Vista SP1 beta 1 to launch in mid-July
It's official: We are now in the under-promise and over-deliver era at Microsoft. — Just when Microsoft had customers, partners and competitors all believing that it was going to delay the first ser...
$19 mln price tag for space station toilet
www.chinaview.cn 2007-07-06 18:01:47 — Paying 19 million U.S.dollars for a Russian-built international space station toilet system is a bargain compared to building one from scratch, a NASA spokew...
AMD Makes Strategic Investment in Transmeta
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Transmeta Corporation (NASDAQ:TMTA) and AMD (NYSE:AMD) today announced that AMD has invested $7.5 million in Transmeta in exchange for Transmeta preferred stock. —...
SPRINT TAKES LEAD AS 1ST SPONSOR OF FILE-SHARE SONG
Sprint has signed on as the first company to underwrite a song to be distributed on file-sharing networks, agreeing to embed its logo on copies of tracks from Atlantic Records hip-hop artist Plies, so...
THE IMPORTANT LESSONS OF BACKFENCE'S CLOSING
The announced closing of Backfence has brought about some refreshing and much-needed discussion on the subject of hyperlocal news and the web. This is an important discussion, because a lot of compan...
CONFIRMED: T-Mobile Germany announces the HTC Kaiser as T-Mobile MDA Vario III
Here we go - I was right when I said that T-Mobile's previously unveiled MDA Vario III will be most likely the HTC Kaiser. Today, T-Mobile Germany confirmed the launch of the MDA Vario III during the...
Hobby leads to career for tech blogger
Wellington is home to a rising star in the highly competitive and global blogging industry. — Richard MacManus runs the world's 28th most popular blog, Read/WriteWeb, from his home office in Lower H...
Extravagant World of Warcraft setup includes 47 PCs, seven monitors
And you thought adding a trio of displays to your mobile gaming rig was hardcore. To be frank, calling this setup "extravagant" could be the understatement of the month (or year), but it's a tad hard...
AT&T sets up 'Muni' WiFi in California
AT&T, the largest US telecommunications group, is launching its first WiFi wireless broadband internet service on Monday in Riverside, California. — The deployment highlights AT&T's decision to embr...
When three ex-MSFTies partner: They're Beautiful!
Three months ago almost everyone wondered (or at least one nosy blogger did) what happens when three amazingly talented Microsoft employees leave to form their own startup company would do and could a...
I am no longer an iPhone Refusnik...but rather an iPhone Confusnik.
O.K., so I am now the owner of an expensive iPod that has the ability to take pictures that I need to perform a serious hack on if I want it to work inside of Wi-Fi hotspots if I choose NOT to commit ...