August was 12 is the 25th anniversary of the IBM personal computer launch, a pairing of MS and DOS, Microsoft and the disk operating system. If you didn’t get a chance to say happy B-Day Continue reading “Happy birthday PC – IMB Turns 25”.…more
Despite ongoing privacy concerns and legal disputes involving companies bidding on the project, the U.S. State Department plans to begin issuing smart chip-embedded passports to Americans as planned Monday. The new U.S. passports will include Continue reading “U.S. to begin rollout of e-passports”.…more
PC maker offers refunds to customers who sued the company saying their laptops had different microprocessors than advertised. Now that isn’t too cool. Dell, the second biggest PC maker in China after Lenovo, was sued Continue reading “Dell to refund laptop customers in China”.…more
A water leak in a Verizon Communications telephone switching facility has knocked out service to Sprint Nextel customers in the New York City borough of Queens for much of Thursday, Verizon confirmed. The leak damaged Continue reading “Mobile-phone outage hits N.Y. borough”.…more
A new survey by Salary.com and America Online found the average U.S. worker fritters away 1.86 hours per 8-hour workday — not including lunch and scheduled breaks. That’s actually an improvement from last year’s inaugural Continue reading “Poll: Workers kill 1.86 hours a day”.…more
It looks almost like any other shopping cart, except sensors allow it to follow the shopper around the supermarket and slow down when needed so items can be placed in it, and it never crashes Continue reading “Robot shopping carts follow you around”.…more
Seagate Technology, the world’s biggest computer disk-drive maker, expects aggressive moves by rivals to depress industry prices for another year, longer than most analysts predict, its CEO said on Wednesday. Chief Executive Bill Watkins said Continue reading “Seagate CEO sees disk-drive price war continuing”.…more
A sailor accused of taking a Navy laptop containing classified information and peddling its contents to foreign governments is being held for possible court-martial, the military said. It just makes me sick that someone would Continue reading “Sailor charged with espionage in laptop theft”.…more
IBM continued its run of SOA-related acquisitions Thursday, agreeing to buy business process and enterprise content management specialist FileNet for about $1.6 billion in cash. This is the month for technology acquisitions! Upon completion of Continue reading “IBM scoops up FileNet for $1.6B”.…more
Creative Technology hewed its loss in the fourth quarter from a year ago, but revenue fell almost 25%. I didn’t know that Creative was a billion dollar company, but they are! The Singapore-based company late Continue reading “Creative Technology Narrows Loss”.…more
DailyTech has done it again! The early benchmarks are favorable to ATI and look to have come from ATI, so take them as you will. DailyTech has received early benchmarks of ATI?s upcoming Radeon X1950XTX Continue reading “ATI X1950 Benchmarks Leaked!!!”.…more