Web applications behave more like desktop programs, including offline access. Google Gears, ... http://www.andeantravelnews.com/index.php/2010/08/24/microsoft-to-take-silverlight-offline-eventually/ Will this definitely happen? Who knows. But if Yahoo plays its cards right and can strike deals at the right time with the right companies, Microsoft will have a problem. Here's how I see it happening: Google and Yahoo will form a deal by the end of this week or early ... http://www.andeantravelnews.com/index.php/2010/08/24/google-will-derail-the-microsoft-yahoo-deal/ So it was that I was reading Jonathan Zittrain's excellent new book, The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It (more about that in a future post), when I paged across his disquisition on the early PC era and got pulled back in time. What about you? Any ... http://www.andeantravelnews.com/index.php/2010/08/24/it-was-20-years-ago-today-not-sgt-pepper-but-my/ • If you're into world domination, you may want one of these. • The big Storm finally made landfall, and CNET's Bonnie Cha braved the elements to file a detailed report (see video above). • HDTV prices: how low can they go? (Credit: Antec) Antec's open-air case lets ... http://www.andeantravelnews.com/index.php/2010/08/24/this-week-in-crave-land/ Moniz, one of the study's authors, recommended that the U.S. build new nuclear power facilities and invest on the order of $500 million a year on research for advanced fuel cycles and other nuclear technologies, such as different types of reactors. Senator Carper argued that the U.S. needs a nuclear ... http://www.andeantravelnews.com/index.php/2010/08/24/mit-experts-tackle-nuclear-power-waste-problem/ On Monday, Blue Coat Systems bought competitor Packeteer to bolster its position in the WAN acceleration market. This move was probably motivated by two objectives. First, while Blue Coat grew up in Web caching, Packeteer's strength has always been deep packet and protocol expertise. The two technologies complement each other ... http://www.andeantravelnews.com/index.php/2010/08/24/blue-coat-grabs-market-share-networking-expertise/ (Credit: CNET Networks) Got some stuff sitting in your pantry that's been there a little too long? The expiration date is just around the corner, and you want to cook something new that doesn't require going to the store? Lucky for you there's SuperCook, a service that lets you figure out ... http://www.andeantravelnews.com/index.php/2010/08/24/supercook-short-on-actual-cooking-long-on-usefuln/