Engadget - XG will ship first xMAX VoIP handsets before end of year

Engadget - XG will ship first xMAX VoIP handsets before end of year:
"XG Technology just took one baby-step closer to reality by announcing that their first consumer VoIP handset will be delivered before the end of the year. These dual-mode handsets will feature XG’s own proprietary xMAX chips, the ol’ tried-n-true WiFi, and a bit of old fashioned Ethernet jacks for straight-up tethered VoIP calling. No, not WiMax son, xMAX -- XG's high-data-rate wireless solution which recently pumped a 3.67Mbps signal some 18 miles using a mere 35 milliwatts of power on FCC approved equipment."
LINKS: xG Technology

Gear Live - New Cray Supercomputer Uses 24,000 Opterons

Gear Live - New Cray Supercomputer Uses 24,000 Opterons:
"On a fairly regular basis, some research lab or government institution needs computing power on a massive scale. In this case it’s the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. They’re having Cray, an old hat at supercomputers, build them a system that should break the 1 petaflop barrier (that’s 1 quadrillion floating-point operations per second). The next closest system currently in operation is IBM’s Blue Gene/L which turns out a quite respectable 350 teraflops."
LINKS: Cray - The Supercomputer Company

Reg Hardware - Toshiba pre-announces next-gen Nvidia mobile GPU

Reg Hardware - Toshiba pre-announces next-gen Nvidia mobile GPU:
"Nvidia hasn't announced its GeForce Go 7900 GS mobile GPU yet, but Toshiba yesterday said it has begun shipping a gaming-oriented notebook which delivers 'state-of-the-art graphics' thanks to the new chip, 256MB of graphics memory and a 17in TruBrite display."Via Gear Live
LINKS: Toshiba - Satellite P105-S921

The Slatin Report - Coke thinks Coffee - and Retail

The Slatin Report - Coke thinks Coffee - and Retail:
"It's a small deal that could pack a big pop, or just a little fizz. Coca-Cola Inc. has quietly leased a 4,000-square-foot retail space in Toronto. While it's just a storefront, it foreshadows what insiders say is the beverage giant's dreams of dunking Starbucks in its own brew."
LINKS: Coca-Cola Blak

Gearlog - Mac Os X 10.5 Likely To Have Virtualization, Windows Support

Gearlog - Mac Os X 10.5 Likely To Have Virtualization, Windows Support:
"In a stunning move, BAPCo, the industry-standard Windows benchmarking consortium, announced that Apple Computer has joined up as a member. BAPCo is responsible for the SYSmark 2004SE and MobileMark benchmark suites we use at PC Magazine Labs for testing PCs. BAPCo also produces the webserver test WEBmark."
LINKS: BAPCo

BizReport - Google Expands America Online Alliance

BizReport = Google Expands America Online Alliance:
"Google Inc. said Wednesday that it has ironed out the final details of its expanded alliance with America Online, clearing the way for the online search engine leader to invest $1 billion in its biggest advertising partner."

Information Age - Executive tech: the Halo effect

Information Age - Executive tech: the Halo effect:
"The BlackBerry is now officially old hat. A new, rather more expensive executive toy is winning the hearts of tech-savvy CEOs: the Halo Collaboration Studio."LINKS: HP - Halo Collaboration

Wired News - Jell-O Fix for Spinal Cords

Wired News - Jell-O Fix for Spinal Cords:
"Stem cells embedded in futuristic materials may heal decades-old spinal cord injuries and rescue patients from paralysis, if recent experiments in rodents can be replicated in humans."

LinuxDevices - Please pass the Salton Pepper, I need to check my email

LinuxDevices - Please pass the Salton Pepper, I need to check my email:
"A major kitchen appliance vendor will add a Linux-based tablet PC to its futuristic 'connected home' product family. Salton, whose brands include George Foreman, Westinghouse, Toastmaster, Melitta, Russell Hobbs, Farberware, Ingraham, and Stiffel, will rebrand Pepper Computing's Pepper Pad for its 'Beyond Connected Home' product line."
LINKS: Salton - Beyon Connected Home
LINKS: Pepper Computer

PSFK - Scace As Scarcity: MicroApartments

PSFK - Scace As Scarcity: MicroApartments:
"These apartments sit on Vauxhall Bridge Road in London's Westminster. The artchitect has taken a small triangle of land to create high-designed micro-apartments for micro-living."
LINKS: Barratt - Apartments at the Tachbrook Triangle

ExtremeTech - GDC 2006 Wrap-Up

ExtremeTech - GDC 2006 Wrap-Up:
"This year's Game Developers Conference had its share of controversy, terrific sessions, competing parties and chance interactions. As happens every year, there's way too much to cover, and it all seems to end too soon."
LINKS: Game Developers Conference

PC Magazine - Oh, Those Crazy French!

PC Magazine - Oh, Those Crazy French!:
"While the world moans and groans about the French and their attitude of cultural superiority, you sometimes have to give them credit, often in hindsight, for their ability to see through all the BS out there."

Discovery Channel - Low-Cost Rocket Fails First Flight

Discovery Channel - Low-Cost Rocket Fails First Flight:
"The low-cost, built-from-scratch Falcon 1 rocket faltered a minute after liftoff on Friday, dashing the hopes of Internet entrepreneur Elon Musk that after four years and roughly $100 million, his creation would be spared the fate that awaits most debut rocket flights."
LINKS: SpaceX

The Motley Fool - Lycos Calls Back

The Motley Fool - Lycos Calls Back:
"Just days after Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) rattled the telcos by launching a public beta of an even cheaper Skype-like service, a somewhat forgotten competitor has thrown its hat into the ring by undercutting the undercutter."
LINKS: Lycos Phone

New Scientist - Laser chips could power petaflop computers

New Scientist - Laser chips could power petaflop computers:
"Laser communications chips capable of pumping data through the veins of gargantuan 'petaflop' supercomputers have been demonstrated by NEC in Japan."
Via KurzweilAI.net

news@nature - Stem cells found in adult mouse testes

news@nature - Stem cells found in adult mouse testes:
"Researchers in Germany have identified a potential source of reprogrammable cells in adults that could be used for regenerative therapy. The cells would be taken directly from the testis and cultured. No cloning or destruction of embryos would be necessary."

informitv - Universal movie giant launches digital downloads to own

informitv - Universal movie giant launches digital downloads to own:
"Universal Pictures, part of the NBC Universal media group, is for the first time releasing new movies as digital downloads to own, through a partnership with the Lovefilm online service in the UK."
LINKS: LoveFilm

I4U News - New Panasonic Plasma TVs with G9 Panels Deliver 10,000:1 Contrast Ratio

I4U News - New Panasonic Plasma TVs with G9 Panels Deliver 10,000:1 Contrast Ratio:
"Good thing it went for a HDTV projector for my home theater for now and held of on the Plasma TV purchase. Panasonics's new Plasma TV generation G9 raises the image quality by a big step with up to 10,000:1 contrast ratio (G8 had 3000:1)."
LINKS: Panasonic

Wired News - Satellite Radio Rocks Cell Phones

Wired News - Satellite Radio Rocks Cell Phones:
"Fans of U.S. satellite radio have been waiting eagerly for nearly a year to get XM or Sirius onto their cell phones."

Wired News - Island Wisdom, Coded in Java

Wired News - Island Wisdom, Coded in Java:
"Now Armstrong is readying a productivity tool that he hopes will put those precepts into action. Called Trampoline, the program will integrate with a company's existing desktop and enterprise server applications, sitting quietly on a company's network and vacuuming in e-mail, files, spreadsheets and anything else it can find."
LINKS: Trampoline Systems

Wired Magazine - When Virtual Worlds Collide

Wired Magazine - When Virtual Worlds Collide:
"Sometimes futurists get the future right. Millions of us now commute to mass­ively multiplayer online games in worlds much like the metaverse predicted by William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, and the Wachowski brothers. We live vicariously through our digital avatars in lushly rendered virtual environments, building and bartering, chatting and flirting, even falling in love. The population of the computer-generated universe is increasing at a rate that rivals email's growth 15 years ago. A decade hence, you'll drop a reference to your virtual doppelgängers just as casually as you give out your email address today."

Wired News - What You'll Wear in 10 Years

Wired News - What You'll Wear in 10 Years:
"Forget fancy camcorder phones and wireless internet routers; the future's most innovative gadgets come in a strapless size 4."

New York Times - The Bespoke Computer

New York Times - The Bespoke Computer:
"Major computer makers, including Dell and Hewlett-Packard, will build PC's to order, but their selection of components is limited and they offer only a few types of cases. And they certainly don't allow customers to send in used parts to reduce the cost of the final product."
LINKS: Krex

GamesIndustry.biz - Dell buys gaming PC specialist Alienware

GamesIndustry.biz - Dell buys gaming PC specialist Alienware:
"Leading PC manufacturer Dell has acquired Miami-based gaming PC specialist Alienware for an undisclosed sum, with the announcement reaffirming Dell's commitment to the sector only hours after firm unveiled its own new gaming PC range."
LINKS: Alienware

GamesIndustry.biz - GDC: Networks and real-time demos are the focus for Harrison

GamesIndustry.biz - GDC: Networks and real-time demos are the focus for Harrison:
"At GDC in San Jose today, Sony Worldwide Studios head Phil Harrison outlined plans for a versatile online gaming service with considerable potential for digital distribution of content, and demonstrated real-time game demos for PlayStation 3."
RELATED: GamesIndustry.biz - GDC: Final PS3 controller, launch line-up at E3

PSFK - Cool Vest Doesn't Give You The Chills

PSFK - Cool Vest Doesn't Give You The Chills:
"Remy Chevalier mailed us a tip off about this vest that keeps you a cool 15 degrees C (59F) and can recharge in 20 minutes just sitting in the ice cooler you've got your beers plonked in. You can even get one for your dog and, oh, the chemicals it uses are green."
LINKS: RPCM Vests

LinuxDevices - Sun GPLs Sparc design, multi-threading tech

LinuxDevices - Sun GPLs Sparc design, multi-threading tech:
"Sun released a 64-bit multicore, multi-threaded processor design under the GNU GPL today, at the Multicore Expo in Santa Clara. The OpenSparc T1 design supports eight cores, with four threads per core, and is based on Sun's UltraSparc T1 processor, which was touted as an energy-saving breakthrough when it shipped last November."
LINKS: OpenSPARC
LINKS: Multicore Expo

BizReport - Google launches financial news, data, blog site

BizReport - Google launches financial news, data, blog site:
"Google Inc. is introducing a financial news, stock quote and chat service that seeks to shake up the online finance information market now dominated by Internet media rivals and online brokers."
LINKS: Google Finance

New Scientist - Optic nerve regrown with a nanofibre scaffold

New Scientist - Optic nerve regrown with a nanofibre scaffold:
"Hamsters blinded following damage to their optic nerve have had their vision partially restored with the help of an implanted nanoscale scaffold that has encouraged nerve tissue to regrow."
Via KurzweilAI.net

Reuters.co.uk - Microsoft working on mobile game device

Reuters.co.uk - Microsoft working on mobile game device:
"Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) is working on a handheld gaming device that will also play music and movies in a challenge to rivals such as Sony and Apple, the San Jose Mercury News said on Monday."

RED HERRING - Cray Advances Supercomputing

RED HERRING - Cray Advances Supercomputing:
"Through the end of the decade, Cray plans to build supercomputers that combine standard microprocessors, which use scalar processing, with other types of chips that do vector processing, along with multithreading processors and hardware accelerators to create high-performance computing (HPC) platforms based on Linux."

informitv - AOL In2TV launches first broadband television network

informitv - AOL In2TV launches first broadband television network:
"AOL and Warner Bros have launched In2TV, promoted as the first broadband television network. It claims to offer the largest collection of free television shows on the web, featuring classic episodes from their archives in genre-themed channels, together with viral videos and interactive games."
LINKS: AOL Television: In2TV

TWICE - Samsung Readies Hybrid Hard Drive

TWICE - Samsung Readies Hybrid Hard Drive:
"Samsung’s hybrid hard drive was developed to take advantage of the company’s memory and hard drive businesses by combining the two; this will create both a new hard drive category and generate a need for more flash memory from other hard-drive makers that the company hopes will adopt the technology."

The World Health Network - World faces challenge as life expectancies lengthen, scientist says

World faces challenge as life expectancies lengthen, scientist says:
"In the 21st century, state-of-the-art anti-aging technologies may extend human lifespans at an unprecedented rate, bringing with them a host of social and economic challenges, says biologist Shripad Tuljapurkar of Stanford University."

The World Health Network - Transplanted cells regenerate muscles

The World Health Network - Transplanted cells regenerate muscles:
"Such biological engineering, which once excited the medical community, has been fraught with the difficulties of keeping transplanted cells alive and getting them to integrate with a host's body. Researchers at Harvard University's Department of Engineering and Applied Science may have solved these problems."

GamesIndustry.biz - In Detail: Sony's PlayStation 3 network service plans

GamesIndustry.biz - In Detail: Sony's PlayStation 3 network service plans:
"Further details of the PlayStation Network Platform announced by SCE boss Ken Kutaragi in Tokyo yesterday have emerged, including the fact that the ability to play games online will be included in the basic free service."
RELATED: GameIndustry.biz - PS3: Free online service from day one, hard drive to be a requirement

GameIndustry.biz - Sony promises global PS3 launch in November; six million units by March '07

GameIndustry.biz - Sony promises global PS3 launch in November; six million units by March '07:
"The PlayStation 3 is set to launch in North America, Asia and Europe in early November this year, Sony Computer Entertainment boss Ken Kutaragi has announced, with the firm committed to shipping six million units by the end of March 2007."

Popular Mechanics - Combating Avian Flu

Popular Mechanics - Combating Avian Flu:
"By recreating an extinct virus that killed as many as 50 million people, scientists race to defeat avian flu before it evolves into a deadlier form."

Fast Company - The Body: Bulletproof

Fast Company - The Body: Bulletproof:
"If you want to live forever, change your skin color, or just firm up those abs from the comfort of your own couch, you might be in luck: Gene therapy is on its way--and it's coming fast."

The Motley Fool - Give It Up to Google

The Motley Fool - Give It Up to Google:
"Foolish colleague Seth Jayson has told me more than once that Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) is the new Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL). You know what? He's right. The rumor mills attached to both firms are the envy of Hollywood wannabes. That's why, when Reuters reported yesterday that the search king is planning to provide users with infinite storage for files, email, bookmarks, and the like, a whole new round of mania set in."

LinuxDevices - Via aims 2-chip PC core at Ultra Mobile PC designs

LinuxDevices - Via aims 2-chip PC core at Ultra Mobile PC designs:
"Via Technology unveiled a new high-integration core-logic chip for low-power, PC-like handheld mobile devices Thursday at CeBIT in Hannover, Germany. The VX700 integrates Via's VN800 northbridge and VT8237 southbridge chip features, plus other mobile-oriented functions. It pairs up with Via's Via C7-M ULV processor to create a two-chip core for 'ultra mobile' designs, according to the company."
RELATED: LinuxDevices - Tiny Via ULV mobile processor targets UMPCs

BizReport - Blockbuster CEO Antioco sees digital future

BizReport - Blockbuster CEO Antioco sees digital future:
"Blockbuster Inc. Chief Executive John Antioco on Thursday said the No. 1 video rental chain has a digital future that may take it to a greater size than it achieved as a primarily store-based business."

ExtremeTech - Intel's Robson Boosts Hard Drive Performance

ExtremeTech - Intel's Robson Boosts Hard Drive Performance:
"Accessing a disk drive is hundreds of times slower than accessing main system memory. Flash memory is slower than the DRAM used for system memory, but it's still far speedier than pulling data from rotating magnetic media. If you've ever waited for a large game level to load, you'll know what we mean. There you sit, with the hard drive light flickering, staring at a progress bar on the screen. For this, you've paid $50?"

eWeek - Google to Offer Book Downloads

eWeek - Google to Offer Book Downloads:
"As to when books can be purchased, Google said, 'This is just a preliminary release to allow U.S. and U.K. publishers to set prices and to choose which books they want to include. This feature isn't yet available as an option for consumers.'"

Wired News - France May Force ITunes Open

Wired News - France May Force ITunes Open:
"France is pushing through a law that would force Apple Computer to open its iTunes online music store and enable consumers to download songs onto devices other than the computer maker's popular iPod player."
RELATED: eWeek - French Plan Would Open iTunes to Other Devices

Wired News - Man vs. Machine in Newsreader War

Wired News - Man vs. Machine in Newsreader War:
"Think back to John Henry racing a steam drill and forward to Garry Kasparov trying to outmaneuver IBM's Deep Blue in 1997 to the Onion tweaking the genre with its accountant battles Excel story."
LINKS: Tailrank
LINKS: Rojo
LINKS: Megite

Hotel Marketing - Six travel technology trends for 2006

Hotel Marketing - Six travel technology trends for 2006:
"2006 is already shaping up to be a productive year for travel technology. RSS feeds are popping up, venture capital is flowing in, IT departments are seeing projects large and small come to fruition ... and launching new ones. As anyone who has tried in the past to predict when mobile will really take off knows - it isn’t always easy to anticipate just when a public-facing technology will reach the much-discussed tipping point. Some technology trends develop at a steady - and predictable - pace, while others are hyped to near-extinction before they flourish."
Via PSFK

MobileMag - Intel to boot laptops with NAND flash

MobileMag - Intel to boot laptops with NAND flash:
"Intel plans to aid the transition of harddrive-less portable computers with a NAND flash integrated notebook solution next year. The NAND flash chips will be used to assist the system in quicker boot times and lowering power consumption, so those old platter drives are still kicking around, but who knows for how long."

MobileMag - Amazon.com starting digital movie download service

MobileMag - Amazon.com starting digital movie download service:
"Jeff Bezos must be jealous of the attention and success Steve Jobs is getting, because his company, Amazon, is looking to grab some of the market that Jobs and Apple are looking to dominate. According to the New York Times, Amazon is holding talks with three Hollywood studios. They’re goal is reportedly to develop a service that will allow customers to download movies and TV shows and burn them onto DVDs. The studios in question are supposedly Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios and Warner Brothers, so Amazon clearly isn’t aiming low with their new offering. This news comes on the heels of February reports that Amazon was negotiating with four major music labels to develop their own digital music service."
RELATED: BizReport - Amazon, Hollywood studios in talks for downloads

KurzweilAI.net - The Cosmic Landscape

KurzweilAI.net - The Cosmic Landscape:
"Leonard Susskind's new book, The Cosmic Landscape pits intelligent design against string theory and the megaverse.

Surprisingly, Autodesk founder John Walker sides with intelligent design, but not by a deity -- by post-Singularity intelligences creating a reality simulation: 'What would we expect to see if we inhabited a simulation? Well, there would probably be a discrete time step and granularity in position fixed by the time and position resolution of the simulation -- check, and check: the Planck time and distance appear to behave this way in our universe. There would probably be an absolute speed limit to constrain the extent we could directly explore and impose a locality constraint on propagating updates throughout the simulation -- check: speed of light. There would be a limit on the extent of the universe we could observe -- check: the Hubble radius is an absolute horizon we cannot penetrate, and the last scattering surface of the cosmic background radiation limits electromagnetic observation to a still smaller radius. There would be a limit on the accuracy of physical measurements due to the finite precision of the computation in the simulation -- check: Heisenberg uncertainty principle -- and, as in games, randomness would be used as a fudge when precision limits were hit—check: quantum mechanics.'"

New Scientist - Create your favourite website, automatically

New Scientist - Create your favourite website, automatically:
"A new tool offers to create websites on any subject, allowing web surfers to sit back, relax and watch a virtual space automatically fill up with relevant news stories, blog posts, maps and photos."
Via KurzweilAI.net
LINKS: Boxxet

KurzweilAI.net - The Longevity Dividend

KurzweilAI.net - The Longevity Dividend:
"Congress should invest $3 billion annually in understanding the biology of aging and how it predisposes us to a suite of costly diseases and disorders expressed at later ages, say a group of researchers led by S. Jay Olshansky, professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of Illinois."

New York Times - The New São Paulo

New York Times - The New São Paulo:
"It's a sultry January day in São Paulo, and dozens of people are dining beneath a gargantuan fig tree with dramatic horizontal limbs reminiscent of 'Jurassic Park.' An entire restaurant has been built around this 130-year-old tree, and the expansive glass-ceilinged patio is so ingeniously constructed that it's hard to tell whether they are sitting inside or out."

New York Times - The Future, Now Available in Stores

New York Times - The Future, Now Available in Stores:
"One way to grasp all the fuss about nanotechnology — the billions of dollars invested; the talk of potential breakthrough products in energy, computing and health care; the fears of novel hazards unleashed on an unsuspecting populace — is to plunge into the underlying science."
Via PSFK

Forbes - Hot Wheel

Forbes - Hot Wheel:
"We love reading about new products and designs from Bombardier, mostly because besides building things like airplanes and subway cars, the privately held, Quebec-based company also builds fun stuff like Rotax karts, Ski-Doo and Lynx snowmobiles, Bombardier ATVs, Sea-Doo sport boats and Johnson and Evinrude outboard engines."Via PSFK
LINKS: IDSA - 2003 Gold Winners

The Independent - The Complete Guide To: European boutique hotels

The Independent - The Complete Guide To: European boutique hotels:
"Absolutely. Boutique hotels are generally understood to be chic little establishments characterised by their informal charm. Originally, though, the definition was rather tighter. The 'boutique' style was created in New York back in 1984. This was when the entrepreneur Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell opened Morgans on Madison Avenue. It was quirky and individual, unlike the big brand-name hotels that were dominant at the time."
Via PSFK

KurzweilAI.net - Reprogramming your Biochemistry for Immortality

KurzweilAI.net - Reprogramming your Biochemistry for Immortality:
"Scientists are now talking about people staying young and not aging. Ray Kurzweil is taking it a step further: 'In addition to radical life extension, we’ll also have radical life expansion. The nanobots will be able to go inside the brain and extend our mental functioning by interacting with our biological neurons.'"

Wired News - The Pirate Bay: Here to Stay?

Wired News - The Pirate Bay: Here to Stay?:
"Last month, the Motion Picture Association of America announced one of its boldest sorties yet against online piracy: a barrage of seven federal lawsuits against some of the highest-profile BitTorrent sites, Usenet hosts and peer-to-peer services. Among the targets: isoHunt, TorrentSpy and eDonkey."

New Scientist - 3D plasma shapes created in thin air

New Scientist - 3D plasma shapes created in thin air:
"The night sky could soon be lit up with gigantic three-dimensional adverts, thanks to a Japanese laser display that creates glowing images in thin air."
Via KurweilAI.net

Wired News - Faster Chips, Kill, Kill, Kill

Wired News - Faster Chips, Kill, Kill, Kill
"PCs with blazing-fast 5-GHz CPUs are not only feasible, they should soon be on store shelves, according to chipmakers at a conference in Silicon Valley this week."
Via KurzweilAI.net

American Institute of Physics - Atom Wires

American Institute of Physics - Atom Wires:
"The smallest wire width in mass produced electronic devices is about 50 nm, or about 500 atoms across. The ultimate limit of thinness would be wires only one atom wide. Such wires can be made now, although not for any working electronic device, and it is useful to know their properties for future reference."
Via KurzweilAI.net

BBC News - Guns and sunshades to rescue climate

BBC News - Guns and sunshades to rescue climate:
"While humans have a long history of wanting to control weather and climate - cloud seeding is an example - this incarnation of geoengineering is such a hot potato that scientists cannot even agree whether it should be discussed publicly.

'The knowledge that we maybe could engineer our way out of climate problems inevitably lessens the political will to begin reducing carbon dioxide emissions,' observes David Keith from the University of Calgary in Canada."

PSFK - Apple Does Video Subscription

PSFK - Apple Does Video Subscription:
"We talked recently about the prospect that iTunes will offer a subscription film-download service offering thousands of films each month. Yesterday, Apple launched a subscription service for TV shows. Reuters says that iTunes is launching the service in partnership with Viacom Inc.'s Comedy Central Network, which is rolling out 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart' and 'The Colbert Report' on the service. Fans will be able to buy the next month's series of 16 new episodes via Multi-Pass for $9.99, or to pay $1.99 per episode."

LinuxDevices - Sleek Linux smartphone hits shelves in Beijing

LinuxDevices - Sleek Linux smartphone hits shelves in Beijing:
"Motorola's newest Linux-based smartphone reached electronics stores and online retailers in Beijing today. The A1200 is a triband GSM/EDGE phone with a stylish, ultra-slim design. It runs MontaVista Linux on an Intel PXA270 (Bulverde) processor, and has been approved by the FCC for US operation."

BizReport - NBC Universal to buy iVillage for $600 million

BizReport - NBC Universal to buy iVillage for $600 million:
"Media and entertainment conglomerate NBC Universal on Monday said it would acquire iVillage Inc., operator of a network of Web sites for women, for $600 million in a bid to bolster its Internet strategy."

BizReport - Google lets slip talk of online storage service

BizReport - Google lets slip talk of online storage service:
"Google Inc. is preparing to offer online storage to Web users, creating a mirror image of data stored on consumer hard drives, according to company documents that were mistakenly released on the Web."

T3 - Hands-on with the Samsung Q1

T3 - Hands-on with the Samsung Q1:
"Well, we waited with bated breath and in the end Microsoft’s fabled Origami product turned out to be… a miniature tablet PC! Okay, so it might not have been the Earth-shattering announcement we were hoping for, but having got a chance to get to grips with the Q1, we can safely say it’s a seriously smart piece of kit."
RELATED: T3 - Ultra-Mobile PC unveiled!

Techworld - Linux for desktop should 'catch fire' by 2008

Techworld - Linux for desktop should 'catch fire' by 2008:
"Novell has launched the next version of its desktop Linux OS, a release the company hopes will begin a 'viral' migration from Windows in the next several years, said Jeff Jaffe, chief technology officer for Novell."
LINKS: Novell SUSE Linux

Macworld News - CEBIT: Samsung shows 10 megapixel camera phone

Macworld News - CEBIT: Samsung shows 10 megapixel camera phone:
"Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is planning to launch in the second quarter a cell phone that boasts a 10 megapixel resolution digital camera, the company said at the Cebit IT show on Thursday."

Macworld News - Google acquires online word processing app provider

Macworld News - Google acquires online word processing app provider:
"Google, which late last year dodged rumors it was developing productivity applications, can no longer make that claim as Thursday it acquired Writely, an online word processing application."

eWeek - Sun's McNealy Stumps for Utility Computing

eWeek - Sun's McNealy Stumps for Utility Computing:
"Thumping the open-source bible before an audience of government IT professionals on March 8, Sun Microsystems Chairman and CEO Scott McNealy warned that ongoing adherence to a hodgepodge of proprietary architectures will leave the IT environment inefficient and insecure."

ExtremeTech - Intel to Boost Wireless Notebooks

ExtremeTech - Intel to Boost Wireless Notebooks:
"The chip maker will offer, later this year, a WiMax PC card that will allow notebooks to tap high-speed Internet connections, and during 2007 it aims to equip its notebooks with a new generation of higher-bandwidth Wi-Fi, dubbed 802.11n. It also showed off a combination Wi-Fi/WiMax chip, code-named Ofer."

ExtremeTech - Inside Intel's Conroe Architecture

ExtremeTech - Inside Intel's Conroe Architecture:
"At the 2006 Intel Developer Forum, Intel showed a Conroe system running existing generation PC games faster than an AMD system. And not only was the Intel system running at 2.66GHz—a slower clock rate than the top Pentium 4—it was outpacing an overclocked Athlon 64 FX-60. Wrap your brain around that idea for a bit while we dive into the architecture of Intel's new progeny."

PC Magazine - Microsoft, Samsung Launch "Origami" Ultra-Mobile PC

PC Magazine - Microsoft, Samsung Launch "Origami" Ultra-Mobile PC:
"Samsung will enter the US computer market in April as the launch partner for Microsoft's new UltraMobile PC or 'Origami' platform. Launched this morning at the CeBit technology show in Hannover Germany, this smaller tablet PC fits between hand-held Portable Media Centers and more traditional tablet/notebook computers."

CNET News - Manufacturers unwrap first ultramobile PCs

CNET News - Manufacturers unwrap first ultramobile PCs:
"Intel lifted the lid on Microsoft's Origami project on Thursday by showing off three ultramobile PC devices at the CeBit trade show here."

PSFK - Japan Is US Car Buyers' Favorite

PSFK: - Japan Is US Car Buyers' Favorite:
"Cars made by Japanese manufacturers fill the US Consumer Reports top 10 Best Cars Of 2006. In fact, every car in that top 10 is Japanese:

* Family sedan: Honda Accord
* Upscale sedan: Acura TL
* Luxury sedan: Infiniti M35
* Small SUV: Subaru Forester
* Mid-size SUV: Toyota Highlander
* Minivan: Honda Odyssey
* Green car: Toyota Prius
* Fun to drive: Subaru Impreza WRX/STi
* Pickup truck: Honda Ridgeline"

PSFK - Nokia Expects MobiTV Take Up By 2008

PSFK: - Nokia Expects MobiTV Take Up By 2008:
"A challenge to the roll out is the MobiTV broadcast standard. Nokia favors the European DVB-H standard, but the preferred frequencies are not available throughout the continent. That means certain countries like Finland, France, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands will get TV faster than other countries."

AppleInsider - Apple researching iTunes feature film movie service?

AppleInsider - Apple researching iTunes feature film movie service?:
"Apple Computer may be in the intermediate stages of developing an iTunes movie download service that would serve up full length feature films to iTunes customers with a broadband Internet connection, AppleInsider has learned."
Via PSFK

The Motley Fool - McDonald's and Starbucks' Java Joust

The Motley Fool - McDonald's and Starbucks' Java Joust:
"McDonald's (NYSE: MCD), home of the Big Mac and world-famous French fries, has been getting a lots of publicity lately for going gourmet with its coffee. Recent stories from BusinessWeek, the Associated Press, and the Chicago Tribune, among others, have touted the forthcoming rollout of the fast food outfit's premium-roast brew. Notably, Tuesday's Tribune story was accompanied by a photo of a McDonald's employee out on the street, serving free cups of joe to passersby from a backpack full of coffee."

GamesIndustry.biz - Microsoft speaks out on 'Origami Project' video

GamesIndustry.biz - Microsoft speaks out on 'Origami Project' video:
"Microsoft has confirmed its involvement with the 'Origami Project' video currently doing the rounds on the Internet, which shows a handheld tablet-style PC capable of browsing the web, editing photos and playing games."
LINKS: CreativeCoreMedia

GamesIndustry.biz - Downloads will replace traditional media within 10 years, says EA VP

GamesIndustry.biz - Downloads will replace traditional media within 10 years, says EA VP:
"EA's European VP of sales, Dr. Jens Uwe Intat, has given the clearest signal yet of the firm's commitment to digital distribution - stating that within the next ten years, 'all entertainment media will be downloaded to a device.'"

I4U News - Six Reasons Why T-DMB Is Better Than DVB-H

I4U News - Six Reasons Why T-DMB Is Better Than DVB-H:
"Mr. Jae Hong, Lee, Director General of the Korean Ministry of Information and Communications proclaimed at a keynote in Seoul six reasons on why T-DMB is better than DVB-H for mobile digital TV."

PSFK - iPod PSP Micro Stores, London Tokyo

PSFK - iPod PSP Micro Stores, London Tokyo:
"The guys at ifoAppleStore blog have a write up of two popXpress stores that have appeared in London that sells iPods and iPod only accessories. Not that original an idea - you think? Well, they're doing it and no authorized reseller has opened such a place in the United States, iAS says."
LINKS: popXpress
LINKS: PlayStation Spot

ClickZ News - Dove Promotes Calming Night via "Webisodes"

ClickZ News - Dove Promotes Calming Night via "Webisodes":
"Unilever's Dove brand is launching a multi-media effort for its Calming Night products in which print, television and online ads all point to a site featuring three original Webisodes. The short films, produced by agency Mindshare Entertainment, were directed by Penny Marshall and feature actress Felicity Huffman."
LINKS: Dove Calming Night

Wired Magazine - Dragnet, Reinvented

Wired Magazine - Dragnet, Reinvented:
"The City of Angels is stolen-car hell. But the mean streets just got a lot meaner for bad guys. On patrol with the LAPD's high-speed plate-reading network."

IEEE Spectrum - Calm in Your Palm

IEEE Spectrum - Calm in Your Palm:
"Standing in front of a room of over a hundred software developers at the height of the dot-com boom, Michael Wood suffered a paralyzing panic attack. Wood had reached the end of his tether after months of grinding work and regular commutes between New York City and London. He quit his job and devoted himself to understanding—and beating—stress."
LINKS: StressEraser

InternetNews - Unlimited Long Distance, $9.95/Month, No PC

InternetNews - Unlimited Long Distance, $9.95/Month, No PC:
"A small company will ship next month a tiny device that clips onto any phone line, offering unlimited long-distance calls to any number in the U.S. and Canada for only $9.95 per month. Best of all, the device uses VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), but doesn't require broadband access -- or any kind of computer at all."
LINKS: Lagunawave

BizReport - Microsoft Updates Web Search Offering

BizReport - Microsoft Updates Web Search Offering:
"Microsoft Corp. unveiled several new online technologies Tuesday, including early versions of an Internet classified service and a local search function that provides extremely detailed pictures of local streets."
LINKS: Windows Live Expo
LINKS: Windows Live Local