Posted on November 13th, 2006 by ElectroGeek
According to reports by The Raw Feed and Nordic Hardware, Windows Vista RTM has been leaked to file sharing sites and is soon to be cracked. The websites did not mention which file sharing websites that Vista has been leaked to or how long it would take for the software to be cracked. Are [...]
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Posted on November 12th, 2006 by ElectroGeek
Helio’s Drift model telephone, custom-built by South Korea’s Samsung Electronics, has a “Buddy Beacon” feature that maps the whereabouts of as many as 25 selected people with similar devices.
“Now, Helio members can spend less time searching and more time hanging out,” said the Los Angeles company’s chief executive Sky Dayton.
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Posted on November 11th, 2006 by ElectroGeek
Can Microsoft fight off the Linux invasion? Read more and find out.
In the news lately Microsoft has reportedly cut a deal with long time rival Novell. That’s old news you say. Right, but let’s look a little bit deeper shall we? Why did Microsoft cut a deal with Novell? If you guessed because they’re [...]
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Posted on November 10th, 2006 by ElectroGeek
The repeated delay of a title is a familiar phenomenon in the world of gaming. Sometimes the reason behind this is the manufacturers’ desire for perfection and sometimes it’s just a marketing maneuver intended to increase interest in those no longer patient enough to submerge themselves in the virtual universe of a certain title.
From this [...]
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Posted on November 10th, 2006 by ElectroGeek
Worldwide shipments of non-converged handheld devices (PDAs) shrank to just 1.1 million units in Q3 of 2006, IDC reports. The analyst firm attributes the 15.4 percent drop from the prior quarter — marking the 11th straight quarter of year-over-year decline — to a lack of new devices.
IDC’s definition of “handheld devices” includes units that provide [...]
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Posted on November 10th, 2006 by ElectroGeek
Investigators looking into Hollywood Commissioner Keith Wasserstrom’s role in helping a company win an $18 million sludge-handling contract peeked into his computer in 2005 and saw nothing.
A computer crash wiped everything out, Wasserstrom’s attorney explained this week. According to reports released this week, the Broward State Attorney’s Office ordered a search of Wasserstrom’s [...]
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Posted on November 9th, 2006 by ElectroGeek
Kevin Rose, founder of social news pioneer Digg, boasts that his site beat Google News, Netscape and other aggregation services to the punch when Donald Rumsfeld resigned.
Rumsfeld’s resignation broke an internal record for the time it takes a story to go from being submitted to landing on the home page. It took about 3 minutes [...]
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Posted on November 9th, 2006 by ElectroGeek
Microsoft Corp. said Wednesday it has completed work on its long-delayed Windows Vista operating system and plans to release it to consumers January 30.The announcement means Microsoft is on track to meet its revised release schedule.
Jim Allchin, co-president of the Microsoft division that includes Windows, said in a conference call that Windows Vista’s code was [...]
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Posted on November 9th, 2006 by ElectroGeek
When Stephen Devine drove with his family from their home in Massachusetts to New York City, he spent two frustrating hours trying to find a place to park his 9-foot-high camper van, which won’t fit in most garages.In the end, his 17-year-old daughter found a place to park online — and she didn’t even have [...]
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