The Dell DJ Ditty, discontinued in 2006.
(Credit: CNET reviews)

Let’s leave aside the question of whether the world needs yet another end-to-end hardware-software-services play in the MP3 player space. (Ask Microsoft how that’s going with
Zune.)

According to a report in today’s Wall Street Journal, Dell is considering re-entering the MP3 player market later this year. [...]

For details of Squirrelfish’s techniques–bytecode optimization, a polymorphic inline cache, a context-threaded just-in-time compiler, and a regular expression just-in-time compiler–check the WebKit blog.

WebKit's SquirrelFish Extreme is faster than its three-month-old predecessor on the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark.

Just about every browser out there now is trying to grab the crown for fastest performance for running JavaScript, the [...]

“We will not launch in Europe until we are confident that Street View complies with local law, including law relating to the display of images of individuals,” the company said. “We’ll use technology like automated face-blurring and operational controls such as image removal tools so Street View remains useful and in keeping with local laws [...]

But it’s not just Starter edition that people want. To compete against Linux, Microsoft needs full Windows XP on these devices. There are more and more devices like the Eee PC cropping up and they are finding interested buyers, not just in emerging markets, but in mature markets where people are willing to trade a [...]

And, as it is doing in many of its units, Microsoft is creating a “labs” component to its partner program. The first effort there is a social networking tool that will allow partners to collaborate and share ideas with one another. Microsoft is also announcing a new version of its online tool that connects customers [...]

Two services that had been paid–contact management and Intranet portal creation–will now be free.

The company has about 600,000 subscribers for Office Live, which offers, among other things, free e-mail accounts and Web site creation and hosting. The service is tailored to the smallest of businesses that have neither an IT staff nor an outside [...]

The eight UAC settings are found under Local Policies > Security Options. You can find more about these settings on Microsoft’s Windows Vista TechCenter, but I’ll save you the time and trouble: you’re better off leaving the settings as they are. UAC is far from perfect, but it’s better than computing with no UAC at [...]

Every portal leading out of the United States, some of them going in and out of the United States, but talking only about your jurisdiction in the United States. Every portal coming into this country is being attacked by those who would harvest information, both national security secrets and just the common information of private [...]

Turn e-mails into tasks by dragging them over to your to-do bar.
The third folder should be for VIP senders. Create a short list of people in your company or inner circle that should go directly to your inbox. People like your CEO, boss, boss’ boss, or family members. You can also set it up [...]

So the software works. But why did I say that I wasn’t entirely wrong? Because it’s rather misleading to claim that the software accelerates your computer’s gaming performance. It doesn’t do that. If your computer can’t handle a demanding game, Game Booster won’t make it able to do so. All it does is free up [...]