When Intel announced its low-power Silverthorne chip in 2007 aimed at the mobile computing market, the folks at Centaur Technology, who had been designing low-power x86 chips for mobiles under Taiwanese parent company VIA Technologies, were vindicated. They also suddenly faced direct competition from… Read More »
Archive for February 2009
Microsoft is offering a list of 36 changes you’ll see in the Release Candidate of Windows 7. Some folks think that Redmond isn’t effectively accepting or listening to feedback, but I’ll share some proof of that in minute. Meanwhile, here’s an excerpt of the list… Read More »
Look out iTunes, there’s a brand new media manager in town, in the form of a public beta just released for OS X. The program is called doubleTwist, and it’s the brainchild of anti-DRM crusader “DVD” Jon Johansen. Ars Technica had a look… Read More »
Tiger Woods’ return to golf didn’t end in victory (he was ousted today), but it did generate some big numbers for PGATour.com. The site announced today that it served more than 2.5 million streams during the first round of the World Golf Championships –… Read More »
The latest-generation Kindle is now hitting customer’s hands and a lot of reviews are cropping up. I was waiting for Matt Miller’s review as I know what he likes in mobile devices and I was interested to hear his take on the Kindle 2.
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Given the tone of his speech before Congress earlier this week and his support of clean energy infrastructure as a tool for economic recovery, it’s no surprise that the outline of President Obama’s 2010 budget proposal, released today, includes increased funding for the Department of… Read More »
Sony is no doubt feeling the heat from Apple, whose campaign to push the iPod touch (and the iPhone, though less directly) to the forefront of mobile gaming continues, with another recent advertisement using the “Funnest iPod Ever” tag line, and highlighting another selection… Read More »
Nielsen released its January VideoCensus data today, reporting that total video streams over the course of the month crossed the 10 billion mark, and the overall number of unique viewers surpassed 135 million. Thank you, President Obama, for live-streaming your inauguration. As a point of comparison,… Read More »
Remember those shots of the LG VX9600 handset with a snap-in keyboard case? They must have been the real deal since Verizon Wireless starts offering it in a few short days. March 1st will bring the LG Versa to VZW, complete with the… Read More »
As more of us hop on our 3G-connected smartphones or netbooks, and future 4G connections offer the promise of wired-like speeds via wireless networks, Ars Technica has posted a great article on how regulators in Canada are weighing the issue of network neutrality over wireless… Read More »
Honda Motor Co. has been toiling away at ethanol research since before hybrids moved in from the fringe of autoshows and well before deriving the stuff from corn ignited a heated debate over food vs. fuel. Today the company said it will build a… Read More »
Sometimes, the figurative language used in songs is lost on me. It was many years, for example, before I learned that Hey Mr. Tambourine Man was about a drug dealer, and that Ben Folds Five’s Brick was about an abortion. Sometimes I need things spelled… Read More »
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