http://www.robot-village.com Sun, 21 Feb 2010 08:00:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Testing the new Window 7 reveals you still need anti-virus on your PC.  It may well be self-serving that it took an anti-virus company Sophos to declare to the world that the new Windows OS is still vulnerable to virus attacks. (For sure, any OS that can screen out any ... http://www.robot-village.com/tschnology-advice/windows-7-is-still-virus-vulnerable Google is promoting its forthcoming real-time collaborative development tool Wave with an App Store similar to what iPhone has.  It’s basically an alternative to the free open source culture on the internet where online users don’t pay.  With Google Wave, developers can use the collaborative tools online and market these ... http://www.robot-village.com/technology-trends/google-wave-take-application-development-online Holiday shopping is just around corner so maybe folks are just waiting for the right time get their spanking new PC hardware.  Because as of today, PC sales remain no better than before Windows 7 was launched in October.  PC makers were expecting the new Microsoft OS would boost sales, ... http://www.robot-village.com/technology-economy/pc-sales-yet-to-see-windows-7-effect The publisher of image editing standard Photoshop is cutting 9% of its workforce, or around 680 positions, as it restructures itself to respond to the festering economic downtrends.  Adobe noted this job cut in its official 8-K filing with the US SEC this Tuesday.  It comes 10 months after its ... http://www.robot-village.com/technology-economy/adobe-responds-to-recession-with-680-job-cuts With video on demand gaining ground, you now have two business models emerging.  There’s Netflix offering instant and unlimited access to a database of older movies and TV shows for a fix $8 monthly fee.  Then there’s Amazon Video offering $2 to $3 for every access to recent movies.  I came ... http://www.robot-village.com/technology-trends/will-it-be-netflix-or-amazon-video Not really a milestone, but I find it worth celebrating 40 years of the internet today with maybe giving my computer a rest after a month of continued online surfing. It all started in 1969 not in the name we know it today, but as Arpanet – the networking project ... http://www.robot-village.com/technology-news/the-internet-at-40 You’ll never know what hit you until it does.  Being social online has its pitfalls.  Your boss or someone up there who knows you, just might be on Twitter or Facebook. So it’s a good idea to always remain circumspect about anything you say on line.  Here are some things ... http://www.robot-village.com/tschnology-advice/your-boss-could-be-on-twitter-so-avoid-social-media-disasters Just about everyone has a cellphone these days allowing people to make and receive calls and text message anytime anywhere.  The Facebook and Twitter sites get thousands of updates every day but are people more sociable today than they were without these technological marvels of the last decade? A study from ... http://www.robot-village.com/tschnology-advice/does-technology-make-you-more-social Having an engineering degree or background might qualify you as one.  But I know many who only got the degree but can’t even explain away the difference between LCD and Plasma TVs, or between 2G and 3G cell phones.  I know most kids are, bordering on the nerd types. Not ... http://www.robot-village.com/tschnology-advice/are-you-tech-savvy Video game company EA just paid $275 million in cash and $25 million in stocks to acquire Playfish, a maker of social networking games that made it bid as a popular online sport.  The sale made clear that online gaming that makes money from the selling virtual goods and making online ... http://www.robot-village.com/technology-trends/electronic-arts-buys-social-gaming-upstart-playfish