Did E3 Just Gasp Its Last Breath? Ian Lamont writes "This year's E3 is over, and there's already talk that this could be the last one. Even before the conference started, a slew of studios announced they wouldn't be taking part, citin

Category :Technology | 3 views | read more | 2008-07-20 06:15:00

UK PM's Aide Loses BlackBerry In Chinese Honeytrap longacre writes "The Times of London is today reporting a January incident in which a top aide to Prime Minister Gordon Brown discovered his BlackBerry missing from his hotel room after spending the n

Category :Technology | 5 views | read more | 2008-07-20 03:22:00

Web-Crawling Program Spots Disease Outbreaks no1home writes "There is a story at Discovery Channel's site about a new utility for mapping disease. The premise is to have bots crawl the web looking for stories about disease outbreaks and log them

Category :Technology | 6 views | read more | 2008-07-20 00:40:00

FBI Fights Testing For False DNA Matches Statesman writes "The Los Angeles Times reports that an Arizona crime lab technician found two felons with remarkably similar genetic profiles, so similar that they would ordinarily be accepted in cou

Category :Technology | 7 views | read more | 2008-07-19 22:06:00

To Stet Or Not To Stet, That Is the Question theodp writes "The NY Times' Virginia Heffernan confesses to being stumped by how to excerpt the language on message boards and blogs. For example, Heffernan notes she could quote kavya on Yahoo Answe

Category :Technology | 6 views | read more | 2008-07-19 20:10:00

Real-World 3G Monthly Cost With Taxes and Fees? Kristl writes "I have called AT&T and walked into several AT&T stores to ask 'How much will an AT&T phone plan cost per month with taxes and fees and everything?'. No one can answer this q

Category :Technology | 5 views | read more | 2008-07-19 18:56:00

GM Researching Windshields For Old Drivers beuges writes "General Motors researchers are working on a high-tech windshield that users lasers and infra-red sensors to identify and enhance important objects for older drivers with vision problems

Category :Technology | 5 views | read more | 2008-07-19 17:42:00

The Father of Multi-Core Chips Talks Shop pacopico writes "Stanford professor Kunle Olukotun designed the first mainstream multi-core chip, crafting what would become Sun Microsystems's Niagra product. Now, he's heading up Stanford's Pervasiv

Category :Technology | 5 views | read more | 2008-07-19 16:40:00

What are the best iPhone applications? Here are some of the applications that I’m trying out right now: What applications do you like on the iPhone 3G?

Category :Search Engines | 3 views | read more | 2008-07-19 16:00:09

Wii Is the New US Console Leader stoolpigeon writes with this snippet from an AFP story carried by Google: "Nintendo said Thursday that its globally popular Wii has become the top-selling video game console in the United States, a cr

Category :Technology | 3 views | read more | 2008-07-19 15:33:00