I’m an application developer by day and sometimes when I’m testing something out things don’t go so well, the program hangs, and I have to open the Windows Task Manager and end the program.
Sometimes I have to do this many time in one hour, depending what I’m testing and how far along it is [...]
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In October of 2006 AMD surprised me when it purchased ATI for $5.6 billion, but the most recent news doesn’t really surprise me: they paid too much.
Oops.
The final purchase price included $3.2 billion allocated for goodwill, which was nearly three times the value of the product technology ATI had previously developed and was currently [...]
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Looking to buy a Christmas gift for someone who THOUGHT they had everything?
Then check the Bill Gates playing in money snow globe kits at Joy of Tech featuring “gold ‘coin’ glitter and tiny green ‘bills’.”
Their other snow globe designs are $19.49, but this one’s an extra $9.95 (no, the extra doesn’t go to Bill himself).
[Via [...]
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By now I’m sure you’ve heard the news: the CompUSA chain is going out of business. They’ll be open through the holidays, but the liquidation begins in January.
Consumerist has gotten a copy of their initial discount list…not too terribly impressive but I guess its just the initial list so we shouldn’t expect 70% prices just [...]
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This hasn’t been officially confirmed by Palm yet, but according to PalmInfocenter a number of Palm employees have been asked to leave.
According to a few ex-employees who have come forward, the layoffs are worldwide and could effect hundreds of people.
Layoffs aren’t fun so I hope this is just a rumor, but considering the state of [...]
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This is just a rumor at this point, but one I’d personally be interested in if it were true.
Engadget received a photo of what looks to be just that from a Dutch tipster.
I assume that would be a GPS receiver connected to the bottom of the iPhone, though if this rumor turns out to be [...]
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This hasn’t been officially confirmed by Microsoft yet in the form of a press release or anything like that, but if claims by Microsoft test engineer Hilton Locke are to be believed, Windows 7, the next version of Microsoft Windows, will feature multi-touch.
Multi-touch, in case it rings a bell but you can’t quite place [...]
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Have you ever heard about a new cellphone and wanted to check it out in person but didn’t want to waste your time because maybe either the interface would be terrible or the customer service would drive you crazy?
Then check out a new service called TryPhone.
They’ll give you a mockup of the real phone to [...]
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