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1. Iranian Science Minister fakes article

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   After his sterling success in producing a fair and accurate election result, Iran's science minister Kamran Daneshjou has been cutting and pasting science articles under his own name. After his ...

2. EU publishes lurid details of Intel antitrust ruling

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... 13 May 2009 that found Intel broke EC Treaty antitrust rules by engaging in two types of illegal practise to exclude competitors from the market. Intel is appealing the ruling. These practices 'harmed ...

3. Dell’s mobile nightmare: The dumbest move yet?

   (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

   ... won’t go well for Dell. The company’s first foray into pocketable devices ended with a whimper when the Axim PDAs, introduced in 2002, were quietly discontinued two years ago. In deciding to exit the market, ...

4. Hacker's extradition appeal to USA fails

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... he has said that he was looking for suppressed documents about UFOs. The High Court judges said that extradition to face trial in the USA was lawful and proportional. If convicted of the offences, McKinnon ...

5. OECD says there's signs IT market is recovering

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... had a difficult start this year, with nearly all sectors in decline, some very sharply indeed. And, says the OECD, the IT industry is performing far better in the current recession than, for example, ...

6. US Traffic Safety Administration hid cellphone danger

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   ...  The highway safety agency did a one-year study of 100 drivers in which cameras were placed inside their cars to monitor their driving habits. That study found that drivers talking with handheld devices ...

7. Graphics market has worst ever year

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... Intel, Nvidia and AMD-ATI will upset the status quo. Growth will come in 2010 because of Microsoft and Apple's new operating systems. And the graphics processing unit (GPU) will become a seriously ...

8. Maine orders 64,000 MacBooks for high school students

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... expansion will help create the "largest educational technology of its kind in the world." "We have seen incredible success with our middle schools showing increased student engagement and achievement ...

9. Unlimited music downloads announced. No price yet.

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   ...  So, how much is a reasonable amount for unlimited access? $20 per month? $50? $75? $100? As long as we do not know the actual pricing and more details about the service, the price is pure speculation. ...

10. Immersion’s TouchSense never gets old

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... which should make them more effective. In the end, humans tend to interact much better with devices they can actually feel. Back in 1996, Immersion explained this concept to me when they revealed their ...

11. HP to axe 5,700

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Hewlett Packard announces plans to axe nearly 6,000 jobs in Europe. Erskine, Scotland - Hewlett Packard (HP) plans to cut a total of 5,700 jobs in its Europe, Middle East and Africa region (EMEA) over ...

12. New telescope to map the southern skies

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... of the southern skies. Over the next five years the telescope will take detailed pictures of the whole southern sky. In the process it will produce 400TB of data, which will be freely available to astronomers ...

13. Nintendo recycles Metroid Prime trilogy for the Wii

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... the assistance of a "lock-on" mechanism. Samus is assisted in her missions by an innovative heads-up display (HUD) that offers access to radar, a map, ammunition for missiles, health meter, danger meter ...

14. EU hits Intel with $1.5 billion fine

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Antitrust Commission fines Intel $1.5 billion for abuse of dominant position, orders end to illegal practices. Brussels, Belgium - European Commission fines Intel $1.5 billion for abuse of dominant ...

15. Microsoft issues critical PowerPoint patch

    (Security/Security Features)

    Microsoft has issued a critical PowerPoint patch. The latest security update fixes several vulnerabilities that could allow malicious remote code execution. "An attacker who successfully exploited ...

16. The Gaming Renaissance Movement

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Analyst Opinion - Making games differently – from production, to financing and distribution: Many have noted that the gaming industry seems to be recession-proof. Monthly sales figures continue to ...

17. EPA details renewable fuel strategy, reaching 36 billion gallons by 2012

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    ... energy independence, using more homegrown biofuels reduces our vulnerability to oil price spikes that everyone feels at the pump,” EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson said. “Energy independence also puts ...

18. Hypocritical Yahoo hosts human rights summit

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    ... founded on the belief that access to information can enrich people's lives, and we hope this summit and our other initiatives will both stimulate greater awareness about free expression issues and bring ...

19. Why Apple needs Microsoft to survive the coming OS battle

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    ... on Microsoft's success, because Google plans on taking both out.   Building dominanceBill Gates is credited with making that one critical decision that turned Microsoft into the power it became ...

20. Myst comes to the iPhone

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... PC game of all time until 2002. Myst owes much of its success its gloomy atmosphere and mystical musical score. Early screenshots and gameplay video do not show a dramatic departure from the original ...

21. IBM withdraws $7 billion offer for Sun Microsystems

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... Sun is the fourth-largest manufacturer of servers, while IBM is currently the top server vendor. IBM originally offered Sun $7 billion, which equated to $9.40 per share. Industry sources suggested that ...

22. Chip sales down an astonishing 30% in February

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... On a positive note, the organization mentioned that the decline is more moderate now. Chip makers have been hit with one of the worst recessions in computer history, or, as the SIA calls it, one of the ...

23. First email virus turns 10

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... turning just 10 today. Melissa, the first virus of this kind, was estimated to have infected more than one million PCs and caused damage in excess of $80 million.Chicago (IL) – It appears we have been ...

24. Microsoft billionaire blasts into space again

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... successfully launched earlier today from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and is now en route to the International Space Station (ISS).Baikonur (Kazakhstan) – Charles Simonyi, a software engineer ...

25. The return of the eMac: A 17-inch iMac

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... will not be sold to the general public. In effect, the cheap iMac is a successor to the original eMac, a product that was derived from the original CRT-based iMac. The eMac was launched in 2002 with ...

26. Guinness World Record: Video game uses F-word 189 times, once per minute

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... But in the case of 'The House Of The Dead: Overkill', a little puerility was the order of business. Parodying the profane excess of grindhouse cinema was [our] objective and I am flattered that this record ...

27. 60% of world's population now has cell phone, highest ever

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... poor countries have Internet access, however in rich countries the fixed broadband services increased to almost 20% market penetration, while on average only 1 in 20 worldwide have high speed Internet. Mobile ...

28. UPDATED: NASA to launch orbiting carbon observatory to study CO2

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... orbiting the Earth. The OCO will be part of a five-satellite "A-Train," with each satellite orbiting the earth at about the same time on successive days. Each satellite in the train will carry out specific ...

29. AMD spins off semiconductor manufacturing company

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... In that meeting they agreed to spin off the manufacturing division of AMD, which will now be known as "The Foundry Company." It will be headquartered in the U.S., with offices in Dresden and Austin. EXTRA: ...

30. Gartner reports PC industry's weakest growth since 2002, rival IDC says down 0.4%

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... expected shipment declines due to the recession. The Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region was also affected by the economic slowdown across key countries. Asia-Pacific recorded the worst shipment ...

31. Intel, Microsoft, HP, Dell and others sued over patent dispute

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    ... Technologies alleges those companies have violated their patent 7,024,581 and 7,430,686, called Data Processing Recovery System and Method Spanning Multiple Operating System. Xpoint alleges that in ...

32. Top 10 people in technology

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

      Feature – Despite the troubled state of the economy, 2008 was a year of great change and successful leadership. Here is TG Daily’s list of the year’s top achievers. Feature – Despite the troubled ...

33. President Bush's emails to be kept secret just a little longer

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... transfer might also be incomplete due to the continuing legal battle between a coalition of historians and nonprofit groups in regards to access to Vice President Cheney’s records. Journalists and historians ...

34. 2000-year-old computer recreated, shows amazing accuracy

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... extreme master craftsmen at that time. No lathes, vertical mills or other modern machining devices would've been available in the traditional sense. Every piece would've been crafted entirely by hand using ...

35. PC market growth expected to slow to a crawl in 2009

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... expectations for 2008 and beyond. The first paragraph ends with these two sentences:   “IDC expects worldwide PC shipments to grow just 3.8% in 2009 with shipment value falling by 5.3%. This is considerably ...

36. Windows market share drops to 15-year low

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... data.    Any product that owns close to 90% of a market that is as gigantic as the global PC market would be considered a huge success. In the case of Microsoft, that is, of course, different. ...

37. Almost iPod chief countersues IBM

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

      Mark Papermaster, the ex-IBM executive recruited by Apple to succeed iPod creator Tony Fadell and lead the company’s devices engineering unit, has filed a countersuit against his former employer ...

38. Linux Foundation values Linux at $10.8 billion, kernel at $1.4 billion

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... COnstructive COst MOdel (COCOMO), which essentially attributes a dollar value to the amount of lines of code in a product. ”This year has seen an incredible proliferation of Linux-powered devices outside ...

39. VMware: Potentially the world's most powerful low-level debugging tool

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    Opinion - For low-level software developers, having a machine emulator is an absolutely essential tool. It is often a necessity to step through lines of code one by one via a debugging process in some ...

40. Buy an acre of lush lunar landscape for only $29.95

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... grounds necessary to claim trespassing. Who knows? You may even be entitled to damages and punitive fines which could reach into the tens of millions. All for only $29.95. Luna-related facts The ...

41. Game designer travels to space with DNA cargo

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

      Game designer Richard Garriot has reached space onboard a Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft along with two astronauts, Mike Fincke and Yuri Lonchakov. Garriot and the crew are carrying digitized DNA sequences ...

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

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... 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 ...

43. Ebay to lay off more than 1000, spends $1.3 billion on acquisitions

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... - when the dotcom bust was still not over. However, industry sources suggest that the Skype business as well as StumbleUpon are up for sale.    ...

44. Can Best Buy breathe new life into Napster?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... and selecting music and other digital entertainment products over an increasing array of devices." In other words, Best Buy wants piece of the digital entertainment action. Napster brings a big brand ...

45. British hacker loses extradition appeal to US

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... over 73000 government computers belonging to the Department of Defense, Army, Air Force, Navy and even NASAand actually gained access to 97 computers with his dial-up modem.  During his exploits, ...

46. Continuing a tradition at AMD: Leaving the sinking boat

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... could leave you shocked: AMD just announced its seventh consecutive loss - totaling a stunning $5.5 billion since Q4 2006 and the time the ATI acquisition took full effect – and AMD’s CEO announces his ...

47. GTX 200 prices crashing, Nvidia said to be shifting strategy

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

      Pricewatch – There is trouble in Nvidialand. AMD’s new graphics cards apparently have surprised Nvidia, forcing the company to cut the prices of its new cards. Sources told TG Daily that Nvidia ...

48. Steve Jobs cleared of criminal charges in options backdating case

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    ... team, but Apple confirmed 15 questionable grants in January 2002 and earlier. Former CFO Fred Anderson resigned from the firm's board as a result. Jobs’ role in this process was unclear over the past ...

49. Dirty laundry alert: Xandros acquires Linspire

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... one is only left to speculate.” He believes that Robertson may have used the sale to drain the company of its cash and resources, save his reputation as well as reputation of Linspire by stating that ...

50. New Radeon 4800 twice as fast as 3800, AMD says

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... be “the biggest generational increase since the game-changing launch of the Radeon 9700 in 2002.” $200 will buy 800 stream processors,  a “stock” GPU core clock speed of 625 MHz, 512 MB of GDDR3 ...