Computers
Microsoft Ready to Debut Live Mesh
- source:msfn.org
After weeks of speculation, the software vendor will give details of its software-plus-services initiative at the Web 2.0 conference. Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie touched off more than a month of speculation, debate, hand-wringing and questioning when he took the stage at the companys MIX 08 conference March 5 and talked briefly ab... Read more…
Survey: 6 in 10 Americans know about the DTV transition
- source:betanews.com
As late as February of this year, only 59 percent of Americans were aware of next year's slated transition from analog to digital TV, according to a survey by Frank N. Magid Associates. Read more…
Lack of interoperable radio key to XM + Sirius merger approval
- source:betanews.com
As it turns out, if XM and Sirius actually were to deliver on an earlier promise to make an interoperable radio, that fact might precipitate a reduction in consumer choice. That's the conclusion today from the Dept. of Justice. Read more…
Sun gets government grant to replace chip interconnects with lasers
- source:betanews.com
Sun Microsystems has been granted a $44 million Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract from the US Department of Defense aimed at creating the next generation of supercomputers that could break Moore's Law. Read more…
