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1. Auto roti maker wins Intel prize

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   And the biodegradable bone The Intel+Berkeley cooperative attempt to promote fresh ideas has announced the three winners of its entrepreneurial push. But we'll start with the third prizewinner as that ...

2. Sony takes on Apple's iTunes

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Thursday, 19 November 2009

   Confirms plans to launch online app and music store Sony has confirmed plans to launch an online store that will sell music, movies, books and applications. 
The virtual marketplace will also allow users ...

3. Google rolls out Chrome OS source code

   (Software/Software Features)

   Thursday, 19 November 2009

   Eliminates all "unnecessary" processes Google has released the source code of its long-awaited Chrome OS. According to the Mountain View-based company, the alternative operating system is optimized for ...

4. Adobe upgrades Flash player with improved HD support

   (Software/Software Features)

   Tuesday, 17 November 2009

   Uncompromised Web browsing Adobe has upgraded its popular Flash player with improved support for HD video playback. The latest beta version of the application reportedly facilitates "uncompromised" Web ...

5. Obama meets polar bears, the Riemann Hypothesis, and Enermax

   (Networking/Networking Features)

   Tuesday, 17 November 2009

   ... Sapphire and Microloops are being sued by a company called Convergence for alleged patent violation. Read about the said violation, here. Over at Eureka Alert, there's a piece about a mathematics tool ...

6. Leonid meteors promise great display tonight

   (Space/Space Features)

   Monday, 16 November 2009

   ... as long as there isn't too much cloud cover. This year, says Cooke, the meteors will appear to be shooting almost directly out of the planet Mars, making for an even more dramatic spectacle. The Leonids ...

7. Put your faith in the cloud

   (Security/Security Opinion)

   Monday, 16 November 2009

   ... or the Microsoft's Sidekick service losing (then recovering) user information at T-Mobile. Those stories make you mistrust the cloud as a data repository. So you continue to do the data management work ...

8. Audi gives up designing cars

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Friday, 13 November 2009

   ... regular Facebook users alike - in a variety of ways, including discussion threads, polls and feedback on photos and videos. This resulted in an active conversation between the Audi designers and the consumers ...

9. Zune shifts into high gear with 6 HD games

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Wednesday, 11 November 2009

   ... and MobilitySite's "Zealot." 
 "The Tegra processor means the Zune HD can handle some pretty slick games and other applications," wrote Linder.  "Up until now, that meant a few games, a calculator, ...

10. Group takes control of dozens of Facebook sites

    (Security/Security Features)

    Wednesday, 11 November 2009

    ... relatives of ours have suffered from their lack of in-depth knowledge concerning their online presence," says the group on its website. "After some research we discovered  this is a wide spread problem. ...

11. SMIC boss falls on his semiconductor sword

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 10 November 2009

    Chang's for the memory The CEO of Chinese foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) has resigned. According to Digitimes, Richard Wang left immediately, while David NK Wang ...

12. Firefox 'most insecure browser'

    (Security/Security Features)

    Tuesday, 10 November 2009

    ... of all vulnerabilities, Safari, including the cut down version for the iPhone, boasts a rather desultory four percent market share, making the flaws : user ratio rather unimpressive. IE, by comparison, ...

13. Parallels takes on VMware

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 04 November 2009

    Parallels has introduced its Desktop 5 virtualization platform for the Mac. Parallels has introduced its Desktop 5 virtualization platform for the Mac. According to the Renton-based company, Desktop 5 ...

14. Karmic Koala displays bad karma

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 03 November 2009

    ... ATI graphics not working properly, Compiz performance very poor, wireless dropping out, wireless not always picked up." "I liked Intrepid, I was annoyed at the Intel fiasco in Jaunty, and now it seems ...

15. TSMC yield problem to affect Nvidia, ATI

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 30 October 2009

    ... has promised to get the problem fixed during the current quarter.Customers using TSMC's process are AMD-ATI and Nvidia, said Digitimes, and that may well have an impact on shipping products such as the ...

16. Is Windows 7 too good for Apple to FUD?

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Tuesday, 27 October 2009

    ... and he is changing his tune). As a result they have shifted their negative campaign against Windows Vista into a FUD campaign against Windows 7 using innuendo and association to disparage Microsoft’s ...

17. Fuel cells fail to fulfil their promise

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 22 October 2009

    ... The unit was developed in conjunction with Toyo Seikan Kaisha, and comply with the International Electrotechnical Commission's safety standards. All this, of course, is a far cry from the hype surrounding ...

18. How Microsoft blindsided vulnerable Apple with Windows 7

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 22 October 2009

    ... was on his forced vacation from the company I met with them and suggested they needed to bring up their game because Windows 95 had a lot of positive buzz and they were in danger of being trivialized. ...

19. SSDs inch toward the desktop

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Wednesday, 21 October 2009

    ... SSDs are sexy. That's primarily because they have the advantage of being fast, up to 250MB/sec for reads, in some cases. There's no mechanical device scrambling around reading and writing data, so information ...

20. Can the Palm Pre knock the iPhone off its perch?

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Monday, 19 October 2009

    ... handset to rattle the iPhone’s ivory tower with the combination of cute design, slide-out QWERTY keyboard and the debut of a new ‘Web OS’ user interface finally providing a worthy smart phone alternative ...

21. Moving to Windows 7 will be "inevitable" - report

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 15 October 2009

    ... most organizations to move to it. But that doesn't mean there will be a significant boost in Windows 7 immediately. "The Windows 7 release will generate renewed interest in consumers and small businesses ...

22. Apple takes on Microsoft's Zune with FM Radio iPhone app

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 14 October 2009

    Apple is reportedly developing an in-house radio application for the iPhone and iPod touch. According to 9to5mac, the nascent app will be capable of functioning "in the background" and is likely to offer ...

23. TG Daily Founder Launches Site for Single Parents

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 13 October 2009

    Wolfgang Gruener, the founder of TG Daily, has a pretty good track record when it comes to building sites that are interesting, informative, and professional. Now, he is taking off on a new venture, one ...

24. Apple Snow Leopard devours user account data

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 12 October 2009

    ... in an Apple forum post. "After about one minute it automatically returned to the login screen, without showing up the guest desktop, so I decided to click on the 'guest login' again. This went pretty smooth ...

25. Windows, users, guns and stupidity

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Monday, 12 October 2009

    ... – although Word will autosave stuff every couple of minutes by default unless some klutz turns it off. What they’re actually doing is blaming the computer for eating their homework and that’s just as believable ...

26. HP takes on Apple with music notebook

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 12 October 2009

    ... that with the digital revolution, what went terribly wrong was the degradation of sound, which is the heartbeat of music. We found that most PCs downgrade sound to unacceptable levels and when you reduce ...

27. Windows 7 boots fast enough for normal people

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Sunday, 11 October 2009

    ... endless articles in green crayon slating Windows’ slow boot and shutdown times when compared with other operating systems so exotic that no one uses them, in the real world, it simply doesn’t matter. At ...

28. Passwords: Methods for a Modern Bane

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Friday, 09 October 2009

    My first password was to an IBM System 38 MRP application in 1978. It was four characters long. I chose my first name. I could have picked my last name, I suppose, but the system administrator had already ...

29. Microsoft kills Works

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 09 October 2009

    Microsoft is dumping its venerable Works application suite and replacing it with an ad-supported, free version of Office 2010, dubbed ‘Starter Edition’. Microsoft is dumping its venerable Works application ...

30. Gateway takes on Apple's iMac

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 07 October 2009

    ... The ZX is also loaded with a number of native touch-oriented programs, including music, photo and social networking apps. "Delivering a superior touch screen experience, [the ZX] offers more gesture combinations ...

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

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Sunday, 04 October 2009

    ... of four different versions of possible emissions-reduction policies. It used the MIT Integrated Global Systems Model, a detailed computer simulation of global economic activity and climate processes ...

32. Top 13 reader comments revealed

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Thursday, 01 October 2009

    ... Here are just 13 we've had in recent weeks. Please keep them coming. They're fab!1. Andrew, your own writing style is a combination of frothing mad and opaque hyperbole. I couldn't stand more than a couple ...

33. Best Camera is actually just okay

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 01 October 2009

    ... settings worked against you. For example, when you launch Best Camera it takes you to your most recently taken photo, which means you have to fumble around until you can get the camera operating to take ...

34. Nvidia and "Starting the Next Age of Personal Computing"

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Opinion)

    Thursday, 01 October 2009

    ... who believed you couldn’t work on high quality video real time.   Special effects, heavy editing, and digital creation all were batch processes taking hours and days to complete using expensive ...

35. Filtering system fights DoS attacks more efficiently

    (Security/Security Features)

    Wednesday, 30 September 2009

    ... on government, commercial, and educational systems. Auburn University in Alabama has developed a new way of filtering out denial of service attacks on computer networks, including cloud computing systems, ...

36. Microsoft finally gets anti-malware right

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 30 September 2009

    ... against rootkits, viruses and spyware and is independently certified by West Coast Labs, and requires no registration, trials or renewals and can be downloaded directly from Microsoft here. The software ...

37. How Smart are Twitter's Investors?

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Tuesday, 29 September 2009

    ... but you automatically know she (or her handler) is an intellectual featherweight because she also claims to follow 432,871 people. No one can keep track of that many posts or even pretend to, so you know ...

38. Intel Developer Forum was a bishop’s egg

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 28 September 2009

    IDF Reviewed The saying 'a curate’s egg' comes from a cartoon in Punch in 1895, the punchline being that the egg Mr Jones was eating was only 'good in parts' - that is to say, downright inedible.The saying ...

39. EU says Google AdWords are fair game

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 22 September 2009

    ... General Poiares Maduro has given the matter of Google AdWords some consideration and announced that no trademarks have been infringed by allowing advertisers to buy key words that are registered trademarks. ...

40. SGI introduces Octane III 'personal' supercomputer

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 21 September 2009

    SGI has introduced a "personal" supercomputer capable of accommodating up to 80 high-performance cores and nearly 1TB of memory. According to SGI CEO Mark J. Barrenechea, the Octane III will help enable ...

41. SuperSpeed controller to boost adoption of USB 3.0

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 21 September 2009

    ... the broad adoption of USB 3.0 amongst host and peripheral device manufacturers."The certification of NEC Electronics' host controller signals to the industry that the promise of SuperSpeed USB is now a ...

42. Apple totally rejected Google Voice app over duplication fears

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 18 September 2009

    The FCC has published an uncensored letter from Google in which the Mountain-View based company claimed that Apple rejected its Voice application. Apple had previously refuted the allegations and insisted ...

43. USB 3.0 gets public viewing

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 17 September 2009

    The USB Implementors Forum said it will show off a number of USB 3.0 applications at the Intel Developer Forum next week.The USB Implementors Forum said it will show off a number of USB 3.0 applications ...

44. iPhone gets infantile application

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 17 September 2009

    A company has come out with an application that takes all the sweat out of thinking up a name when you have a baby.A company has come out with an application that takes all the sweat out of thinking up ...

45. Atheists get more dates online

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 16 September 2009

    God may love you, but the rest of the world isn't so keen. According to US dating website OKCupid, atheists have a better chance of a positive response to their postings  than their more devout ...

46. ESO unveils zoom-in images of the entire night sky

    (Space/Space Features)

    Tuesday, 15 September 2009

    ... in closeup, such as this image of Jupiter. Zooming further, dramatic images of nebulae become visible, such as this image of the Carina Nebula - which also starred (yes, pun intended) in NASA's latest ...

47. Sony marketing campaign plumbs new depths

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 10 September 2009

    ... this was a good idea, let alone why they still have a job, remains a mystery. The campaign breaks with two 30-second commercials, Ping Pong (two versions) airing nationwide, along with a new campaign web ...

48. Optical computer does its first math

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 03 September 2009

      The first ever calculation has been performed by an optical computer. It wasn't a really hard sum - finding the prime factors of 15 - but it's a huge step towards the creation of a quantum computer. ...

49. Corel takes on Adobe with Digital Studio 2010

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 02 September 2009

    ... their photos and videos without spending hours on the editing process. Although the UI (user interface) is easy to navigate, the application is quite complex and powerful with multiple options," said Nick ...

50. Lego house takes shape in England

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 01 September 2009

    ... More problematic are the bath and shower. May hasn't said how long he plans to live in the house. Maybe it depends on how well the Lego flushing lavatory performs. Lego has been in the news for another ...