The G1 phone, built by HTC, was announced Tuesday and goes on sale October 22. The price is $179.99 for those who sign up for a two-year contract with T-Moble.
It looks like T-Mobile customers trying to get one of the initial models of the first phones powered by Google’s Android operating system will have to [...]
Apple on Thursday night rolled out a new look to its App Store directory, putting more of an emphasis on both the top paid and free applications within each category’s listing pages. These lists now appear on the left and right sides of the results, giving users a chance to see what’s currently the cream [...]
Sling.com, the streaming site of Slingbox maker Sling Media, has emerged from private beta and is opening up access to its video content to the public.
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Sling then turned from just moving TV to the Web, and began pushing the idea of moving Web video to the TV with its SlingCatcher product, which started shipping [...]
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The 450-kilogram Watchkeeper, based on the Elbit Hermes 450, will be built jointly by the Israeli company Elbit Systems and the French-owned Thales UK. Starting price was 15 million pounds (more than $29 million) but has reportedly risen to 17 million pounds a pop (more than $33 million), and despite 2,100 lucrative jobs, [...]
To get a decent test shot, we went with a consumer-friendly, pocket-sized capture device. In this case it’s the recently released Flip Mino HD (CNET review). It captures really good-looking video in 1280×720 resolution at 30 frames per second. It doesn’t shoot in 1900×1080, also known as “full HD,” but we’re assuming that most folks [...]
The online media and technology sector, however, posted a decline in both the number of deals and value during the past nine months, according to the report. M&A deals in this sector fell 6 percent to 218 and the value dropped 6.9 percent to approximately $7.7 billion.
Tech deals fell to 691 transactions with a [...]
Webcarzz, a company that’s working to develop a virtual world that will target boys, has built an online tool that allows children to create their own 3D vehicles. Dubbed CarStructor, the app provides tools to customize 3D
cars, trucks, planes, and motorcycles. Eventually, those models can be placed into the Webcarzz virtual world when it’s released [...]
The Web site cites motherboard manufacturers as its source.
All Deneb processors will have prodigious amounts of cache memory to speed performance. Some are listed with 6MB of level-3 cache memory and 2MB of level-2 cache.
Processors dubbed Propus will have smaller amounts of cache memory: typically 2MB of level-2 cache only. The Propus EE [...]
These and other questions seem to represent Obama’s plan to avoid the the Lani Guinier Effect. President Clinton appointed Guinier as assistant attorney general, and then was forced to withdraw her nomination in the face of severe criticism. Clinton claimed at the time that he had not read her writings favoring racial quotas.
In a 1996 [...]
A new authorization bill would give the White House more oversight of the Homeland Security Department’s much-beleaguered cybersecurity efforts.
Other authorities of the director include reviewing the plans and policies of other agencies relevant to the information infrastructure, as well as physically inspecting facilities. The National Security Agency’s director would work with the NCSC’s director on [...]
