| 11/22/2008 06:14 PM |
| Ballmer Ordered to Testify in "Vista-Capable" Lawsuit |
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In the soap opera that is the Vista-Capable lawsuit, the latest installment occurred Friday, when Judge Marsha J. Pechman ordered Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to testify in the class-action lawsuit, within the next 30 days.
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| 11/21/2008 06:17 PM |
| MacBook Performance Plunges When Battery Removed |
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Before you say "why would anyone remove their battery from their laptop when plugged in?," there are some who do so in the hopes of extending their battery lifespan. And before you scoff at a performance hit of this sort, we're not talking a small amount: it's a 37% degradation.
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| 11/21/2008 10:47 AM |
| Review: New BlackBerrys cool but can't beat iPhone |
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With the recent releases of three new BlackBerrys across three different wireless providers, Research In Motion Ltd. |
| 11/21/2008 06:35 AM |
| Dell 3Q profit falls as PC spending slows |
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PC maker Dell Inc. said Thursday its third-quarter profit fell 5 percent as businesses around the world bought fewer computers and other technology products. Dell's earnings dipped to $727 million in the quarter that ended Oct. 31, down from $766 million a year ago. But Dell bought back a significant number of shares over the last year, pushing earnings per share up 9 percent, to 37 cents per share. That was 6 cents better than analysts were expecting, according to a Thomson Reuters poll. |
| 11/21/2008 02:29 AM |
| Ballmer dismisses Yahoo buyout but open on search |
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Microsoft Corp. is no longer interested in buying all of Yahoo Inc., CEO Steve Ballmer said Wednesday, though he told shareholders that the company would still be 'very open' to a collaboration on Internet search. His comments sent Yahoo shares diving more than 20 percent. 'Let me be clear,' Ballmer said at Microsoft's annual shareholder meeting. 'We are done with all acquisition discussions with Yahoo.' Yahoo spurned a $47.5 billion takeover offer from Microsoft in May, and later rejected Microsoft's bid to buy only its search engine. Ballmer has said repeatedly of late that the buyout remains off the table, though a search-related deal is possible. |
| 11/19/2008 08:53 PM |
| NVIDIA's Tesla GPU, OEMs, Deliver Desktop Supercomputers |
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Cray has been synonymous with supercomputing for decades, but NVIDIA --- there you usually think gaming. However, as GPUs have become more powerful, tasks normally associated with CPUs have been moved to them.
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| 11/19/2008 08:14 PM |
| PC Magazine's Print Edition Folds |
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I remember (and this will date me) when the first issues of PC Magazine, founded in 1982, came out. As time progressed, the magazine because huge, pushing 600 pages at the max if I remember correctly (and it's been a while), much of which was advertising. I recall looking at the tome once and trying to figure out how much was actual content.
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| 11/18/2008 11:23 PM |
| Microsoft to Drop OneCare Security Product |
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Malware writers sobbed Tuesday as Microsoft announced that it will cease sales of its security product, Windows Live OneCare, as of June 30th, 2009. Instead, Microsoft announced that it would begin shipping a free product, codenamed "Morro," in the second half of 2009.
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| 11/17/2008 08:32 PM |
| OLPC Foundation's "Give One, Get One" '08 Goes Live at Amazon.com |
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On Monday, as scheduled, the One Laptop Per Child's "Give One, Get One" Promotion for 2008 launched, with Amazon.com taking orders and providing the necessary infrastructure that last year's promotion lacked.
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| 11/17/2008 01:29 AM |
| When Tech Fails, Youth or Gender Make a Difference |
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What's the first thing my wife does when she can't figure out something, or when there's a problem, no matter how small technology-wise. Yep, she comes to me.
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| 11/16/2008 08:34 PM |
| Intel Launches Core i7 --- in Tokyo |
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Wau! No, I didn't spell that wrong, that's "wow" in Japanese, and this certainly is "wow" news. While I've been invited to a Monday press conference launching Intel's Core i7 CPU (nee Nehalem), which I've previously written about, Intel effectively pre-empted that event by launching the CPU in stores in Tokyo districts such as Akihabara.
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| 11/16/2008 02:41 PM |
| Latest Docs in Vista-Capable Suit Indicate Intel, Microsoft Collusion |
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It's been a while since I've written about the Vista-capable lawsuit, the class-action lawsuit that basically alleges that Microsoft knew the term "Vista-capable" wasn't exactly going to hold water for many consumers.
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| 11/16/2008 02:13 PM |
| Tech Industry, Long Insulated, Feels a Slump |
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The technology industry, which resisted the economy's growing weakness over the last year as customers kept buying laptops and iPhones, has finally succumbed to the slowdown. |
| 11/16/2008 10:01 AM |
| CORRECTING and REPLACING Dell in Leaders Quadrant for Midrange Enterprise Storage |
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CORRECTION...by Dell Inc. - Please replace the release with the following corrected version due to multiple revisions. |
| 11/16/2008 05:46 AM |
| MDA to build Radarsat Constellation Mission, signs $40-million contract |
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MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. said Friday it has won a competition to design and build the Radarsat Constellation Mission and signed a $40-million for the first phase. |
| 11/16/2008 01:27 AM |
| The Papermaster Chase, Redux [Digital Daily] |
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Dismiss The Papermaster Chase, Redux Posted at 11:26 AM PT on November 14, 2008 Oh, it's on now. |
| 11/15/2008 09:08 PM |
| Ex-Tech billionaire gets 9 years for stock fraud |
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A flashy Las Vegas entrepreneur who became a billionaire at the height of the dot-com bubble was sentenced Friday to nine years in prison for stock fraud, capping a seven-year investigation that led to seven ... |
| 11/15/2008 04:59 PM |
| An Apple search engine? I hope not |
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An Apple search engine? I hope not By: JR Raphael - PC World A Does Apple intend to get a piece of the search engine action already saturated by the likes of Google, Microsoft and Yahoo? Rumors are floating ... |
| 11/15/2008 12:50 PM |
| HP, Dell Results Due As Economic Crisis Worsens |
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Hewlett-Packard Co and Dell Inc are set to report quarterly results in the most depressed economic climate since the Great Depression, with the outlook for the PC industry rather grim. |
| 11/15/2008 08:47 AM |
| Perot Systems buys Tellurian Networks 1:10 PM CT |
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Perot Systems Corp. said it has bought almost all the assets of Tellurian Networks Inc., which provides online hosting, back-office technology solutions and networking services for physician groups and other ... |