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Last week was a short week, and while you know the outcome of Black Friday, that is still in my future. We did have two big announcements, though. Amazon made a run at the eBook market with what is the best eBook in the world; in addition, the Dell XPS One, which follows the Gateway One to market, i...
Nokia Siemens Networks is introducing environmentally friendly products that offer end users not only a sustainable business model but also bottom-line savings. Taking aim at the largest source of energy consumption in a typical telecom network environment -- the wireless network's base station site...
November marks the one-year anniversary of the release of both Nintendo's Wii and Sony's PlayStation 3 as well as the second anniversary of the debut of Microsoft's Xbox 360. It has been a long year for the three console makers, one in which the former leaders, Microsoft and Sony, were blindsided by...
Trying to bring more independent and small developers into the PlayStation 3 fold, Sony announced Monday that it has lowered the price of the PS3 Software Developers Kit by some 50 percent. The console maker has also given the SDK a boost and integrated programming tools developed by SN Systems to ...
AMD is weaving together several lines of high-end components to create a new platform aimed at enthusiast PC computing. Codenamed "Spider," AMD's PC platform combines the new AMD Phenom quad-core processors, ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series graphics processors with Microsoft DirectX 10.1 support, AMD 7-Ser...
This week ends with one of the most important days of the year. It's called "Black Friday," and it could decide the future of a lot of battles and tell us whether this will be a good or bad season economically. There are two big battles that may actually be decided this week based on initial sales n...
To help combat increasingly complicated home PC and networking environments, Microsoft has released the second major version to its Windows Live OneCare, a subscription service that helps manage security updates and performance of home and small-business PCs. Thirty-five percent of U.S. adults now o...
Presidential candidate Ron Paul became the "Internet" candidate this month when 36,672 people contributed more than $4 million online to his campaign in a single 24-hour period. This impressive feat demonstrates the power of an open source culture, a lesson that should not be lost when it comes to o...
Fountainhead Entertainment and Id Software, the developer behind the "Doom" and "Quake" video game series, have announced they have come together to create a new division at Id Software: Id Mobile. The software developer's new arm will create games for cell phones, the handheld Nintendo DS and Sony'...
The Los Angeles Auto Show is painting the town green this week, with its emphasis on hybrid vehicles and the first showing by Honda and GM of hydrogen fuel cell cars. Honda, in fact, will begin leasing the fuel cell FCX Clarity model to a limited number of drivers in the southern California area at ...
A group of researchers have successfully cloned primate embryos for the first time and used them to create stem cells, opening up the possibility that the same could potentially be done with humans. Using a technique called "somatic cell nuclear transfer," the researchers produced rhesus macaque mon...
Intel announced Sunday it has made two important leaps with its new server and high-end PC processors: They are the first to use Intel's Hafnium-based high-k metal gate formula for the hundreds of millions of transistors inside the processors; plus, they are the first to be manufactured on the comp...
Probably the biggest announcement last week was Google's entry into the cell phone space. Regardless of whether it is successful or not, the entry will likely change dramatically what we will be using, even in the PC space, in a few years. For me, one of the most fun things I did was test-drive the ...
Children in developing nations who receive the XO laptop from the One Laptop Per Child Foundation can exercise their imaginations and build their own cities with the original "SimCity" video game. Electronic Arts announced Thursday that it has donated the game, originally released in 1989, to the OL...
Microsoft announced a new tool to help parents limit the amount of time their children spend playing video games on the Xbox 360 Wednesday. With the Family Timer, parents can program an appropriate amount of gaming and entertainment time on the console for their children on a daily or weekly basis.
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