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Work while you travel with Microsoft

Damien Reynolds — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:42:58 +0000

I know when going to work one of the most annoying things that can happen is traffic jams especially if you have to get somewhere before a certain time well Microsoft may have a wacky... Read more...

Valve Software to Stick with DirectX 9 for a While

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:42:00 +0000

Valve Software believes that the jump to DirectX 10 is not yet worth it, and has the data to back up the claim. According to statistics from Valve's Steam software distribution system, there are about... Read more...

New York may ban Electronic Devices while crossing street

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:54:00 +0000

New Yorkers who use any electronic device, be it an mp3 player, a cell phone or a portable gaming device, while crossing the street could soon be charged a $100 fine. The reasoning behind the... Read more...

Microsoft Vows to be "Less Evil" While Apple Grows Horns

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:07:03 +0000

Doomsday fanatics will surely see this as a sign of the apocalypse, the days when Microsoft becomes the good guy and Apple becomes the evil corporate tyrant. What am I talking about? The recent behavioral... Read more...

Email Viruses Reach New Low While Spam Reaches New High

Christopher Vendemio — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 21:04:20 +0000

May of 2006 gave us not one, but two new email records. The first record may surprise you a bit. Emails containing malicious programs (viruses) reached an all time low, accounting for a minute 0.73%... Read more...

Man who surfed Net while son drowned gets 1 year

Steven Parker — Wed, 15 Jan 2003 14:32:48 +0000

A man who was surfing the Internet while his 13-month-old son drowned in the bathtub was sentenced to a year in jail Monday. Tyler Bratsch, 25, pleaded guilty last month to manslaughter. He... Read more...

Pentium 4 chips to get 800MHz system buses, while Prescott delayed

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 18 Nov 2002 11:55:06 +0000

WE'VE KNOWN FOR some time that the Springdale-G and Springdale-P chipsets might support 667MHz but now Intel has upped the ante by saying it will support Northwood Pentium 4s with an 800MHz front side bus.That... Read more...

Hotmail: get the free features while you can

Tue, 02 Jul 2002 15:17:40 +0000

Thanks to BB for the heads up ;) Microsoft continues to redefine and focus the features of the free version of Hotmail... yep, you guessed it: another feature you now have to... Read more...

XBox Daddy Leaves Home While the Kid is Suffering

Mon, 22 Apr 2002 21:40:05 +0000

Thanks to C.C. for the heads up on this. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The co-creator of Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox video game console has resigned days after the software giant conceded the unit... Read more...

Watch the news while you fill up!

Tue, 30 Oct 2001 11:44:46 +0000

ABCNews.com has signed a deal with PointMedia, a provider of interactive video kiosks, to provide news, business and entertainment reports to customers at gas pumps. Under the agreement, Walt Disney-owned ABCNews.com will... Read more...

Email never stops, even while in the Arabian Sea

Thu, 18 Oct 2001 12:23:13 +0000

Somewhere in the Arabian Sea, one of the most heavily protected ships in the U.S. Navy is sending out around 30,000 emails a day as everyone from captain to deck swabber keeps in touch with... Read more...

Send email while you drive with the help of Honda and NTT

Tue, 16 Oct 2001 14:55:20 +0000

Japan's Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp and Honda said on Tuesday they have developed a car navigation system that allows drivers to send e-mail without taking their hands off the wheel. The... Read more...