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1. Pinky Pogoplug USB thing is very perky

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   ... have a quite attractive pink thing sitting around in your house. The re-vamped version has four built in USB 2.0 ports and costs $129. It effectively connects your USB drive to the Internet and even has ...

2. Health IT doesn't save money

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   ... Medical School. "Claims that health IT will slash costs and help pay for the reforms being debated in Congress are wishful thinking." Data from approximately 4,000 hospitals for the years 2003 to 2007 ...

3. Apple tablet delayed. The rumors continue PR drip

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Thursday, 19 November 2009

   ... the other using a 10.6-inch TFT LCD panel. Leaky sources tell the Taiwanese wire that Foxconn, Quanta and Pegatron will build these machines and the report even reckons that the OLED unit will cost between ...

4. Mouse sniffs out counterfeit euros

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   ... obtained from genuine coins, using an algorithm also developed by the Catalan team. "The  advantage of these sensors is their small size, low cost and the angle of vision reduced to such an extent ...

5. T-Mobile starts selling Sidekick phones again

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Tuesday, 17 November 2009

   ... only costs $150, rather than the original $175 price tag. Microsoft has been beavering away to get back data lost during the server crash and has, by and large, succeeded. In compensation, T-Mobile doled ...

6. Michael Arrington resurrects enigmatic CrunchPad tablet

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Monday, 16 November 2009

   ... Internet sites such as Hulu and YouTube. Arrington also noted that he was examining various ways to help keep production costs down by negotiating soft revenue and sponsorship opportunities. Nevertheless, ...

7. Google: Better ethics than the Vatican?

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Saturday, 14 November 2009

   ...  One story has Google offering a free map resource of where to find flu shots in your area. This cost the company money to develop and, to my knowledge, there's no direct revenues the company will generate ...

8. YouTube goes hi-res

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Friday, 13 November 2009

   ... need to be increased from the current two GB.  A YouTube spokesman says the company has tested the higher-quality files extensively and is 'not worried' about infrastructure problems or the increased cost ...

9. HP has $2.7 billion to buy 3COM

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 11 November 2009

   ... of hours." HP CEO, Mark Hurd, has been gaining kudos for his cost cutting and growth strategy. Sadly, there is a sense of computing history slipping away, and maybe more tech jobs, and lord knows we don't ...

10. AMD says Fusion will knock Intel for six. Or five

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 11 November 2009

    ... team and a different focus of execution. “Their real goal is battery life and cost and performance that gives you a real experience. It will be the ultimate thin and light CPU with the best performance ...

11. Apple with iPhone more profitable than Nokia

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 11 November 2009

    ... a lower $1.1 billion operating profit. With strong volumes, high wholesale prices and tight cost controls, the PC vendor has successfully broken into the mobile phone market in just two years." Newil ...

12. Microsoft rolls out Exchange 2010

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 09 November 2009

    ... percent because of support for lower cost storage. It also claims that customers can get 20 percent productivity gains because it has designed a universal inbox that puts email, voice mail, instant messages ...

13. Ashmolean in Oxford re-opens this weekend

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Friday, 06 November 2009

    ... beautiful art, and some beautiful everything else. 39 new galleries have been added on to the original edifice. The refurb cost £61 million (~$100 million). It opens on Saturday the 7th of November. The ...

14. Windows 7 sales outpace Vista adoption

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 05 November 2009

    ... of promotional activity for the Ultimate version resulted in dollar sales that were 82 percent higher than Vista's. "Microsoft's program of early low-cost pre-sales, high visibility marketing, and aggressive ...

15. Apple's small-minded strategy

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Wednesday, 04 November 2009

    ... network server to another. But it is not that hard or costly for consumers to change their minds about the latest faddish toy. Businesses will whine about vendor lock-in by Microsoft or IBM, when it suits ...

16. Coconut nuclear power on the horizon

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Tuesday, 03 November 2009

    ... by ITER will be at least 10 times greater than the external power delivered to heat the plasma and it will cost $10 billion. In ITER, the fusion reaction is achieved in Tokamak using magnetic fields ...

17. Strike!

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 30 October 2009

    ... to wherever they get a better break on labor costs. But workers cannot get up and move to areas where there are jobs. Even if they could, local laws would forbid non-locals from taking the jobs for which ...

18. Apple iPhone released in China at high price tag

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Friday, 30 October 2009

    ... iPhone 3GS will ship at $1,024, courtesy of China Unicom, but without any kind of service plan. The Wall Street Journal reports that with a two year service plan the bund;e will cost $3,120, more than ...

19. Asus introduces Superspeed USB 3.0 mobo

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 30 October 2009

    ... December and is estimated to cost $300. ...

20. Russia plans nuclear rocket for manned Mars mission

    (Space/Space Features)

    Friday, 30 October 2009

    ... race. The basic design could be ready by 2012. A final version would take another nine years, and would cost around $580 million to build, said Perminov. It would be based around a megawatt-class nuclear ...

21. Amazon streamlines payment process

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 29 October 2009

    ... with multiple websites. Users find the item they want, type their PayPhrase into the PayPhrase button on the product’s page, and click to instantly preview the total cost of their order, including shipping ...

22. Nintendo plans large-screen DSi

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 27 October 2009

    ... version will  have all the same features. Nikkei says it will launch in Japan by the end of the year. It will cost Y18,900 - around $200 - which is the same price as the standard version. It apparently ...

23. The future of 4G is murky

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Sunday, 25 October 2009

    Basic design and silicon to achieve power and cost targets for 4G data or phone based devices is still not in place, according to a report from a senior semiconductor analyst.Basic design and silicon to ...

24. Geeks Are Losers

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Friday, 23 October 2009

    ... his hardware partners into eschewing competitors' products, whether it be browsers or operating systems, not because he gave a damn about his customers, he just wanted Microsoft to grow at all costs. What ...

25. Microsoft Q1 revenues down 14 percent

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 23 October 2009

    ... quarter and particularly by the strong consumer demand for Windows,” said Chris Liddell, chief financial officer at Microsoft. “We also maintained our cost discipline, which allowed us to drive strong ...

26. Booksellers accuse Amazon of illegal price war

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 23 October 2009

    ... terms to these big box retailers, and that the retailers are, in fact, taking orders for these books at prices far below cost. (In the case of Mr. King's book, these retailers are losing as much as $8.50 ...

27. Fuel cells fail to fulfil their promise

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 22 October 2009

    ... isn't our idea of road warrior heaven. The Dynario DMFC costs 29,800 yen (~$343), and the fuel cartridges cost 3,150 yen (~$34) for a set of five. The Dynario weighs 280 grams without fuel, while the ...

28. Cost of solar energy declines

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Wednesday, 21 October 2009

    ... are getting to be better value, according to the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). The average cost fell by more than 30 percent from 1998 to 2008, dropping ...

29. The best disk defragger just got better

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 21 October 2009

    ... from the MFT Reserved Zone into the rest of the disk space, allowing NTFS to allocate contiguous space for the MFT records and thus prevent its fragmentation. If this program cost $50 I'd have no ...

30. News aggregation sites threatened with legal action

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 20 October 2009

    ... our accepting this would cost us.”  In his letter, Bartlett explains: "A number of parties have threatened us (plus other aggregators) with legal action if we do not either accept these new controls ...

31. ARM multicore chip challenges Intel's hegemony

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 20 October 2009

    ... cost handsets, phones, smartphones. The design uses ARM MPCore technology, already licensed by Broadcom, NEC, Nvidia, Renesas and Toshiba. It supports Android, Adobe Flash, JAVA SE, Java FX, Linux, ...

32. By hook or by crook, B&N launches the nook

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Tuesday, 20 October 2009

    ... electronic reader - it calls it the nook - and claims it is the world's most advanced eBook reader. The nook costs $259, has 2GB of memory, and uses an E Ink display. It lets you make notes and highlight ...

33. Sun to axe 3,000 jobs after Oracle delay

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 20 October 2009

    Delays in the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by database giant Oracle will cost 3,000 jobs over the next 12 months.Delays in the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by database giant Oracle will cost 3,000 ...

34. Find a Nook - read,lend,kindle an e-book

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Tuesday, 20 October 2009

    An electronic reader called the Nook is set to be introduced by Barnes & Noble today.An electronic reader called the Nook is set to be introduced by Barnes & Noble today.The Nook costs $260, but ...

35. AUO unveils flexible e-paper

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Tuesday, 20 October 2009

    ... manufacturing process gives higher yield rates, making it more cost-competitive and allows different paper sizes. AUO expects to distribute samples to customers in 2010 and to start volume production then. ...

36. Wolfram Alpha rolls out $50 iPhone app

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 19 October 2009

    ... try to tell me that the price is justified by added features or functionality, or that anyone other than an elite class of niche users would find enough value to merit the cost. The price will come down ...

37. Gartner veep outlines Windows 7 migration costs

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 19 October 2009

    We asked last week why migrating to Windows 7 from Windows XP was reckoned to cost $1,930 a seat. Over the weekend, Gartner VP of research Michael Silver took the time to send us an email filling in ...

38. Managers admit they can't handle server utilization

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 18 October 2009

    ... by 1E in association with the Alliance to Save Energy, reckons the cost of this inactivity as $25 billion a year. “Contrary to popular belief, one of the largest causes of energy and IT operational waste ...

39. Kindle is no answer to reading books digitally

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Sunday, 18 October 2009

    ... The usual economies of scale that have brought powerful devices into our hands with components costing just a few cents apiece will drive the e-reader market too. Ever lend a friend a book? We all have. ...

40. Analysts spout crap, charge megabucks

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Friday, 16 October 2009

    ... stories a day or have his Everclear allowance cut off. We noted with interest earlier today that Gartner analysts reckon it will cost a staggering $1930 per seat to upgrade from Windows XP to Windows ...

41. Judge protects Verizon ringtones from greedy publishers

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 16 October 2009

    ... costs, preserving the ability of consumers to make private uses of the music they legally purchase. Additionally, while selling ringtones may not be all that innovative today, in following the Second Circuit ...

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

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 15 October 2009

    ... skip Windows 7. "Organizations that skipped Windows 2000 and waited for XP had some problems spanning the gap," said Silver. Large organizations should also budget carefully because migration costs could ...

43. "We're through the recession," says Google

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 15 October 2009

    ... grew even faster than revenues, hitting $1,64 billion - up 27 percent on a year ago. * IBM has also been working to cut costs, largely through automation and outsourcing, and has also seen profits for ...

44. SanDisk ships 64 Gigabit X4 Flash memory cards

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 13 October 2009

    ... was to not only deliver the lower costs inherent to 4-bits-per-cell, but to do so while meeting the reliability and performance requirements of industry standard cards that employ MLC NAND," explained ...

45. iPhone app lets you start your car

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Tuesday, 13 October 2009

    ... and pre-warm the cabin. You can also use it to turn the AC on too. While the download is free, the Viper SmartStart, which will sell through Best Buy stores, costs $499. ...

46. Dyson: Fans for the memory

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Tuesday, 13 October 2009

    ... doesn't. It hits you for $300 instead. That's 10 times more than a pretty decent fan costs.    ...

47. Fleet of electric Minis sallies forth

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Tuesday, 13 October 2009

    Twenty British drivers left home yesterday, smug in the knowledge that their driving is costing them less than a penny a mile. Twenty British drivers left home yesterday, smug in the knowledge that ...

48. Social Networking helps you dodge the law

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Thursday, 08 October 2009

    ... he said. "We did the 'I'm a Celebrity' campaign in the US. We got 20 bloggers with big followings to compete with each other to go to Costa Rica - and got two million visitors to the site."Less entertaining, ...

49. Congress demands FCC probe of Google Voice

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 08 October 2009

    A bipartisan Congressional group has asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to investigate Google's alleged policy of blocking high-cost calls to rural areas. According to Reuters, the legislators ...

50. Gateway takes on Apple's iMac

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 07 October 2009

    ... screen PCs to date have been cost-prohibitive and somewhat limited in their capabilities, [we are] making this new technology more accessible to average consumers, while using an industry-standard solution ...