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

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 20 August 2009

   ... do this is unconscionable. I mean, I spent several hundred thouands dollars on Apple gear. Steve Jobs can show me the same courtesy." It should be noted that Psihoyos had previously sued Apple for unauthorized ...

2. Motorola Morrison surfaces: The iPhone the ROKR should have been?

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Monday, 10 August 2009

   ... it can repeat the success of the RAZR or whether the Morrison will be just another smart phone in a very competitive market that increasingly lacks differentiation remains to be seen. And to enable Motorola ...

3. Murdoch says Twitter is bad investment

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Thursday, 09 July 2009

   ... Murdoch has ruled out selling it - or buying Twitter. He said Twitter had not yet come up with a way to make sustainable profits, and would therefore be a difficult investment to justify. Twitter is ...

4. Japanese salarymen urged to shed their suits

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   Friday, 12 June 2009

   ... stores dressed in 'fashionable and functional' styles including traditional Japanese kimonos. Officials from chambers of commerce and industry in Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe, the governor of Kyoto Prefecture ...

5. California Attorney General demands Supreme Court resurrect violent video game ban

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 20 May 2009

   ... torture and sexual assault," claimed Brown. "In the face of this brutal violence, I am petitioning the Supreme Court to allow the state to enforce its reasonable ban on violent video game sales and rentals ...

6. Pandemic scares fail to match up to reality

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   Thursday, 30 April 2009

   ... In 2005, David Nabarro, the newly-appointed Senior United Nations System Coordinator for Avian and Human Influenza, warned the world that an outbreak of avian influenza could kill anywhere between five ...

7. High-bandwidth Bluetooth 3.0 expected for April 21

   (Networking/Networking Features)

   Friday, 10 April 2009

   ... has always remained in the shadow of Wi-Fi and is limited today to applications such as Bluetooth headsets. For more serious personal area network (PAN) connections which would have enabled, for example, ...

8. NASA to provide 100 TB of space images to Microsoft

   (Space/Space Features)

   Tuesday, 24 March 2009

   ... make the data available under a Space Act Agreement and builds on a prior collaboration with Microsoft that enabled NASA to develop 3-D interactive Microsoft Photosynth collections of the space shuttle ...

9. Cisco Acquires Pure Digital for $590 million

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 19 March 2009

   ... market. "The acquisition of Pure Digital is key to Cisco's strategy to expand our momentum in the media-enabled home and to capture the consumer market transition to visual networking," said Ned Hooper, ...

10. Marvell's Plug Computer: A tiny, discrete, fully functional 5 watt Linux server

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Tuesday, 24 February 2009

    ... without having to have a dedicated PC-like machine sitting somewhere. Since it is IP address based, media file sharing among an entire office or home would be possible. Connect to a Wi-Fi enabled router ...

11. California appeals court ruling: Okay for minors to buy violent video games

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Sunday, 22 February 2009

    ... research establishes or suggests a causal link between minors playing violent video games and actual psychological or neurological harm, and inferences to that effect would not be reasonable." Even ...

12. Wonderwall.com reveals Microsoft's hand: Aces and eights

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Thursday, 05 February 2009

    ... similar Internet-enabled household devices. I mean how smart does a coffee maker have to be? Or a toaster? It's ridiculous! I now find myself in a notably difficult position because I have to be completely ...

13. Linus Torvalds' old company now officially dead

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 29 January 2009

    ... power management technology to our video processor will enable us to target Novafora’s products to the broadest range of video-oriented devices."Those who have been around for a decade or so may ...

14. Apple's A-bomb against Palm: A 358 page iPhone patent

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Tuesday, 27 January 2009

    ... of the touch-sensitive surface formed by the touch screen." Palm's press release describes Pre's touch panel as "a gesture area, which enables simple, intuitive gestures for navigation."  Just like ...

15. Top 10 people in technology

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Sunday, 28 December 2008

    ... the sale of companies he founded - $307 million from Zip2 in 1999 and $1.5 billion from PayPal in 2002 – enabled him to venture into the areas of his interest: Internet, clean energy and space. Musk had ...

16. Intel creates technology for low-cost 40 Gb/s optical links

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 08 December 2008

    ... a complex chain that is required to make Silicon Photonics available in the mainstream – a low-cost Avalanche Photodetector supporting a clock speed of 340 GHz and enabling affordable 40 Gb/s data communications. ...

17. Plaintiffs to get 3 hours with Ballmer in Vista lawsuit

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Sunday, 23 November 2008

    ... Capable” lawsuit, which has unveiled questionable agreements between Microsoft and Intel surrounding the launch of Windows Vista, has already turned into a nightmare for Microsoft and it seems it will ...

18. Google pays $125 million to settle book scanning cases

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 28 October 2008

    ... books, by enabling readers in the U.S. to search these works and preview them online can provide additional ways to purchase copyrighted books provide U.S. colleges, universities and other organizations ...

19. "And so we will colonize Mars, drill Europa and cure cancer"

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 22 October 2008

    ... man wasn't human. And our modern science is also becoming quite inhuman in my opinion. It's unattainable, cold, distant, difficult to understand outside of broad strokes. To quote C. J. Cregg from The ...

20. Apple to build iPhone processors with ARM, Imagination and Samsung technologies?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 18 September 2008

    ... pieces have fallen into place and begin to reveal the bigger picture behind Apple's $278 million acquisition of P.A. Semi. Apple is believed to be in a deal with Imagination, ARM and Samsung to enable ...

21. Apple rocks. And puts us to sleep.

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Tuesday, 09 September 2008

    ... enables users to buy music right from the radio simply by tagging a song. It makes you wonder why iPods still do not have a built-in FM radio. Apple did very little to explore popular social networking ...

22. Microsoft announces widely supported virtualization initiative

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 08 September 2008

    ... virtualization solution allowing customers to consolidate Windows or Linux workloads onto a single physical server."  System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 enables customers to configure and ...

23. Refreshed PSP to launch in Japan for $180

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 02 September 2008

    ... Fantasy (December 18). PSP users will soon be able to acquire new games through the Playstation Store through a PS3 and without the need for a PC. There will also be a new free online service which enables ...

24. Intel imagines wireless power for your laptop

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 21 August 2008

    ... natural frequency, energy is absorbed efficiently, just as a glass absorbs acoustic energy at its natural frequency. With this technology enabled in a laptop, for example, batteries could be recharged ...

25. Cashing in: Google sued for patent infringement

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 18 August 2008

    ... Google, but also enable GraphOn to expand its suit to possibly thousands of websites. “The number of patents now owned by GraphOn as a result of the NES acquisition has increased to twenty three, a number ...

26. Verizon: "Steve Jobs has no monopoly on innovations"

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Tuesday, 01 July 2008

    ... of their choice. The fact that competitors have so far been unable to produce handset that will be equally accepted among users for mobile internet is actually postponing carrier's plans to monetize on ...

27. Outrage over physics drivers: Is Nvidia guilty?

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Wednesday, 25 June 2008

    ... the potential was clear. June 2008: Nvidia releases PhysX Application Software 8.06.12 first to the general press, then to the public. This version of PhysX enables GPU acceleration of the PhysX API. ...

28. Why the iPhone 3G is a gold mine for Apple, even at $199

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 19 June 2008

    ... since the handset went on sale June 29, 2007. In some markets, carriers are completely absorbing the cost of the handset, but customers will have to commit to higher contract volumes, enabling a carrier ...

29. Hidden costs and little secrets you should know about when buying iPhone 3G

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Friday, 13 June 2008

    ... not: 3G speed is nice but the simple fact that AT&T has replaced its original iPhone data plan with a plan that comes at a 50% increase is, in our opinion, a rather questionable move. However, the ...

30. Intel pitches visual computing power, platform power savings

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 11 June 2008

    ... take its own safe actions to prevent accidents. The car demonstration took advantage of Intel's Ct programming research, a C/C++ language extension created in Intel's labs, which enabled the program to ...

31. No suspicion needed for laptop searches at borders and airports – US Appeals court

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 22 April 2008

      A Federal Appeals Court has ruled that US Customs officers do not need reasonable suspicion to search the contents of laptop hard drives and other media.  In a 3-0 decision, the Ninth US ...

32. Intel fires up new Atom processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 01 April 2008

    ... said that Silverthorne’s performance in this specific benchmark can increase by about 50%, if Hyperthreading is enabled. You can see an overview of Spec_int2000 test results here. The floating point-focused ...

33. Google/Virgin venture, custom time creation part of April Fool's

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 01 April 2008

    ... a "short- and medium-range interpersonal communication" technology "enabling users to communicate in real- time without the use of computers or mobile phones"?  Or how about the time that giant video ...

34. Iridium: It’s back, stronger and more convincing than ever

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Sunday, 16 March 2008

    ... network” and a revised business model that enabled the company to take huge steps towards profitability. “The approach to sell handsets to executive travelers was flawed,” Ewert said. “The fact that these ...

35. A Porsche hybrid? Does that make sense?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 20 February 2008

    ... claim that the Cayenne hybrid will be able to hit 75 mph running on the battery alone, which is questionable, if we consider the 46 hp electric motor and 300 extra pounds due to the hybrid parts. Engelman’s ...

36. AMD: To merge or not to merge?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Thursday, 14 February 2008

    ... won HPC contracts with its inability to ship thousands of Opterons to this segment. And yet, at events such as the firm’s Analyst Day, you see lots of people approving the mantra of AMD leadership - and ...

37. The CPU that Intel built just for Apple

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Friday, 25 January 2008

    ... was provided with a path that eventually enabled it to grow to the giant company it is. In recent years Intel has not really been known as a company that listens to its customers particularly well, but ...

38. UCLA finds layout design important in transistor performance

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 20 December 2007

    ... think that at that point, everything would be about as highly optimized as it can reasonably be for a production manufacturing process.  However, it might be that it hasn't been needed yet.  ...

39. Phishing cost the U.S. $3.2 billion in 2007

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 18 December 2007

    ... attacks, is actually as protected and isolated as is reasonably possible.  As for the home user, the best advice is to not respond to unsolicited emails.  It's probably the best way to keep ...

40. Honda’s Asimo robots learn to interact

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 17 December 2007

    ... The company says it has added “an intelligence technology that enhances smooth movement”, which now enables Asimo predict the movement of oncoming people and either yield the right-of-way of ...

41. Server electricity use to grow faster in Asia-Pacific and Western Europe than in the U.S.

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 11 December 2007

    ... as importantly, to work with our industry and government partners to develop environmentally sustainable solutions in areas where we see the most dramatic increases in energy use.”  ...

42. Microsoft releases 90-day free trial of Visual Studio 2008

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 30 November 2007

    ... Microsoft vision of smart client applications by enabling developers to rapidly create connected applications that deliver the highest quality, rich user experiences. With Visual Studio 2008, organizations ...

43. Super Mario Galaxy is truly amazing

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 13 November 2007

    ... 3D Mario game that goes back to its roots. That's a long time to wait, but Nintendo has come through in an unimaginable way with Super Mario Galaxy. The game controls take some getting used to, and the ...

44. HP dumps digital camera business

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Thursday, 08 November 2007

    ... to have the partnership arrangement in place in the first half of 2008. The company hopes that the strategy shift will enable the company to dedicate more resources to home photo printing technologies, ...

45. World Community Grid picks up cancer research project

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 06 November 2007

    ... statement. “We also have to find proteins that will enable us to diagnose cancer earlier, before symptoms appear, to have the best chance of treating the disease - or potentially stopping it completely.” ...

46. Tech Tour Intel: Gainestown spotted in the microsurgery silicon debug lab

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 06 November 2007

    ... to enable higher frequency bins" Cycle time The Gainestown processors being debugged today will go through an endless cycle of new revision, debug, fix, repeat, in preparation for the upcoming release ...

47. The Xbox 360 takes on the Wii with a struggle

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 02 November 2007

    ... tackled hardcore games, online capabilities, and an innovative hardware strategy with flying colors.  It truly sounds like an unabashed success story, until you get to the chapter where it realizes ...

48. Changing of the guard: Sony waxes while Apple wanes

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Tuesday, 16 October 2007

    ... battle was unwinnable and would destroy Apple’s reputation and most recently a $1 billion lawsuit against the iPhone.   In the previous months, I’ve been aware that HP has acquired a ...

49. Happy Birthday! Atari 2600 turns 30

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Sunday, 07 October 2007

    ... money into the development of the device and enabled its launch. The development cost of the 2600 was reported to have been close to $100 million.            The 2600 was ...

50. Can 24 songs be worth $222,000?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Friday, 05 October 2007

    ... as criminals, even though this kind of alleged copyright infringement is a felony and punishable by prison time. Reasonable doubt mucks up much of the RIAA's evidence.   In civil cases, though, ...