Posts Tagged with ‘free’

More IBM news today. Perhaps the company’s doing some much-needed catching up in the PR dept?
The company has announced the delivery of Lotus Symphony – free of charge. Should one applaud? Should one care?
I don’t know. There’s a good deal of truth to the free-equals-good argument. Free software is a wonderful thing. It gets a lot of people producing things and enjoying things already produced who usually wouldn’t be able (due to financial constraints). But there’s also truth to the [...]

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, open is good. Open is very good. It allows for lots of cooperation, commiseration, and, believe it or not, progression. Yes, progression. It’s true.
Unfortunately, Verizon Wireless doesn’t appear to like progression all that much.
The company has filed suit in federal court, asking that the rules the FCC is "imposing on the winner of valuable wireless airwaves to be auctioned this winter" be struck down and removed from the sales sheet, as it [...]

Last night I synced my iPod (fifth gen, for those who care to know) to my iTunes library, disconnected, crashed on the nearest couch I could find, and found a new episode of MacBreak Weekly awaiting a listen on the device. The two hours that followed (it was 104 minutes in length precisely, but a few pauses pushed the session to somewhere around 120) were quite interesting indeed.
The topic around which the most discussion encircled was open source, and [...]

The news many weeks back of music giant EMI’s transfer to a DRM-free existence on the Web, and the subsequent decision by Universal Music Group that came only days ago to do the same with its catalogue, has been accepted with (mostly) open arms by the blogosphere. Yes, there are some particulars concerning where the tracks have been chosen to be sold and whether the switch is temporary or in fact a permanent one that have kept a number of [...]

There are days when I think I should have a t-shirt that says "I survived Web 1.0" so that I'm easily identified as a bit of a skeptic when it comes to the next wave of cool new toys. My husband worked for a 1.0 start-up for five years. Many of our friends also worked for start-ups, often moving from start-up to start-up like tiny ants hopping from one domino to another as they fell during the dot-com bust. So [...]

Craigslist has long been known as the king of classifieds sites and for good reason. It is completely free of charge and utilizes a simple, no-frills design that gets the job done whether you like the look or not. Now, eBay is entering the ring with it's Craigslist rival that has finally come stateside after having operated for two years in several other countries overseas. The localized classifieds service first launched in Canada, France, Germany, Italy, China, Japan, and Taiwan [...]

iPhone is big even though it has not been released yet. But it will be released soon (June, 29 in case you have not heard this date yet) and I guess it will be even bigger when it is actually available. Besides, iPhone is the most Web 2.0-ish gadget we have heard of recently. Profy is always willing to give our readers the best of Web 2.0. And here is our next move in this direction. This summer you will [...]

A Reuters headline published yesterday read, “Study sees no future in selling video downloads.” The gist of the corresponding article? That demand for paid-for video downloads - the files iTunes users are able to procure from Apple’s digital storefront, for example – will taper off and only advertisement-supported content will remain standing.
The study was conducted by the researchers over at Forrester, an oft-cited source for technology-related data in just about all media industries. (Print, television, radio, [...]

We at Profy are great fans of StumbleUpon. We've reported on this great social bookmarking and discovery community several times already and I as the editor and also our authors use it to discover new Web 2.0 sites for review and to share newsworthy items with our friends.  StumbleUpon can really enhance your surfing and help you discover hidden treasures you didn't know existed - easily and via a very clean and user-friendly interface that's like a fun game.
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