Computers
Microsoft Ready to Debut Live Mesh
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
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
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
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…
Accidental Wi-Fi access still a criminal offense in Maryland
If you're sitting on a coffee shop patio with your laptop, and you find out later that you happen to be accessing the Wi-Fi from the attorney's office upstairs by accident, should you go to prison? A Maryland legislator says no, but his bill is facing opposition. Read more…
Prototype video conferencing portal for HDTV coming this year
Contract notebook manufacturer Quanta has announced it has partnered with ooVoo to create a prototype HD video conferencing unit which it expects to put into production this year. Read more…
Justice Dept. approves XM + Sirius merger
UPDATED The US Justice Department has approved the merger between XM and Sirius satellite radio services, stating that it could not find any evidence that the combination would substantially reduce competition. Read more…
Nokia and InterDigital may be preparing to settle
When a patent dispute gets so entangled that the parties involved can't quite agree upon what it is that's in dispute, maybe it's time to call it quits. Today, two of the sides in a notorious three-way dispute admitted they're thinking about it. Read more…
Network Solutions suspends Dutch anti-Koran site
Network Solutions, a Web hosting and domain name registration company based out of Herndon, Virginia has temporary suspended a site for anti-Islamist Dutch politician Geert Wilders. Read more…
New buffer overrun exploit threatens old Jet database engine on XP
A few weeks after a security laboratory found what it claimed to be an unchecked relationship between an old database provider and Word, Microsoft indicated that someone out there may still be trying this old attack vector. Read more…
