Year: 2008 (Page 40 of 52)

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New Apple Cinema Displays Finally at MWSF 2009?
Mac Rumors – Readers interested in new Apple Cinema Displays may have to wait just a bit longer. Apple has not significantly updated their Cinema Displays in years. Apple currently offers 20″, 23″ and 30″ monitors at $599, $899, and $1799, respectively. While Apple has introduced routine price drops and minor spec improvements, the displays have remained largely unchanged since June 2004.

EC Cuts a Slice of Spectrum for Vehicle-to-vehicle Communication
Engadget – It seems that Dash-like devices that rely on plain old GPRS for two-way vehicle communications could one day be a bit redundant in Europe, as the European Commission has just set aside a slice of spectrum that’s intended specifically to let vehicles communicate with each other. Continue reading

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MIT Team Working On a $12 Apple (II) Desktop
Slashdot – “A new project to create a $12 computer is underway at MIT, the same University that spawned the One Laptop Per Child non-profit laptop. The PCs will be loosely based on Apple 2 machines, first unveiled over 30 years ago, and the team are actively recruiting enthusiasts of the retro computer to help develop the new PC.”

Burning Question #234: how Deadly is Space?
mental_floss – Fifty years of movies that feature gory death scenes in which people are exposed to total vacuums (with decidedly gooey results) would have us believe that outer space is so incredibly hostile an environment that it can’t be withstood, even for a second. According to damn interesting (and some scientists with access to fancy vacuum chambers), that’s not entirely true.
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Microsoft Working On “post-Windows” Cloud Computing OS
Slashdot – “Microsoft is working on a web-based operating system called Midori, as it looks to life beyond Windows. Midori is expected to be a cloud-computing service, and so not as dependent on hardware as current generations of Windows”.

Scotty’s Final Mission
Slashdot – “According to Ars Technica, the ashes of James Doohan, who played “Scotty” in the original ‘Star Trek’ series and several movies, were aboard the SpaceX III launch and were lost when the launch vehicle failed.” Which totally wouldn’t have happened if Scotty was the engineer. Continue reading

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iPhone App Store Numbers Reveal Large Revenue Opportunities
MacRumors – On Thursday, Apple provided developers with their first look at daily sales numbers. One developer generously shared her sales numbers with 9to5Mac.

Laptops can be Confiscated and Searched at US Border Without Cause says Report
Engadget – In further evidence of our rapidly eroding civil liberties, the Department of Homeland Security disclosed today that US Customs and Border Protection and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement have the right to confiscate and search a traveler’s laptop or other electronic device without any suspicion of wrongdoing. Continue reading

The Cuil search engine (www.cuil.com) went live this week after reams of publicity that tout the new site as a Google killer. What a disappointing debut!

I ran an ego search and got eight hits total, seven relevant. Each relevant hit related to my association with PC-Doctor.

I ran the same search on Google. Results: 654 total hits. I stopped counting after five pages of relevant hits. What differed? In addition to my association with PC-Doctor, Google listed my past associations with Microsoft, Sun Micro, Apple, Scientific Solutions and others. Continue reading