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1. Shortage of chips threatens LED supplies

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 27 October 2009

   ...  Phones 20 3.2 1400-1800mcd 0.07 0.03 -5% High power 350 3.6 60-100Lm/W 1-2 0.6-1.5 -8 to -4% ...

2. Gartner veep outlines Windows 7 migration costs

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 19 October 2009

   ... be upgraded, that’s 1.5 apps per PC with a budgeted software cost of $100 per app to buy software upgrades, that’s $150 per PC for upgraded software. “We also assumed 20 percent of apps need to be ...

3. World’s largest windfarm breezes into Texas

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

   Thursday, 01 October 2009

   ... four Texas counties and the Roscoe wind complex covers nearly 100,000 acres, several times the size of Manhattan. The wind farm has a total of 627 wind turbines manufactured by Mitsubishi, General Electric ...

4. Microsoft hits 'sweet spot' with new Xbox 360 prices

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Thursday, 27 August 2009

   As predicted, Microsoft has lowered the price point of its Xbox 360 Elite console by $100 to $299.99. The Redmond-based company also slashed its Xbox 360 Pro console by $50 to $249.99.San Francisco (CA) ...

5. iPod grifter sentenced to 13 months

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 26 August 2009

   A federal court has convicted and sentenced a Michigan man to 13 months in prison for stealing 9,000 iPods from Club Cupertino. According to the Associated Press, Nicholas Woodhams was also ordered to ...

6. Where do you want to go today? How about jail?

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Sunday, 23 August 2009

   ... two years and fined 100,000 Yuan. State prosecutors said that the gang had offered free downloads of the operating system, making money from advertising and that more than ten million people had downloaded ...

7. Updated: Colorado photographer sues Apple over 'iconic' photo

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 20 August 2009

   A widely published Colorado photographer has filed a copyright infringement suit against Apple. Louis Psihoyos - who created the ubiquitous "500 monitors" (aka "1000 TVs") image in 2005 - alleges that ...

8. Microhoo is not just about traffic. It’s about data. Period.

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Thursday, 30 July 2009

   ... has one key advantage over Google: Range of topic areas. Yahoo operates a much broader topic range of web sites than Google. Yahoo runs well over 100 websites and service, including Flickr, del.icio.us, ...

9. Build a military robot, win loads of cash

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 14 July 2009

   ... and an international panel of experts will judge the entries.” The five short-listed competitors will each receive research grants of $100,000 to develop their proposals into prototypes. After they ...

10. Sad Twitterers pay for friends

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 02 July 2009

    ... uSocial is offering a service to sell followers to Twitter users for just $87 a thousand, although really loaded losers can buy up to 100,000 imaginary friends. Says the company: "The simple fact is, ...

11. Fish thieves turn to Google Earth

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 29 June 2009

    ... the perpetrator". Earlier this year a British man received an eight-month suspended jail term and 100 hours community service after admitting using Google Earth to target historic buildings and stealing ...

12. TG Daily’s Dads and Grads Product Giveaway: Play along and win!

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 19 June 2009

    ... block 100 percent of harmful UVA and UVB rays – helping to protect the health and wellness of your eyes – so you can see better tomorrow as well. Transitions lenses offer the latest and most advanced ...

13. Intel positions artillery to fight $1.45 billion EU fine

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 13 May 2009

    ... to present its case. He disagrees with the conclusion that consumers were harmed since processors prices have dropped by a factor of 100 during the time of the case. “It’s a matter of competition,” he ...

14. AMD posts controversial virtualization value math

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Thursday, 07 May 2009

    ... more performance, but claims that few server buyers opt for the highest performing chip and that real world environments do not run the 100 VMs per server the highest performing servers are capable of ...

15. Americans gamble over $100 billion online

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 07 May 2009

    ... attempt to regulate Internet gambling and collect taxes from Americans playing online. The Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative (SSIGI) said that Americans wager over $100 billion every year ...

16. DDR SSD claims a massive 300,000 IOPS

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 03 May 2009

    ... SSDs (35,000 IOPS in 4K read and 3300 IOPS in 4K write), but also Fusion IO’s enterprise drives, which are estimated at 200,000 IOPS (512B read) and consumer SSDs, which are rated at about 100,000 IOPS ...

17. The ultimate 3D mouse, yours for $500

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 17 April 2009

    ...  However, I wrote before that these Space Navigator devices are fantastic controllers for those who enjoy Google Earth. Entry level products including just the navigator knob are priced from about $100. ...

18. The netbook-killing HP DV2

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Tuesday, 14 April 2009

    Analyst Opinion - The concept of the Netbook was originally based on the idea of a connected device with a few gigabytes of flash memory, a screen in the 7" range, and a price target of $100.  ...

19. 100 mpg automotive X PRIZE contest underway, 136 vehicles, $10M

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Friday, 10 April 2009

    ... 14 different fuel sources, with 25 states in the U.S. represented, and 11 countries in all. The $10 million prize will be given to the team that not only makes it beyond 100 mpg in a four-passenger car, ...

20. No money for college? Attend 100 universities on YouTube

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Thursday, 09 April 2009

    A new EDU channel on YouTube is being populated by more than 100 schools, including Stanford, MIT, Harvard, Yale and UC Berkeley. Most of them have partnered up to provide relevant school-specific information, ...

21. Hollywood panics! X-Men Origins: Wolverine pirated, hits web a month before official release

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 02 April 2009

    Late yesterday, an illegal copy of the X-Men Origins: Wolverine leaked on the web -- one full month ahead of the official premiere slated for May 1. Naturally, it sent shivers down many Hollywood mogul's ...

22. The second Android cellphone arrives by Easter

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 19 March 2009

    ... a month service plans that pack 500 MB, 1 GB and 3 GB of monthly data respectively. In addition, the three plans feature 100, 200 and 500 free minutes respectively and 500 text messages is included ...

23. AT&T converting to natural gas on 8,000 fleet vehicles

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Wednesday, 11 March 2009

    ... spend $215 million over the next 10 years to replace 7,100 passenger cars in its fleet with hybrids and possibly other future fuel sources available by then. Natural gas Natural gas is a byproduct ...

24. Fake iTunes cards challenge Apple's iTunes business

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Wednesday, 11 March 2009

    ... (and not only them) are happily grabbing their credit cards for the promise of nearly a 100-fold savings. According to a blog entry at the Outdustry, several sites now offer the fake iTunes gift cards. ...

25. Apple's App Store analysis: This Titanic is actually unsinkable

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 10 March 2009

    ... $100 (0.12%), while 959 of them (4.76%) sell between $10 and $100. APP STORE CONTENT BY PRICE All paid applications in the App Store are worth nearly $75,000. Nearly 25 percent is free software, while ...

26. Apple tax on the latest Mac gear: 40 percent

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 05 March 2009

    ... have hoped, including many here at TGdaily, that Apple would shave at least $100 off the Mac mini price to bring the system in the sub-$500 category -- but obviously that wasn't meant to be."You would ...

27. India: Government plans to build $10 laptops for its citizens

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 03 February 2009

    ... Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program to their country citing hidden costs not in the $100 OLPC price tag. See the original AFP article republished on Yahoo News Canada. OpinionAre we to the point in technology ...

28. Insider plot to take down Fannie Mae's servers thwarted

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 30 January 2009

    ... free on $100,000 bail after surrendering his passport. Makwana's public defender told reporters he would enter a plea of "not guilty" today, but did not comment further. According to an FBI affidavit ...

29. UPDATED: Belkin president acknowledges paying for fake product reviews

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 21 January 2009

    ... website with the following page: "Write a Positive 5/5 Review for Product on Website Positive review writing. o Use your best possible grammar and write in US English onlyo Always give a 100% rating ...

30. Where are the WOW! products?

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    Sunday, 18 January 2009

    ... carbon emissions and tax us for our carbon use. Why isn't this man's invention front-page news and on every major news network on the planet? And why aren't we throwing 100s of millions of dollars to research ...

31. CES 2009: Logitech unveils $500 remote

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Tuesday, 06 January 2009

      Logitech expands its Harmony remote control line with a new flagship model: The 1100 integrates a 3.5” touch screen and can be yours for $500. Las Vegas (NV) - Logitech expands its Harmony remote ...

32. No $99 Apple iPhone 3G at Wal-Mart

    (Mobility/Mobility Brief)

    Wednesday, 17 December 2008

    File this one under "too good to be true." It appears the rumors of Wal-Mart selling its own exclusive 4-GB Apple iPhone 3G for less than $100 was nothing more than a rumor. The nation's largest discount ...

33. New low-cost nickel-based fuel cell could prove revolutionary

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 16 December 2008

      A new form of non-alkali membrane used in fuel cells could allow expensive and rare platinum to be replaced with nickel. If true, the market could soon be filled with much less expensive fuel cells and ...

34. Google, Microsoft and Yahoo looking to bypass Net Neutrality with money

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 15 December 2008

    ... lane" Internet traffic service, thereby reducing the increased costs consumers would pay for the upgrades. Internet is big, big business Google is currently valued at just under $100 billion ...

35. Sony cuts 8000 jobs and contracts investment plans

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 09 December 2008

    ... in the global economic environment,” Sony said. Sony aims save more than 100 billion yen, or $1.1 billion, per year. Besides cutting about 5% of its workforce, Sony will also shut down six of its 57 plants. ...

36. Why there isn’t an $800 MacBook Air-like product

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    Thursday, 04 December 2008

    ... a sub-$1000 product and it is actually expected to bring one out.  Apple has no Microsoft dependency and thus don’t have that restriction. Since their deal with Intel does not include co-marketing ...

37. MIT shows amazing advancements in solar cell efficiency and cost

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 01 December 2008

    ... their approach was different, the result was the same: far greater efficiency than has previously been possible. Ohio State showed through initial lab testing an almost 100% efficiency. It seems very ...

38. Researchers recreate spam campaign to estimate spam revenue

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 11 November 2008

    ... between 30 and 100 people, many of them software engineers that were looking for jobs after the dotcom bubble was gone. The servers were located in China and were capable of sending 70 million messages ...

39. Silicon Valley’s cash voted: Obama received lion’s share of donations

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 04 November 2008

    ...  The top five Obama contribution sources - Google ($485,961), Cisco Systems ($149,078), Hewlett-Packard ($148,047), Oracle ($134,421), and Yahoo ($100,276) - gave 71% of the $1.7 million in Obama donations ...

40. Spam ring shut down by authorities

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 15 October 2008

    ... share of products sold through their emails sent, easily rake in several millions of dollars each month. The FTC has brought over 100 cases against spammers and spyware vendors in the last ten years. ...

41. Why Macbooks matter

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 14 October 2008

    ... from offering a mainstream notebook in the $500-$700 range, the Macbook undercuts the psychologically important $1000 barrier. That should be enough for now. However, we also believe that it would be somewhat ...

42. Cubs fan unsuccessfully tries to eBay his loyalty

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 09 October 2008

    ... to the Los Angeles Dodgers.  Bids for auction 1202313290200 had reached an impressive $7100 dollars before being pulled by eBay. eBay pulled the auction because it violated two rules.  First, ...

43. Warhammer Online chief bans thousands of gold farmers, tells them “go to hell”

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 07 October 2008

      EA/Mythic’s General Manager Mark Jacobs says gold farmers aren’t welcome in Warhammer Online and adds quite forcefully that they can, “go to hell”.  Jacobs recently posted in a blog that he’s ...

44. Timeline: How AMD changed over the past 39 years

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 07 October 2008

    ... of former executives of Fairchild Semiconductor, including Jerry Sanders, found Advanced Micro Devices on May 1, 1969, with and initial investment of $100,000. The company’s focus was the design of logic ...

45. Hot Import Nights – the ultimate photographer’s battleground Part I: Gear

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Tuesday, 07 October 2008

    ... disagree with me on the need for a UV filter, but I think it’s only prudent to protect your $1000+ lens with a relatively inexpensive UV filter.  Be advised that there are many grades of filters and ...

46. VIDEO – Hands-on with the Fusion-io SSD, 13 World of Warcraft windows in 36 seconds

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 03 October 2008

    ... controller with a flash drive and today Fusion-io announced its ioextreme card for gamers.  This card will have 80 GB of flash memory and will be priced at under $1000 dollars. But that’s ...

47. Fusion IO announces monster SSD for gamers

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 03 October 2008

    ... you may want to wait for Fusion IO’s 80 GB ioXtreme card, which is scheduled to become available in Q1 of next year for “less than $1000”. Fusion IO CTO David Flynn told TG Daily that the PCI Express card ...

48. Santa Monica inventor decries “boring” electric vehicles, makes his own

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 01 October 2008

    ... MPH for 100 miles on a single charge. Santa Monica (CA) – Electric cars are usually pretty boring vehicles, but a Santa Monica inventor is trying to change all that with his Lola-EV custom car.  ...

49. Lies flourish in emails, researchers say

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 25 September 2008

    ... $89 to divide between themselves and another fictional party, who only knew the dollar amount fell somewhere between $5 and $100. The rules of the study stated that the other party had to accept whatever ...

50. Worldwide GPS system vulnerable to local terrorist attacks

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 23 September 2008

    ... 100% true positional location.  Two or more consumer-based products would also likely report slightly different values for a given location, though both of them would detect even very small movements. Commercial ...