Google are supposedly planning on selling their own Google branded PCs through WalMart stores.
Needless to say, they will not be shipping with Windows.
Portable hard drives challenging Flash drives in terms of cost and size
Price per MB, portable hard drives are now cheaper than the Flash drives that are now more common than floppy disks. The NAND type of RAM in Flash cards currently sells for around $45 per GB, whereas portable harddrives are down to around $18 per GB.
Cornice will be demo’ing their latest line of portable harddrives at this year’s CSE show that are about the size of a pack of cards, and come in 8Gb and 10Gb sizes.
Fixing InvalidClassExceptions with Serialization in Java SE 5.0
I recently came across this problem working on a webapp and deploying to JBoss4.0.1/Tomcat5.0 running on Java SE 5.0 – it seems that in 5.0 the JVM strictly enforces a verison value for each serializable class, and if one is not explicitly declared then it is generated, and chances are the value will be different each time a webapp is deployed, even if there are no changes to the Serializable classes.
See my post here in my Java notes section on how to resolve this.
Google buy 5% stake in AOL for $1billion
Google recently invested in a 5% share of TimeWarner AOL, for a none too insignificant sum of $1 billion. Thats a lot of cash to spend on a company that has traditionally been viewed as uncool by anyone vaguely internet-savvy.
So what was Google’s interest in AOL that was worth $1billion to them? Possibly integration with various media offerings that AOL currently has and may have access to in the future via parent company Time Warner? Live 8 concerts, MTV video, downloadable TV shows, their partnership with XM radio, their music subscription service? Any of these may fit in well for Google’s plan to continue their indexing of the world’s content, and possibly they are looking to branch out into other media formats?
Here’s an idea for you, and something that I don’t think any search engine can currently do. You know that song that goes ‘la la la-la, di di, do do’? – Search. Now that would be very cool.