Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:
Larrabee: Intel's biggest leap since the Pentium Pro — Since the primitive 4004 chip first designed for a line of calculators, Intel has been a processor company. And in all of the company's decades of processor design and fabrication, Intel has seen only one truly disruptive change …
By ALICIA CHANG | AP Science Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) _ NASA's Phoenix spacecraft has detected the presence of a chemically reactive salt in the Martian soil, a finding that if confirmed could make it less friendly to potential...
It was beginning to look like Asus had turned its back on the very model that started the mini notebook craze - the Eee PC 701. They seem to have taken the criticism onboard - you know, the jibes concerning their recent models moving further away from the itsy bitsyness of the original Eee PC (904, 905 and the recently unveiled Ultimate and Pro Fashion series) - and are returning back to familiar territory.
Korean firm KNGT has announced a new car PC that runs on Windows XP, suggesting that jokes about "crashing" don't translate well into Korean...
Bloody Casino Royale was bad enough. Every time a pretty building popped into view, Daniel Craig whipped out some clearly-branded piece of Sony equipment and took a photo of it. Then uploaded it via his Vaio.
It's difficult to get excited about a Zune phone, when we're yet to see the original hardware here in Europe. However, the Microsoft rumour mills are frantically churning against the Apple mills, bringing us news of a Zune/Nokia collaboration.
When Apple temporarily removed NetShare from its AppStore, it made sense: the program let people use the iPhone as a modem. The reinstatement, if anything, was the odd part. Apple's now removed Box Office, a popular movie listings program with no obviously naughty purpose, leading developers Metasyntactic to drink at the waters of WTF: Apple pulled the app yesterday without giving my any notification that they were doing it, or what their justification was for removing it.
Time Warner is moving forward with its plans to sell off AOL in pieces, and is finally ready to formally separate the AOL portal and advertising business from its legacy dial-up access business. But how much can it hope to get for these parts?
Google is working on a new service called Google Translation Center. Just a short while ago, we noticed that "center" had been added to Google's robots.txt file, and now co-editor Tony Ruscoe discovered the link to the working frontpage.
Posted on: Tuesday, 5 August 2008, 00:00 CDT HOPKINTON, Mass., Aug. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today unveiled the new EMC(R) CLARiiON(R) CX4 Series of midrange...
New York Times - By Bob Herber - Aug. 5 (Opinion) - Put aside for a moment all the talk about alternative fuels. They are no doubt important and the wave of the future. But the fastest, cheapest, easiest and cleanest step toward a sane energy environment -- a step available to all of us immediately -- is the powerful combination of efficiency and conservation.
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Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
Steve Jobs: MobileMe “not up to Apple's standards” — In an internal e-mail sent to Apple employees this evening, Steve Jobs admitted that MobileMe was launched too early and “not up to Apple's standards.” The e-mail, seen by Ars Technica, acknowledges MobileMe's flaws and what could have been done to better handle the launch.
RealSSD C200 flash drives, with up to 256GB capacity, replace Micron's SLC drives An organization's business continuity plan helps keep critical functions running during an emergency–the power fails, a virus is unleashed on...
The third time was definitely not a charm for SpaceX. The spaceflight company run by PayPal founder Elon Musk suffered its third high-profile mishap Saturday when an undisclosed problem caused a rocket launch to fail. The...
Lander finds perchlorate, an oxidant widely used in solid rocket fuel, in Mars' soil Researchers checking whether chemical was carried to Mars from Earth Finding dims hopes that life exists on Mars' surface From Miles O'Brien...
David Kravets / Threat Level:
Judge Hints at Mistrial in RIAA v. Jammie Thomas — DULUTH, Minnesota — The federal judge who presided over the nation's only peer-to-peer copyright-infringement trial announced from the bench here Monday that he is likely to declare a mistrial. — “Certainly, I have sent a signal …
Sanjay Jha, a respected Qualcomm executive, will need new skills to lead Motorola’s handset division. Photo: Qualcomm Motorola needed an executive with certain skills to lead its mobile phone business: An understanding of...
A couple of weeks ago the sixth man on the moon, Edgar Mitchell, in an apparent bid to catch up with James Watson in the "man of science inexplicably becomes a crackpot" stakes, went on the radio and claimed that the human race has made contact with aliens and there's a big cover-up to disguise this fact.
The theory that every human being is separated from anyone else by a maximum of six steps may have gained some ground thanks to a study of some thirty billion instant messages by Microsoft's researchers.
It's a beautiful piece. The cheap case gives it a pleasingly utilitarian early-1990s design appearance, with simplistic buttons that you could easily believe Nintendo would've chucked into a handheld SNES - had it bothered to make one back in the day.
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04 Aug 2008