Posted on February 28, 2008 by Dan
If you’ve been following the class-action lawsuit against Microsoft over the whole “Vista Capable” mess you might have asked yourself how it happened.
158 pages from “Exhibit A” of the lawsuit have been unsealed by the judge and what they reveal is interesting and damning: Intel’s 915 chipset was initially rejected as being compatible with Vista.
A [...]
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Posted on February 28, 2008 by Dan
Bad news if you are in Europe and eager to get your hands on the Metal Gear Solid PS3 bundle that Sony announced a couple of days ago. Europe will be getting a new Playstation 3 bundle–two, in fact–but neither comes with Metal Gear Solid 4.
The first bundle, hitting retail on March 19th, is the [...]
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Posted on February 28, 2008 by Dan
Several weeks ago Garmin announced a GPS and phone hybrid device called the nüvifone.
But all is not right in nuvi-ville.
Business phone service provider Nuvio has filed a lawsuit against Garmin claiming that Garmin has violated Nuvio’s trademark over the name nüvifone.
Nuvio CEO Jason P. Talley said “while we would have preferred to settle this without [...]
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Posted on February 28, 2008 by Dan
While still technically in alpha, Google’s Android seems to be coming along rather nicely. Darren Waters from the BBC was able to check out a demo of what Android can do while running on a prototype handset with a 300MHz processor and caught the whole thing on tape.
The demo was operated by Andy Rubin, co-founder [...]
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Posted on February 28, 2008 by Dan
In October of 2006 Google acquired Jotspot, a hosted wiki application provider. After closing it down for nearly a year and a half, Google has reopened Jotspot and giving it a new name–Google Sites.
Google Sites integrates with the rest of the Google Apps such as Docs, Calendar, Picasa and YouTube and allows individuals and teams [...]
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Posted on February 28, 2008 by Dan
Today Microsoft released its latest server operation system, Windows Server 2008.
New in this version is “Hyper-V”, Microsoft’s new virtualization layer and its first major challenge to VMware’s domination in this space.
Initially just a beta version of Hyper-V will be included, with Microsoft planning to add the full feature set to the product within six months.
Microsoft [...]
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Posted on February 28, 2008 by Dan
Today, for three hours, all Starbucks locations closed for all-hands training.
Anything different?
Valleywag has gotten the scoop directly from their neighborhood barista who mentioned these three changes:
Richer espresso mix. Starbucks espresso machines have been re-calibrated to mix a stronger dose. It’s not as powerful as Peet’s, but it’s more in that direction.
Shot glasses. Instead of pouring [...]
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Posted on February 28, 2008 by Dan
When Yahoo turned down Microsoft’s acquisition bid a couple weeks ago it was just a matter of time before disgruntled stock holders decided to sue Yahoo.
Reuters is reporting that four lawsuits have been filed in California Superior Court and three in Delaware Chancery Court.
“We do not believe, based on current knowledge, that any of the [...]
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