17 Jul, 2008
The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that AOL and Microsoft executives were in discussions about a possible merger. PC World reported the news and went on to discuss how such a merger would affect the pending battle for control of Yahoo!. Carl Icahn and Microsoft have been working together on a possible deal that could include the selling of Yahoo!’s search business to Microsoft.
There’s also a possibility that Microsoft could purchase all of Yahoo!, but ultimately the fate of Yahoo! is tied to a proxy vote to be held at the company’s annual shareholder meeting on August 1st.
(Read the full post about ‘Microsoft eyes merger with AOL’…)
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17 Jul, 2008
Although Brando doesn’t make even the slightest hint that they were intending to make a Mario Bros reference with these little desk cleaners, the mushrooms still have a great deal of appeal to those loving the classic game. If your cubicle has been looking overly dusty lately, these can suck up dust, hair, and even cigarette ashes. They do mention that one for your car, but we all know the one time you’d really love to have a cigarette is right in the middle of your office when your boss is driving you nuts. (Read the full post about ‘Brando’s Mushroom Desk Mini Cleaner’…)
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17 Jul, 2008
Aliph, the makers of the Jawbone Bluetooth headset have just begun offering a $20 discount for anyone who receives a ticket for breaking a hands free law. Simply put they are offering the discount “because having a conversation shouldn’t be a crime.” So for those who have run into trouble with not being able to put the phone down, simply visit the Jawbone website and choose the headset color you want, enter the state where you received your ticket and the ticket number. Once that is entered, you will be able to get that $20 discount which will bring the overall price down to $109.99. (Read the full post about ‘Aliph offers a “breaking the hands free law” discount for Jawbone’…)
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17 Jul, 2008
A semiconductor plant producing precious IBM chips is set for business expansion. This chip plant is located in East Fishkill in New York, USA. IBM or the International Business Machines Corporation has spoke of its plans of investing $1 billion over the next three years. This is for the expansion of the said chip plant. IBM aims to maintain its mission to live for the chip-making business. The billions-worth of investment will be divided among the three projects related to chip nanotechnologies. IBM presented this announcement as it also discloses of about $500 million worth of money to go for research and development, plus capital equipment in the University of Alabany’s College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering. (Read the full post about ‘IBM’s chip plant to get $1 billion investment’…)
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17 Jul, 2008
FROM GAMERTELL - Gamertell got an early look at the Caped Crusader’s latest flick starring Christian Bale as the Batman and Heath Ledger as the Joker witten and directed by Christopher Nolan… MORE » Keep up with the latest gadget goodness! - Subscribe to our feed → Tags: Ogg, digital, plasma, cool gear (Read the full post about ‘Sneak Peak: The Dark Knight movie’…)
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17 Jul, 2008
Almost all I’ve heard and read about since the launch of a certain new, improved iPhone last week is applications - the popularity of the new apps store, the best free apps… it’s been, quite frankly, apps up to my ass. But I’m not easily impressed. There’s only so long I can be enthralled by Tetris or Scrabble on my phone (and that’s quite a long time, but we all get bored eventually). What I’m really interested in knowing about are honest-to-goodness useful applications that could actually make my life easier (my imaginary life, where I own an iphone 3G, that is). And Jott is one of the few apps to actually get me interested. Tags: hdtv, robots, mobile phone, technology (Read the full post about ‘Jott can turn your iPhone into a text recorder/transcriber’…)
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17 Jul, 2008
Today Series3 and HD owners should start seeing a nice addition to the content available on their TiVo. TiVo’s summer upgrade (9.4) brings along the ability to watch YouTube video on your TV, which means your video collection just increased by a few hundred million.
TiVo has all the information on their site, but the important thing is that it is finally here. This is something that people have been expecting from TiVo for some time so while it’s not necessarily a game-changer, the diversity and quantity of content that this makes available is considerable.
(Read the full post about ‘YouTube streaming its way to TiVo today’…)
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17 Jul, 2008
Back in April, 18 year-old Owen Thor Walker a.k.a AKill pleaded guilty to 6 charges of cybercrime in a New Zealand court. His crimes as part of a ring of hackers apparently cost the local economy around US$20.4 million.
This week the court case came to an end with Owen managing to dodge a conviction. Instead he will have to pay US$11,000 in costs and damages (even though he reportedly earned US$32,000 during his crime spree). He will also work with the local police to help crack down on online criminal activity.
The reason for the lack of a conviction is because Owen only got paid to write the software that went on to illegally earn other people money.
(Read the full post about ‘Teen hacker Owen Walker wont be convicted’…)
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17 Jul, 2008
The Psystar vs Apple cage-fight continues, and Apple now wants the Mac clone maker to recall all the OS X equipped PCs it has sold – something that will likely come as a relief to Psystar’s disappointed customers (unless, of course, they have a pile of leaves that needs blowing). That Psystar has violated the OS X End User Licensing Agreement is obvious, but these things have never really had a good hard test in court. So Apple is going after copyright issues, saying that Psystar modified its OS X Leopard code to run on standard PC hardware, and then effectively distributed that code on the hacked computers. Add to this that Psystar’s business model requires that it makes similar modifications to all OS updates, and you see the tangle it is in. (Read the full post about ‘Apple Demands That Psystar Recalls All Hackintoshes’…)
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17 Jul, 2008
Sony today unveiled the VAIO FW notebook—a multimedia PC that displays HD movies the way they were meant to be seen. Part of a series, the VAIO FW notebook comes in multiple configurations, including a premium and a standard model. The premium model plays Blu-ray Disc high-definition content like movies in full 1080 HD resolution when connected to a compatible HDTV. It can also record, store and play back personal content on high-capacity BD media. Weighing a little over six pounds, the Sony FW notebook features the world’s first 16.4-inch display, which combines the benefits of a slightly larger17-inch widescreen with the smaller “footprint” of a 15.4-inch model. (Read the full post about ‘Sony announces Worlds first 16.4 inch wide Multimedia Notebook’…)
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