Engadget - www.engadget.com
Think the PSP isn%u2019t quite pocketable enough for ya? Yeah, well, SL-Interphase is working on a tablet-style gaming PC called the Rogue that comes with a built-in joystick, track ball, buttons, up to 2GB of DDR2 RAM, and an 8.4-inch LCD screen you can write on
Maybe Tablet PCs are not completely useless.
Breaking
Raskin died on Saturday night at his home in Pacifica, his family said in a statement. In December, he told friends he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
Raskin joined Apple in 1978 - as its 31st employee - to start the young company’s publications department. At the time, computers were primarily text-based and users had [...]
Wired
In the movie The Core, Hilary Swank saved humanity by drilling to Earth’s center. In reality, of course, that’s impossible - and not just because Swank isn’t the geologist type. Try as they might, actual scientists have yet to get through even the crust, the thinnest, outermost skin of the planet. It’s just too deep.
Enter [...]
FinanceGates.com
AMD presents dual-core version of its Athlon 64 desktop processor as the finishing point in long-lasting chip wars.
The dual-core Athlon 64 is working at a clock-speed of 2.4 GHz and has maximum power dissipation of 100 W.
This is the latest development in the long-lasting chip war between AMD and Intel. Both companies pledged processing of [...]
CNET News.com
IBM is putting its corporate heft behind a popular open-source Web development technology called PHP, in a move meant to reach out to a broader set of developers.
On Friday, the tech giant is expected to announce a partnership with Zend Technologies to create a bundle called ZendCore, which includes IBM’s Cloudscape-embedded database and Zend’s [...]
Slashdot
D. Reed Freeman, the “Chief Privacy Officer” of Claria Networks (formerly Gator), the creators of the pervasive spyware package GAIN, has been appointed to the Department of Homeland Security’s “Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee”.”
I apologize for shamelessly pulling this topic from slashdot, but this is simply apalling. Perhaps we could find someone better to [...]
