LINUX ON THE IPHONE
Linux on the iPhone! — I'm pleased to announce that the Linux 2.6 kernel has been ported to Apple's iPhone platform, with support for the first and second generation iPhones as well as the first gen...
Black Friday 2008: $300 MacBook Pro Discounts, iPhone App Sales
Apple has officially unveiled their Black Friday sales for their online and retail stores. The discounts are very similar to last year's event. The only two Mac models on sale are the iMac and MacBo...
Put change.gov Under Revision Control!
Last week, the New York Times wrote about Changes at change.gov: … The changes, as it turned out, were mostly to tone down the partisan politics of the policy documents as published during the campaig...
Official Nikon D3X specs. It's here, folks!
Update, 28th November 3:40pm GMT: Scans in my original post were playing havoc with my bandwidth, so they've been removed. However, you can find scans of the Nikon Pro mag here and here. Thanks to L...
Jeff Bezos on the Future of Amazon.com
IN THE PAST decade, Jeff Bezos's online bookstore has exploded into an enterprise that sells everything — snowplows, canned goods, you name it. More recently, Amazon.com (AMZN) has ventured into sell...
Intel rethinks Netbooks: ‘Fine for an hour’ but...
Intel is re-evaluating the Netbook market as possibly not The Next Big Thing.
Best of Black Friday Deals Complete Roundup
Like the rest of the holiday season, Black Friday seems like it starts earlier every year, so it feels like we've been leaking deals and doing round ups for ages. Yet, perversely, despite the wretche...
As Carl Icahn Buys More Yahoo Shares, Is It the Sign That a CEO Choice Is Near?
When everyone else has been selling, it seems Carl Icahn has decided to throw good money after bad-as in nearly $1 billion bad-by buying almost seven million more of Yahoo shares, according to a regul...
Jasper Motherboard in the Wild: 256MB Internal ‘MU’, 150W PSU, ...
Moddage posted pictures of his new Jasper 360 on our forums (here and here) and we also received some pictures …
Not ye olde banners
Internet advertising will be relatively unscathed in the downturn — AT THE beginning of the year Jeff Zucker, the boss of NBC Universal, a big television and film company, told an audience of TV exe...
Would you know a base station if you saw one?
El Reg compo to identify those in the know — What with the SiteFinder database still not getting updated it's time to see if you notice now when the lamp post next to you is suspiciously pregnant, o...
Facebook: Please Let Us Spam Your Email Box
At least a year ago, we found Facebook's email notification settings page and turned off all of its alerts. Why? We have no interest in getting an email every time someone requests to be friends, ta...
Micron to launch hyperfast SSD, touts 1GB/sec. throughput
Micron says the technology could extend to consumer systems — Computerworld) Within the next year, Micron Technology Inc. expects to bring to market a high-end solid-state disk drive that could achi...