Monthly Archives: July 2007

Google has resolved the latest data outage to hit Google Analytics, and it promises to cut down on the frequency of technical problems affecting the Web site traffic-monitoring service. Analytics went into a data display blackout Saturday evening that lasted … Continue reading →

AMD refuses to kill off its 90nm Windsor core Athlon 64 X2 processors. The Athlon 64 X2 6000+ is AMD’s fastest dual-core performance processor. The processor launched last February to the tune of 3.0 GHz with a 125-watt TDP. The … Continue reading →

Dell plans to expand its Ubuntu PC and notebook offerings due to continued demand Dell has seen for the Ubuntu products, said Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu creator. Shuttleworth also founded Canonical, the company responsible for offering support for Ubuntu Linux users. … Continue reading →

Do the record labels really not realize how much theyve pissed off their best customers for the last decade? It would appear so, because theyre now hoping that the kids theyve alienated for all these years will become shills for … Continue reading →

After learning that items purchased on eBay may have been used in the Virginia Tech shootings this past April, the popular online auction site has revised its policy on firearms, weapons, and knives. On April 16, in Blacksburg, Virginia, a … Continue reading →

Microsoft is making a tech-demo version of its upcoming DirectX 10.1 available via download, including a version of XAudio2, the company’s cross-platform replacement for DirectSound. Users can try out both via the 468-Mbyte version of the August 2007 DirectX SDK. … Continue reading →

A soft-spoken Kevin Martin brought two phones to today’s FCC open meeting at which the agency presented the rules for its upcoming 700MHz auction. Both phones were made by Nokia, but the European version allowed access to WiFi networks; the … Continue reading →

In coming months, 16 national standards groups will formally vote on whether the Joint Photographic Experts Group, after which the JPEG file format is named, should make Microsoft’s relatively new HD Photo format a standard. Getting to this stage is … Continue reading →

Adverse weather on Tuesday at Cape Canaveral, Florida, delayed by 24 hours the launch of Mars probe Phoenix on its novel mission to dig in Martian soil for water and signs of life, Nasa said. Weather conditions prevented fuelling of … Continue reading →

Ever whacked your thumb with a hammer, or wrenched your back after lifting a heavy box, and blamed the full moon? It’s a popular notion, but there’s no cosmic connection, Austrian government researchers said Tuesday. Robert Seeberger, a physicist and … Continue reading →

Unpaid overtime is a contentious issue for IT employees, who often wrangle with ill-tempered technology long after everyone else has punched the clock. Universal Media Group is the latest company to stir the ire of data center dwellers feeling short-changed. … Continue reading →

It makes your life more complicated: A phone is just another thing that checks email, holds information and schedules events, and which has to be carefully kept in sync with all the other crud in your life that checks email, … Continue reading →

High performance, high price… More

There likely aren’t many that would complain about the processing power of today’s high-end dual-core notebooks, but for those that crave more power, Eurocom is laying it on thick. The company announced today that its D900C PHANTOM-X Mobile Workstation will … Continue reading →