Microsoft tells IE faithful on Windows XP to avoid F1 key
Still hanging around on Windows XP? Perfectly acceptable. Still using Internet Explorer to browse the world wide web? Just a wee bit less forgivable, but […]
Smartbook’s laptops hands-on: a MacBook and a VAIO walk into a bar…
Bewildering. We’re pretty sure that’s the only way to describe our adventure at Smartbook’s CeBIT booth. First off, let us just clear up that there […]
New "Spear Phishing" Attacks Target IT Admins
snydeq writes “A new breed of ‘spear phishing’ aimed at IT admins is making the rounds. The emails, containing no obvious malicious links, are fooling […]
ASUS DR-900 e-reader hands-on
After weeks of hearing about the DR-900 (or DR-950) e-reader, you had to know that we’d sprint (okay, walk at a brisk pace) over to […]
ASUS EeeKeyboard PC hands-on (slight return)
Has it really been almost a year (to the day!) since we last gave some first-hand thoughts on ASUS’ audacious Eee Keyboard PC? Given the […]
SCO Zombie McBride’s New Plan For World Litigation
eldavojohn writes “Years after you thought it was all over, Groklaw is reporting that Darl McBride (ex-CEO of SCO) has formed a new company that […]
Canon Rebel T2i / 550D squares off with EOS 7D in video performance test
We should all be pretty familiar with the specs of Canon‘s latest mainstream DSLR, so let’s skip past the new 18 megapixel CMOS sensor, SDXC […]
Matt Asay Answers Your Questions About Ubuntu and Canonical
A couple of weeks ago you posed some questions for Matt Asay, who recently moved into the COO role at Canonical. Click below to read […]
Apple vs HTC: a patent breakdown
Apple suing HTC over 20-odd patents before both the US District Court and the International Trade Commission has certainly caused some chaos this morning, but […]
Porsche 918 Spyder concept is the most beautiful hybrid we’ve ever seen
Um, we’re sure there’s something sensible to be said about this Porsche concept, but we’re not altogether capable of coherent expression at present. We want […]
Scientists Discover Booze That Won’t Give You a Hangover
Kwang-il Kwon and Hye Gwang Jeong of Chungnam National University have discovered that drinking alcohol with oxygen bubbles added leads to fewer hangovers and a […]
Detecting Anonymously Registered Domains
Spamresource.com has up a piece describing a new service that could be useful in evaluating the reputation of sites you deal with — anonwhois.org returns […]
Dell’s Latitude 13 business laptop now available, looking businessy
Hey, if you’re in the market for a beauty of a thin and light, and you mean business, you’re in luck today. Dell’s Latitude 13 […]
Passage of Time Solves PS3 Glitch
An anonymous reader writes “A quick update on the widespread PlayStation 3 glitch we discussed recently: as of last night (Monday, March 1st) the problem […]
The Role of Human Culture In Natural Selection
gollum123 writes with this excerpt from the NY Times: “… for the last 20,000 years or so, people have inadvertently been shaping their own evolution. […]
Opera 10.5 for Windows announced with speed boost, private browsing, and more
A quick note for Opera fans (and we ain’t talkin’ The Marriage of Figaro here). Looks like the self-styled “world’s fastest” browser (with about 2% […]
Sony now accepting Dash pre-orders, shipping April 15th
Sony’s Dash “personal internet viewer” may have prompted some slight confusion and eventual disappointment when it was introduced among all the tablet madness at CES, […]
Hanvon TouchPad BC10C and BA10E hands-on
Remind us to send a thank-you note to Hanvon for taking a break from cranking out e-readers to work on some of the best tablets […]
Infinity Ward Lead Developers Axed Unexpectedly
RogueyWon writes “Kotaku is reporting that Infinity Ward, the development studio behind Modern Warfare 2, has been at the center of strange events recently. Jason […]
Federal Deadline Hobbling eHealth IT Rollout
Lucas123 writes “A federal deadline that begins next year and requires hospitals to prove they’re meaningfully using electronic health records will lead to technical problems […]