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Windows 7 concepts that never made the cut

Tom Warren — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:49:24 +0000

TechRadar has uncovered some interesting concept art and sketches that the Windows team demonstrated at Mix 09 recently. The Windows team is notoriously secret about showing any concept designs the team have worked on, usually... Read more...

The Obama phone, made in China, sold in Kenya

Brad Sams — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:35:10 +0000

It's no secret that President-elect Obama is a crowd pleaser. He has legions of faithful followers and he has started a movement of "change that we can believe in". So naturally the next... Read more...

SpaceX Has Finally Made History and Reached Orbit!

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:33:07 +0000

SpaceX, a private company established by Elon Musk the founder of Paypal, has once again attempted to successfully launch a shuttle into space. This launch comes after the failure of the Falcon 1... Read more...

Yahoosoft!: A Match Made in Heaven or Hell?

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:06:31 +0000

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past week (which, if you are, you have my sincerest condolences), by now you’ve no doubt heard of the latest drama to hit the technology industry:... Read more...

Copying CDs could be made legal in UK

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:25:09 +0000

Copying music from a CD to a home computer could be made legal under new proposals from the UK government. Millions of people already "rip" discs to their computers and move the files to MP3... Read more...

Progress made on cracking Blu-ray's special DRM, BD+

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:58:25 +0000

SlySoft, the Antigua-based company behind AndDVD HD, has claimed that it knows how to defeat the additional BD+ encryption available on Blu-ray devices, and that BD+ movies will be cracked by the end of the... Read more...

Navy Pulls YouTube Video Made by Airman

Sun, 19 Aug 2007 21:10:52 +0000

The Navy has removed a YouTube video posted on May 23 shot aboard the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan. Nothing in the video compromised operational security, but officials were worried about the "lack of propriety" involving... Read more...

5 Mistakes Microsoft made with Windows Vista

Brad Wardell — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 01:31:58 +0000

Windows Vista has kind of gotten a bum rap. Some of the rap is deserved -- Microsoft shipped it too early. But for the most part, the rap is carried on by vocal techies... Read more...

America's Army 2.8.1 released - 4 "student" made maps!

Todd Tanner — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:36:01 +0000

Listen up Soldiers, the latest release of America's Army: Special Forces (Overmatch) (SMU GH Map Pack) V2.8.1 is now available! Featuring four (4) new maps created by students of The Guildhall at Southern Methodist University... Read more...

Novell: We Disagree With Recent Statements Made by Microsoft

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:58:56 +0000

In an open letter to the community issued on Monday, Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian issued a clarification from the Novell point of view, on the recent Microsoft / Novell agreement and directed a portion of... Read more...

Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Exploit Made Public

Tom Warren — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 11:53:53 +0000

Code for a crippiling Firefox exploit was made available Wednesday allowing malicious users to create sites to disable Mozilla Firefox. The flaw may be an "exploit" but as yet no 3rd party code... Read more...

Classic WB TV Series to be Made Available Online

Wed, 16 Nov 2005 22:58:39 +0000

Warner Brothers is preparing a major new Internet service that will let fans watch full episodes from more than 100 old television series. The service, called In2TV, will be free, supported by advertising, and will... Read more...

Intel made way too many Prescotts in Q2

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 14 Jul 2004 09:49:15 +0000

SUCCESS IN MOVING its manufacturing capabilities from 130 nanometres to 90 nanometres meant Intel ended up with excess stock, it emerged from a conference call last night. While chief financial officer Andy Bryant would not... Read more...

Teleportation breakthrough made

Thu, 17 Jun 2004 12:15:55 +0000

Scientists have performed successful teleportation on atoms for the first time. The feat was achieved by two teams of researchers working independently on the problem in the US and Austria. The ability to transfer key... Read more...

Why Microsoft should have made SP2 open to all

Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:10:59 +0000

An excellent article from a very intellegent writer - see his website for more information. "The security of your computer and your network depends on two things: what you do to secure your... Read more...

Arrests made in relation to Half-Life 2 Theft

Thu, 10 Jun 2004 20:08:31 +0000

A while back as I'm sure many of you still remember some hackers stole some code from Valve's network (from the Half-Life 2 game). Looks like now after thousands of tips the hackers where... Read more...

New optical disc made from paper

Sat, 17 Apr 2004 00:28:55 +0000

Japanese electronics conglomerate Sony Corp and Toppan Printing Co Ltd have developed a new optical disc, made mostly from paper, that they say will be compatible with next-generation DVD technology. In a... Read more...

China made 23 million+ LCD monitors last year

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 16 Mar 2004 15:48:44 +0000

A REPORT SAID factories in mainland China bashed out over 23 million units in 2003. And the report, by Kevin Wang, display analyst at iSuppli, reckons that manufacturing will grow by 20% this year. If... Read more...

The top ten handhelds that never made it

Marcel Klum — Sat, 31 Jan 2004 13:43:23 +0000

2004 is going to be a fascinating year for handheld gaming. Sony is entering into the handheld space with its PSP and Nintendo aims to double its dominance with the Nintendo DS. It's great to... Read more...

Is Darl McBride really as evil as he is made out to be?

Sat, 11 Oct 2003 20:12:54 +0000

Back in June, there was a protest by Linux users at SCO headquarters, which received some coverage in the press, including here on Groklaw. I now have a transcript of the conversation between SCO... Read more...

Efforts made to reduce Faxing Spam

Mon, 24 Mar 2003 15:35:54 +0000

A US federal appeals court said Friday that a law restricting junk faxes was constitutional, setting a precedent that favors legal attempts to restrict unsolicited e-mail. The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals... Read more...

Cable companies say no to home made Wi-Fi networks

Tue, 09 Jul 2002 14:03:00 +0000

US Cable companies are now cracking down on people who use their Internet connections to create wireless local area networks (WLANs). This is much like what happened with cable TV in the 1980s when so-called... Read more...

Teen made $1 million in Internet investment scheme

Tue, 08 Jan 2002 04:31:22 +0000

U.S. financial regulators said on Monday they had uncovered a fraudulent $1 million Internet securities scheme they alleged was run by a 17-year-old high school student. Cole Bartiromo defrauded 1,000 investors through... Read more...

Login screen res made easy

Steven Parker — Mon, 26 Nov 2001 09:18:39 +0000

Thanks EmuZombie for this. Making login screens that work in any resolution is actually rather quite simple. Simply by taking where you input the height and width and changing it to 0x0 you... Read more...