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1. EU ombudsman slams Intel antitrust ruling

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   ... gave AMD access to information contained in the Commission's investigation file. The Ombudsman did find that the Commission 'failed to make a proper note of a telephone call between the Commission and ...

2. Apple sued over camera patent by litigant with a past

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 29 October 2009

   ... 5,138,459 is a sample of the patent.The action is being brought by St Clair Intellectual Property Consultants, and it's provided a battery of previous litigation that's resulted in success in the courts.For ...

3. NASA finds most distant galaxy cluster yet

   (Space/Space Features)

   Thursday, 22 October 2009

   ... to test cosmological models, but searches are underway to find other galaxy clusters at extreme distances. "What's exciting about this discovery is the astrophysics that can be done with detailed follow-up ...

4. YouTube offers chance to quiz Nobel winners

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   Tuesday, 20 October 2009

   ... interaction with Nobel Laureates. With John Mather in particular and his research about the origins of the Universe, an array of questions can be raised. By increasing access to Nobel Laureates, we encourage ...

5. Dell says it will behave from now on, honest

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 28 September 2009

   ... into its accounting practices. The SEC ruled that between 2003 and 2007, Dell had exaggerated sales by $359 million and its profits by $92 million. The Securities and Exchange Commission started a ...

6. EU publishes lurid details of Intel antitrust ruling

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 21 September 2009

   ... 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 ...

7. Mayor Nagin named in Dell conspiracy case

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 16 September 2009

   ... trial which is expected to run for at least three weeks. UPDATE: In an amusing footnote to the story, today sees the jury selection process taking place. Dell's lawyer is quizzing prospective jurors ...

8. Insurance company sues HP for server melt-down

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Friday, 11 September 2009

   ... it bought from a an  HP dealer Razor, Inc. and had it installed at a secure datacenter operated by SunGard Recovery Services in 2006.  However,  according to court papers a year later  ...

9. Help crack Nazi Enigma messages

   (Security/Security Features)

   Wednesday, 02 September 2009

   ... and crack a couple of World War Two Enigma messages. Enigma at home is one of those projects in which you donate your spare PC processing power and is based on the M4 Project, which was designed ...

10. Infamous hacker to serve 15 years behind bars

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 28 August 2009

    ... credit and debit card information," the DoJ explained in an official statement. "Among the corporate victims named in the indictment are Heartland Payment Systems, a New Jersey-based card payment processor; ...

11. Epson coughs to price fixing scam

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 26 August 2009

    ... US Justice Department. Epson Imaging Devices pleaded guilty to conspiring to fix prices of LCD panels sold to Motorola for use in its Razr phones between fall 2005 and summer 2006. A one-count felony ...

12. Swedish ISP forces Pirate Bay to walk the plank

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 24 August 2009

    ... is lacking political skills in the judiciary." Although Black Internet complied with the order, The Pirate Bay quickly managed to resurrect itself by using the services of a secondary provider. A Pirate ...

13. Police hacker informer stole 130 million credit card details

    (Security/Security Features)

    Monday, 17 August 2009

    ... ever prosecuted. The targets were the computer networks of Heartland Payment Systems, a payment processor in Princeton,  7-Eleven, Hannaford Brothers, a regional supermarket chain and two other ...

14. Feds indict infamous SQL hacker on conspiracy charges

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 17 August 2009

    ... in an official statement. "Among the corporate victims named in the indictment are Heartland Payment Systems, a New Jersey-based card payment processor; 7-Eleven Inc., a Texas-based nationwide convenience ...

15. Rumor: MySpace to buy iLike for $20 million

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 17 August 2009

    ... distressed sale of iLike despite lots of 'user traction' is that there is no business model here, the company was running out of money, and active users on a FB app don't necessarily amount to a business," ...

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

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 10 August 2009

    ... if those information pieces are in fact accurate, we now know that Motorola’s iPhone rival will look pretty much like an iPhone with a slider keyboard. And, of course, we wonder why it has taken Motorola ...

17. Twitter goes up before the beak

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 05 August 2009

    ... a single message to multiple recipients who can then receive it on a variety of devices including landline phones, cellphones and faxes. The lawsuit states: "TechRadium develops, sells, and services ...

18. Hybrid vehicle rebates are money down the drain

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Wednesday, 05 August 2009

    ... offered by the governments of the US and 13 states, including Washington, Oregon, Illinois and Colorado, and five Canadian provinces, including BC, Ontario, Quebec, PEI and Manitoba. The Canadian government ...

19. Firefox now officially past 1 billion downloads

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 31 July 2009

    ... if we know that these aren’t all unique downloads, but repeated downloads as well. But then we also know that there are many more Firefox downloads through third party download services and the actual ...

20. Steve Ballmer and Paul Otellini to headline 2010 CES

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 29 July 2009

      The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) just announced the two headline acts for the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which is scheduled to take place from January 7 – 10, 2010, in Las ...

21. Microsoft partners cautious about Windows 7 cash cow

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 27 July 2009

    ... that Microsoft gets from US sales of Windows 7 until the end of 2010, partners will reap $18.51 in related products and services revenue. Partners stand to make $110 billion in products and services ...

22. AMD loses $330 million in second quarter

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 21 July 2009

    ... Q2 2008. The second quarter bottom line benefitted from a $98 million sale of inventory written down in the fourth quarter of 2008. “The AMD Product Company successfully executed its product and technology ...

23. UMPC, take 2: Samsung touts first WiMax MID

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 21 July 2009

    ... planet. SLIDESHOW: Mondi, Samsung's first WiMax MID (5 pictures) The Mondi is based on a 4.3-inch screen design, integrates a slider keyboard and weighs at 5.39 ounces much less ...

24. Apple 'helped Mafia to send death threats'

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Sunday, 19 July 2009

    ... player. McKenna bought an iPod shuffle in 2005 via eBay and an iPod mini that he claims to have bought in 2006 new from an Apple Store. He claims that both devices contain illegal receivers that Apple ...

25. Toshiba may surrender to Blu-ray, finally

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Sunday, 19 July 2009

    ... this was not so much a technology issue as the company has had access to Blu-ray products since early 2006, but a strategic and certainly emotional decision to give in to the format it so hard tried ...

26. Graphics market has worst ever year

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 16 July 2009

    ... 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 ...

27. AMD launches five new 6-core processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 12 July 2009

      AMD today announced five new 6-core Istanbul processors, three aimed at 2P servers and two at 4P/8P models. The new CPUs include two SE processors for performance-focused server environments and ...

28. Rumormill: iPods to get cameras

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 06 July 2009

    ... one of those secretive industry sources in Asia, which told the publication that Apple has placed a “massive” order for camera module. Apple’s motivation? Simple: To crush the entry-level video cam market. ...

29. PS3 slim and price cut rumors surface again

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 01 July 2009

    The Playstation 3 slim rumor is one of those rumors that just won’t go away. New pictures and information provided by usual “industry sources” that a new PS3 form factor may be on track for a release ...

30. ZeniMax creates FPS empire with id Software acquisition

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 24 June 2009

    ... shooter) titles, including Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein and the upcoming Rage. The company will continue to operate as a studio under the auspices of its founder, John Carmack. "This puts id Software in a ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 19 June 2009

    ... Using the Clarisonic prior to shaving will open pores and give your man the closest shave of his life. The launch of their men’s Graphite Gray Clarisonic for Father’s Day in 2008 was so successful that ...

32. Big Blue ploughs $100 million into mobile research

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 17 June 2009

    IBM plans to invest $100 million over the next five years in a new program to improve mobile services. Armonk, (NY) - IBM plans to invest $100 million over the next five years in a new program to improve ...

33. Microsoft to launch free anti-malware software as beta “soon”

    (Security/Security Features)

    Friday, 12 June 2009

    ... from companies such as Grisoft to a full replacement for Microsoft’s commercial OneCare anti-malware solution, a product that never was as successful as Microsoft had hoped. OneCare was introduced in ...

34. Mind that monitor: computer related injuries on the rise

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 08 June 2009

    ... household-safety practices in this area… Given the large increase in acute computer-related injuries over the study period, greater efforts are needed to prevent such injuries, especially among young children." ...

35. Microsoft preps Windows 7 for Christmas

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 02 June 2009

    ... numbers for Windows with the arrival of Windows 95 more than 14 years ago. Industry sources are pointing to the company’s “Singularity” project as sign how a future Windows, built from scratch, may look ...

36. Intel vs. AMD 6-core CPUs: Speed vs. power?

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 01 June 2009

    Opinion – When Intel introduced its Dunnington 6-core processors back in September of 2008, we considered it a stunning achievement, but knew that it would be about as far as the Core architecture ...

37. GigaOm wants to sell its content

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 28 May 2009

    ... where no blog has gone before. It will launch a premium service subscription service which will cost $79 a year. The move is interesting and not necessarily bound to fail, although Om knows better than ...

38. CE3100: Intel squeezes yet another chip out of the old Dothan core

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 25 May 2009

    ... much more on its core strength than before and in fact tries to learn from the CE industry, rather than trying to change it. The CE3100 Media processor is a critical product for Intel, as the company ...

39. Glu announces uncensored Family Guy for mobile phones

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 21 May 2009

    ... players the ability to explore multiple levels and 7 mini-games. Other notable features include: Five playable characters – Stewie, Peter, Brian, Chris and Quagmire. Cameo appearances – Joe, Cleveland, ...

40. AMD: EU’s Intel decision is not about the money

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 13 May 2009

    ... the billion-dollar fine is just pocket change for Intel and essentially does not matter. What matters is that AMD hopes that Intel will be forced to drop alleged exclusionary pricing practices.Sunnyvale ...

41. EU hits Intel with $1.5 billion fine

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 13 May 2009

    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 ...

42. Cancer research risks serious bias

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Sunday, 10 May 2009

    ... declared funding sources and conflicts of interest. A conflict of interest was identified if it was explicitly declared by the authors, if an author was an employee of industry at the time of publication, ...

43. Apple, Marvell and the promise of changing the world

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Opinion)

    Thursday, 07 May 2009

    ... Dai Hall on Citris. Marvell's co-founder Weili Dai walked us through what she, Citris and Marvell are doing to change the world and make it a better place. This goes well beyond MP3 players and embraces ...

44. Americans gamble over $100 billion online

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 07 May 2009

    ... Representative Barney Frank, chairman of the House Committee on Financial Services, and Representative Jim McDermott introduced bills that will regulate Internet gambling. Frank also introduced another ...

45. AMD’s Globalfoundries to ramp with 22 nm chips

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 05 May 2009

    ... Back then, in June of 2006, AMD was flying high with its Opteron and Athlon X2 processors that took over market share from Intel almost at will. AMD’s market share gains were limited by its production ...

46. Ancient dinosaur bone yields preserved collagen protein

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Friday, 01 May 2009

    A team of American scientists has successfully analyzed eight fragments of preserved collagen protein found in an 80-million-year-old hadrosaur fossil. Although researchers led by Mary Schweitzer had ...

47. Bethesda confirms Elder Scrolls novels

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 27 April 2009

    ... that allows non-player characters (NPCs) to make their own choices based on the world around them. Elder Scrolls IV takes place in Tamriel's capital province, Cyrodiil, which is invaded by demons after ...

48. UPDATED: YouTube and Universal Music Group to form VEVO music and video site

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 09 April 2009

    ... about the site: Today we are joining forces with Universal Music Group (UMG) to announce the launch of VEVO, a music and video entertainment hub that will feature UMG’s premium video content. This ...

49. Intel shows off next-gen Atom processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 08 April 2009

    Intel used the first day of the Spring IDF in Beijing to show off its Moorestown integrated processor, which is expected to replace the current Atom CPU and chipset later this year or early 2010. The ...

50. IBM withdraws $7 billion offer for Sun Microsystems

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 06 April 2009

    ... 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 ...