The highly anticipated Chevy Volt, the extended-range hybrid electric car from General Motors, is on a limited tour of the US and is right now making it’s way around the San Francisco Bay Area.
What’s special about the Volt?
Unlike other hybrids, the Volt is designed to be plugged into any 110-volt electrical outlet for charging and [...]
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If you’re a fan of dinosaurs you might have caught the excellent BBC special “Walking with Dinosaurs”.
They’ve taken that show and turned it into a $20-million live action stage show that’s currently touring the US and showing you in person how dinosaurs interacted with one another, protected their young, etc., using a mix of people [...]
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Rogers, Canada’s largest wireless phone, home phone, broadband provider, and cable provider (hmmm…monopoly?) is attempting to insert it’s own code into pages you view via JavaScript.
Apparently they are testing new ways to notify their customers other than the more traditional email and telephone.
Taanta Gupta, Rogers VP of communications, says that they are, “trying different [...]
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
First, the bad news: SED
Canon and Toshiba, the companies behind SED (Surface-conduction Electron-emitter Display) television technology that was first shown at the CEATEC 2006 show, are still having a wee bit of trouble.
What’s the big deal with SED?
It promises to offer HDTV’s with CRT [...]
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The FCC auction for the 700MHz spectrum is coming up fast, set to begin on January 24, 2008.
Until bidding begins we won’t know exactly who’s in and who’s out, but a few companies have publicly stated that they will be participating:
AT&T
Cox Communications
Frontline
Google
Verizon
According to Electronista a story in the Wall Street Journal points out four additional [...]
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This coming March, 2008, Toshiba is introducing a new super battery.
The “Super Charge ion Batteries”, or “SCiBs”, will be able to hit a 90% in less than five minutes, have a life span of at least 10 years, and can be recharged at least 5,000 times.
Initially they will be for industrial use only, but I [...]
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Microsoft has started a new “Windows Feedback Program” to see how people use their software and they’re looking for a few volunteers.
If you agree to let them track your computer usage for three months and agree to submit surveys every two weeks, you’ll receive a free copy of one of the following:
Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate (32–bit [...]
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RealNetworks last week laid off nearly 100 of their employees, roughly 35 from the Seattle, Washington, area and the others in Asia and Europe.
Bill Hankes, a spokesperson for RealNetworks, indicated that the cuts were to eliminate redundancies due to several acquisitions the company had made over the last two years.
Roughly 1,700 employess still remain.
Am I [...]
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Toshiba’s new Dynabook Satellite T31 laptop seems rather unremarkable.
The specs include up to a 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 512MB of RAM, 80GB hard drive and a DVD burner among a few others.
What sets it apart from the pack is that Toshiba is including both a Windows XP AND a Windows Vista recovery discs, the [...]
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My very first PC was made by Everex…it was a 386SX that I bought used and the very same day I swapped the motherboard and CPU, choosing a 486DX (HAD to have the math co-processor).
Everex went away for a while, but recently re-appeared with the $200 Walmart PC running the Linux-based gOS operating system.
What’s next [...]
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