Firefox 2.0 Alpha 1 is set to be released by the end of this week (in 3 - 4 days), after being delayed a month due to development issues!
Andreas Pleschek also told that IBM has canceled their contract with Microsoft as of October this year. That means that IBM will not use Windows Vista for their desktops. Beginning from July, IBM employees will begin using IBM Workplace on their new, Red Hat-based platform.
Sabeer Bhatia, the Bangalore student who with a colleague invented the iconic Hotmail e-mail service and went on to make a fortune by selling it to Microsoft, is returning to fix what he describes as a "neglected stepchild".
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Asetek (DK), Kingston Technology Europe Ltd., and Western Digital (US) have joined forces to build and demonstrate one of the fastest commercially available PCs in the world at CeBIT 2006. The Dream Machine, equipped with top picked hardware running CPU speed at amazing 5.46 GHz, is on display at asetek's booth (Hall 22, Stand C20).
Joystiq has details of the next two Call of Duty games that they have managed to acquire from "a reliable source". CoD make a jump to modern warfare from WWII? Sounds a bit like another EA owned shooter franchise...
Nvidia said today that it will demonstrate its upcoming nForce 500 series of chipsets this week at the CeBIT trade show in Hannover, Germany. The next-generation chipsets will support four GPUs running simultaneously in SLI mode.
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title says it all!
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Some people like to talk to their plants. Now, students at Singapore Polytechnic say they have created a plant that can communicate with people -- by glowing when it needs water.
Apple announced today that the WorldWide Developer's Conference will be taking place between August 7-11 in San Francisco, California. Apple has stated that they will be previewing Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) at WWDC 2006.
"At the heart of any capacitive-sensing system is a set of conductors which interact with electric fields. The tissue of the human body is filled with conductive electrolytes covered by a layer of skin, a lossy dielectric. It is the conductive property of fingers that makes capacitive touch sensing possible."
In addition, commercial advertisements will resume on music programming currently provided to us by Clear Channel.
List of free softwares
A very large list of programs that are free, but someone will probily object to this saying that some paid software can be more polished, as well as other reasons...
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Interesting that Bill Gates saying this in 1984, then in the 90's, with microsoft, doing the opposite: Windows becomming the main os. Again, this is just interesting, because Bill gates supposivly quoted that we would only need 720 kilobits of ram, and that was wrong also (but the quote is a rumor anyway). Anyway, this is, yet again, interesting because of one thing: Gates admitting that the Apple had the potential then, but in reality the opposite happened.
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A good article about how the iPods have become cheaper and cheaper over time. Graphs and tables included. Worthy read.
That's right, the keys function exactly like credit cards, allowing the carrier to pay for merchandise at any store or market where customers do their own swiping.
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ExtremeTech shows you how to tweak your wireless router's firmware to optimize performance for online gaming, VOIP, increased signal range, and more with (mostly) free utilities.
This simplified walkthrough will illustrate how to install a SLAX compilation to a USB stick through Windows NT, XP, 2003.
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Rogue code and trojans resident on an OS X machine don't have to work overtime to 'get root'. If they're patient they'll have it on next boot with no effort made at all.
There is a proof of concept' available for download
Nintendo's upcoming release of their 'updated' version of the DS. Persionally I'm not a fan of the DS, or any handheld gaming devices, but you got to admit. It looks a hell
of alot better than the previous model.
A plane is standing on a runway that is made of a large conveyor belt. The plane fires up its engines, but as it moves forward, the conveyor belt senses the speed of the plane's wheels and moves at exactly the same speed in the opposite direction. Can the plane take off?
