Could 64-bit Windows finally be taking off?
After years of false starts, new numbers suggest that people may finally be making the leap in significant numbers.
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Archive for August 6, 2008
Intel Plans to End the “MHZ Game” with a “many core” Game
To keep up with the demands of the increasingly digital world, the “multi-core” or “many core” approach is necessary because by 2015, running chips at faster and faster frequencies could have yielded products like laptop or desktop computers that create as much heat as a nuclear reactor, engineers said.
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Steve Jobs”Mistake to launch MobileMe same time as iPhone3G”
Not that anyone could really dance around the facts of the matter at this point, but in an email to Apple employees sent today, apparently Steve said, “It was a mistake to launch MobileMe at the same time as iPhone 3G, iPhone 2.0 software and the App Store. We all had more than enough to do, and MobileMe could have been delayed without consequence.
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Video games can’t be blamed for humanity’s problems
Sorry, but I refuse to believe that video games can be the scapegoat for all of our problems. Call me a video game apologist or just another gamer hack, but it’s true. Why should the video game industry be blamed for the problems all of humanity faces?
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A History of Violence: 6 Old School Games as Brutal as GTA
Violent video games were around long before Grand Theft Auto and Dead Rising showed kids the fun of drunk driving and hitting golf balls into a crowded food court.
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IBM targets Microsoft with desktop Linux initiative
During a press briefing at LinuxWorld today in San Francisco, IBM announced a new partnership with Red Hat, Novell, and Canonical to offer “Microsoft-free” personal computers with IBM’s Lotus Notes and Lotus Symphony software. The goal is to provide a preintegrated stack that can serve as a complete alternative to Windows and Microsoft Office.
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Firmware 2.01 could render 3G iPhone un-unlockable
As some of you already know, updating your iPhone to firmware 2.01 means that you’ve lost access to all your jailbroken apps. That’s pretty much expected and should be rectified by the DevTeam soon enough. What’s notable from an unlocking perspective, however, is that Apple’s 2.01 release also updates the iPhone 3G baseband.
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EFF: MySpace suicide charges a threat to free speech
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, Center for Democracy and Technology, Public Citizen, and a group of 14 law professors have filed an amicus brief in the case against a mother who allegedly harassed a teenager on MySpace, driving the girl to suicide. The groups argue that, while the events were tragic, holding the mom criminally responsible could
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Breaking: Final Fantasy XIII Xbox 360 Asia Version Announced
During E3, Microsoft announced that Final Fantasy XIII was coming to the Xbox 360 — but only for North America and Europe. However, the Xbox 360 was not announced for Japan. Add another country to the list!
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The Xbox 360 ‘Red Ring of Death’ Apology Manual
Ah, the ill-fated Xbox 360 Red Ring of Death, how we fear thy ways. After all, with a 16% failure rate, it could happen to anyone. For some of us, it already has. The least that Microsoft could do is give us a few ideas of what to do with this giant, expired paperweight of failure.
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Steve Jobs on MobileMe: the full e-mail
Ever since our report last night on an internal e-mail sent by Steve Jobs about the botched launch of MobileMe, we have received an outpouring of requests for the full text of the e-mail. Although we originally weren’t comfortable publishing the entire thing, it is now slowly becoming available in its full form across the Internet. Because of this,
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iPhone App Store Has Jumped The Shark With This Pic!
Who in their right mind….
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