For Microsoft the loss of Gates won’t be nearly as profound. Gates narrowed his involvement at the company eight years ago when he gave the chief executive job to his college buddy and right-hand man Steve Ballmer. The reality of the last few years is that Gates has been mentally checked out, pursuing loftier goals at his foundation.
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Competition is heating up as Toshiba, Dell and HP launch rival products to Apple’s MacBook Air.
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The net could undergo its biggest transformation in decades if plans to open up the address system are cleared
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The industry has been shrinking to a handful of big players that use large teams of in-house programmers.But Silva is a one-man game maker. He’s among a growing number of independents working to distribute their games to Internet-connected consoles with the help of game box makers seeking to meet demand for titles beyond the us
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Toshiba will launch its Qosmio G50 and F40 machines with the chip, which contains four of the “Synergistic Processing Elements” from the Cell Broadband Engine processor. The Cell chip used in the PlayStation 3 has eight of the SPE cores plus a Power PC main processor. The SPE cores perform the heavy number-crunching that makes the console’s graphic
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation weighed in this week on the Jammie Thomas file-swapping case, where the judge has asked for public comment on whether just making a file available for download on a P2P network should count as copyright infringement. In its filing, the EFF goes for the jugular and shows that the RIAA’s entire approach is wrong.
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I’ve switched (back) to Gmail. After the problems Outlook gave me in the past, I was looking for a solution with more flexibility. Gmail has everything I need for my online business, but Outlook was the client to have for connecting with an Exchange server. Since I’m no longer using the Exchange account anymore, Gmail is the way to go!
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Apple is billing Snow Leopard as an OS without any new features, but this couldn’t be further from the truth. Under the hood improvements offer users much to look forward to, including the benefits of a new multi-touch framework, dramatic file size reductions, text-processing features, auto activation of fonts, and full read and write ZFS support.
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Sharp recently announced that it will begin selling its 108
” LCD TV in the U.S. in September and if you are planning on buying Sharp’s 108” TV you may want to hold off on that next Ferrari…
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Holographic mobile handsets capable of projecting, capturing and sending 3D images have been developed by an Indian tech company. By 2010 the devices will routinely beam 3D films, games and virtual goods into our laps according to Indian technology giant Infosys, which has patented the handset.
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Avery Axel was annoyed with his cable company, Comcast, and was considering switching to Verizon’s new FiOS fiber-optic TV and internet service…
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For good reason, the wireless phone industry is ranked as one of the worst in the U.S. for customer satisfaction. Technical support calls can take hours with endless transfers from one customer rep to another. Then there’s the endless pile of service activation and cancellation fees.
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