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Elpida gains ground on Hynix in DRAM rankings
SAN JOSE, Calif. — The DRAM rankings did not change in the second quarter of 2008, but Japan's Elpida Memory Inc. is gaining ground on South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor Inc. in the arena, according to iSuppli Inc.
Electronics Supply and Manufacturing |
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Campaign cameraman's ejection a sign of the times
Political news conferences these days attract more than reporters -- they bring out the political operatives. One of those party types got the heave-ho from news conference held by Dino Rossi, and that is expected to fuel the fires of online political warfare.
KOMO Seattle |
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Cisco Speeds up NBC's Olympics WAN
NBC is using Cisco WAN acceleration to conserve transpacific bandwidth and offer more content to viewers.
PC World |
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Sentence added after Apple Valley man stalks children
Brian Lowe had been sentenced for child porn possession charges, but was punished further.
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune |
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Survey: Mac Laptops in High Demand for Higher Ed
In the next month or so, students will leave behind swimming pools, beaches, and other settings of summer fun to head back to...
PC World |
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MacBook Air Shells and Sleeves
A big appeal--perhaps the biggest appeal--of the MacBook Air is its size and weight: at just three pounds and thin as can be...
PC World |
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Computer bests human in Go
A computer has beat a top human player at the board game Go for the first time. At an event in the US, a European supercomputer was able to beat professional Go player, marking the first time a top-ranked human has been bested by the machine.
Infomatics |
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Google laments AOL buy
Google has suggested that it may lose money over its $1bn investment in AOL. The company made the purchase in 2006, obtaining a 5 per cent stake in the former ISP king and putting AOL's valuation at $20bn.
Infomatics |
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Beware, Olympic fans, going online to beat NBC's video embargo can be costly
BY JOHN WITT Times-Dispatch Multimedia Editor Cyber villains are setting traps for people who want live video coverage of the Olympics online. Because of the time difference with Beijing, many sports fans are surfing the Internet from the office seeking Olympic coverage -- and that means corporate networks are vulnerable.
Richmond Times-Dispatch |
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At San Francisco conference, it's cool to admit you're a mom and a blogger
I used to be embarrassed to admit that I wrote a Mommy blog. The term itself seemed to reek of cliché. Which is why I was reluctant to jump on that bandwagon in the first place.
Austin American-Statesman |
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View "Virtualization Power Panel" Live on SYS-CON.TV
Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens, Citrix CTO Simon Crosby, Egenera CTO Pete Manca, Allen Stewart, Group Manager, Windows Virtualization at Microsoft, and Brian Duckering, Sr. Director of Products and Alliances at Symantec were the top industry executives who joined Jeremy Geelan in the 4th Floor Reuters Studio overlooking Times Square for a special SYS-CON.TV 'Virtualization Power Panel' recorded on ...
SYS-CON Media |
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NBC's Olympics Online Player Reviewed (Verdict: A Necessary Evil) [Olympics]
The 2008 Olympics have already started, but those of us stuck here in America and not lucky enough to own Vista must deal with NBC's often delayed event broadcasts. Sure, if it's American basketball...
Gizmodo |
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Lightning Review: Mint 220 Wireless Speakers With iPod Dock [Review]
The Gadget: The Mint 220 Digital Music Station, which acts both as an iPod dock, but also as a wireless speaker system that syncs via USB dongle to your Mac or PC. Comes with wireless remote and uses...
Gizmodo |
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Windows Media Center Offers "Olympics on the Go" [Olympics]
If you and your DVR are having trouble keeping up with all of the Olympics coverage, Microsoft is offering Media Center users the opportunity to catch up with on-demand content. All you need to do is...
Gizmodo |
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Google Translate Now Delivers Nonsensical Translations to Your iPhone [IPhone]
Handy if you want to hit on a cute waitress at a decent sushi bar or the French exchange student pulling shots at your usual coffee place with horrible abortions of their native tongue, Google...
Gizmodo |
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Windows Vista Pwned By Web Exploit That Can't Be Stopped [Windows Vista]
Presenters at Black Hat revealed that most, if not all, of Windows Vista's security features can be taken out with a single browser exploit, using Java and .NET to execute malicious code. What really...
Gizmodo |
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Guest-Tek announces results for the three months ended June 30, 2008
Guest-Tek Interactive Entertainment Ltd. , a leader in providing broadband technology solutions to the global hospitality industry, announced today that in the three months ended June 30, 2008, the Company has recorded its lowest net loss since the three months ended June 30, 2005.
CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance |
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With automated tagging, Web links can surprise
NEW YORK (AP) - It wasn't what anyone expected to see while perusing a news article. But there, in the final paragraph of an online story about the call girl involved in the Eliot Spitzer scandal, Yahoo's automated system was inviting readers to browse through photos of underage girls.
Alaska Journal of Commerce |
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Google laments AOL buy
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, vnunet.com , Saturday 9 August 2008 at 01:59:00 Billion-dollar stake could cost company dear Google has suggested that it may lose money over its $1bn investment in AOL. The company made the purchase in 2006, obtaining a 5 per cent stake in the former...
vnunet.com |
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Defcon opens with a bang, contests, and intrigue
Hacking conference begins with the usual lockpicking contests, software hacks, and target shooting, but also three fewer journalists.
CNET |
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Fossett attorney dismisses speculation about death
Fri, Aug 8, 2008 (6:03 p.m.) An attorney for Steve Fossett's widow pleaded for an end to speculation circulating in Internet reports that the millionaire adventurer may have faked his own death, possibly because he was heavily in debt.
Las Vegas Sun |
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Google laments AOL buy
Google has suggested that it may lose money over its $1bn investment in AOL.
VNU Net via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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Bloglines: Now With Advertising
Today, Bloglines has unveiled a new skin for its public beta site and has announced that it will start displaying ads on its start page. The new skin for the beta is is quite well done and definitely an improvement over the regular Bloglines interface, as well as the last version of the beta skin. The really interesting news, however, is that Bloglines now, for the first time, features ...
ReadWriteWeb |
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Intel to release new midrange chips Monday
Chipmaker says it will roll out midrange processors on Monday, and PCs based on the new chips are expected to follow.
CNET |
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Webcastr.com Breaks John Edwards / Rielle Hunter Videos on the Web
On a story that the mainstream media refused to touch for months, Webcastr.com had been broadcasting the four original webisodes that were mysteriously taken down from the rest of the internet during the course of John Edwards' presidential campaign.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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