http://www.mc-cf.org Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:59:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en But the market eventually decided to start buying them up, anyway. Why? Paul Kedrosky has an interesting post on the economics of blog M&A. Namely, there are none. That is, no one seems interested in buying big niche blogs like Kedrosky's or big mainstream-ish blogs like TechCrunch. Hard to value. Hard to separate ... http://www.mc-cf.org/2010/09/04/why-wont-you-buy-this-blog/ (Credit: Panasonic) The following products are available: On Sale Now: $599.95 - $799.77 View the latest prices for Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1 (red) Panasonic will include a Micro Four Thirds lens adapter. There are a couple potential downsides, however, when sizing up the G1 against dSLR competitors. Autofocus performance, for one. The G1 ... http://www.mc-cf.org/2010/08/30/panasonic-unveils-first-micro-four-thirds-camera/ Scanning over the Cnet News page, I ran across this series of photos: Was Google's Chrome logo inspired by some programmer's childhood memories of playing with Simon? http://www.mc-cf.org/2010/08/24/chrome-and-simon-separated-at-birth/ The tale of retail game cards is a pretty amazing one. In a recent interview Rob Goldberg, founder and CEO of GMG Entertainment, a publisher of "digital currency cards" that you see on sale at Target, Safeway and a number of other big-box shops, shed some light on how the ... http://www.mc-cf.org/2010/08/21/retail-game-card-sales-may-hit-100-million-this-y/ Vacationing in Japan this week I accidentally rode on the world's first diesel-electric hybrid train in commercial service: The Kiha E200 running on the East Japan Railway's Koumi Line. Aside from being a new train, introduced in 2007, it seemed like any other, but the photographers camped out for a ... http://www.mc-cf.org/2010/08/21/riding-the-worlds-first-hybrid-train-in-japan/ The new face of Dell gaming. (Credit: CNET) The Wall Street Journal reported this morning on Dell's plan to stop competing with itself. Rather than selling both high-end XPS gaming PCs as well as similar products from Alienware (which it acquired in 2006), Dell will shift all of its gaming energies at ... http://www.mc-cf.org/2010/08/21/dell-to-cut-xps-gaming-desktops-embrace-alienware/ commentary Red Hat gets a lot of credit for being a pure-play open-source company, and rightly so. It's therefore interesting to see the company releasing code that most people probably a) didn't know existed and b) didn't know was proprietary. But so it is with the Red Hat Certificate System, which Red ... http://www.mc-cf.org/2010/08/21/red-hat-releases-its-certificate-system-into-the-o/ It's all better now. (Credit: Corinne Schulze/CNET Networks) Yay! Apple's iPhone 2.0.2 software update has fixed our broken iPhone 3G. Its endless loop of system restores is over, and it's now back in working order. Yet, that seems to be just about the only change from the update. Apple promised that 2.0.2 would ... http://www.mc-cf.org/2010/08/21/an-iphone-software-update-to-the-rescue/ (Credit: Logitech) Recently, we asked the question, "Is the Logitech Squeezebox Boom the ultimate Wi-Fi radio?" Now that we've had two full weeks to play with it, we have an answer: Yes, it pretty much is. The Boom is the first product in this category we can enthusiastically recommend. Like its ... http://www.mc-cf.org/2010/08/21/logitech-squeezebox-boom-is-our-favorite-wi-fi-rad/ commentary Red Hat wasn't impressed by Microsoft's pledge to open up its APIs and protocols. This isn't surprising. More surprising, however, is the EU's dismissal of Microsoft's announcement: The commission would welcome any move towards genuine interoperability. Nonetheless, the commission notes that today's announcement follows at least four similar statements by Microsoft ... http://www.mc-cf.org/2010/08/21/the-eu-turns-up-its-nose-at-microsofts-openness-p/