Chinese software pirates get prison sentences

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The alleged ringleaders of a Chinese counterfeiting gang that sold at least billion worth of bogus Microsoft Corp. software were sentenced Wednesday to prison terms of up to 6 1/2 years, in what is believed to be the harshest penalties yet under China’s tightened piracy laws….

Microsoft’s Zune players freeze on New Year’s Eve

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Happy New Year from Microsoft Corp.: Your Zune is dead….

No shoes? No problem for this college interview

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — For her college interview, Avery Cullinan put on her best outfit but didn’t bother with shoes. She sat in her living room, smiled into her computer’s webcam and told an admissions officer more than 800 miles away that Wake Forest University was right for her….

2 Executives Leaving in Dell Overhaul

The president of global operations and the chief marketing officer are leaving as the company reorganizes around customer categories rather than by region.

Chinese Court Convicts 11 in Microsoft Piracy Case

Eleven people were convicted of roles in a counterfeiting ring that distributed pirated software around the world.

Robberies: A new measure of Apple market strength?

Apple stock has taken a beating this year. Still, the company’s products were hot this holiday season, and perhaps too hot at times, as shown by recent rash of burglaries in the Silicon Valley area.

Amazon Remembers, a brilliant iPhone companion

One of the interesting aspects of the Amazon Mobile app (iTunes, free) that I reviewed on 03 December 2008 is its experimental Amazon Remembers feature.
Amazon Remembers allows you to take a picture of an item with the iPhone camera that you want to remember. The photo is stored in the app and uploaded to the [...]

Mini DisplayPort adapters creating jumpy mouse cursors

Apple’s Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI adapters finally started arriving – over two months after their introduction. These little doohickeys allow you to run a 30-inch monitor with the new MacBook Pros.
After waiting this long, however, users have reported that they cause the mouse cursor to jump while tracking. This has been confirmed with wired [...]

Careful what you search for

Google recently released its annual rundown of popular searches for 2008 - what they call the “zeitgeist” list - and it’s a reminder, once again, of how much we reveal about ourselves every time we type into a search bar.