Shattered glass. Flickering displays. Non-booting machines. So-goes the list of maladies affecting Apple’s brand new quad-core 27” Core i7-based iMacs. Threads over on the Apple Support Discussion forums are alive with complaints and debate by affected users. After hitting the power button, some owners hear… Read More »
Archive for November 2009
In my day job, helping people with computers, I see many failed hard drives. If the computer is under warranty, I’ll always try to get the system manufacturer to replace the drive rather than order a new one for the customer. Recently, two clients came in,… Read More »
Just like most people with web access, my life is well documented. If a future grandchild idly wonders what I did last October 24 in the afternoon, some notebook, blog post, or social networking site will hold the answer. I decided to take this a step… Read More »
Qualcomm has put another regulatory challenge in the rear-view mirror as the European Commission dropped a 4-year antitrust investigation into the chip maker. The six companies that spurred the probe have withdrawn their complaints or are planning to do so. Read More »
Another day brings another subsidized netbook to the U.S. This time it’s LG with their X120, which has seen sights around the rest of the world for a while now. The X120 is your basic Intel Atom powered netbook with a 160 GB hard… Read More »
Google said today that it will improve the precision of its TV Ads system through a new deal with TiVo that will give the search giant access to viewing data from 1.6 million… Read More »
Star Wars: Trench Run is finally here and this thing is utterly beautiful, packed with authentic audio and video from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope and boasting impressive gameplay visuals. Trench Run is based around the Rebel assault on the Death Star at the… Read More »
Palm Pre owners have been waiting patiently for the homebrew community to open up video recording, since Palm hasn’t seen fit to enable it yet. The time has come with the release of Precorder into alpha testing. Precorder is still bare bones but can record… Read More »
Updated: Chu just announced $620 million for 32 smart grid stimulus demonstration projects, including 16 awards worth $435 million for general smart grid projects and 16 awards for a total of $185 million for energy storage technology. Here’s a list of the winners. According to the… Read More »
The servers running our web applications, crunching numbers or serving up ads aren’t all in company-owned data centers — many are in co-location facilities, which have grown by 1.66 million square feet of floor space since 2008, an increase of 9 percent, according to a report… Read More »
Last week the news about yet another non-belligerent iPhone worm did the rounds and people responded by saying things like “How silly jailbreaker’s are for not changing their SSH root passwords,” and “It’s only a matter of time until a worm appears that’s not so… Read More »
After three years of trying — and failing — to make a business out of running an online video portal, Joost has been acquired by advertising and branded entertainment firm Read More »
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