Pats' Tom Brady vows to play better

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady told a national television audience that he "sucked" in his team's AFC Championship Game victory over the Baltimore Ravens this past Sunday.

Jerry Jones is all for change

Dallas Cowboys owner/general manager Jerry Jones said he believes in his team's core group. He should. But many have misunderstood Jones, thinking he doesn't believe the Cowboys need change.

 

Jones thinks change is needed. He cited potential new faces in the secondary and didn't offer an endorsement of veteran cornerback Terence Newman.

The Cowboys will also re-evaluate how they grade their interior offensive linemen. It seemed the Cowboys were fooled into thinking some of their younger linemen were ready to take on the first teams of the New York Jets, New York Giants, Washington Redskins, Detroit Lions, etc.

They weren't, and now Jones and the rest of the front office are seeking better talent along the offensive line.

Linux Mint 13 gets back to desktop basics

Bucking the trend of increasingly experimental desktop interfaces, the developers behind the Linux Mint are adopting a simpler desktop for the next version of the open-source Linux distribution.
Linux Mint 13 will feature an entirely new user interface, called Cinnamon. Earlier this week, the Linux Mint developers released a version of the shell. Previous editions of Linux Mint used a standard version of the Gnome environment.

Forrester: Apple breaks Microsoft's lock on enterprise workers

The iPhone may have opened the door for Apple in the enterprise, but it was the one-two punch of the iPad and revamped MacBook Air in 2010 that really did the trick, an analyst said today.
The result: An end to Microsoft's long-running monopoly in the enterprise.

How does Google's new privacy policy compare?

Some politicians, privacy advocates, and pundits have been stirred into a frenzy in the wake of Google's newly announced overarching privacy policy. Critics have expressed everything from concern to outrage, suggesting Google will suddenly begin tracking users' each and every move around the Internet and will use that precious data in frightening and unspeakable ways.

Oracle proposal would create single committee to oversee Java specs

If a new proposal by Oracle is accepted, oversight of Java technical standards will fall under the auspices of a single committee, rather than the current system, which has separate entities for Java EE/SE and ME.
Java SE and EE concern desktop and server environments while ME is for mobile and embedded uses of Java.

Android's tablet shipments triple, says study

Sales of Android-based tablets to retailers more than tripled during the fourth quarter of 2011, according to Strategy Analytics. Global tablet shipments reached 26.8 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011, a 150 percent increase from 10.7 million during the same period in 2010.

LTE-Advanced gets the go-ahead, but don't expect faster 4G as a result

The 4G network standards approved last week by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) stadards body may improve the mobile data experience soon, even if consumers don't actually see the 100Mbps mobile speed for which they were designed.
The ITU gave its seal of approval to the two new standards, LTE-Advanced and WirelessMAN-Advanced, at the ITU Radiocommunication Assembly in Geneva last Wednesday. WirelessMAN-Advanced, the second generation of WiMax, is not expected to be widely deployed. But LTE-Advanced, the next version of the Long-Term Evolution standard chosen by most carriers moving to 4G, could start improving mobile networks soon.