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1. Microsoft, Murdoch in Google bashing deal

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 23 November 2009

   ... and search engines, how do you know you can trust their search results anymore?" Continues Bartlett: "And the concept of 'exclusive linking rights' is entirely theoretical and it's hard to see how it ...

2. Tech Economy in the Hands of Nude Entrepreuners

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

   Thursday, 19 November 2009

   ... to The Daily Telegraph: "Organiser Milo Yiannopoulos said that he wanted to dispel the notion of internet entrepreneurs as being "unattractive geeks", as well as raise money for charity. " However, if ...

3. ZTE to make its own LTE 4G chips

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Thursday, 19 November 2009

   ... an internal PCI Express modem. The power drain would be too high if ZTE went straight to a  USB dongle. Significantly, Shen gave no indication of how soon he expect ZTE to have its own LTE chips. ...

4. Semiconductors to bound back next year

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 16 November 2009

   ... are that DRAM, NAND, and microprocessors are all pointing to a recovery in the semiconductor market. In other words, PCs are driving the comeback - sales of the machines have shown a dramatic recovery. ...

5. LucidLogix preps Hydra SoC for early 2010 launch

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Saturday, 14 November 2009

   ... announced the availability of the Hydra 200 in Big Bang Motherboards on October 29. Up until that date, Lucid had met all requested MSI hardware and software requirements. "However, MSI has since revised ...

6. CO2 levels 'stable since 1850'

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

   Wednesday, 11 November 2009

   Another global warming myth bites the dust Eco-warriors will be spluttering into their fair trade organic coffee this morning as new research shows that atmospheric levels of CO2 have effectively remained ...

7. Traveling with the MacBook Air Butt Kicking Dell Adamo 9.99

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Tuesday, 10 November 2009

   ... around 5 hours on the plane with the box and this is the only laptop I’m traveling with.   Given how much I write, leaving my trusted Panasonic Toughbook at home was a risky decision, but it’s ...

8. Amazon releases Kindle for PC

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Tuesday, 10 November 2009

   Color my world? Amazon is offering a free Kindle for PC application that runs on XP, Vista and Windows 7. But while this might not be any big deal, an advert on top of the download page shows a Winnie ...

9. Health insurance IT isn't dead, it just smells funny

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Monday, 09 November 2009

   ... will soon no longer be necessary. I suspect some of these highly paid individuals probably had a tough time looking in the mirror each morning while thinking about, say, how to perfect an algorithm for ...

10. Tool stops search engines gathering your data

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 06 November 2009

    Big Brother won't be able to watch any more Just a day after Google said it was to let users see the information it gathers on them, a team of Catalan researchers has announced a new protocol to stop search ...

11. Nvidia: Our nForce chipsets are "better" than Intel's

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 30 October 2009

    ... e-mailed statement to TG Daily. "However, it has been widely reported that Nvidia will not be making any new chipsets for the Intel platform until our dispute with Intel is resolved." According to ...

12. Aussies reckon Apple's got a tablet e-reader

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 27 October 2009

    ... are for everyone. Microsoft and a number of vendors have proved that people are quite indifferent to the format. However, the rumors don't go away. And the normally reliable Sydney Morning Herald is adding ...

13. Chrome for Mac finally arrives in beta, sort of

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 23 October 2009

    ... at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, but admitted he was disappointed by how long it had taken to arrive. "The timing of that has been one of the disappointments of Chrome project for me," said Brin ...

14. Office 2010 enters public beta next month

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 19 October 2009

    ... three key areas. One was how organizations can respond quickly to business needs with an improved developer platform that makes it easier to build rich content and collaboration applications. Another topic ...

15. Intel, ASML bring cheer to the chip market

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 14 October 2009

    ... a year back, its profitability demonstrates that investment in capital equipment is showing signs of a resurgence. ASML makes lithography equipment used by large companies in their fabs and numbers Samsung, ...

16. Windows, users, guns and stupidity

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Monday, 12 October 2009

    Opinion: Our earlier story on how fast or slow Windows 7 boots and shuts down has attracted some critical acclaim and some critical unacclaim from people who obviously didn’t bother to read the story ...

17. Acting fast could cut climate change risk, says MIT

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Sunday, 04 October 2009

    ... show what the risks are either way."  ...

18. New Apple ad for iPhone leaked to web

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Friday, 02 October 2009

    The furniture will be flying in Cupertino as Apple’s latest ad for the iPhone has somehow found its way onto the web. The furniture will be flying in Cupertino as Apple’s latest ad for the iPhone has ...

19. Tyrannosaurs 'killed by throat infection'

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Wednesday, 30 September 2009

    ... of trichomonosis in other dinosaurs. For the disease to show up so clearly, it would have had to be at a pretty advanced stage, as the parasite is typically found as a film in the back of the throat. ...

20. Apple's new Macs better be cheap

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Tuesday, 29 September 2009

    ... dollars, it's more likely being done at places like Wal-Mart, where PCs are sold, not Apple Stores. That's not good news for Apple, long used to its free-spending users. In Q3 Apple's SEC filings showed ...

21. Down in the Valley, the car lots are empty

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 28 September 2009

    ... it as the topping. We didn’t have that because it looked a bit indigestible.The message of guarded optimism was similar at Asus – it’s astonishing how big its catalog is. It’s got some cute products too ...

22. Intel Developer Forum was a bishop’s egg

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 28 September 2009

    ... layers here that need unpeeling.ChipsIntel showed us all a number of developments that make it entirely clear that it’s bang on course on its roadmap and nothing short of a catastrophe is going to stop ...

23. Google looking for more acquisitions

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 25 September 2009

    Top Googler Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said that things had started to get better at the search outfit. Schmidt said that acquisitions are "turned on again" and expects to do one small deal a month. ...

24. Intel outlines future of interactive television

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Thursday, 24 September 2009

    ... innovative platform to showcase Flash-based applications in a vivid way," opined Wadhwani. "Flash Player 10 combined with the performance of the Intel media processor and its support for standards such ...

25. Microprocessor diversity threatens X86 hegemony

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 14 September 2009

    Intel has managed to expand its lead in the struggling global microprocessor sector by capturing 80.6 percent of the segment's revenue during the second quarter of 2009. However, the company's traditional ...

26. Motorola aims Android phone at social network users

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Friday, 11 September 2009

    ... talk time is six hours, with a standby time of 13.5 days. SLIDESHOW: Motorola Cliq with MotoBlur (9 pictures) The phone features the company's new Motoblur technology which syncs contacts, ...

27. Sony marketing campaign plumbs new depths

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 10 September 2009

    Consumer electronics giant Sony can surely afford to hire the sharpest brains around. How, then, do we explain the sheer Jeffdamned awfulness of its new online marketing campaign? Consumer electronics ...

28. Psystar clones Apple's Snow Leopard

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 07 September 2009

    ... "new virtualization technologies" to allow its computers to interface with OS X like "never before." However, Psystar warned current customers against installing Snow Leopard until their technicians could ...

29. Japanese break wi-fi security in 60 seconds

    (Security/Security Features)

    Friday, 28 August 2009

    ... break the WPA encryption used in wireless routers. The previous record stood at 15 minutes. Toshihiro Ohigashi of Hiroshima University and Masakatu Morii of Kobe University plan to reveal exactly how ...

30. Apple unlikely to launch game console before 2015

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 24 August 2009

    ... likely around 2015." However, Pachter did note that Club Cupertino would always be able to count on the "Apple faithful" to purchase the console, regardless of when it is launched. "The Apple faithful ...

31. Paint your house green with solar cells

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Monday, 24 August 2009

    Solar cells could soon be printed like newspaper or painted onto rooftops. Austin, Texas - Solar cells could soon be printed like newspaper or painted onto rooftops. Brian Korgel, a University of ...

32. Twitter makes it harder for users to get lost

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 21 August 2009

    ... longitude to tweets. Users will be able to read tweets from anyone in the neighborhood, whether they follow them or not. "It's easy to imagine how this might be interesting at an event like a concert ...

33. Outlook brighter for July chip sales

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 19 August 2009

    Even though 2009 chip sales overall will fall by around 15 percent in dollar terms, July figures due to be released soon will show overall improvement in the semiconductor market.Even though 2009 chip ...

34. Updated: Sony hopes $300 PS3 will boost sluggish sales

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 18 August 2009

    ... publishers alone to drive sales higher each month. Fortunately, we anticipate imminent price cuts to occur soon." However, Doug Creutz of Cowen & Co. told the Wall Street Journal that Sony had ...

35. Chip Wars: NVIDIA and ATI spar over OpenCL GPU support

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 14 August 2009

    ... as the CPU and GPU, to efficiently execute their application." NVIDIA, however, responded to AMD's press release by alleging that the SDK effectively "bound" GPU computing developers to the CPU. "NVIDIA ...

36. War declared: Apple’s Cult Takes on Google’s Borg

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Tuesday, 11 August 2009

    ... culture that doesn’t always seem as bright and shiny as the products it sells. So Apple’s decision to show Google’s CEO the door and kick the company’s product out of its online store marks a turning ...

37. Pachter: Console price cuts 'imminent'

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 10 August 2009

    ... new Xbox360 packaging appear real to us." However, the analyst noted that actual pricing had not yet been leaked and emphasized that rumors of a $299 PS3 or a $249 Xbox 360 were "merely speculation" - ...

38. Researchers identify critical iPhone security flaw

    (Security/Security Features)

    Thursday, 30 July 2009

    ... implemented over the AT&T network in the US. However, Miller noted that iPhone hacking attempts could be temporarily thwarted by simply rebooting the device. "It would stop all but the most sophisticated ...

39. Will Windows Mobile become extinct?

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Wednesday, 29 July 2009

    ... and Microsoft programming models and middleware, it garnered a substantial share of early smart phone deployments in the enterprise, second only to Blackberry. However, over the past two years, its grasp has ...

40. Global Foundries has a fighting chance

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 29 July 2009

    ... expertise that even Intel was forced to follow - the design of the Opteron and Athlon made the chip giant miss a step. Intel eventually turned the ship round and put AMD on the back foot. However, Global ...

41. Microsoft and Yahoo still working on pre-nup

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 23 July 2009

    ... were Microsoft's top online executives Yusuf Mehdi, Satya Nadella, and Qi Lu.  However it seems that Redmond's capacious corporate drinks expense account has so far not been enough to make Yahoo say ...

42. iPhone "cannibalizes" sales of traditional iPods

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Tuesday, 21 July 2009

    ... Q3, representing a staggering 626% growth over the year-ago quarter. Meanwhile, sales of the iPod Touch increased by an impressive 130%. However, the time of the iPod may be fading as the iPhone may ...

43. Seagate ships 40.6 million HDDs in Q2, loses $81 million

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 21 July 2009

    Seagate reported a loss of $81 million on revenue of $2.35 billion for the second quarter of this year. However, the company said that it is seeing signs that the storage market is improving and it ...

44. Steal from my Kindle, please

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 21 July 2009

    ... however, Amazon has defined a new low in customer service, and in doing so has quite likely done significant damage to the Kindle brand. Boneheaded wouldn’t be an inappropriate adjective to use.Here’s ...

45. Amazon takes a page from 1984, deletes Orwell books from Kindles

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Saturday, 18 July 2009

    ...  the New York Times. However, Amazon now thinks that the deletions were a bad idea: “We are changing our systems so that in the future we will not remove books from customers’ devices in these circumstances,” ...

46. Comcast to stream HBO and Cinemax content online

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 15 July 2009

    ... you don’t get free access to those shows, which represent a combined 750 hours of programming initially. The added value, as Comcast claims, may be limited, especially if you get too excited over this ...

47. Steve Jobs, the unique artisan CEO

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Tuesday, 14 July 2009

    ... while Steve is back at Apple, he is only part time, and he won’t be there much longer.   What makes him truly different is his unwillingness to compromise the passion for building, and showcasing, ...

48. The Great Netbook Ripoff

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Tuesday, 14 July 2009

    ... could cost you well into four-figure territory by the time your contract is up. As always, you need to look at the numbers and ask yourself some hard questions about how you plan on using your hoped-for ...

49. 3G netbook market growing at rapid pace, iSuppli says

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 13 July 2009

    ... various content types. However, overall wireless connectivity is still limited and somehow stuck in the early 2000s. That may change soon as “always-on” Internet connections in netbooks will be more and ...

50. Arctic thick ice disappearing at dramatic pace, NASA says

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Thursday, 09 July 2009

    ... is continuing to decline, making the ice more vulnerable to continued shrinkage. Our data will help scientists better understand how fast the volume of Arctic ice is decreasing and how soon we might see ...