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Cool relief for the summer game doldrums
2007-06-04 04:39:00 The summer video game doldrums are almost here, but a small flurry of new titles over the next couple of weeks may help tide gamers over until the fall bounty. Microsoft is making the biggest splash with three games this week. The software giant’s Xbox 360 console gets the long-awaited racing simulator Forza Motorsport 2, as well ... More About: Summer , Cool , Game , Drum , Relief
Tech-inspired summer camps: 10 cool choices
2007-06-04 04:38:00 When it comes to high-tech camps, summer diversions for the C++ crowd are now playgrounds for tomorrow’s creative scientists, filmmakers, animators, photographers, engineers, astronauts, doctors, and, yes, even rock stars. Today’s campers use equipment and software you’d expect to find at elite college campuses or production studios, with camp prices varying from free to up to ... More About: Summer , Tech , Cool , Summer Camp , Choi
Sony Posts Software Upgrade to PlayStation 3
2007-05-27 17:22:00 TOKYO ? A free download upgrade for the Sony PlayStation 3 enhances the image quality of movies and old video games and allows people to check out stored video, music files and digital photos through the Internet with the handheld PlayStation Portable. The upgrade, available for download worldwide Thursday, will improve the visual quality ... More About: Software , Playstation , Playstation 3 , Posts
Connecticut Lawsuit Accuses Best Buy of Overcharging Customers
2007-05-27 17:20:00 HARTFORD, Conn. ? Connect icut ’s attorney general announced a lawsuit Thursday against Best Buy Co. Inc. (BBY), accusing the nation’s largest consumer electronics retailer of deceiving customers with in-store computer kiosks and overcharging them. The lawsuit accuses Best Buy of denying deals found at the company’s Web site, http://www.BestBuy.com. Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said store employees ... More About: Lawsuit , Customers , Custom
Sirius Satellite Radio Boss: ?We Suck Less!?
2007-05-27 17:18:00 NEW YORK ? Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. (SIRI) CEO Mel Karmazin sought to allay shareholder concerns at the company’s annual meeting Thursday, saying he was just as disappointed as other investors in Sirius’ lagging stock price. Compared to rival XM (XMSR), however, he said: “We suck less.” Karmazin, addressing shareholders at an auditorium in midtown ... More About: Boss , Suck , Satellite Radio
Woz magic of electronics and computers
2007-05-21 03:37:00 SAN MATEO, Calif.–If there’s one person who perfectly personifies Maker Faire, it could well be Steve Wozniak. That’s why a standing-room only crowd had gathered to see him speak at the event Saturday afternoon, and so when he still hadn’t shown up five minutes after he was scheduled on the main stage here, there was some ... More About: Computers , Electronics , Magic , Tron
Secure Chips for Gadgets Set to Soar
2007-05-21 03:35:00 Consumer electronics will become an exploding market over the next six years for chipmakers who incorporate security features into their silicon, according to a research report released last week. While hardware’s role in protecting content on consumer devices is small today, that won’t be the case in the coming years, according to technology research firm ... More About: Gadgets , Gets , Secure , Chips , Chip
AMD?s Griffin, Puma Pounce on Mobile Market
2007-05-21 03:33:00 AMD (NYSE: AMD) Latest News about AMD executives began spreading the word Friday about the company’s code name for its new next-generation mobile microprocessor, named “Griffin,” as well as its new platform for notebook computers, known as “Puma .” Expected to debut in laptops in the latter half of 2008, the chip and platform will go into ... More About: Mobile , Market , Mark , Mobi
IBM Commits $1B to Cure Datacenter Energy Crisis
2007-05-16 06:03:00 IBM (NYSE: IBM) Latest News about IBM will begin investing US$1 billion per year across its businesses to dramatically increase the energy efficiency of information technology, the company announced Thursday. As part of its “Project Big Green” plan that includes new products and services, Big Blue aims to sharply reduce datacenter energy consumption and to transform ... More About: Energy , Center , Enter , Comm , Crisis
Remote Home Monitoring: Passing Fad or Wave of the Future?
2007-05-16 06:00:00 A number of firms have recently launched remote Manage remotely with one interface — the HP ProLiant DL360 G5 server. home monitoring services. Are they able to do so because of widespread broadband adoption or consumer demand? The answer is both, but to examine this issue in more depth, we should explore both sides and see ... More About: Future , Home , The Future , Sing , Pass
Start-up Robot Genius deploys new security technology
2007-05-15 02:58:00 Robot Genius, an Oakland, Calif.-based start-up, announced Monday that it has created a new suite of security products designed to combat malicious software attacks like spyware, adware, and rootkits through a threefold approach of prevention, detection, and remediation. The products can be downloaded individually or used in collaboration. The first component of the software package is ... More About: Security , Technology , Robot , Start-Up , Start
Robots for the rest of us
2007-05-15 02:57:00 Carnegie Mellon University unveiled a new project Thursday designed to help people make robots from parts found at the local hardware store. The Telepresence Robo t Kit, dubbed Terk, was developed by Illah Nourbakhsh, an associate professor of robotics, and his team at the Community Robotics, Education and Technology Empowerment Lab at CMU. The project got financial ... More About: Robots , Bots , Rest
AMD goes quad-core with Phenom
2007-05-15 02:55:00 Advanced Micro Devices says its badly needed quad-core desktop processors are on the way, and they’ll arrive bearing a new name. Later this year, AMD will unveil its Phenom processors in quad-core and dual-core iterations. Two quad-core chips will be available in the second half of the year, the Phenom FX and the Phenom X4, ... More About: Core , Quad-core , Quad , Goes
Study says iPods can make pacemakers malfunction
2007-05-14 06:22:00 iPods can cause cardiac implantable pacemakers to malfunction by interfering with the electromagnetic equipment monitoring the heart, according to a study presented by a 17-year-old high school student to a meeting of heart specialists on Thursday. The study tested the effect of the portable music devices on 100 patients, whose mean age was 77, outfitted with ... More About: Study , Make , Makers , Pace , Ipods
Sake may power Japanese cars of the future
2007-05-14 06:21:00 SHINANOMACHI, Japan–Japanese motorists may one day pump their cars full of sake, the fermented rice wine that is Japan’s national drink, if a pilot project to create sake fuel is a hit with locals in this mountain resort. The government-funded project at Shinanomachi, 124 miles northwest of Tokyo, will produce cheap rice-origin ethanol brew with the ... More About: Power , Cars , Future , The Future
ClearSpeed expands math accelerator line
2007-05-13 06:30:00 ClearSpeed has added a second option to its line of add-in cards that boost a computer’s computational power with a special-purpose processor. The company’s first Advance X620 card plugged into servers’ PCI-X slots, the last of an older generation of input/output technology. The newer model, called the e620, uses the PCI Express technology common on mainstream ... More About: Math , Clear , Line , Ears
Shrinking the cost for solar power
2007-05-13 06:27:00 A sufficiently large solar thermal power plant (also called concentrated solar power, or CSP) could potentially generate electricity at about the same cost as electricity from a conventional gas-burning power plant, experts say. It’s not easy. The plant would also have to come with a large energy storage system, be built next to others and ... More About: Power , Solar Power , Solar , Cost , King
A small step to improve disk reliability
2007-05-12 06:12:00 The storage industry isn’t necessarily known for being a fast mover. Take for example this memo, dated October 2003 (it?s in Microsoft Word format), in which Seagate made clear the need to move the physical block size of disk drives to 4,096 ... More About: Disk , Small , Improve , Mall , Bili
3Leaf Systems: Scale up by scaling out
2007-05-12 06:10:00 3Leaf Systems co-founder and CEO Bob Quinn is a betting man. A veteran of startups specializing in event-driven architectures, network processing, and scalable SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) systems, Quinn is now wagering that hardware and software technology will turn heaps of AMD and Intel x64 servers into virtualized “warehouses” of compute, memory, and I/O resources. “3Leaf was ... More About: Cale , Scale , Stem
Microsoft invites hackers back for Blue Hat
2007-05-11 08:17:00 Microsoft is once again inviting members of the hacking community into its Redmond, Washington, campus to show the software giant where it’s gone wrong. The company’s latest Blue Hat conference kicked off Wednesday with talks on mobile security, hardware hacking, Microsoft’s ... More About: Microsoft , Back , Hackers , Micro
Why the PSP Can?t Smash the iPod, Apple Gets Rid of Editor, 3 Gifts for Mom
2007-05-08 03:12:00 Looking back at last week, I had a lot to choose from, but the two things that I thought were the most interesting were Sony’s (NYSE: SNE) dropping the PSP (PlayStation Portable) price to a very attractive US$169, and the resignation of PC World’s editor in chief over a throwaway Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) piece, which ... More About: Gifts , Ipod , Gets , Editor
Which is the Best Mainstream CPU?
2007-05-07 06:21:00 If you’re looking to buy a new system or a new processor, then you’ve come to the right place. A lot has been going on in the market, though Core 2 Duo is still the best choice, and AMD still has no technology to fight back. Its quad-core processor called Phenom is positioned to be ... More About: Stream , Mains
IBM?s New Nano Chip Process Takes Cue From Nature
2007-05-05 20:58:00 IBM (NYSE: IBM) has developed a method of assembling microchips using nanotechnology, the company stated Thursday, a potentially revolutionary process for insulating tiny wires by allowing them to assemble themselves around air gaps. This advance could make next-generation chips dramatically faster and more energy efficient, IBM said. IBM borrowed the concept directly from nature, using the ... More About: Nature , Proc , Nano , Process , Chip
Social Engineering Blamed for Xbox Live Hacks
2007-05-04 10:15:00 Unscrupulous players on the Microsoft Xbox Live system were able to gain access to other players’ accounts. The gamers reportedly used pretexting and other forms of social engineering to trick customer service staffers into revealing private information.Microsoft downplayed the attacks saying they were isolated incidents. Ill-willed players on the Microsoft (Nasdaq: ... More About: Social , Hacks , Xbox Live , Engineering
Nvidia Unleashes Graphics Card Speed Demon
2007-05-04 10:08:00 Nvidia has unveiled a speedy new graphics card that will be a key component of the “definitive gaming platform.” The company says the GeForce 8800 Ultra tops the performance of its previous record-breaker, the GeForce 8800 GTX GPU. Card s in the GeForce 8 Series are the reference GPUs for Microsoft DirectX 10 API development. Graphics technology ... More About: Speed , Demo , Demon
Apple-Intel: Marriage Made in Heaven?
2007-03-30 01:51:00 “I just don’t see a problem here,” Peter Kastner, vice president of enterprise technology at Aberdeen, told MacNewsWorld. Indeed, he sees the Intel move as a boon to Apple ’s growing fan base. “With easier virtual processing between OS X and Windows XP, more people are buying a Mac. Sales were up four times the industry ... More About: Marriage , Heaven , Made
Virtual Worlds Are Web?s Newest Frontier
2007-03-30 01:48:00 Businesses are beginning to see major opportunities in the field of virtual worlds, where users represent themselves with online embodiments called “avatars” and interact with others in 3-D landscapes. There’s money to be made — MTV has sold over 11,000 virtual cans of Pepsi that buyers can’t actually drink — but it’s not clear which ... More About: World , West , Worlds , Virtual , Front
Microsoft crashes Sony PS3 launch
2007-03-24 12:11:00 The European launch of the PlayStation 3 has been met by both cheers and indifference across the continent. London saw the biggest turnout and all those that turned up for the midnight event also got a free HD TV to go with their new console. But in France, Germany and many other places crowds of keen ... More About: Microsoft , Sony , Ashes , Launch , Soft
Google As Dictator: 5 Most Devious Things It Could Do, If It Were Evil
2007-03-24 11:55:00 Imagine if we all lived in the Kingdom of Google . The emperor has immense amounts of information, is a brilliant strategist and continues to grow in power. Now imagine for a minute that the emperor is not only brilliant, but also devious. What type of patterns of behavior might we expect in this hypothetical land ... More About: Evil , Things , Most , Thing
Private rocket rides into space
More articles from this author:2007-03-22 11:43:00 Privateer Elon Musk has launched his budget rocket, Falcon-1, from the Kwajalein Atoll in the South Pacific. The 21m-long vehicle lifted off at 1810 California time (0110 GMT) and rose to an altitude of 320km (200 miles). Mr Musk, who co-founded the internet financial system PayPal, wants to lower the cost of access to space. ... More About: Space , Rock , Ride , Rocket , Private 1, 2 |
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