Jun
02
2011
02
2011
AMD announces Trinity, talks Llano, launches Z series at Computex
In a surprise announcement at Computex in Taiwan, AMD unveiled its plans to produce a Bulldozer-based APU, codenamed Trinity. The company also launched its ...
May
28
2011
28
2011
RadioShack Trying To Return To Its DIY Roots
An anonymous reader writes "In what seems to be a desperate attempt to keep the company afloat, RadioShack has made a video appeal to the DIY community that helped the retail chain grow into what it is today. The days ...
May
27
2011
27
2011
Intel exec throws fuel on the "Intel to fab Apple chips" rumor fire
At an investor event in London, remarks by Intel CFO Stacy Smith gave a boost to the recent rumor that Intel may be in ...
May
27
2011
27
2011
NYSE Sends Cease and Desist Letter To News Organization
An anonymous reader writes "Apparently, the New York Stock Exchange has registered a trademark for their trading floor, and they claim that no one can use a photograph of the trading floor without permission."
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May
26
2011
26
2011
Get discounts, pay with your phone with Google Wallet, Offers
Just as expected, Google unveiled its wireless payment system and its new Groupon-like deals site at a press event in ...
May
25
2011
25
2011
After a Lull, Sun Server Business Grows Under Oracle
itwbennett writes "For the first time since the 3rd quarter of 2007, IDC is reporting an increase in sales of Sun hardware. Oracle logged $773 million in server sales during the quarter, up from $681 million the year before, according ...
May
24
2011
24
2011
How Companies Are Using Data From Foursquare
wjousts writes: Technology Review reports on how businesses use data from all those Foursquare check-ins. "Merchants can analyze various metrics over time, including how many check-ins are recorded each day, who the most recent and most frequent visitors are, how ...
May
24
2011
24
2011
Ask Slashdot: How To Ask For Equity In a Startup?
Uncrase writes "I'm a contract software developer, and have been working for a small startup for over a year now. Not a bad position to be in of course. The company consists of a handful of people, all of which ...
May
23
2011
23
2011
Exchange Online back to normal after 2 weeks of e-mail glitches
A series of issues has disrupted customers of Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) over the past couple of weeks, with services returning ...
May
23
2011
23
2011
Corporate Mac Sales Surge 66%
syngularyx writes "Mac sales in the enterprise during Apple's last fiscal quarter grew a whopping 66 percent, significantly outpacing the rest of the PC market, which grew just 4.5 percent in the enterprise. The data from Apple's previous fiscal quarter ...
May
21
2011
21
2011
Explosion At Foxconn Factory Kills 2, Injures 16
arielCo writes "There are several reports in the news about an explosion in a Foxconn factory in Chengdu that manufactures the iPad 2, killing two workers and injuring another 16. 'The Chengdu Municipal government said the explosion occurred in Foxconn's ...
May
19
2011
19
2011
Feature: Malware on the Mac: is there cause for concern? Ars investigates
Malware on the Mac: is it mostly hype or a real problem faced by real people? If you ask John Gruber, the answer might ...
May
18
2011
18
2011
The Future of Shopping
Hugh Pickens writes "The WSJ reports that a new device, now in use at about half of Ahold USA's Stop & Shop and Giant supermarkets in the Northeast, is making supermarket shoppers — and stores — happier. Looking like a ...
May
18
2011
18
2011
Fable III Dev: Used Game Sales More Costly Than Piracy
eldavojohn writes "A developer working for Lionhead, the studio behind Fable III, told Eurogamer that piracy is 'less problematic' than used game sales, from a business perspective. Mike West, the lead combat designer for the latest Fable, said, 'For us ...
May
18
2011
18
2011
The post-PC era is happening, but not yet at the expense of PCs
Apple CEO Steve Jobs recently roused some criticism for declaring the iPad to be the harbinger of a "post-PC" era. Market research firms seem ...
May
17
2011
17
2011
Valve’s Newell: One-Price-For-Everyone Business Model ‘Broken’
Fysx writes with recent comments from Valve co-founder Gabe Newell about how he thinks the traditional video game business model is flawed:
"The industry has this broken model, which is one price for everyone. That’s actually a bug, and it’s something ...
May
16
2011
16
2011
Feature: Meet DOCSIS, Part 2: the jump from 2.0 to 3.0
In Part 1 of this series, we covered DOCSIS 2.0. Now, DOCSIS 2.0 is no slouch, but with the hot breath of fiber-to-the-home, WiMax, ...
May
16
2011
16
2011
Solar-Powered Airplane Completes First International Flight
liqs8143 writes "Solar Impulse, a fully solar-powered airplane, has completed its first international solar-powered flight. After a flight lasting 12 hours 59 minutes at an altitude of 12,400 feet, using no fuel and propelled by solar energy alone, Solar Impulse ...
May
13
2011
13
2011
Feature: Big data meets big storage: an in-depth look at Isilon’s scale-out storage solution
As a baby nerd, sitting in the back room of my parents' house and dialing into BBSs in the late '80s and early '90s, ...
May
13
2011
13
2011
Square Enix Facing Big Losses For 2010
eldavojohn writes "It's no secret that Final Fantasy XIV took a lot of heat early on, which required extensive damage control. And the Japanese tsunami (which appears to have added $7.5 million to their losses) certainly didn't help. But if ...
May
12
2011
12
2011
NCSoft To Close North American Lineage Servers
NCSoft announced yesterday that they plan to shut down all North American servers for their long-running Lineage MMORPG on June 29th. The game came out in 1998 and gradually became one of the most successful MMOs of all time, reporting ...
May
11
2011
11
2011
How WikiLeaks Gags Its Own Staff
robbyyy writes "The New Statesman has just revealed the extent of the legal eccentricity and paranoia that exists at the WikiLeaks organization. The magazine published a leaked copy of the draconian and extraordinary legal gag which WikiLeaks imposes on its ...
May
08
2011
08
2011
Making Wireless, Not Ethernet, the Heart of the Network
GMGruman writes "As mobile devices enter the workplace and latch on to Wi-Fi networks — along with devices such as HVAC sensors and videoconferencing that most people don't even realize use Wi-Fi — the typical wireless LAN is unable to ...
May
07
2011
07
2011
Week in tech: IP addresses and browser upgrades
After botched child porn raid, judge sees the light on IP addresses: Even judges read the newspapers, and one federal judge has already started ...
May
06
2011
06
2011
Don’t Cry, I’ll Be Back Before You Know It
Hey guys sorry for the slow posting today, something's come up (NOT my period) and I have to run out for awhile. Hopefully I'll be back to post this afternoon, but if not I'll make it up to you ...
May
06
2011
06
2011
Google to beef up Places, Street View with interior business photos
Google Maps and Street View have become so useful that it's hard to imagine living without the services sometimes. Street View is especially useful ...
May
05
2011
05
2011
Hewlett Packard’s Cult Calculator Turns 30
Hugh Pickens writes "The Wall Street Journal reports that Hewlett Packard's HP-12C financial calculator has remained outwardly unchanged since its introduction in 1981. 'Once you learned it on the 12C, there was no need to change,' says David Carter, chief ...
May
05
2011
05
2011
Feature: Meet DOCSIS, Part 1: the unsung hero of high-speed cable Internet access
The ideal way to build a national broadband network for access to the Internet would be with a high-bandwidth, bidirectional cable running to each ...
May
04
2011
04
2011
Latest GPU market numbers spell bad news for NVIDIA
It's Intel's fifth consecutive quarter of producing CPUs with GPUs integrated into the same package (if not on the same die), and, predictably, the ...
May
03
2011
03
2011
Intel to fab ARM chips for Apple? It’s possible…
An analyst at Piper Jaffray has made waves today suggesting that based on signals that he's seeing, Intel is making a play for Apple's ...
May
03
2011
03
2011
Microsoft partners with RIM to bring Bing to BlackBerry
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made an appearance today at RIM's BlackBerry World conference to announce a new partnership between Microsoft and RIM to bring ...
May
02
2011
02
2011
RIM unveils shiny new BlackBerry 7 OS, only for shiny new BlackBerrys
Research In Motion today announced a pair of new smartphones, the BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9930, and a new operating ...
Apr
30
2011
30
2011
On Monday, AT&T Customers Enter Era of Broadband Caps
theodp writes "The Age of Broadband Caps begins Monday, with AT&T imposing a 150 GB cap on DSL subscribers and 250 GB for UVerse users, and keeping the meter running after that. The move comes as AT&T's 16+ million customers ...
Apr
29
2011
29
2011
The Importance of Lunch
theodp writes "I've been on teams that eat together every day,' writes Joel-on-Software Spolsky, 'and it's awesome. I've been on teams that don't, and lunch every day is, at best, lonely.' Spolsky is firmly in the camp that believes where ...
Apr
28
2011
28
2011
NVIDIA announces SLI support for the AMD platform
For the past few years, if you've wanted to gang together two NVIDIA cards in an SLI configuration, you've been restricted to using an ...
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