Dell on Wednesday announced energy efficiency targets for its laptops and desktop PCs: a 25 percent reduction by 2010 based on the efficiency rating of today’s models.
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To reach its 25 percent reduction goal, Dell will continue to improve on existing development in hardware and firmware, including power management, efficient fans, and better power supplies. [...]
At the 500-meter mark, a quarter of the way through the race, the Winklevosses were in fifth place out of the six boats. But they powered through crews from Germany, Serbia, and Italy to cross the finish line just less than 2.5 seconds behind the winning Australian crew of Drew Ginn and Duncan Free. The [...]
Could it be instead that someone made a mistake?
This has, as you’d expect, kicked up a small furor of conspiracy theory (Yahoo! is playing nice to Microsoft in anticipation of a merger) and silliness.
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Slated is suggesting that Yahoo! is censoring out open source on its Answers service. Apparently some suggestions that people try Ubuntu, among [...]
Google, the company best equipped and most motivated to digitize the world’s books, wants to offer the world an online Library of Alexandria. The decisions of the Justice Department, authors, book publishers, a federal judge, and Google itself likely will determine whether the company actually does.
Nobody in recent years has accused Google of lacking [...]
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One of the things that we open sourcerors need to figure out - or which the market needs to figure out - is the convenience of purchasing proprietary software. By this I don’t mean any particular vendor’s policies: I’m talking about the basic act of buying something that masquerades as property.
For better or (in my [...]
Glam Media has always been adamant that it’s not just another ad network, something it reiterated when it announced a revenue-sharing video platform for its member sites this week.
But apparently, some big company really thinks that Glam’s something special. Amid the gossipy deal making of the D6 Conference, someone at tech money blog VentureBeat heard [...]
Updated 7:20 a.m. PDT with information from the conference call.
Verizon Communications saw earnings grow 5.3 percent in the first quarter, helped by its acquisition of Alltel. But wireless competition is heating up with AT&T, which saw strong growth due to the
iPhone.
For the three months ended March 31, Verizon reported net income of $3.2 billion, or [...]
“We informed the Justice Department before we launched this test and we have been responsive to their questions about it,” Google spokesman Adam Kovacevich told Reuters. Yahoo had a similar comment to the wire service.
The Google test comes as Yahoo is under increasing pressure to negotiate with Microsoft or find a viable alternative. Microsoft has [...]
It depends, in part, on whether you decide that your notebook PC is already enough of a mobile Internet device for you. Take a look at News.com’s gallery to see if something grabs your fancy: “Photos: Atom chip breeds wee gadgets.”
Other hardware makers that marched to the beat of Intel’s marketing drum at IDF included [...]
SAN JOSE, Calif.–For the gathering of curious onlookers eager to see what a Sony OLED TV looks like on the inside, officials at the Embedded Systems Conference had some bad news: The airline (no, they didn’t say which one) lost their stuff. Unfortunately, their stuff included that TV.
Instead, as a last-minute replacement, we got Gibson’s [...]
