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Baidu Leads Over Google in Chinese Market
2007-09-19 13:37:00 A new report shows Baidu.com increased its share of the search market in China’s top cities, while rival Google lost ground despite continued heavy investments in its Chinese operations. Baidu has a 69.5 percent share of the search market in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, up 7.6 percentage points since last ... More About: Market , Search Engine , Leads
Nintendo Confirms Zelda Game with Wii Zapper
2007-09-11 15:27:00 At E3 this year , Nintendo announced the Wii Zapp er, a housing for the Wii-mote and Nunchuck controller, turning them into a nifty light gun. There was criticism however; the Wii Zapper was merely overpriced plastic. Could a new Zelda game packed with the Zapper belay those fears? At the Electronic Entertainment Expo: ... More About: Gaming , Game
Nintendo Wii Leads in Console War
2007-09-04 10:20:00 Nintendo’s Wii continues to dominate the Japanese console market, according to latest sales figures. Nintendo sold nearly a quarter of a million machines during August, whilst Sony sold just over 80,000 PlayStation 3s and Microsoft just 11,000 Xbox 360s. The sales figures, released by Japanese game magazine publisher Enterbrain, confirm a trend seen in other ... More About: Gadgets , Nintendo , Nintendo Wii , Leads , Console
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) Coming in 2008
2007-08-30 04:44:00 After months of silence, Microsoft finally coughed up details Tuesday about its plans for the first update to Windows Vista , saying the service pack will arrive in the first quarter of next year. In the next few weeks, Microsoft will start private testing of a beta of Service Pack 1 for Vista as well as a ... More About: Windows Vista
Hardware Hacker Unlocks iPhone
2007-08-27 16:28:00 Combination of soldering and software hacking allows Apple ’s smartphone to be used on any network, but software tampering and reselling the unlocked phones may be breaking US law. A teenage boy has successfully hacked Apple’s iPhone smartphone, unlocking the device to allow its full use on networks other than the US AT&T service. George Hotz, a 17-year-old ... More About: Hardware , Gadgets , Iphone , Hacker
Cool Your House With A Pool Theater
2007-08-25 11:05:00 Here’s a convergence device you probably haven’t heard much about at technology conferences, but it’s interesting. SolarAttic sells a system—the Pool Convection System 2—that sucks hot air out of the attic of your house and pumps it into a heat exchanger to heat your pool. In the summertime, the temperature in your attic can get up ... More About: House , Technology , Theater , Cool
PS3 Gets Folding@Home Update Enables PSP Remote Play
2007-08-22 06:45:00   It’s been a few months since the PS3’s Folding @Home client received an upgrade, and thanks to heaps of complaints suggestions, the developers have finally conjured up another refresh. This go ’round, users will notice a “totally revised rendering engine for the molecules and a more sophisticated display format,” but beyond aesthetics, the newest version now ... More About: Gaming , Play , Update
Apple and Google Fall, Yahoo Climbs?
2007-08-15 14:36:00 Consumers are less satisfied than with both Apple and Googl e than they were 12 months ago but Yahoo is being viewed in a more positive light according to a new survey in the US. According to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), released by the University of Michigan’s National Quality Research Center yesterday, Apple’s phenomenal success ... More About: Fall
Forbes Acquired Social Bookmarking Site Clipmarks
2007-08-08 05:07:00 Clipmarks, one of the many startups that helps users collect and organize information from around the web, is being bought by Forbes Magazine, an inside source tells us. The New York-based startup lets you select text, photos or videos on web pages, then use Clipmark’s bookmarking feature to save the URL and your selected information to ... More About: Social , Site , Social Bookmarking , Bookmarking
Apple iPhone iPod Hi-Fi Tone Control Support
2007-08-05 07:15:00 Along with documented security and Safari bug patches, and several undocumented but user-discovered changes to other applications, Apple has updated the iPhone’s software in version 1.0.1 to enhance iPod accessory compatibility. When docked in an iPod Hi-Fi speaker system, an iPod Hi-Fi menu now appears under Settings, enabling the iPhone to access the same Treble ... More About: Iphone , Ipod , Support , Control
Vista Hotfix Packs Leaks to Web
2007-07-31 04:20:00 Windows Vista hotfixes leak to the Internet after being offered to Windows Server 2008 beta testers this weekend. Two substantial collections of Windows Vista hotfixes leaked to the Internet after being offered to Windows Server 2008 beta testers this weekend, leading some users to speculate that the pair are actually the foundation of the future ... More About: Security , Microsoft , Pack , Leaks
The Next Version of Windows: 7
2007-07-22 06:49:00 Microsoft is planning to ship its next major version of Windows —known internally as version “7”—within roughly three years, CNET News.com has learned. The company discussed Windows 7 on Thursday at a conference for its field sales force in Orlando, Fla., according to sources close to the company. While the company provided few details, Windows 7, the next ... More About: Microsoft , Version
Complete iPhone Apps, Hacks And Reviews
2007-07-18 12:34:00 Rockin’ Out with iPhone As groovy as the iPhone is, it is missing a lot of stuff. In response to this a cottage industry of sorts has popped up in response. Whether you have a iPhone today or plan to get one some time in the future, here is a list of super cool links that ... More About: Hacks , Reviews , Apple , Gadgets , Iphone
Next Generation iPhone-like iPod
2007-07-13 14:33:00 Reports from Taiwan suggest that Apple may launch next month a new iPod that looks, feels and works like an iPhone, but without the phone part. DigiTimes, a Taiwan-based publication that often leaks details about local companies that make electronic components for companies worldwide, says Taiwan-based Wintek has won a large touchscreen display contract for Apple’s ... More About: Gadgets , Iphone , Ipod , Like
Next Generation Social Networks From Yahoo & Google
2007-07-10 16:12:00 Yahoo Mosh We don’t know much yet, other than the project exists, it will be launched at mosh.yahoo.com and is being called a “new cool social network product” within Yahoo. No screen shots are available yet. Google Social stream Google Operating System is reporting that Google is sponsoring a project at Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute ... More About: Yahoo , Social Networks , Networks
NASA Buys $19 Million Toilet System
2007-07-07 16:05:00 CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) — In space, a loo costs a lot. NASA has agreed to pay $19 million for a Russian-built toilet system for the international space station. The figure may sound astronomical for a toilet in space, but NASA officials said it was cheaper than building their own. “It’s akin to building a municipal treatment center ... More About: Technology , System , Toilet , Nasa , Million
iPhone: To Buy Or Not To Buy
2007-06-30 06:29:00 One’s a PC brain, the other’s a Mac-head—two PC World editors strongly disagree about owning this week’s must-have gadget. Two experienced PC World staffers, two very different takes on the iPhone. Chip is eager to pick up a sexy device that will finally bring his Apple world all together, while Alan has no desire to buy ... More About: Gadgets , Iphone
Putting HD Video On Your Phone
2007-06-26 05:12:00 Apple will release one of the most highly touted cell phones in history this week. And by next year, those first iPhone s will likely be woefully outdated. Chipmaker Texas Instruments is in the middle of ramping up for the release of its third-generation OMAP processor, a platform for cell phones. Cell phones containing OMAP 3 will ... More About: Video , Videos , Technology , Gadgets
Big Brother Is Watching You? And He?s A Computer
2007-06-22 16:17:00 The threat of cameras combined with artificial intelligence. Privacy activists have been lamenting increasing surveillance by cameras and warn of abuse by the authorities who have access to them. But two additional trends portend a disturbing new direction. The first trend: Cameras are increasingly monitoring non-criminals engaged in technically legal behavior. The second trend: Special new artificial ... More About: Entertainment , Big Brother , Computer , Watching , Brother
Internet Overload: Will The Net Survive?
2007-06-18 05:07:00 As the flood of data across the internet continues to increase, there are those that say sometime soon it is going to collapse under its own weight. But that is what they said last year. Back in the early 90s, those of us that were online were just sending text e-mails of a few bytes each, ... More About: Internet , Technology , Survive , Intern , Vive
YouTube Launches Online Editing Tool
2007-06-17 12:48:00 YouTube has begun offering a Web-based editing tool that is apparently provided by Adobe Systems. The “remixer,” which is branded with an Adobe logo, enables users to create more professional-looking videos by splicing together media such as video clips, photos, music, graphics and other effects, according to information found on the site. Representatives of YouTube and ... More About: Software , Youtube , Tool , Online , Editing
MBW-150 Bluetooth Watch From Sony Ericsson
2007-06-16 16:29:00 Sony Ericsson MBW-150 is the new watch of the manufacturer, featuring Bluetooth technology to connect with your mobile phone and act as a remote control for it. Featuring an OLED display that hides when inactive, the phone displays the name/number on an incoming call or the track’s name if you are listening to music. Using ... More About: Watch , Gadgets , Sony Ericsson , Sony
Car Of The Future
2007-06-15 16:45:00 A team of researchers at MIT is designing the CityCar, a tiny urban-assault vehicle with electric motors in all four wheels. Photo: Courtesy of MIT Media Lab/Franco Vairani Where will the car of the future come from? Detroit, which fumbled the electric automobile and let Japan grab the lead in hybrids? Not likely. Instead, try NASA, ... More About: Future , Transportation , The Future
New Leopard Features From Apple?s Mac OS X
2007-06-15 15:35:00 Apple showed off lots of new features of its upcoming Leopard release of Mac OS X at WWDC on Monday. Here’s a look at some of the highlights. Stacks These screens from Apple’s new Leopard preview illustrate the many new features revealed at today’s WWDC. Leopard’s new system for eliminating desktop clutter is called “Stacks.” Click any ... More About: Apple , Features , Browser , Mac os
New Leopard Features From Apple?s Mac OS X
2007-06-13 09:55:00 Apple showed off lots of new features of its upcoming Leopard release of Mac OS X at WWDC on Monday. Here’s a look at some of the highlights. Stacks These screens from Apple’s new Leopard preview illustrate the many new features revealed at today’s WWDC. Leopard’s new system for eliminating desktop clutter is called “Stacks.” Click any ... More About: Apple , Features , Browser , Mac os
Firefox 3 Alpha 5 (Grand Paradiso) Released
2007-06-09 08:12:00 New alpha release is the first to include the much-anticipated, database-driven revamp of the bookmarks feature called Places. Mozilla made an early testing release of its Firefox 3 browser available for download, and this alpha version (code-named Gran Paradiso) for the first time adds the anticipated Places feature for bookmarks. According to Mike Connor, director of Firefox ... More About: Firefox 3 , Alpha , Released , Browser
Movable Type 4.0 In Beta Release
2007-06-06 13:45:00 Movable Type just announced Movable Type 4.0 beta. The big news about this announcement is that Movable Type 4.0 will be open-source. TMC’s blogs run on the Movable Type platform, so I am very excited over this news. First, a brief history lesson… A few years ago, Movable Type became the fastest growing and most ... More About: Software , Beta , Release , Lease
Apple TV Streams Youtube Videos
2007-05-31 05:00:00 Apple TV will soon be able to stream YouTube videos as well as providing the option of greater storage. Thousands of most current and popular YouTube videos will be available on Apple TV by mid June with 1000’s being added each month. The number will be increased on a weekly basis until the full catalogue ... More About: Videos , Youtube , Apple , Gadgets
Today?s Latest And Greatest Smart Phones
2007-05-28 14:39:00 Smart phones are growing in popularity, and we’re not surprised. These devices combine the power of a cell phone and a PDA into one unit, letting you make calls, send e-mails, and work on documents without having myriad gadgets. Here we’ve rounded up some of the latest and greatest smart phones on the market today. ... More About: Gadgets , Phones , Smart , Today , Smart Phones
Gmail Double Maximum Attachment Size To 20MB
More articles from this author:2007-05-24 15:44:00 Gmail doubled its maximum attachment size from 10 MB to 20 MB. Gmail was quite forgiving and you could send more than 10 MB in some cases, but now it’s possible to attach at least 20 MB in a single message. Google is often the first mover to increase size restrictions for its free email ... More About: Gmail , Double , Size , Maxi 1, 2, 3, 4 |
