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Rumors: New, bigger Asus Eee PCs in the pipeline: According to today's DigiTimes, Asustek Computer is planning to launch new Eee PC models, the 904 and 905 -- which have an 8.9-inch panel but use a similar chassis and keyboard as the company's 10.2-inch models, according to the Times' vendor sources. The major difference between these...; Tags: ASUS, PC, AsusTek Computer, Model, Keyboards, Storage, Hardware, Peripherals, Andrew Nusca; Blog posts 2008-06-30
Asustek to launch 10-inch Eee laptop: Asustek to launch 10-inch Eee laptopI find it interesting...That these are being touted as "low cost" laptops. $550 for a machine that doesn't even have an optical drive is NOT low-cost; it's much more expensive than the "laptop deal of the week" from Best Buy or Circuit City, which are...; Tags: Keyboards, Notebooks, laptop computer, Eee, keyboard, AsusTek Computer; Discussion threads 2008-04-21
Asustek to launch 10-inch Eee laptop: Coming over the IDG newswire this morning is news that Asustek is planning to launch a new version of the Eee PC -- this one with a 10-inch screen, according to the company's CEO. "The feedback we've received from users has been great. Many have asked us for bigger...; Tags: Screen, AsusTek Computer, Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Andrew Nusca; Blog posts 2008-04-21
Asustek: Two-thirds of Eee PCs will have Windows XP: Asustek: Two-thirds of Eee PCs will have Windows XPMore $$ ... crippled OS. Sign me up!An extra $200 for a crippled version of Windows on these?? Get real!They're selling as fast as they can build them with Linux pre-installed. Did the Palm market never materialize way back...; Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Linus, Linux, AsusTek Computer, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Eee PC, OEM; Discussion threads 2008-03-13
2008: Linux's year on the desktop: Desktop Linux hurts Microsoft Linux has kept a big chunk of the server business out of Microsoft's hands. But in 2008, Linux will hurt Microsoft on the desktop. Here's how. A new computing platform Thanks to Moore's Law and evolving application needs, a new computing...; Tags: Desktop, AsusTek Computer, Microsoft Corp., Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Robin Harris; Blog posts 2007-12-27

IBM files patent complaint vs. Taiwan's Asustek: IBM files patent complaint vs. Taiwan's AsustekPatent on power supplies and cooling?!What in the world?! Why are such broad patents being awarded??? Patents on computer power supplies and cooling could apply to any computer manufacturer in existence. Really, are the people responsible for approving patents asleep at the wheel? How...; Tags: IBM Files Patent complaint, IBM Files Patent, AsusTek Computer, patent, IBM Corp.; Discussion threads 2007-12-11
Photos: Easy does it with Asustek's 'Eee PC': With "easy" in mind, Asustek and Intel have teamed on a 7-inch, low-cost notebook that could even be a challenge to Nicholas Negroponte's OLPC.; Tags: AsusTek Computer, notebook, photograph, Intel Corp., PC; Image galleries 2007-06-07
Power shortage for the holidays?: Power shortage for the holidays?AbsolutelyBecause your stunning economic knowledge shows just what a cracker jack job the U.S. education system has done in programming you.China junk at Union pricesNothing like have a 'service economy' where the USA imports nothing but Asian made garbage at Union made prices.It would be nice...; Tags: Engineering, AsusTek Computer, battery, Compal, ASUS; Discussion threads 2006-10-30

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Microsoft to show off spherical Surface next week: During Microsoft's annual Research Faculty Summit in Redmond, the company will finally show off semi-publicly the spherical Surface computer that has been rumored for the past few months. by Mary Jo Foley; Tags: Multi-touch, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-07-24
NASA used cadavers to test Orion moonship: NASA officials recognized last week that dead bodies were used to develop Orion landing systems. According to NASA, 'three human bodies were used in the tests at Ohio State University Medical Center' in 2007. Even if the results of the experiments helped NASA, one of its spokesman said that the...; Tags: NASA, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-07-24
Mossberg: MobileMe Is Far Too Flawed To Be Reliable: In a scathing indictment of Apple's MobileMe service, the Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg calls the service "far too flawed to be reliable." The US$99 per year service – which is supposed to push contacts, calendars and email from iPhone to computer – has been hobbling along...; Tags: Apple Inc., MobileMe, E-mail, Online Communications, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-07-24
Childs rigged crazyquilt private network: The prosecution unveiled more details on the lunacy in San Francisco in court filings that urged the judge to keep rogue network administrator Terry Childs' bail at $5 million. The Chronicle reports that prosecutors say that Childs had over 1,000 modems secreted around the city, forming his own private network...; Tags: Network, Prosecutor, Networking, Productivity, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-07-24
|)ruid and HD Moore release part 2 of DNS exploit: [Updated 07/24/2008: Gallery images of diffs of code revisions has been included and will be updated as things change, see here.] Earlier today, noted researchers |)ruid and HD Moore released exploit code for the Metasploit tool for attacking the DNS flaw that was originally reported by Dan...; Tags: DNS, Domain, Server, Entry, Exploit, NS, NS Record, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-07-23
Judge refuses to reduce 'rogue' admin's bail: Breaking news: A San Francisco judge just refused to lower Terry Childs' bail from $5 million, the SF Chron reports. Prosecutors said that by rigging the network so that key programs were held in memory so that they would be deleted when the network was shut...; Tags: Bail, Administrator, Network, Sheriff, Prosecutor, Networking, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-07-23
Inside the mind - and config - of Terry Childs: Terry Childs's lawyer, Erin Crane, offered the court some insights into the Childs' motivations in changing SF's network passwords. She will argue today for a reduction in his $5 million bail, perhaps to something closer to the bail set for common murderers ($1 mil.) In her written...; Tags: Password, Network, Backup, Terry Childs, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-07-23
SF mayor gets back to the keys to the city: "The first thing I want you to know, Mr. Mayor, is that when you walk out of this room, you will have the computer codes." So spoke Terry Childs, San Francisco's jailed network administrator, to Mayor Gavin Newsom, in a spur-of-the-minute jailhouse meeting, according to SF Chronicle...; Tags: City, Lawyer, Computer, Productivity, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-07-23
Super-duper green computers: If you think about sheer performance-per-watt potential, it's pretty hard to beat a supercomputer. So any company with gargantuan transaction processing needs might want to scout the latest Green500 list for insight. This list was brought to my attention by SGI, which has 11 entries in...; Tags: SGI Altix, Silicon Graphics Inc., Computer, Altix ICE, UNIX, Databases, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-07-23
NY gov signs game bill into law: New York State legislation that will have made it illegal to sell or rent some violent games to minors was signed was signed into law. A bill that will have made it illegal to sell or rent some violent games to minors was signed into law Tuesday by New...; Tags: Law, Minor, Games, Personal Technology, video games, video game violence, Nintendo DS, New York, Brendan Sinclair, GameSpot; News items 2008-07-23
Microsoft turns to users for new wave of Xbox games: Taking a page from Facebook and YouTube, Microsoft will turn to users of its Xbox 360 to create new video games and broaden the types of games available on its console. SEATTLE--Microsoft will turn to users of its Xbox 360 to create new video games and broaden the types...; Tags: Microsoft Xbox Live, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, Games, Game Players, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Reuters, Xbox 360, Microsoft, user-generated, video games, Xbox; News items 2008-07-23
75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design flaws: In a paper entitled "Analyzing Web sites for user-visible security design flaws" to be published at the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security meeting at Carnegie Mellon University July 25, Atul Prakash and two of his doctoral students examined 214 financial institutions in 2006, finding that over 75% of all...; Tags: Bank, Online Banking, Flaw, Security, Financial Services, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-07-23