Windows - XP - Vista

The Microsoft Speech Platform Runtime contains both a managed and native API for developing Server based speech applications.

UPDATE: Armin Van Buuren is one of the world's best-known trance music DJs. He also apparently has had his credit card details stolen.



Armin van Buuren - Disc jockey - Trance music - Music - dj

UPDATE: Texas joins the European Union and others with gripes against Google's practices; a coming of age or web bully?



Google - Searching - Search Engines - Companies - Web search engine

A critical bug in QuickTime was reported to Apple two months before a second researcher independently revealed the vulnerability this week, the director of a bug bounty program said today.

UPDATE: The enterprise disk storage market is continuing to bounce back from the depths of the recession, IDC says.



International Data Corporation - Hardware - Storage - Information technology - Hewlett-Packard

Google agrees to pay $8.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over privacy problems with Google Buzz.



Google - Google Buzz - Class action - Searching - Search Engines

Google agrees to pay $8.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over privacy problems with Google Buzz.



Google - Class action - Google Buzz - Searching - Search Engines

SUMMARY This article describes how to apply local policies to all users, except administrators, on a Windows 2000-based computer that is in a workgroup setting.

Pardon me if this is a a oeduha topic, but it was new to me and so may be new to other developers too, soa The registry has changed under Windows 64 presumably starting from Windows Server 2003 64 bit and Windows XP 64 bit.

Spam is already clogging Ping's boards, and many bloggers aren't thrilled with Ping's implementation.



Apple - Spam - iTunes - E-mail - Social network

New IBM research shows a way to move live cloud deployments across different storage networks.



IBM - Hardware - Mainframe - Operating Systems - Historical

Apple scores a first: More people browsed the Net last month with its mobile operating system than used Linux to do so.



Linux - Android - Mobile operating system - Operating system - Apple

The latest batch of iPods unveiled by Apple earlier this week are about to begin shipping, and this latest generation brings some pretty big changes across...



Apple - IPod - IpodTouch - Steve Jobs - IpodNano

An iPod event is always followed by some cases, and here are some of the highlights of the first batch.



IPod - IpodTouch - IpodNano - Shopping - Digital Portable Players

Twitter and other online services have made shortening URLs a regular chore; such URLs are handy not only on social networks, but anytime you need to share links...



Twitter - Social network - Uniform Resource Locator - Online Communities - Trending and Popularity

TV makers lock down these deals to convey the idea that 3D content actually exists, and Hollywood studios like the deals because they provide a guaranteed return on the 3D investment.



Television - Avatar - Blu-ray Disc - Panasonic Corporation - Movies

A consumer rights group has created a cartoon showing Google CEO Schmidt as an child-baiting ice cream truck driver and put it on a billboard in Times Square. Who's being evil here?



Google - Times Square - Consumer Watchdog - Ice cream - Eric E. Schmidt

After the Apple TV device, Apple could put its internally developed A4 chip in low-power devices or networked media center devices.



Apple - appletv - Apple A4 - Companies - Macintosh

When Steve Jobs introduced iTunes 10 last week, the aspect he seemed most excited about was Ping, which he described as a, "social network for music" that...



Steve Jobs - Social network - Apple - ITunes Store - Facebook