Dell Remains #1 in US, Apple Hits 3rd Place - But Not For Long
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 24 October 2007 | Tagged as: Platforms, USA, Components
Laptop sales surge ahead of desktops as global PC sales rise nearly 15%.
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New US Law Could End Social P0rn Sites
Posted by Simon Perry on 19 October 2007 | Tagged as: Adult Content, Video Services, Government, USA, Legal
Regina Lynn has an informative and impassioned piece on Wired about a proposed US law that will extend requirements currently placed on porn studios to include online social networks, such as YouPorn.
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Palm Increases Smartphone Sales, But Profits Slide
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 3 October 2007 | Tagged as: Business, USA, Financials
No smiles at Palm as the company posts a net loss of $840,000.
4 Gigapixel Picture: The Devil’s Tower
Posted by Simon Perry on 28 September 2007 | Tagged as: USA, Photography
We’re going to do a series of these great pics.
SlingPlayer Mobile For S60 Symbian Phones
Posted by Simon Perry on 27 September 2007 | Tagged as: UK, USA, Content, Distribution, 3G, PVR/DVR, Cellular, Wireless, Mobile, Cross platform, Software
Those who have Nokia Nseries and Eseries phones will be able to buy software, SlingPlayer, to play the video content from their homes to the handsets, wherever they are, from their Sling Boxes.
Quick resume on Sling Box: plug one into your TV at home and any programmes that you can watch can be viewed remotely, […]
Vonage Patent Loss Hits Shares Hard
Posted by Simon Perry on 26 September 2007 | Tagged as: Business, USA, VoIP, Legal
The shares in US VoIP firm Vonage dropped as low as 33.2% down on Tuesday in reaction to yesterday’s patent case order against them. They’re down a further 19.2% 23.1% today, as we write.
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GPL Legal Action In USA Against Monsoon Multimedia
Posted by Simon Perry on 21 September 2007 | Tagged as: USA, Licensing, Open Source, Legal
US company, Monsoon Multimedia is being taken to court for violating the terms of the open source NGU General Public License (GPL) of the BusyBox project.
This is the first time this has happened in the US, as previous infringements have been sorted out through correspondence and talking. Having been through this process already and not […]
Vodafone Keeps Verizon Wireless Options
Posted by Simon Perry on 8 August 2007 | Tagged as: News In Brief, Business, USA, Vodafone, Wireless
Vodafone decided not to exercise its Verizon Wireless Put option.
Retouching Service Turns Pageant Children Into Plastic Freakshows
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 3 August 2007 | Tagged as: Content, USA, Web, Photography
We find one of the web’s most disturbing sites. Really.
iPhones Take Out WiFi Network
Posted by Simon Perry on 18 July 2007 | Tagged as: Distribution, News In Brief, USA, Mobile, Wireless, Networking
iPhone’s appear to be taking out chunks of the wireless network at Duke University in the US.
We won’t get all technical on you by delving in to the tech-laden reasons as to why it _might_ be happening - they still don’t know how it is happening for sure - but the upshot of it is […]
