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Tech scoreboard: Winners and losers of the week, July 29

comparing apples and oranges, where no man has compared apples and oranges before.
Ok, that last bit was a lie

...we will se apples compared to mangos - where will it end?

...when the mangoes have been moved to the left side of the screen and taken up a full inch of screen real estate.

Sooner than you think, I fear!
And why on earth would anyone vote that down? I mean, sure it will suck when it happens, but it was still a funny remark.

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The Mango's will get moved off the right hand side of the screen and be replaced with Pineapples.

Then they will compare Pineapples to Kiwi Fruit and come to the conclusion that Five Finger Fruit is actually better.

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Then they'll dice up all the fruit and make some kind of Pistachio Fluff dessert...

Mmmm.... Fluff. Kinda like this blog entry.

"Merch"

The comments are getting decidedly fruity ... which makes a nice change I'll take freshly picked strawberries, raspberries and bluberries on my screen, please!
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Although the 'two up, two down' format may be too restrictive. There will be weeks when everything is positive and you'll be discussing two '-1' stories at the expense of some '+5' or '+6' events. Consider going with the top four or five highest 'absolute value' stories.

How does Apple get a positive score with two serious enough vulnerabilities. First the possibility of malware getting into the system and killing the battery [and remember that many Mac users have no anti-virus/anti-malware software installed].
Then there is the issue where passwords are leaked when the system is in sleep mode by using a bluetooth device [or was it firewire].
All B2B is, is a subset of the regular app store. Nothing more. You think they'll sell something in the B2B and not in the regular store? Nope.

Google is getter eager and too much controller.
And we (users) are letting them free to do what they want. I ask: do you want to put our life in their hands?
I will say: use google but with moderation and cautions.
They have good applications (bought well) but I don't want to be dependent of them.

This new column is just a way to distribute info about what's going on, keeping us informed, and entertaining.
The Google+ thing is unfortunate. What a botch job for them.

Great idea, this really sums up the week. Keep it up.

Apple will invent antivirus software as an app. Then a second app will be sold to run a system scan on a schedule. Then a third app will allow the antivirus to scan email attachements. Subsequent apps will be sold to scan removable media. At some point, the Apple-istas will declare that Windows or Linux wishes it could do what Macs do in antivirus. Of course, there will be a drawback for Apple antivirus, in that the version of antivirus signatures will not update. Updating will require dragging all the apps to the trash can and buying new apps. Mac users will crow about their expertise in this and sneer at mere mortals running their non-Apple junk. Windows and Linux users will jealously weep and gnash their teeth while their antivirus runs in the background.

At some point in there you will have to reset to factory settings.

According to the Wikipedia article on linux viruses, there were 865 linux viruses at the end of 2005. By way of contrast, there were tens of thousands of viruses for Windows. The wikipedia article goes on to say that there are linux antivirus scanners, but those scanners mostly protect not the linux server itself but MS-Windows machines that hook up to them.

When UNIX was designed in the late 1960s, it was designed from the ground up to run in a multiuser environment. A lot of security test software was written, and still can be used, to verify the integrity of UNIX systems. Anybody who writes a new OS, such as Windows or IOS, won't have the benefit of 40 years of security test software development.

Google does not care about what their users want. they proved that when they moved the TABS in iGoogle to the left hand side of the screen robbing us of an inch of valuable real estate. Google+ will be no different, random changes that despite user complaints will be deployed and no looking back. Who cares that Johnny has 40 accounts?

Just for the record that bluetooth vulnerability is not platform specific. As for the battery thing, until Miller shows exactly how this is done I have to assume he needs direct access to the micro controller. That means he has to take apart the machine to compromise it. If that is true then who gives a spaghetti monster? Also, I can't wait for Mango!!! Mango Mango Mango

TR : Best of Network Bar, -10!!! (octal)
Off with its head!

Jason, good idea. Just hope to keep this scoreboard with fact not opinions. Also, on your first scoreboard you missed other high tech companies like HP, IBM, Dell, Cisco, etc. For example there is a report that HP is number one in Europe in laptop sales taking the position from Acer.

is like an RPG game played by big It corporations and the final result is the evolution or involution for another stage. Plus the info is very good and one can check some news that slip under the radar at least for me. Cheers!

doing on the side of my page...excuse me...more clutter? I think not...and you're wondering why folks are dropping off like flies around here...my 17 yr old can code a cleaner site...sigh...that's my two cents...for what it's worth..or not worth...

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You have made some really valid points here. I read them and thought for a while. Vary nice and soothing color and design. I bookmarked it already. I will appreciate more posts.

I like the idea of a weekly tech summary. Not good news this week for either RIM or Google+. Too bad !

... is all I can say - this whole business! Driveway Lights

Did it not pan out? Too much trouble? Not enough interest?

Inquiring minds want to know.

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