Wild Tangent founder and CEO Alex St John is no longer a believer in in-game advertising.
In retrospect, St John says that it is a huge mistake to ever interrupt a game while somebody is playing it. He is no longer thinks injecting ads into console games is a “bright idea or where the market opportunity is.”
Thanks to the rising trend toward miniaturization, carbon nanotubes – which are about 100,000 times thinner than a human hair and possess several unique and very useful properties – have become the choice candidates for use as building blocks in nanosized electronic and mechanical devices. But it is precisely their infinitesimal dimensions, as well
Either Apple’s getting leakier or the fakers are getting fake…ier, but the latest round of supposed 3G iPhone pictures is upon us courtesy of Dutch site iPhoneclub.nl and our old friend Mr. Blurrycam, and they’re pretty convincing.
This is a screenshot of the output from running the Top command on my CentOS box before it completely crashed due to the traffic from an article that made it to the homepage. The httpd.conf file had been misconfigured and was allowing far too many apache processes to spawn which ate up all the memory so the box switched to Swap memory (kswapd).
“The memristor is our salvation, because it works better and better as you make it smaller and smaller,” said Chua. “The era of nanoscale electronics will be enabled by the memristor. This is not just an invention, it is a basic scientific discovery. It has always been there–we just had to face these nanoscale problems to realize its importance.”
Apple released the Mac OS X 10.5.3 update today. The latest update to Leopard should appear in your Mac OS X Software Update. The 10.5.3 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of…
At Ubidays 2008. Hooray!
Firefox community to set Guinness World Record for most software downloads in 24 hours
Yesterday I was talking with a contact in one of the European carriers that will be selling the iPhone 3G in June. I asked: “really, do you guys have the iPhone 3G?”. “Yes, we have iPhone 3Gs to test with their network and services. However, they are not the actual iPhones”.
In other words: their engineers got the guts, but not the iPhone itself
Newzbin, considered by many to be the internet’s premier indexer and .nzb provider, is under legal threat from the MPAA. The site, which was the creator of Usenet’s answer to the .torrent file, will likely have to undergo significant changes in order to appease the movie studios.
Gizmodo said there are no carrier get the 3G iPhone and all the leaked pictures are fake. The post appeared on the internet for few hours and it suddenly disappeared. Are the editors of Gizmodo having a fight for the controversial news, or they admit that the news is wrong and the leaked photos are right?
Google is said to operate a global network of about three dozen data centres with, according to some estimates, more than 1m servers. To catch up, Microsoft is investing billions of dollars and adding up to 20,000 servers a month. Siberia is proving interesting as a location.
