...d against the U.S. The
resource mismatch is massive and you’d think Firefox would have failed
given this massive disadvantage. It didn’t and has become a poster
child the power of viral...
Thursday, September 04, 2008 23:28
...has announced a new Blu-ray player that can stream Netflix
videos. The BD300 will be available this fall for $400 and will have
the stand ard Blu-ray features like 1080p resolution and five cha...
Thursday, September 04, 2008 18:48
...er” which sports a 400-disc capacity of Blu-ray and regular DVD discs. Available in early 2009, this monster player would take nearly $10,000 to fill (assuming an average price of $25 per disc)....
Thursday, September 04, 2008 18:14
...ntative input methods fail and the device recognizes a wrong gesture? You record user's face to detect his frustration. The example provided in the patent depicts hypothetical situation when a user tr...
Thursday, September 04, 2008 17:37
...MPG. After a four-year hiatus, it seems Honda is ready to unleash a new generation of the Insight, this time in a four-door shape and a starting price of about $19,000. The Insight, which will be q...
Thursday, September 04, 2008 16:30
...es every day, but in the past few weeks things seem to have exploded for no apparent reason. Earlier this week in Clearwater, two teenagers were arrested after they robbed 18-year-old Johnathan Bron...
Thursday, September 04, 2008 16:23
...
provider’s approach to slowing down Internet connections violates
federal policies. The outcome of this complaint is unclear, as the
company also said that it will comply with the FCC’s request to...
Thursday, September 04, 2008 15:32
... than many of us would like and the most convenient way to deal with Microsoft file formats is to own this software. Plus, owning a legal copy of Microsoft Office for use in school offers a wealth of ...
Thursday, September 04, 2008 13:51
...d XV545 series,
both of which come stand ard with a “near HD” upscaling technology
announced earlier this year for stand ard video signals. Denver (CA) - Toshiba today announced its fall lineup of LCD...
Thursday, September 04, 2008 12:50
...on and 244 million views, compared to McCain’s 8.2 and 3.2 million. In June, Obama had a 75:1 lead in this category over McCain. "Not only have the two campaigns placed a different level of emphasis ...
Thursday, September 04, 2008 12:03
...\Application; Windows Vista: C:\Users\USER\ AppData\Local\Google\ Chrome\Application). To navigate to this folder, activate the display of hidden files in the options menu of Windows Explorer. Check t...
Thursday, September 04, 2008 11:21
...ons. But while Dell has decides to join its rivals on the
mini-notebook train, it found that calling this device a “netbook”
would not be a good idea. Round Rock (TX) – Dell toda...
Thursday, September 04, 2008 10:17
...lion Sony-manufactured notebook batteries carrying a potential fire hazard a potential were recalled. This time, the fire hazard is not due to batteries, but due to “irregularly positioned wires near ...
Thursday, September 04, 2008 09:27
...o well?
After playing around with Google’s brand new Chrome browser, we’ve
discovered that its his tory search box will fetch all types of data -
even text from HTTPS-protected financial sites...
Thursday, September 04, 2008 05:41
...duction of possible error. The reseracher’s algorithm-generated 3D data was recently put to the test. His data was compared to the true Lidar-based 3D surface map data of an asteroid named Eros, capt...
Thursday, September 04, 2008 00:01
... hours. According to the data published by the market research firm, Chrome held 1.06% at the time of this writing. The spike does not come unexpected, especially if we consider the enormous reportin...
Wednesday, September 03, 2008 18:42
...ake Picassa your default picture viewer for various file types. Serious photographers will love this one because the Picasa’s previewer can view almost all .RAW pictures types including Canon’s ...
Wednesday, September 03, 2008 18:07
... crash not just tabs, but the entire browser time and time again – with two keystrokes. We will let this pass through since Chrome is still in beta, but still: Chrome should not crash that easily. O...
Wednesday, September 03, 2008 16:36
So, is this the next iPod nano? We are almost convinced that Kevin
Rose’s picture of the alleged fourth-generation iPod nano posted on August 25 in
fact was the next iPod nano and we are reli
Wednesday, September 03, 2008 16:04
... Pioneer will introduce the expensive Elite BDP-09FD player at the CEDIA 2008 expo in Denver Colorado this week. What makes this thing so darn expensive? The unit will have 4 GB of internal mem...
Wednesday, September 03, 2008 15:26
...med by Griffiths. But some people believe DVDs may never be supplanted by Blu-ray disc. How is this possible? Well most people in the world (think third world here) don’t own the beautifu...
Wednesday, September 03, 2008 14:54
Opinion - iRobot co-founder Rodney Brooks announced he is leaving his
position as CTO to form a new robotics company. While the new company's
focus and direction will not compete with iRobot'
Wednesday, September 03, 2008 14:39
...ounce a spin-off of the
company’s manufacturing business into a separate company. An analyst
report this morning suggested that AMD is set to release the news in
September, confirming an earlier re...
Wednesday, September 03, 2008 14:23
... the CTRL+Tab feature as well as “Tag Autocomplete, Advanced Search UI, Bulk tagging support, Download His tory integration, Enhanced compatibility checking during upgrades and coherent startup/shutdow...
Wednesday, September 03, 2008 13:18
...007/007407) for a
solar system positioning system (SSPS, like a GPS but for the whole
solar system). His patent was granted last month and proposes we send
out dozens of satellites to various point...
Wednesday, September 03, 2008 11:32
...d applications
for its upcoming iPhone beater Xperia X1. But there are distinct
differences between this effort and what Apple and Google are offering.
At least for now, it appears that Sony Ericss...
Wednesday, September 03, 2008 11:19
... AT&T over the much discussed 3G issues
should not come as a surprise in a sue-happy nation like this . The two
companies are hit with a lawsuit that accuses them of overselling buggy
iPho...
Wednesday, September 03, 2008 10:23
...o convince me that Google’s latest product is an amazing browser and a new type of browser that takes this software category to the next level. At first sight, Chrome may look like it has bypassed all...
Wednesday, September 03, 2008 00:10
...ag and much faster turnaround. For example, geologists like to create 3D models of their digs. To do this today, they would have to create a grid all around their dig, employ the specialized hardware...
Wednesday, September 03, 2008 00:09
...r –
provided that they are dumb inexperienced enough to click on a download link. But
despite this finding, Chrome’s security features, which include
everything from sand boxing to an incognit...
Tuesday, September 02, 2008 19:26
... know, an idea that prompts you to lean back in your desk chair for a moment and start imagining what this technology would be capable of to accomplish. If there was a daily visionary award I’d have t...
Tuesday, September 02, 2008 17:13
...en, but they are surprisingly common events. Pilots trains for these things all the time and in this case, the American Airlines pilot didn’t even declare an emergency Furthermore, air tra...
Tuesday, September 02, 2008 16:12
...in a blog post. “With IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera, etc — there’s been competition for a while now, and this increases that. So it means that more than ever, we need to build software that people care a...
Tuesday, September 02, 2008 14:45
...t “crushed” any rumors that Google was working on its own web browser. "The industry is obsessed with this browser question," Schmidt told a Lehman Brothers analyst back then, "and our observation is ...
Tuesday, September 02, 2008 14:02
...g the cautious revenue expectations published by the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) earlier this year, chip sales in July are nothing less than impressive. Global semiconductor revenue was u...
Tuesday, September 02, 2008 12:27
...ing substantial swings in daily browser market share and more frequent drops below the 70% barrier. If his tory will repeat itself, IE should show a more stable market share from now on, but there is n...
Tuesday, September 02, 2008 12:05
...s of magnitude lower than stand ard atmospheric pressure, or about 0.00000000000003 psi. To accomplish this , the epitaxy facility employs enormous multi-stage vacuum pumps: Only after a partial vacuum ...
Tuesday, September 02, 2008 10:16
...home page and revenues from ad placements. The original two-year deal was set to expire this November but the two companies recently extended the deal to another three years, through Nov...
Tuesday, September 02, 2008 09:13
... 9400 GT place such cards well below the previous entry-level model (9500 GT) and in an area in which this particular product may be competing with some high-end IGCs, such as AMD’s 780G. So, is ther...
Tuesday, September 02, 2008 00:04
...s between $266 to $530. On August 31, Intel quietly added the Q8200 (2.33 GHz) with a price of $224. This new processor is based on Intel’s 45 nm process and supports FSB1333, but includes only 4 MB ...
Tuesday, September 02, 2008 00:02
...pose not only to display text and pictures but to run applications. Google claims that Chrome can do this faster and in a more stable and more secure way than its rivals. “We realized that the web ...
Monday, September 01, 2008 23:38
...t will be about the size of Chevrolet’s Cobalt compact or a Ford Focus hatchback. As most prototypes, this Volt is dressed up with not-so-mass-production-like big wheels, fancy lights and a roof. &...
Friday, August 29, 2008 17:32
...and Nielsen Netratings posted market share numbers for Google at greater than 60% for the second time this year. However, while the April result could have been considered as a blip, the July result f...
Friday, August 29, 2008 16:56
...llion collisions per second at a rate of 600 MHz on average. The difficult task is not only to manage this extremely high and potentially very destructive energy level, but to also read the results of...
Friday, August 29, 2008 15:48
...y feeling about that as well, but are certain that Steve Ballmer inevitably will be compared to Gates, his charisma, his visions, promises and stage presence. Day 1 keynote speakers include Sony CEO...
Friday, August 29, 2008 14:21
...ple is going to be an epic experience. So we wonder which movie stars will be sitting in coach during this flight? Perhaps it will be the famous rapper P. Diddy who recently posted a YouTube vid...
Friday, August 29, 2008 14:05
...ent subpoenas forced management to change their story. Bank management claim potential thieves need sophis ticated equipment to read the tapes (cough eBay tape readers cough) and add that no informatio...
Friday, August 29, 2008 13:57
...sp; Multi-billion dollar marketplace The App Store managed to rake in $30 million in one month. At this rate, the App Store is $360 million a year business; Apple even believes the AppStore may gro...
Friday, August 29, 2008 10:48
...ness group of AUO indicated that AUO is going to start developing OLED again in the fourth quarter of this year and concentrate on commercializing small-sized panels. More here at Digitimes. ...
Friday, August 29, 2008 09:15
...ou may be upset or you may be relieved hearing
that 250 GB number, but the real surprise may be that this number has
been always in place. Comcast just did not talk about it, which means
that Comca...
Thursday, August 28, 2008 23:20