Loading ...Kevin Rose at Digg is saying the popular user-driven news site has just signed a three-year exclusive ad deal with Microsoft. Bye-bye Google. Don’t think it will hurt Google’s bottom line much, and Mike Arrington at TechCrunch thinks it’s another money-losing deal for the software giant, which also did a similar deal with Facebook. But [...]
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Upping the ante against global software piracy, a major software counterfeiting syndicate based out of Guangdong in Southern China reportedly has been busted.
The crime syndicate is allegedly responsible for manufacturing and distributing over $2 billion worth of counterfeit Microsoft software, that was found in 27 countries across 5 continents of the globe.
The fake software contained [...]
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Three security researchers claimed Sunday that they have found the first exploitable vulnerability in Apple’s iPhone, a flaw that allows them to steal any data from the device or even to turn it into a remote surveillance tool.
The trio — Charles Miller, formerly with the National Security Agency; Jake Honoroff; and Joshua Mason of Baltimore-based [...]
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Toshiba has recalled thousands more Sony battery packs in response to concern over fire risk. The recall is not connected to the industry-wide recall last year in response to other faulty Sony batteries.
Toshiba has logged laptop battery overheating incidents in both 2006 and 2007 in connection with the latest faulty battery batch.
Toshiba said, “Over a [...]
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I wish I could have peppered my recent iPhone review with phrases such as “at present”, “initially”, or “for the time being”. But Apple doesn’t work that way. If I could be confident that Apple would address the major shortcomings that I saw in iPhone, such as the absence of programmability and the lack of [...]
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With uniform pieces and diagonal moves, checkers is simple enough for a child to learn. But to achieve absolute mastery of the game, scientists needed to run hundreds of computers for nearly 20 years, analyzing roughly 500 billion billion scenarios.
By completing the project, a team of Canadian researchers have officially “solved” checkers, creating an unbeatable [...]
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The GT2’s 3.6-liter twin-turbocharged boxer-six will boast 530 hp for an increase of 50 hp over the previous GT2 and is mated to a six-speed manual transmission. The bump in power is accompanied by 15 percent better fuel efficiency from a cooler fuel/air mixture. To achieve this, the expansion intake manifold uses oscillating air to [...]
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Microsoft is releasing its Windows Home Server software to manufacturers Monday paving the way for home server devices based on Microsoft’s software to be available this fall. Iomega today also announces it becomes the latest to offer hardware that will run Windows Home Server software. Other hardware partners previously announced to offer Windows Home Server [...]
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Intel introduced the Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 at $999, which is $200 less than the QX6800, the company’s previously fastest desktop processor.
Intel on Monday introduced a faster quad-core desktop processor that’s less expensive than its previous top-end chip, an indication that a new round of price cuts are on the way as the chip [...]
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