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Class action suit filed over Apple's 3G speed claims

Class action suit filed over Apple's 3G speed claimsWhen will they learn?I blame the bozos that buy Apple products. Proprietary, over-hyped, over-priced, mediocre but beautifully designed products that are marketed in very creative ways. There is a sucker born every minute. Just ask all the 3G iPhone...

Tags: Cellular phones, WIRELESS, Lol, Apple Inc., 3G, speed claim, Apple 3G speed claim, Apple 3G, class action suit, class action

Discussion threads 2008-08-21

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Apple hits Psystar with DMCA charges

Court papers reveal that the day before Thanksgiving Apple added new charges to the five-month old federal lawsuit against mac-clone maker Psystar. The new charges claim that Psystar, along with ten John Does, violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act DMCA by bypassing copy-protection mechanisms used by Apple to protect Mac...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, DMCA, Apple Inc., Psystar, Copyrighted Works, Defendant, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-12-01

Google outlines plan for extensions in Chrome

One of the features that is noticeably missing from the current version of Google Chrome is what Firefox calls "Add-ons". These programs are written by developers looking to add functionality to browsers -- which can be very useful things like Greasemonkey and NoScript. According to this...

Tags: Google Inc., Mozilla Firefox, Web Browser, Google Chrome, Extension, Web Browsers, Internet, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-12-01

Clearwire-Sprint make it official, pave way for WiMax rollout

A mobile WiMax service, called Clear, will soon be here, now that Clearwire and Sprint-Nextel have completed a $14.5 billion joint-venture deal that was announced in May. The new company formed by the deal, which will retain the Clearwire name, will create a 4G nationwide broadband wireless network that will...

Tags: Clearwire Corp., Sprint Communications, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-01

WARP speed for Windows 7

The other day the eagle-eyed Long Zheng noticed a document on Microsoft's MSDN site outlining how Microsoft plans to allow DirectX 10 acceleration on the CPU. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Video Card, Microsoft Windows 7, NVidia Corp., Microsoft Windows, ATI Technologies Inc., CPU, Graphics, DirectX, GPU, Video Cards, Processors, Hardware, Components, Semiconductors, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-12-01

News to know: Mumbai attacks, Microhoo, Holiday shopping, HDTVs

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jennifer Leggio: Mumbai attack coverage demonstrates good and bad maturation point of social media Social media marketing opportunism during tragedy = fail Oliver Marks: Mumbai Attacks...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., HDTV, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Attack, Digital Video, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Open Source, Personal Technology, Internet, Security, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-01

The fastest mandible strike in the world

U.S. researchers report that the termite named Termes panamensis possesses the fastest mandible strike ever recorded. 'Footage of the soldier termite's jaws as they strike an invader at almost 70 meters per second was captured on a high speed video camera in the laboratory at 40,000 frames per second.' As...

Tags: Ant, Strike, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-11-30

IBM, HP update workflow and forms software with an eye to cutting paper waste

I love it when competing vendors do something semi-related within days of each other, because it makes these posts so much more relevant. So, here's the deal: Both IBM and Hewlett-Packard are making some noise right now about the impact of enterprise document management technology on green technology agendas. I...

Tags: U.S. Army, Hewlett-Packard Co., Workflow, IBM Corp., Document Management, Tools & Techniques, Content Management, Managerial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-11-28

Wired vs. wireless - security vs. speed

Once again, this opinionated jackass dives in head first, looking at the next generation of networking and whether wireless technology will ever overtake Ethernet. by Zack Whittaker

Tags: Security, Ethernet Cable, Wired Inc., Network, Cable, Wireless Connectivity, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-11-27

Dell gets a jump on Black Friday, a $389 desktop with 20-inch LCD

Dell is getting an early start on Black Friday. The company has been running daily specials at www.dell.com/everyday for some time, and there have been some good deals on consumer desktop and laptops. But some of the best deals are currently hiding under the umbrella of "Small and Medium Business"...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., LCD, Monitors & Displays, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Desktops, Processors, Hardware, Components, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Semiconductors, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-11-26

I'm a PC and, yes, I love Vista

* Ryan Naraine is on vacation. Guest editorial by Todd Hooper  It's true - I'm a PC. Searching through my 2006 emails recently reminded me it was two years ago this month when I loaded a beta of Windows Vista on...

Tags: Security, PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Laptop Computer, NAP Agent, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-11-26

Apple forced to drop deceptive television ad in UK

Remember the kerfuffle over Apple's "3G" television ad for the iPhone? In it the company demonstrates the speed of the iPhone on AT&T's 3G network. As it turns out the ad was edited to exaggerate the speed of the iPhone 3G and the speed shown is impossible to replicate in...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Advertisement, Apple Inc., TV, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-11-26

Photos: Tesla 1.5

Tesla launched its much ballyhooed electric sports car earlier this year with a two speed gearbox. The company has since refined its transmission to eliminate that complexity, dubbing its new Tesla's powertrain as version 1.5. We got to check out the showroom, assembly plant, and take the car for a...

Tags: Car, Photograph, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-11-25

IBM dominates latest green supercomputer list

Must be the season for lists. Aside from the Greenpeace one I pointed to earlier today, you've also got the latest Supercomputing Green 500 ranking to consider, published by the Green500.org. This is the list that reinterprets the organization's Top 500 high-performance ranking by focusing on...

Tags: Energy Efficiency, Supercomputer, List, IBM Corp., Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-11-25

AppAsure: Good stuff but is it virtualization?

Naj Husain, CEO, and Dan Soschin, Director of Marketing, both of AppAssure, brought me up to speed on Replay VRA, a tool that protects messaging-based environments that include BlackBerry Enterprise Server as well as Microsoft's Exchange, SQL Server and SharePoint. While Reply VRA appears to work in virtualized environments and...

Tags: Environment, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-11-25

TI execs ramp up green tech contributions, at work and at home

The trouble with the Green IT blog beat is there are literally hundreds of things that you could write about every day, often from the same company, but since this isn't the ONLY thing I do to put food on my table, I have to be really selective about which...

Tags: Green Technology, Texas Instruments Inc., Ogboenyiya, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-11-24

Benchmarks: AMD's 45nm 'Shanghai' Opteron

AMD's 'Shanghai' processors are the company's first chips to utilize the improved performance and efficiency of 45nm technology. ZDNet Germany tests show that they have made up important ground on Intel Xeon chips. AMD's 'Shanghai' processors are the company's first chips to utilize the improved performance and efficiency of...

Tags: Performance, Level 3 Communications Inc., Shanghai, AMD Opteron, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Xeon, Intel Corp., Nehalem, Dunnington CPU, Processor Development, Performance Management, Servers, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, AMD, Opteron, Intel, Xeon, benchmarks, processors, Shangahi, Christoph Hochstatter, ZDNet Germany, Christoph Hochstatter, ZDNet Germany

News items 2008-11-24

Web 2.0 security? What a mash

* Ryan Naraine is away on vacation. Guest editorial by Guillaume Lovet Ah, Web 2.0. Its endless composition of heterogeneous sources (aka "mash-up") possibilities, its social networking-oriented nature, its user-provided content... A Web adapted to today's powerful machines, linking people together in world...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Facebook, Codec, YouTube Inc., Video, Web 2.0, Corporate Communications, Channel Management, Security, Internet, Marketing, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-11-24

IBM Acquires Transitive

Last week, I received a notice from IBM's PR company that IBM was going to acquire Transitive, that clever supplier of operating system and hardware virtualization technology. It's clearly a move to strengthen IBM's claim on being the premier supplier of systems for the next generation datacenter. ...

Tags: IBM Corp., Generation Datacenter, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-11-24

New MacBook Pro performance degrades with the battery removed

Gearlog has discovered a weird issue with the latest generation (Late 2008) MacBook Pros – they run like dogs when the battery is removed. To the tune of a 37-percent drop in speed without the battery. Zach Honig benchmarked a 2.53GHz MacBook Pro...

Tags: Performance, Apple MacBook, Battery, Apple MacBook Pro, MacBook Pro Performance, Gearlog, Notebooks, Engineering, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-11-23