Microsoft Corp. on Monday will announce the availability of software tools aimed at encouraging independent and hobbyist video game makers to create titles for its new Xbox 360 console. Microsoft said its tool kit, called Continue reading “Microsoft Gets Ready To Launch XNA Game Studio Express”.
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”.
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”.
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”.
Forthcoming Dell’s AMD-based notebooks, which are expected to be available in late October or early November, will be equipped with ATI Mobility Radeon graphics chips, according to sources at Taiwan notebook makers. Although it will Continue reading “Dell to equip AMD-based notebooks with ATI graphics chips”.
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”.
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”.
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”.
The software giant’s push to better support dynamic languages continues with Phalanger, a project to deliver a PHP compiler on .Net without modifications. Now that is interesting! Known as Phalanger, the project reached Version 2.0 Continue reading “Microsoft Hosts Project to Run PHP on .Net: Project Phalanger”.
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”.
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”.
Intel has released open-source software to give Linux full-fledged support for 3D graphics, a move that could give its graphics chips a leg up over rivals. It looks like Intel is starting to make a Continue reading “Intel aims for open-source graphics advantage”.
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”.
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”.
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!!!”.