Forget April Fools’ Day, there’s real stuff to mark April 1, 2008. Thanks to MUNI, the mechanized joke which is supposed to function as a transport system in San Francisco, I’m late to the game. Anyway, kudos to Anil Dash and the other folks who have weighed in on the April Fools’ hijinks. Some [...]
At the company’s E3 press conference, Microsoft announced a new downloadable
Xbox Live Arcade racing game that will use your Xbox Live avatar in game. While additional tracks will be available for purchase, Joy Ride will be completely free to download.
So far, though, this seems to be a nice update. I’ll keep posting on what I find out about call quality, battery life, and other issues over the next few days, if they are significantly better/different.
The update process took a long time, mostly because I needed to back up my phone. (I have a 16GB [...]
There are very few options left for owners of HD DVD discs. Last month Toshiba decided to bow out, followed soon by Microsoft’s announcement it would no longer produce external HD DVD drives for its
Xbox 360 video game console. Samsung has one other combo player and LG Electronics still makes two combo players.
Samsung will halt [...]
The additional option runs counter to the trend at Microsoft, which has been working to scale back the number of different licensing plans. The company had managed to shrink its number of options–from 107 programs in 2006 to 23 as of last year. With Select Plus, the number of Microsoft licensing programs has crept back [...]
NBC Local Media announced today that it will launch Web sites that target “locals only” by providing news, entertainment, and information from around the community. The sites will feature content from print and online publications in the area, as well as local bloggers and TV stations to provide visitors with all the information their city [...]
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Hewlett-Packard)
Last week, Rahul Sood, Voodoo PC’s founder and current CTO of HP’s global gaming business, released photos of him cutting his birthday cake with the famously thin MacBook Air. In the accompanying blog, Sood slyly remarked that he “wouldn’t be needing this notebook for long anyways.”
“The challenge for them, is that other guys will [...]
A BitTorrent file containing the stolen data includes a note that reads in part “maybe you don’t like it but this is to demonstrate that persons like tgatton(admin of the server) in they don’t know how to secure a website.” The BitTorrent file consists of a server backup of the GSAS site with a full [...]
The round was led by Investor Growth Capital, with participation from all existing investors: DFJ, DFJ Gotham Ventures, Updata Partners, DFJ New England, and Gold Hill Capital.
If there was any doubt that online advertising was cooling down, this news might make you think twice.
This brings ContextWeb’s total equity investment to $54 [...]
That said, the court affirmed the judgment of infringement on two other patents. One patent has to do with walkie-talkie technology and the other one involves cell phones that switch between multiple wireless networks.
The permanent injunction contains a sunset provision that allows Qualcomm to sell its products and pay royalties to Broadcom through January 2009. [...]