Nine Baud Tech News

From Apple Insider:

“While Apple cited a shift in resources to iPhone and more time for developers to beta test as reasons for the delay, our analysis indicates that if not for the ’secret’ features, the core Leopard operating system would likely have shipped on time,” American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu told clients on Friday. “We believe the extra time Apple is allocating is for developers to test secret features that will likely be revealed at its WWDC 2007 conference starting on June 11, 2007.”

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Tags: Apple, Leopard, OS Delay

Well, as part of my house cleaning I added some scripts to help me harvest all of the subscribers into a Feedbuner feed. Let’s just say I was blown away when I realized just how many people read this site. My apologies for the half assed approach I have taken lately as I’ve been focused on my other sites. Now that I know how many people are reading Nine Baud I will make a concerted attempt to start updating this site daily. For those of you who have been good enough to last this long, THANKS!

Tags: Feedburner, RSS, Subscribers

The combination of Google and DoubleClick will offer superior tools for targeting, serving and analyzing online ads of all types, significantly benefiting customers and consumers:

* For users, the combined company will deliver an improved experience on the web, by increasing the relevancy and the quality of the ads they see.
* For online publishers, the combination provides access to new advertisers, which creates a powerful opportunity to monetize their inventory more efficiently.
* For agencies and advertisers, Google and DoubleClick will provide an easy and efficient way to manage both search and display ads in one place. They will be able to optimize their ad spending across different online media using a common set of metrics.

DoubleClick? Really? DoubleClick?

Alright.

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Tags: Google, Doubleclick, M&A

We now plan to show our developers a near final version of Leopard at the conference, give them a beta copy to take home so they can do their final testing, and ship Leopard in October. We think it will be well worth the wait.

Good things come to those who wait.

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[tasg]OS X, Leopard, Apple[/tags]

Internet phone company Vonage Holdings Corp. said Thursday that its Chief Executive Officer Michael Snyder stepped down and that it would cut costs, amid growing worries about its future after setbacks in a patent lawsuit by Verizon Communications Inc..

Ah crap. This can only be a bad sign. Now, are the corporate officers dumping shares?

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Tags: Vonage, VoIP, Michael Snyder

Giggles. Another reason to love my Mac.

Windows Vista’s built-in file versioning (which I raved about not so long ago) will do the backing up in the Basic and Home Premium versions of Vista, but you can’t restore the data from backup unless you’re running Enterprise, Business or Ultimate.

I’m not sure what to say about this except that when Vista takes a whoopin’ from the new Mac OS, Leopard (with Time Machine), it’ll be that much more deserved.

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Tags: Vista Backups, Vista, Mac, Leopard

D’oh

Viacom said yesterday that it picked Yahoo as its online advertising partner in a multi-year deal that could help Yahoo become a more formidable challenger to Google — Viacom’s opponent in a legal squabble over video copyrights.

Small text-based ads will appear next to search results and other relevant content on 33 Web sites owned by Viacom, including MTV.com, VH1.com, ComedyCentral.com, Nickelodeon.com and BET.com. The deal is a victory for Yahoo, which has been losing ground to Google in the online advertising business.

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Want to know just how much caffeine is coursing through your brain?

Fun and games…unless you spike way over. I’m calling the ER right now.

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Tags: Energy Drinks, Caffeine

Google has added themes to their personalized home pages. At first I thought this was a little silly but, now, running the “beach” theme I find it easier on the eyes than the usual stark white.

It changes the layout depending on your local time of day.

Tags: Google, Google Themes, Google Home Page

Here is an interesting article from Wired that tackles the reality of Mac in todays market. It is a good thing. I deal with a half-wit at work that has drunk so much Microsoft Kool-aid that it leaks out of every orifice. Nice guy, but, damn.

There’s been a distinct sea change in the way people think about Apple in the last few weeks.

Recently, people have been saying the strangest things about Apple and the Mac. Everything is topsy-turvy. Pundits aren’t trotting out the old conventional wisdoms any more. They’re saying odd stuff, like Macs are good for business; Macs can save money; and that Apple’s stock — at $90 a share — is a bargain.

For the full article follow the link.

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Tags: Apple, Mac, Wired