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Apple benefits the better that all applications run on Mac OS X, not just Apple-developed applications. Throttling performance – wittingly or unwittingly – is not in its interest. Open source would resolve the issue in Apple’s favor.
Vladimir Vukićević from Mozilla’s
Firefox team eventually managed to turn Firefox 3 into a speed demon on
Mac OS X. But [...]

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One guy admits, “I was a normal human being until I was thirty five years old.” and then he found hi-fi, and he’s been obsessed ever since. It’s all about a love affair with exotic gear, sound, and yes, music.
Some guys are into
cars, some gamble, or blow the budget on [...]

At CNET reviews we’ve noted a similar trend. This year, out of 40 HDTVs reviewed to date, we’ve reviewed only two rear-projection HDTVs, the Samsung HL61A750 and the Mitsubishi WD-65735, both larger than 60 inches and both cited for value in their reviews. We only expect to review one more, Mitsubishi’s ballyhooed laser TV, before [...]

The company lists its competitors as AT&T, IBM, and Microsoft. Sounds formidable, but each of these giants competes with Nuance in specific, limited markets. Nuance is far and away the 800-pound gorilla of speech technology.
Courtesy of dozens of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) over the past 13 years, Nuance now owns much of the speech [...]

Overall, big-name computer makers are still scheduled to have to stop selling Windows XP for all other uses by the end of June. Mainstream technical support will continue to be available for Windows XP through April 2009, and more limited support will continue through April 2014.
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At the time, Microsoft also announced that computer makers [...]

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Carbon sequestration of fossil fuel burning, which Lewis says may not be available in time or at the volumes necessary to have significant beneficial impact on climate change.

“Powering the Planet” is the title of an extraordinary speech that is regularly given by Nate Lewis, Professor of Chemistry at CalTech. It is a bit long [...]

A Silicon Valley entrepreneur has been chosen to run the new National Cyber Security Center, an agency charged with coordinating efforts to protect the federal government’s computer networks from cyberattacks, according to published reports.

In the book The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations, which he co-authored with Ori Brafman, Beckström wrote [...]

Samsung is being investigated for starting a slush fund worth $215 million used to bribe prosecutors, judges, and other public officials. The company denies the accusation, which was made by former company lawyer Kim Yong-Chul.

The chairman’s wife, Hong Ra-Hee, who is the director of the Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, was also questioned by prosecutors [...]

WASHINGTON–The potential applications for radio frequency identification are about as far-reaching and unforeseeable as its privacy and security implications.

“Our discomfort stems from the fact that strong security is not always built into the (RFID technology) to begin with,” said Susan Grant, director of consumer protection for the Consumer Federation of America. “Very often, it’s [...]