HP said today it has closed its $13.9 billion acquisition of Plano, Texas-based IT services provider EDS, which was first announced in May. The success of the deal will depend on HP’s ability to integrate such a large buy into its already mammoth corporate … Read More »
Archive for August 2008
Google buys a piece of another subsea cable in Asia. This one is called Southeast Asian Japan Cable (SJC) and is of intra-Asian nature. Read More »
No question the HTC Touch Diamond is a sleek, sexy phone with a great style coupled with the TouchFLO interface that HTC is pushing. In spite of how great the Touch … Read More »
MapQuest isn’t the shiniest online mapping service. It isn’t the most accurate or the coolest. It is so old school…well, you get the drift. Apparently, that hasn’t deterred over 47 million people who check out the service every month and make it one of the top … Read More »
Compared to his colleagues at the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) — a $500 million academic and industry collaboration to fight carbon emissions with bio-energy — Mitchell Altschuler’s job could sound a little dry. While EBI’s researchers out of the labs of UC Berkeley, … Read More »
Want to watch a great boxing match? Just take a seat and watch the back-and-forth between Adobe Systems and Microsoft. I wrote about this fight-without-an-end last year, but now it seems the punches are being thrown with more intensity. No surprise: Like two aging gladiators, the … Read More »
Mobile live video streaming startup Qik has taken “a significant investment” from Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, who formerly worked together on Netscape and Loudcloud/Opsware. The two are both joining Qik’s board. This adds onto Foster City, Calif.-based Qik’s $4 million previously raised across two … Read More »
One thing I can state for certain, voice command of a cell phone is a must have feature in the car. Sure it comes in handy other places too but since I’ve been carrying an iPhone 3G I sure miss being able to do simple call-related … Read More »
RIAA now will have to contend with an open source version of Muxtape. Download and try this software and make your own mixes. Read More »
A Supreme Court ruling didn’t make it happen; we’ll see if a lawsuit can compel the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. A dozen states, the city of New York and the District of Columbia, led by New York Attorney General Andrew … Read More »
It’s been out for a while but I just got my hands on the Laptop Magazine Ultimate Mobility Special Issue #83 and the banner list of contributing editors has yours … Read More »
Yet again, an Apple update steals the show with the release of iPhone OS 2.0.2. Strangely enough, you may have been a recipient of the following text message (ostensibly from Apple) even if you upgraded: For a release that just “fixed bugs,” I find it difficut to … Read More »
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