How much money could you make from a technology that replaces electrical wires? A startup called Powercast, along with the more than 100 companies that have inked agreements with it, is about to start finding out. Powercast and its first major partner, electronics giant Philips, are set to launch their first device powered by electricity [...]
In an interview, FAA chief information officer David Bowen said he’s taking a close look at the Premier Edition of Google Apps as he mulls replacements for the agency’s Windows XP-based desktop computers and laptops. Bowen cited several reasons why he finds Google Apps attractive. “It’s a different sort of computing strategy,” he said. “It [...]
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Arstechnica has a pretty good write up on how the RIAA is freaked out about the Fair Use Act… even though it really doesn’t do enough on dealing with copyrights.
Although the FAIR USE Act introduced yesterday by Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA) and Rep. John Doolittle (R-CA) will have little more than a symbolic effect on [...]
I run Ubuntu on a couple of my machines and I love how clean they look. But some always look for a lot of flash in their Operating System. So people have upgraded to Vista for that reason alone, though I WOULD NOT suggest it. At the same time many have actually said [...]
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Apple and Cisco have agreed to share the iPhone brand, with Cisco dismissing its lawsuit. (Read Wired commentary.)
A joint statement calls for the companies to work on interoperability between their products and ends a 40-day spat that began shortly after Apple announced the iPhone at January’s MacWorld conference. Cisco, the owners of the trademark, slapped [...]
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When you absolutely, positively need that data to survive a nuclear attack. The Military takes certain things seriously, and specs are one of them. They have a spec sheet (or book) on just about anything you can think of. So when a request gets sent out the manufacturer does their best to [...]
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When your server farm is in the hundreds of thousands and you’re using cheap, off-the-shelf hard drives as your primary means of storage, you’ve probably good a pretty damned good data set for looking at the health and failure patterns of hard drives. Google studied a hundred thousand SATA and PATA drives with between 80 [...]
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Quanta Computer, the world’s largest maker of unbranded laptops, confirmed that the One Laptop Per Child project has hit the million unit mark. The laptops are about $30 over the hundred-dollar target cost; mass production could change all that quickly. OLPC is non-profit, of course, and Quanta says it’s helping to keep costs down by [...]
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Cisco Systems Inc. said Wednesday it is suing Apple Inc. in federal court over Apple’s use of Cisco’s registered iPhone trademark for its new handheld device.
Cisco has owned the trademark on the name “iPhone” since 2000, when it acquired InfoGear Technology Corp., which originally registered the name.
And three weeks ago, Cisco’s Linksys division put the [...]
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I’m tired of running across sites that claim to tell the truth. Claim to have a list of “Can you believe it!” stories, and they are full of it.
I knew that a ducks quack can echo…. but after seeing it three times last night that supposedly it doesn’t; I had to do a quick [...]
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